• ungọdlihed(e

to breke hir lyves threde. a1450(c1433) Lydg. St.Edm. Hrl 2278 413/922 He gaff into the assis mouth Swych speech of old, rebukyng in his dreed Balaam the prophete for his vngoodlyheed. (?a1439) Lydg. FP Bod 263 6.1266 Fortune heer maketh

• unordren, unordurd, unordred, unorderide, onordered

Manly-Rickert I.961 Thow shalt considere what thow art that doost the synne, wheither thow be male or female, yong or old ordred or vnordred [vr. onordered], wys or fool, clerk or seculer. c1450 Alph.Tales Add 25719 402/28 Sergius III garte

• uphongen, uphinge, uphonge, uphang

Thow were offrid vp hongyng, For mannes sake, on rode tree. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 4.875 Now folis too yeer old may tamed be: Take brawny bodied, huge, argute, & longe, Smale ballockyng, and euere short vphonge. c1450 Palladius BodAdd

• vache, vacche

2 428 Hugo le Vache. (1301) Sub.R.Yks. in YASRS 21 47 Roberto le Vache. (1302-3) Feudal Aids 1 91 Matheus de la Vache. ?a1425(c1390) Chaucer Truth Benson-Robinson 22 Forth, beste, out of thy stal thou Vache, leve thyn old wrecchednesse.

• wlaffen, wlaffith, wlaffez, wlase~x00fe~

uch a liþ. c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale Cmb Ee.4.20 84 Homme bale et babeie: M. drauelith and wlaffyth. a1450 SLeg.Barlaam Bod 779 224 On a tyme as he rood, an old mon he fond, Bleryid & wlaffing & stouping to þe ground.

• carat, carette, carrat, crate

as the sterlyng. (1478) Indent. in Archaeol.16 169 Robert Hill..and Miles Ades, were sworen..to make this standard of xxiiij carrats, iij greynes and an halfe of perfite fyne gold, and half a greyne of allay, accordyng to the old standard.

• curvature

of þe knee filled with cloþes. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 12.34 Ek..vch merges curuature [of a vine] Of thre yeer old kit from the roote is sure. (a1460) Vegetius(2) Pmb-C 243 580 A sengil ege is first to strecch in

• tellen, tel(le, tele, til(le, taellen, tealen, tellenne, tollen, tellest, telae, te, telleth, tellethe, telth(e, tellet, -it, telli~x0021d~t, telluth(e, telt, tellus, taelle~x00f0~, taellae~x00f0~, telled, telle~x0021d~, tolth, tellen, tellethe, tellus, tellad, telleth, tellyd, told(e, tolid, tould(e, teld(e, telt, telled, tauld, tald(e, tealde, toldest, told(ed, told(e(n, tolled, teld(e(n, telled(en, tald(e(n, tealde, taelden, tealden, tealdon, tole, told(e, tolled, tould, teld(e, telled, tield, tald(e(n, teald, teldim, telstu

sth.); with clause: say (to sb. sth. is so); of a language: express (what sb. says), communicate; on english , write in English; tale of , write about (sth.), tell of; also, impers. hit telleth , it says (in a

• oxe, ox, oxhe, hox, nox, ocxe, occe, oxs-, oxo-, ex-, oxes, oxsis, oysis, oxen(e, oxon(e, oxne, oxsen, oxsin, ocsen, oksen, oxnen, exen, exon, oxes

of þe braunches calle þai Oxbalse [Man.(1) : Guybalse], þat es at say, opobalsamum. (1347) in Lofvenberg Contrib.Lex. 95 [An old ruinous hous called] le Oxeshepene. (1367) in Lofvenberg Contrib.Lex. 95 [The house called] Oxeschipene. (a1382) WBible(1) Bod 959 Is.7.25

• fraughten, fraghten, fre(i)ghten, frighten, i-)fra(u)ght, frawt, fre(i)ght, fret

GoughETop 4 13/14 Þer comen schyppys of the Emperour, freght wyth whete. (1460) Doc. in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1 307 [The English merchants] makyth lawes for ther avayle, not suffring fremen of thys sayd citte [Dublin] that beth passengeris ovre the

• frith-borgh, -borow, -bor, frid-, fri-

AF francplege , later adopted into ME as frank-plegge , renders AL fri-borg- , mistaking fri- as `free'. (a) An English system of collective surety within a hundred, or some other territorial division, by which a certain number of freemen

• galingale, galengale, gallingale, galigale, ganingale, ganigale, canningalle

of merchandise, etc.; (b) cook. galingale used for flavoring; poudre (of) ; (c) med. galingale as an ingredient in recipes; English , root of Aristolochia; ?also, root of asparagus. ?a1325(a1300) Cokaygne Hrl 913 73 Þe rote is gingeuir and galingale.

• erldọm, -dam, eerldom, eorldom, irldom

. (a) The territory or manorial estates of an earl; fig. realm; (b) an English county or shire. a1131 Peterb.Chron. LdMisc 636 an.1127 For þi iaef se kyng him þone eorldom of Flandres. c1275(?a1200) Lay. Brut Clg A.9 27938 Alle

• Lollard, lollord, lolard, loulard

, loulard . MDu. Lollaert (a) An English heretic with opinions derived from John Wyclif or his followers; (b) a Hussite; (c) a heretic (i.e. a Christian); (d) a lazy vagabond or beggar. (1395) Close R.Rich.II 487 I shall never

• milner(e, mulner(e, melner(e, miller(e, muller(e, meller(e, milla, meller

who runs a mill; (b) belles , ?household bells of some kind; milneres thume , a kind of fish, the English bullhead (Cottus gobio); pit , a millpond; (c) in surnames. (1381) Let.Ball in Robbins Hist.Poems Roy 13.E.9 1 Iohan

• le, lei, li, la, les, lez, le~x0021d~

la , les , lez (?leȝ ). OF (a) With English words in Latin context; (b) with place names, ship names, etc. (1289) in Madox Form.Angl.(1702) 225 Die..quae vocatur la Hockeday. (1318) Acc.R.Dur. in Sur.Soc.99 11 In Molendino..in le Wodyarde..in

• South-folk, southfolc, southefolk, suthfolk(e, suthfok, suffolk(e, suchfolch

OE suþ-folc (a) The county Suffolk; (b) man , a man from Suffolk; speche , the dialect of English spoken in Suffolk; streit , a piece of narrow cloth made in Suffolk; (c) pl. the adherents of William de la

• strandling(e, strandelin, stranglin(g, stranling, stran(e)lin(e, stranlion, stradling(e, stralling, strendlinge, strenling, stringling

stradlingum , strenlingum , strelingum . A variety of squirrel fur, prob. the mixed gray and red fur of the English red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in autumn and winter; a piece of such fur; -- also coll.; popel , a

• ten-man-tale, temantale, tementale, themantale, themantel, tenementale, temanetale, tenemannetale, tienmannatale, themanetale, themanatale, trenmannetale

themanatale & (error) trenmannetale . From OE phrase tin manna talu a number (or reckoning) of ten men. (a) An English system of collective surety within a territorial unit by which a group of ten freemen or villagers combined to

• thridden-del, thrid(d)endele, thriddendale, thriddindel, thriddun-, thred(d)en-, thirddendel, thirdindel(e, ~x00fe~riddendael, -deal, ~x00fe~riddandael(e, -dale

until one-third remains; (b) a unit of liquid measure, often equivalent to one-third of a gallon [see Zupko Dictionary of English Weights and Measures for the British Isles s.v. thredendel ]. a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom. Vsp D.14 51/32 Se biscop þeh nedde