• bor, bore, bar(e, bayre

a bold or fierce heart; bor(es tusk , one of the canine teeth of a boar; (c) pig , an ungrown male pig; gret , singler , a full-grown wild boar; wild , an undomesticated boar; (d) breme as ,

• pestel, pestelle, pestil(le, pestle, pistel, pesteles, pestel(le

sethe þy henne and kut her wele On gobbettes, save alrons and þe pestle. ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook. Hlk 674 46 To mak pestelles of pork endored, tak and broche pestellis of pork and put of the skyn and rost it.

• pik(e, pikke, peke, piche, pig, pic, pick(e, bike, pikes, pik, peke

away And makyn hym as qwart as pyk in fay. ?c1450 Iff a man Stockh 10.90 328/864 Rwe also distroith venym With-owtyn mannys body and with-in, And as a pyk makyth hym clene. a1500(?a1450) GRom. Glo 22 725/10 And sche

• pouche, poche, puche, pulche

and hake and of ooþer fisshe, parboile hem, take hem and dyce hem small. c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) Hrl 4016 101 And þen take a pike..And slyt the pouuche..And whan þe sauce biginneth to boyle..wassh þe pike and cast him þere-in,

• heden, hedde, headen, heved(en, hefeden, hefd, heded(e, heved, i)heded, iheafdet, hadet, hated

44 2582 And þare þe trechoure was..hedid [Dub: hated]. c1450(a1425) MOTest. SeldSup 52 3580 Most sorow in hert had he þat he heddyd hyr and had no mo. (a1464) Capgr. Chron. Cmb Gg.4.12 276 Ser Thomas Spencer..was take and hedded

• pok, poke, pock(e, pokke, poxe

pokkes [vr. pokke] and of scabbe and euery soor, Shal euery sheep be hool that of this welle Drynketh a draughte. c1400(c1378) PPl.B LdMisc 581 20.97 Kynde come after with many kene sores, As pokkes and pestilences, and moche poeple

• shipen(e, shipoun, -un, -ne, shippen, -on, -une, shepen(e, -on, -ne, shupene, shipena, scipene, -ena, sipen, -ana, chipene, sheppen, skipen, -ne, skepen, scbepyn, shipenes, scippenes, skipnes, spipenes

thi table sett in thi cow-stalle? and whi etist thou not in thi shipun as wele as in thin halle? (1402) Topias Dgb 41 p.76 ȝit makist thou to thi sheep a shepen and to thi hors a stable. (1421)

• shiten, shite, shiteth, shit, shot(e, shite(n, shitten, ishete, shetin, -un

aȝen. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 144a/b Þis beest [bee] is ful clene more þan oþir beestes and þerfore sche schitiþ fleynge and nouȝt in hire hyue. a1400 Lanfranc Ashm 1396 12/19 If he may not schite oones a day,

• sleing(e

Cartage was destroyed, þan fil meny myshappes, cruel strif and tresoun, þefte and robberie, sleynge [Higd.(2) : destruccion; L strages] of citezeyns. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 269b/a Aspis..casteþ oute sleynge and venyme [?read: sleynge venyme; L venena..mortifera]. a1400 Cursor

• furre, fur, for(re

(1439) EEWills 114/13,14 I bequeth..my best gowne of the lyuere of Skynners craft, both furre and cloth..And to Watkyn Asshwell my secunde best furre and gowne. (1444) Will York in Sur.Soc.30 106 All my array, except ij furres, ye tane

• doun, doun(i)e, doume, dowin, dawne

cp. OI dunn . The soft feathers of birds, down [used for stuffing pillows and featherbeds]; pilwe ; Cuthbert , down of the Cuthbert duck. (1345-9) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.31 32 vj lb. de dounie. (1345-9) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.31

• dreven, dref, drevit, dreft, dreved, dereved, idreaved

back or away; drive or take (an animal) away; ?pursue or carry on (a quarrel); (b) to attack (sb., a sheep); (c) to trouble (sb.), annoy, vex; (d) to go; of springs: flow; to nought , come to naught. c1330

• parde, pard, perde, pardus, pardes, pardos, perdos

And pardes als þe dragons did. c1400(?a1300) KAlex. LdMisc 622 6699 ȝut þou shalt habbe sex hundreþ rinoceros And fyue hundreþ olifauntz and sex hundreþ perdos [LinI: pardos]. c1440 PLAlex. Thrn 69/27 Wilde Beste..come apon þam..lyones, beres, vnycornes, tygres,

• pel, pele, pelle, pail

esp. a receipt roll of the Exchequer; (c) wol , inferior wool, as that taken from the skins of dead sheep; (d) in surnames. (1349) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.31 39 iiij pelles de bazano..vj pelles de Roan. (1391) Acc.Exped.Der. in

• presentli

his thought the forme of the thing that he wol make and moeveth the effect of the work and ledith that he hadde lookid byforn in his thought symplely and presently [L praesentarieque]. ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo. Benson-Robinson 5.pr.6.122 The science

• roungen, rounge, ronge, raunge

tormented. (c1410) York MGame Vsp B.12 103 Þe hare..fumeþ or croteieþ and roungeþ and bereþ talow and grete. c1425 Twiti Venery(1) Vsp B.12 151 Hare..bereth grece and grotheyth and roungeth [F rounge]. c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) Hnt HM 147 109/28

• spotti, spotẹ

myȝte; To spotty ho is, of body to grym. a1425(a1382) WBible(1) Corp-O 4 Gen.30.35 He seuerde..the she geyt and the sheep..dyuerse and spotti. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 8.73-4 Yf hit [ram's tongue] be spotty, that a man may wite Yf

• bestaile, bestaill(e, bestal(e, bestall(e, bestel

Alex. Ashm 44 1199 And bring in all þe bestaill [Dub: bestes], barayn & othire. (1453) RParl. 5.228b Freshfyssh and Bestall entring into this youre said Reaume. (1472-5) RParl. 6.154b All maner of fressh Fyssh, Bestall and Wyne..for the vitailling

• camelioun, camaleon, camle

27944 275b/b Camelion [L Cameleon] is a litel beste with diuerse coloures, and his body chaungeþ ful soone in to dyuerse coloures..And auicenne meneþ þat Camaleon [L Cameleon] and stellio, þe lusardis, been al oone. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944

• scabbed(e, scabbut, scabde, skabbeb

hawke: Take old grece, brymston, and cinomome and confye efere and anoynt þe scabbe to the fire. a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor. Ryl Eng 86 439 Þe þridde offiss þat falliþ to persouns is to greese þer scabbid sheep & to telle hem