• yu, iu

OE geo , iu . Of old, formerly; nou [see nuȝȝu adv.]. a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom. Vsp D.14 133/28 Þa waeron gode dages for cristenes folcas geearnunge Nu is aeighwanen heof & orefcwealm mycel for folces synnen & waestmes ne synd swa

• brassik, brissok

2 13 Brasica, caulis nondum transplantatus, sed quandoque pro quolibet caule sumitur. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 3.634 Old brasik seed to rape eschaungeth feste. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 5.51 Brasike, that wortes serueth, is to sowe. c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk. Thrn 66/24

• brok(e

tubbes et pipas vacuas. (1305) RParl. 1.186a Johannes..percussit eum in gutture quodam gladio qui dicitur Brok. (c1410) York MGame Vsp B.12 26 In the same wise he putteþ out his smale brokes [OF broches] or he be xii monyth old.

• bulgen, bolgen

Lond.Chron.Cleo. Cleo C.4 147 Two men that had..Bulged the shipp and drowned hem therinne. c1453(c1437) Brut-1436 Hrl 53 579/30 vj old shippes were lade with hard ston..to droune hem in þe haven..þat no shippis shuld come þer-in..þey bulgit hem, some

• cancri

Paris angl.25 183a/b If it were made in a morter of lede..it were þe better to alle cancry disposiciouns. c1450 Med.Bk.(1) Med-L 136 28/42 Hitt helyth ryght wele old cancry sores, and also the same cancres and they be new.

• -al

(from OF ) competes with -al . (a) In numerous adjs. taken from Latin, either directly or by way of Old French, as annu-al, -el, cordi-al, formal, -el, funer-al, gener-al, mort-al, natur-al, tempor-al, -el ; (b) in a number of

• overlether

factis ad ij s. x d. (1409) Doc. in Riley Mem.Lond. 572 [All the work that may be done with old leather belongs to..] Cobelers [without..mixing..new leather with..old leather, for the sole, or for the] overlethir. (1409) Doc. in Riley

• pit, pit(t)e, put(e, putte, puit(e, puette, put(e, putte, pet(e, pette

pet (from L ) & MDu. put ; also cp. OF puiz , puz & L puteus , AL (?from English) pitta . (a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig. ; also,

• conversaunt, conversand

gracyously conuersaunt wyth his peple. a1450(a1397) WBible(2) GProl. Hrl 1666 p.9 These greete doctouris weren noon English men, neither thei weren conuersaunt among English men. a1475(1450) Scrope DSP Bod 943 130/33 It longith not to a grete lorde to be

• antartik

paralellus antarticus , the antarctic circle; (b) the southern half of the sky or the earth; (c) southern (dialect of English). (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 105b/a Aristotel..clepiþ þise poles tweye sterres..þe on..hatte polus articus & þat oþir..polus antarticus. (a1398)

• Lollardi(e, lollardẹ

From Lollard . (a) An English heresy with beliefs and practices derived from Wyclif and his followers, Lollardy; also, a belief or practice of the Lollards; (b) of flesh , ?sins of the flesh; ?the eating of flesh during a

• marchaunt, marcha(u)nd, mercha(u)nt, mercha(u)nd, machaunt, marka(u)nt, -a(u)nd, marshaunt, -and, mercand, marchauntes, marcha(u)ns, marchons, merchauns

, the influential businessmen engaged in English export of important commodities; (b) fig. ?a buyer, customer; (c) alien (straunge, straunger) , a foreign merchant trading in England; denisein (English) , a merchant of English citizenship; (d) of alemaine (hanse) ,

• mop(pe, mope

`simpleton; pugnosed dog', Du. mop , mops `pugnosed dog' -- unless these are derived from English. (a) A fool, simpleton; a worthless person; (b) as adj.: foolish; (c)?a derisive gesture; (d) a little child, baby; also, a doll; (e) as

• -nes(se, -nece, -nez, -nesce, -nis(se, -naesse, -nas, -neshe, -nissa

emotion, an action: cherishnes , (?from noun) mendnesse , etc. The use of -nes(se with words from languages other than English and French is rare, but a few examples can be given. It is added to adjectives of ON origin

• pursevaunt, purseivant, purcevaunt, purcivaunt, pursivaunt, purciwant, purcevunt, pursuivant, pursefaunt, poursevunt, porcevaunt

attached to the household of the king or of a nobleman; (b) one of the four royal pursuivants of the English officers of arms. (1438) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms 151 Will.Wolff, purcevaunt. (?a1439) Lydg. FP Bod 263 8.2781 A clerk

• argoil(le, argolye, argu(i)l

208 Pro morphea. Tak pouder of argoile. c1450 Med.Bk.(2) Add 33996 223 Ad consolidandum os fractum..poudre of whyte aisill, in english arguyll [etc.]. ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes Stockh 10.90 113/15 Take powdir of argoyle, and strowe it vp-on a lynen cloth..and make

• libra

the scales; (b) the pound weight of twelve ounces; (c) the English pound sterling. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars. Manly-Rickert I.11 The mones exaltacioun, I mene Libra, alwey gan ascende. (c1392) EPlanets Peterh 75 34/4 The lyne of his aux, þat yit

• Watling-strẹte, watlingestrete, watling(e)strate, watlinstrete, wateling(e)stret(e, wattelingestrete, whatelingstrete, weatlingastraetae

wattelingestrete , whatelingstrete , (early) weatlingastraetae . OE Waetlinga-straet (a) The English name for the Roman road running from Dover northwest through St. Albans to Chester or Cardigan; (b) the Milky Way; (c) as London street name. (?a1118) Florence of

• blonderen, blunderen, bloundren

Ashby APP Cmb Mm.4.42 26 As a blynde man in the wey blondryng. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 2.169 Þe [English] men beeþ able to al manere sleiþe and witte, but to fore þe dede blondrynge [L importuna] and hasty.

• Brittish, Bruttish, Bruytish, Brettish

Bryttisc (a) Celtic, British; speche ; (b) Breton; (c) occean, se , the English Channel. c1275(?a1200) Lay. Brut Clg A.9 6318 Alfred þe king..wrat þa laȝen on Englis, ase heo wes aer on Bruttisc. c1275(?a1200) Lay. Brut Clg A.9 14234