• vel(e, vel, veille, fel(e, felle, wel(l)e, veale-

OF veel , AF vel(e , veal , veil . (a) The flesh of a calf used as food; pulled , ?shredded or chopped veal; (b) a calf, esp. one butchered for food;-also coll. ; skin ; (c) an image

• et, at(e

. OE aet . Eating; food; etes , things to eat, meals. c1150(?OE) PDidax. Hrl 6258b 29/22 Oþþer of miclum haete and drince, oþþer of lytte aete and drince. ?c1200 Orm. Jun 1 7852 Himm birrþ lokenn himm full wel

• fasten, festen, vaste, veste, fast, fest, fasteth, faste, feste, veste, fasted(e, fested(e, i)fast, ivast, fasted

, ivast , fasted . OE faestan , p. faeste . (a) To abstain voluntarily from food and drink, or from certain kinds of food, during a specific period of time as a mode of spiritual or religious discipline; (b)

• fodder, foder, foddre, vodder

vodder . OE fodor , foddor . (a) Food for live stock, feed; esp., hay and straw, dry winter feed; (b) bin. c1275(?a1200) Lay. Brut Clg A.9 27031 Heo weoren ifaren into þan londe fodder to biwinnen, aeiþer uodder and

• forsleuthen, forslouthen

(b) to neglect (something) through laziness, to neglect or leave undone; (c) to lose (something) through neglect or laziness; of food: spoil through neglect; idle away (time). a1400(a1325) Glo.Chron.B Trin-C R.4.26 4055 fn. For sleuþede [A : Of france &

• fostring, fostrunge, forstring

a child); the maintenance (of a servant); (b) education, training; (c) feeding or pasturing (of cattle); (d) fig. food (for the spirit, for a vice), encouragement, strengthening. c1225(?c1200) HMaid. Bod 34 46/491 I þe burðerne þrof is heuinesse..in his fosttrunge

• garbage, gabage

the ME word. (a) The refuse of birds or fowls; (b) the entrails (also head, feet, etc.) used for human food. (1422) Plea & Mem. in Bk.Lond.E. 127/181 Item we endite all þe Cokes of Bredstret for kepyng of her

• apeiringe

deterioration, corruption; weakening; spoiling (of food); (b) impairment, harm, loss. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 2.159 This apayrynge [Higd.(2) : corrupcion] of þe burþe of þe tunge. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 4.243 Oon..myȝt nouȝt kepe flesche longe wiþ oute

• giste, geste, goste

(a) A stopping or resting place, lodgings, hostel; (b) food, refreshment; (c) fig. the resting place of a hawk; (d) fig. the seat of the soul [cp. Lev. 17.11]. c1230(?a1200) Ancr. Corp-C 402 94b He ne edstont nawt as foles

• daierie, dairie, dei(e)rie, dei~x0021d~erie

in botelerie , pant(e)rie . (a) A room or building for making butter and cheese; also, a room for keeping food, a pantry; (b) a dairy farm or a dairy building on a farm; also, a dairy herd. (1279) Acc.Middleton

• deintẹth, denteht

Excellent, elegant, beautiful, fine; (b) pleasing, delightful; (c) of food or drink: delicious, epicurean; (d) as a surname. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 245b/a The muste þerof is reed and deynteth, and dyeth as blood. c1450 Treat.Fish. Yale 171 22

• delicat, delicatie

adj. (a) A luxury; (b) fine food or drink, a delicacy. c1450 Alph.Tales Add 25719 171/29 Vmthynk you of þe bed þat is ordand in hell to þaim þat mon be dampnyd, þat liffis here in all þe delicatis att

• desirable

welcome; (b) worthy of being desired or adored; precious, valuable; appetizing (food). a1425 Medulla Stnh A.1.10 70a/b Votiuus: desirable. (c1443) Pecock Rule Mrg M 519 127 It schal neuere lette þe soule fro moost desirable..siȝt vpon þee, god, neoþer fro

• dieten, di~x0021d~eten, dieted, diet

To regulate the diet of (oneself, another) for purposes of health; with , feed (sb.) with (a certain food); (b) alch. to regulate the growth of (the `body' of dry matter) by adding or withholding alchemical ingredients. c1390 PPl.A(1) Vrn

• digestif, digestive, digestives

a digestive medicine, a drug that prepares pathological matter for evacuation; (b) physiol. having to do with the digestion of food and drink; having to do with the capacity of bodily organs for transforming humors or nutriment into something different;

• paile, paille, paiel, pail

(a) A bucket, pail; milking pail; hop , a hoop fastened around a bucket; (b) a kitchen vessel; container for food. (1341-2) Sacrist R.Ely 2 117 ij paylhopes pro Cementariis, j d. (1352-3) Sacrist R.Ely 2 155 Item in ij

• passif

Add 10302 1481 Of the forsaid iiij qualitees pryme..the passivis haue some actyuyte. a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch. Add 10302 1723 It [food] is humour solide..Mightly medlide after some degre, In opposid passivis commixtid dewly. 1532 rev.(c1385) Usk TL Thynne:Skeat 91/6 Every

• pork-de-spine, porc-, portepin, porpapine, pork point, porpointe, perpoint

, porc espin ; ?also cp. ML porcupina . The porcupine; also, the flesh of this animal used for food. ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) Tit C.16 193/23 Þere ben..vrchounes als grete as wylde swyn here; Wee clepen hem Porcz de spyne [F

• likerousnes(se

(b) a lascivious act; (c) excessive fondness for dainty food or drink; also, gluttony; (d) luxuriousness, self-indulgence; (e) inordinate desire, greed. (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB. Manly-Rickert D.611 Venus me yaf my lust, my likerousnesse [vr. licorousnes], And Mars yaf me my

• mast, maeste

maest (a) Acorns, beechnuts, etc., often used as food for swine; mast; (b) a feeding ground for hogs. (1396) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO) 6.80 [Fruit of trees called] mast..[The said herbage is worth 10 marks yearly..the] mast [12 d.]. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add