• exsiccatif, -ive

body; -- as noun: an `exsiccative' medicine. a1400 Lanfranc Ashm 1396 87/14 A medicyn mundificatif & exciccatif..is nessessarie in ech old holowe wounde. ?a1425 Chauliac(1) NY 12 58b/a With gouernance exsiccatyue [Ch.(2) : a drieng gouernaunce]. ?a1425 Chauliac(1) NY 12

• fẹld(e-fare, feldi-, velde-vare

feldfares and oþer foules grete. (1389) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120 46 xij feldifares iiijd. c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF Benson-Robinson 364 The throstil old; the frosty feldefare. c1430 In May whan euery Cmb Gg.4.27 p.108 Þanne spak þe frosty feldefare. ?c1475 Cath.Angl. Add

• for(e-fọt, fore-fẹt

wolf bicleppynge the hede in his forefeet. (1409) Doc. in Riley Mem.Lond. 572 [No quarter, called] forfote, [of] overlether, [made of new leather, or quarter of] overlether [behind, called the] hele, [of new leather, shall be pieced with old leather].

• forfreten, forfret, -freteth, -fret, -frẹt, frete(n

581 16.29 Coueityse cometh of that wynde and crepeth amonge þe leues, And forfret [C : forfreteth, forfrete] neigh þe frute. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 3.331 The long endurid, old, forfreton [BodAdd: forfreeten; L exesa] vine Is not to helpe.

• forgrouen, forgroue(n

berdis rauhte ouer ther nouele doun. c1475(a1449) Lydg. Guy LdMisc 683 258 Clad as a pilgrym in a brood sclaveyn, Old and forgrowe amongys the porayll. a1450 St.Kath.(3) Richardson 44 15 Þis ȝonge queene..sawe an oold fader, al forgrowen, in

• four-score, foure-

times twenty, eighty, fourscore. c1300 SLeg. LdMisc 108 77/209 Four-score ȝer he was old. c1325(c1307) Death Edw.I Hrl 2253 28 Ouer þe see þat hue be diht wiþ fourscore knyhtes. c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A Clg A.11 7839 Þo deide he in þe

• frouncen, froncen

brow), scowl; draw up (the nose), jeer; purse (the lips). a1400(a1325) Cursor Vsp A.3 3571 Þe front it [old age] fronces [Got: frounsis, Trin-C: frounseþ] þat was scene. a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr. Rwl B.490 224/2 Lytill vysage and leene, and frouncet.

• courte-pi, curte-, corte-, court(e)by, courby, courbe

heep of heremites..ketten here copes and courtpies hem made, And wenten as werkemen. a1425(?a1400) RRose Htrn 409 220 She was clad ful porely Al in an old torn courtepy [F cote]. ?c1475 Cath.Angl. Add 15562 29a A Cowrtby: renale, hemitogium.

• cromb(e, crome, cromp, grome, cramb(e, cram(e, cramp, crambum, crambom

(early & N) cramb(e , cram(e , cramp ; (old dat. pl. in place names) crambum , crambom . OE cramb (in place names only) land in a bend of a river; cp. OE crumb crooked. (a) A crooked staff;

• disavauncen

enhauncest, ffor sodeynliche þou hym disauauncest. (?a1439) Lydg. FP Bod 263 1.650 Nor nothyng more may hertis disauaunce Than off old ioie newe remembraunce. (?a1439) Lydg. FP Bod 263 1.753 Age gan ther beute disauaunce. a1500(?c1450) Merlin Cmb Ff.3.11 250

• dubber, doubur, dubbar, dubb(e)our, dubbur, dobber

, a)dubur , dubbeour (from Gmc. ). Early examples may be AF . A renovator of old cloth or clothing. (1191) Doc. in HMC Rep.9 App.1 16b Hamo le Dubbur. (1224) Close R.Tower 1 608b Gilebertus le Dubbur. (1237) Lib.R.Hen.III.1

• enditement, in-

(1467) Paston 4.274 Speke to ȝowr atorney in the Kyngis benche that he take hed to all maner indytamentis, both old and new. a1605(c1422) Hoccl. Dial. Dur-U Cosin V.3.9 179 How trewe so be ther enditement..vnwasshen gold shall wasshe a-way

• -er

-er suf.(1) OE -ra , -ran . Derivational suffix (from earlier -re ) forming the comp. of adjs. : (a) Without mutation of the root vowel: hard-er [OE heard-ra ], bold-er, bright-er, ken-er, holi-er, lovelok-er, cler-er, gentil-er , etc.;

• erding, -ung

Trin-C B.14.52 173 Crist..give us alle on heuene eche erdingstouwe. c1275(?a1216) Owl & N. Clg A.9 28 [Þ]o stod on old stoc þarbiside..Hit was þare hule eardingstowe. a1400 Cursor Got Theol 107 18041 Lazarun fra vs Of his erding [vrr.

• palma christi

a woman schal not conceyue, Take and yeff hur in hur mete or in hur drynke palma Christi þat ys old and harde. a1500 Agnus Castus LdMisc 553 197/27 Palma Christi is an herbe þat me cleputh mannes moderwort or

• pinson, pinsion

(1440) PParv. Hrl 221 400 Pynsone, sokke: Pedipomita. (1451) Capgr. St.Gilb. Add 36704 99/25 He myte haue a peyre of old sokkys or pinsones whech our maystir had often wered. a1475(a1456) Shirley Death Jas. Add 5467 15 The Kyng..ther stondyng

• plum(e

(b) alum (de) , feather alum, aluminum sulfate. ?a1425 Chauliac(1) NY 12 55a/b Plumaciolez..were made in old tyme of plume, i. feþerez, sewed atuyx cloþez. c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) Cmb Ll.4.14 3.49 Anoþer proud partriche..sesith on hir cete with hir

• assart

is called suggemede. (1141-54) Chart.St.Paul in RHS ser.3.58 28 Clamaui quietos..de essartis & placitis forestariorum. (1464) RParl. 5.569a Many grete fermes and sommes under dyvers old names.. summe by the name of firma Balliarum, summe under the name of Assart.

• man-quelling(e, mon-

Corp-C 296 9 Þis ilke fals religious is gilty of þefte and manquellyng also, siþ he is cause of þe old pore mannus deþ. ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Satan & P. Corp-C 296 266 Þei ben comynly ful of symonye, pride, coueitise, glotonye,

• mirtite

of mirtis bayis. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 3.1093 In this mone ek mirtite [L myrtitem] is to make: Six sester old wyn do to mirtes bayis v pound..And shake hem dayly xxij dayes. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 3.1156 Mirtite, a