• kebbe

keb . (a) An old useless cow or sheep; (b) as surname. (1320) Reg.Sandale in Hamp.RS 8 254 Boves xxxviij, unde xiij kebbes, estimatur quilibet ad v s., et alii ad vj s. viij d., multones xiiij, unde xiiij kebbes..unde

• shẹpishe

n. (a) Like a sheep: meek, docile, simple; (b) as surname. ?c1200 Orm. Jun 1 6654 Tatt illke mann Þatt follȝheþþ Cristess bisne..iss shepisshe & bilewhit. a1225(?a1200) Trin.Hom. Trin-C B.14.52 37 Sume men ledeð clene liflode and ne doð ne

• uncture

of such a substance, an anointing. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 6.128 [For] sheep yshorn, make vncture of lupynys Herwith ennoynte hem. ?a1450 Lanfranc Add 12056 41/32 Þys vncture [Ashm: enoynture] efenyþ þo placys by whom akþe goth to þe brayn.

• bacoun, bak(o)un, bakon, -en, -in

(c1390) Chaucer CT.NP. Manly-Rickert B.4035 Seynd bacoun and som tyme an ey or tweye. (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB. Manly-Rickert D.418 For wynnyng wolde I al his lust endure And make me a feyned appetit; And yet in bacoun hadde I neuere

• sweien, swei, swie, swe~x0021d~e, sweande, swei(e)d, swied, swe(~x0021d~e(d

properly swyeþ [F regayle], Pig wrenneþ, boor boweþ. c1400(?c1380) Cleanness Nero A.10 956 Þe rayn rueled adoun..Of felle flaunkes of fyr..Swe aboute Sodamas and hit sydez alle. c1400(?c1380) Patience Nero A.10 151 Furst to-murte mony rop and þe mast after;

• shẹp, shep(p)e, sheip, shiep(e, ship(pe, chep(e, chip(p)e, szep, ssep, sep, scep, shep(e, sheppe, sheip(p)e, shiepe, shipe, ship(pe, shape, scip, chep(e, cep, skape, ssep(e, sep, scep, sceap, scepen, sheapen, sheop, seop, sceape, -a(n, shepes, shceep, sheth-, shap-, shop-, shup-, shaup-, scip(p)e-, scape-, skip(e)-, skippe-, chip-, chap-, sep(p)e-, sip(e)-, sippe-, sap(e)-, shib-, skib(e)-, shi(f)-, scif-, sib-, sab-, sef-, si(f)-, she-

fodder for sheep; cote (hous) , a shed for sheep; crok (hok) , a shepherd's crook; feire , a gathering for buying and selling sheep; fold , an enclosure for sheep; gavel (silver) , a pasture rent for sheep; hacche

• shering(e, zieren

sheep; ? = (b); (e) the cutting of hair; also, tonsure [1st quot.]. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 7.153 Þe pope demynge þat it was for to use cuttynge and scherynge iren [L ferro abscisionis], he gat hym armes

• tup(pe, tupe, top(pe, tope, tufe

of which are prob. from ME . (a) A male sheep, ram; also, a ram's skin [quot. c1450]; hed ; horn ; (b) mil. a battering ram; (c) in surnames and place name. a1425(c1300) NHom.(1) Peter & P. Ashm 42

• euen

euen v. From eue mother sheep. To give birth to (a lamb or a kid); to lamb, to kid. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 264b/a Somme lambes beþ y eued in springyng tyme and somme in heruest tyme. (a1398) Trev.

• fold, fald, feld, vold

to folde And hath ther taken what he wolde, His mouth upon the gras he wypeth. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 279a/b Þat hounde is an yuel hound..þat kepeþ and wardeþ schepe..by day in pasture and strangleþ and byteþ hem

• grasen, gresen

a fat swan For a goselyng that greseth [vr. grasethe] on bareyn clours. c1475(c1450) Idley Instr. 2.A.1241 The soule shall goo grase in fieldis and in woodis. a1500(?c1440) Lydg. HGS Lnsd 699 557 Sheep in the pastur gresen with mekenesse.

• reclinen

?a1425 Chauliac(1) NY 12 76b/b Be þe sike volued and reuolued & reclyned vpon þe wonde. (?1440) Palladius DukeH d.2 12.402 The Grekish sheep..In housis fedde [ar], rather then pasture; And hem on bored plankis they reclyne. a1500(?a1450) GRom. Hrl

• shaver, shavour

cuts or shaves hair, a barber; a barber-surgeon; ?also, one who shears sheep or cuts cloth; -- transl. of L tonsor ; (b) a dental instrument for scraping or cutting. a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale Roy 17.C.17 652/9 Rasor: shawere. ?c1475 Cath.Angl.

• travailousli, traveiloseli

268 If aman haue bouȝt an hors forto drawe a boute his mylle, and if þis man knowe..þat bi þe settyng of þis hors so bisili and so traveilosely a werk wherbi he schal be worun out..wiþynne x yeris, þer

• untidi, ontidi

137 10.262 The tarre is vntydy þat to þyne sheep by-longeþ; Hure salue ys of supersedeas in someneres boxes. c1400(c1378) PPl.B LdMisc 581 20.118 Wit his vntydy tales he tened ful ofte Conscience and his compaignye of holicherche þe techeres.

• wolled, wulled

Palladius DukeH d.2 8.72 Now putte among [the sheep] their tuppis whyte Not oonly wolled [vr. woolled], but also their tonge. a1480(c1450) Barlaam (2) Peterh 257 175/6446 He wysshe his body, and wyped it with þat wolled clothe þat he

• youling

Dc 369(2) Amos 1.14 Y shal kyndyl fijr in the wall of Rabba, and it shal deuoure his housis, in ȝoulyng in the day of bateyle, and in whirlwynd in the day of meuyng to gydre. (c1384) WBible(1) Dc 369(2)

• supersedeas, supersedias, -sediace, -sidias, supersedeas

PPl.C Hnt HM 137 3.187 Somenours and southdenes..supersedeas takeþ. c1400(?a1387) PPl.C Hnt HM 137 10.263 The tarre is vntydy þat to þyne sheep by-longeþ, Hure salue ys of supersedeas in someneres boxes; Thyne sheep are ner al shabbyd, þe wolf

• terrage, terage, tar(r)age, taragge

messe..a swanne rostid and silverde marvelusly, standyng in a tarrage. (?1468) Doc. in Bentley Excerpta Hist. 237 The Bankett on Munday..the table accomplisshid as ensueth: xxxti taragges, and every taragge a tre of golde with grene levez and blossomez of

• pichtel, pictel, pightel, pigtel, pigthello, pictlake, pitel, pittil, pithel, pitthel, picel, pichel, pichgel, pig(e)hel, pughel, pughul, pewquel, pistel

?a1400(1252) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.1 340 Alicia Crane tenet quoddam pytthel. (1409) Acc.R.Gt.Totham Pightall. (1417) Acc.R.Gt.Totham Pictell. (1464) Indent.Tylere Thomas and Johanne shall haue..all her londes..except..ij pighell lyeng in Altistown. ?a1500 Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.2 7 Ipsa tenet unum pytyl,