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Glossary

betook, intrusted, commended, gave.
bevered, trembled.
bisene, bysene, provided, appointed, apparelled.
bledde, covered with blood.
bobaunce, pride, pomp, bombast.
boistous, boisterous, cross-grained, rough.
bole, tree-trunk.
boot, bote, remedy, avail.
borowes, pledges.
borrowe, pledge, security.
bounté, bounty.
bourded, jested.
bourder, jester.
bourgeoneth, blossoms, buds.
bow-draught, the distance a bow will carry.
boyshe, bush, bough.
boystous, boisterous, cross-grained, rough.
braced, embraced.
brachet, hound.
braid, movement.
brast, burst, broke.
brasting, bursting.
brawn, the thick muscular part of the flesh.
breathed, took breath, rested for breath.
breathed during, able to sustain breath.
brent, burnt.
brised, crushed, broke.
broached, thrust.
broaches, spits.
brose, a kind of broth or pottage.
brunts, blows.
brym, angry.
bubbly, bubbling.
bur, a broad ring just below the grip of a spear.
bushment, ambush.
but, except.
but as, but.
but if, except
by, near.
by that, by the time
bywaryd, bestowed.


call, ‘let me c.,’ caused me to be called.
canel bone, collar-bone.
cantel, a small piece or portion of anything.
careful, full of care.
carracks, small ships.
carved, cut.
cast, a set of loaves baked together.
cast; ‘I c. me,’ I resolve, I am determined.
casteth, is determined.
causeless, causelessly, without cause.
cease, cause to cease.
cedle, schedule, writing.
cere, to wrap in cere-clothes, waxed shrouds.
cered; ‘c. cloth of Raines’ (‘a town in Britayne’), waxed cloth, shroud.
certes, certainly.
chaflet, small platform.
charge, command, sentence.
charged, burdened.
cheer, entertainment, bearing, demeanour.
chrism, holy oil.
churl, fellow.
clave, did cleave,
clean, noble.
clean, clene, quite, entirely, completely.
clearness, brightness.
cleight, clutched, seized.
cleped, clyped, called.
clerk, scholar, cleric.
closed, enclosed.
coffer, chest.
cogge, cock-boat.
cognisance, badge.
coif, head-covering, helmet, cap.
come, become.
commonalty, commons.
complished, complete.
comynal, common.
con, know, be able.
conceit, thought, knowledge.
concluded, determined.
condition, habit.
confessed, shrived.
conies, rabbits.
conservant, wont to haunt.
conserve, preserve.
contrarious, contrary
contrary, contradict.
convenable, convenient.
cording, accord, agreement.
coronal, spear-head, circlet.
cost, rib.
costed, kept in course (hunting-term).
couched, lay.
could, knew.
courage, encourage.
couragest, dost encourage.
courtelage, garden or court-yard.
courteoust, most courteous.
cousin, consanguineous.
cousin-germain, first cousin.
covenant, condition.
covert, reserved, in reserve.
covetise, covetousness.
covin, deceit, trickery.
credence, statement, report.
croft, grot, crypt.
croup, crupper.
cry; ‘let do c.,’ caused to be proclaimed.
cumbered, encumbered, hampered.
curteist, most courteous.


daffish, silly.
damage, loss, pity.
damosel, damsel.
danger, daunger, dominion, power, domination.
dare, frighten.
dawed, sprinkled with water.
deal, act, part, settle.
debonair, gentle.
deceivable, deceitful.
defaded, faded away.
default, fault, want, need.
defend, prevent, forbid, refuse.
defended, forbidden.
defendeth, forbids.
defoiled, overcome, shattered; slandered.
defouled, defiled, shattered.
dele, part, portion.