• Cicerones

(pl.) L Gifted speakers or orators. a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl. Hrl 4011 32/45 In commynycacioun & talkynge þey [the English] byn Cicerones, þat is to say as eloquent & as gay yn speche as was þat grete Rethoryan Marcus Tullius Cicero.

• sprece, spraece

sprece n. Also spraece . OE spraece Speech; english , English. a1121 Peterb.Chron. LdMisc 636 an.1114 He wolde sprecon mid him daerne sprece. 1123 Peterb.Chron. LdMisc 636 an.1123 Se aercebiscop of Cantwarabyrig..waes ðaere fulle seoueniht aer hi mihte cumen to

• mer(e-maiden, mar-, meri-, meremaindein

wiþ euery wynde of wordes, ner to ȝeue þe ere to evel blandisshinge marmayden [L sirenae]. (1396) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO) 6.116 [An old seat with 2] costers [embroidered..with] mermaydenes. c1450(?c1408) Lydg. RS Frf 16 6732 They vpon her sheldes bare: The toon..A

• antiquat

antiquat adj. L ppl. Old. ?a1425 Chauliac(1) NY 12 89a/a Whilez it goþ out or droppe, as in fistulez antiquate [Ch.(2) : old] i. old, may not be stopped wiþ out þe drede of a more greuous harme.

• cronen

From crone n., which in MnE has the senses `old sheep, decrepit person'. Lit., to cull old sheep (from a flock); here, to weed out or discharge (aged officers). (?1461) Paston 4.13 It is tyme to crone your old officers.

• quareling

quareling ger. Cp. OF carreler v. Patching shoes. (1395) Doc. in Riley Mem.Lond. 540 [The old workers shall not work upon anything but old leather for sale..except in mending old boots and shoes]..quareling [before and behind, clouting and] pecyng..ryvetting..lynyng.

• occean, oc(c)eane, occian(e, occianne, occion(e, oxian

the Atlantic; brittish , the English Channel [see also Brittish adj. & n. (c)]; also, the sea southwest of Britanny [quot.: Barth. 188b/a]; est , the eastern portion of the circumferential ocean; also, the English Channel or the North Sea

• Englishen

Englishen v. From English . To put into English: to paraphrase or translate (a foreign text or expression); to express in English. c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) Add 25011 157 As men seith and Englysshith `brekyn bow'. a1450(a1397) WBible(2) GProl. Hrl 1666

• -age

F. Gadde, The Suffixes -ery, -age and -ment in English (1910). In many nouns taken from OF, denoting states, actions, concretes, groups, rights, services, etc., e.g. avauntage, baggage, baronage, cariage, coinage, courage, cousinage, heritage, homage, langage, linage, mariage, perage, pilgrimage,

• Danishrie, -erie, -yre

Danishrie n. Also -erie , -yre (error). From Danish , with coll. suff. as in English(e)rie . The Danish people or army; ?also, the Danelaw. 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B Grafton p.201 Alurede had the victorie And slewe that daye al

• Engle, aengle, Engla, Engle, Englene

Engle n. (pl.) Also aengle . Gen. Engla , Engle , Englene . OE Engle the Angles, the English. The English people. ?a1150 Chron.Tbr.B.1 Tbr B.1 an.1066 Þa com Harold Engla chinge ofer þere brigge. c1150(OE) Hrl.HApul. Hrl 6258B 80.23/1

• pirling

a whirling motion'; MnE dial. pirl `to whirl, spin'.?Also cp. It. (Florio) pirla , pirlo , which may be from English; cp. ME pril(le n. Revolving. (1448-9) Doc. in HMC Rep.9 App.1 353a Et in cordis emptis pro dictis pirlyng

• postillatour

Mm.2.15 p.58 And no doute to a symple man..men miȝten expoune myche openliere and shortliere the bible in English, than the elde greet doctouris han expounid it in Latyn, and myche sharpliere and groundliere than manie late postillatouris eithir expositouris

• provincial

provincialis n. Coll. The inhabitants of an English county. a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl. Hrl 4011 20/16 Barrocshire..toke the name of barre ook yn þe forest of Wyndeshore, whedir the provinciale [Trev.Higd. : men of þat shire; L provinciales] were wone to

• limpolding

One kind of victory in the English game at tables [see Murray, Medium AEvum 10, p.67]. c1330 Ludus Angl. in Fiske Chess Iceland Roy 13.A.18 163 Haec victoria vocatur lympoldyng. Si autem tota pagina..fuit occupata per adversarium..non vocabitur illa victoria

• lurching

(2). A complete victory in the English game at tables [see Murray Medium AEvum 10, p.67]. c1330 Ludus Angl. in Fiske Chess Iceland Roy 13.A.18 163 Haec victoria vocatur lympoldyng. Si autem tota pagina..fuit occupata per adversarium..non vocabitur illa victoria

• -ard

(horse), and in the nouns bast-ard, bus-ard buzzard, dunce, cou-ard, trich-ard , taken from OF. In English formations modeled on bast-ard, cou-ard , all derogatory: dast-ard, dot-ard, dull-ard, fabel-ard, faill-ard, los-ard (beside older los-el ), nigg-ard, shreu-ard, slugg-ard ; --

• berkoc

the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix). [Cp. birchhen in H. K. Swann, Dict.of English and Folk-Names of British Birds. ] (1311) Inquest Lan. in LCRS 54 15 [A certain oxgang of land called] Berkockehill. (1346) Feudal Aids 5 52 Stephanus Berkoc.

• Saxọnli

Saxon n. In the English manner. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 2.159 Þe Flemmynges þat woneþ in þe weste side of Wales haueþ i-left her straunge speche and spekeþ Saxonliche i-now. a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl. Hrl 4011 30/21 The Flemmynges..dwellyn yn

• bemish

at Prague and worth about one and one-half English pennies. c1470(?1458) Wey Money Bod 565 2 A Reynysch gyldren ys worth there xxj blafferdys and as many of bemysch. A doket of Venyse ys worthe xxvj bemysch and iij hallardys.