- cer's Cant. Tal. v. 1900, ed Tyrwhitt,
and note, where he quotes a passage from the Cottonian manuscript of "the Sevyn Sages of Rome," in which the same word occurs.
Asoyle, 38, resolve. Mr. Hunter, in the additions to Boucher, points out the two meanings of this word from Palsgrave, viz., absolve, and resolve. It is here used in the latter sense.
Aspye, 249, espy.
Astat, 12, estate.
Asyse, 60, assize. Hence, judgment; as in a passage quoted by Stevenson from an Edinburgh MS. in the additions to Boucher.
At, that.
Atent, 4, intention.
Atreyd, 350, frightened. This may be a mistake for "afreyd." I find the same word, however, in The Kyng of Tars, 604—
"He sturte him up in a breyd,
In his herte sore atrayyed."
In which place it probably means vexed, angered, as in The Seven Sages, 1867, from "tray." Ritson absurdly explains it poison'd, from the Saxon attred.
Atwin, in two, asunder.
Augrym, 189, algorism, arithmetic. This is a corruption from the Arabic, and is often found in works on arithmetic after the Boetian system of contractions was superseded by the eastern notation. See the curious etymologies of this word in Rara Mathematica, pp. 1, 72, and 94.
Autecer, 88, ancestor. It here alludes to the first parent. This word is not yet obsolete in the North-West Riding of Yorkshire. See Hunter's Hallamshire Glossary.
Autere, altar.
Avantorsly, peradventure, by chance. "Awnterowsly, forte, fortasse, forsan, forsitan," Prompt. Parv.
Aved, had.
Averte, 88, averter, turner away.
Avyse, advice.
Avyse, to consider. "Avise yow wele," i. e., look well to yourselves.
Avoyd, 131, move away.
Avoutrie, vide Advowtrye.
Avowe, a vow. "Avowe, votum," Prompt. Parv.
Awey, away.
Awtere, altar.
Ay, ever, aye, always.
Bad, 164, bold.
Baftys, 180.
Baye, 180, set at bay. See Sir F. Madden's Glos. to William and the Werwolf.
Bayle, 292, custody, government. Cant. Tales, v. 7574.
Bayn, 173, 178, ready.
Bale, 30, sorrow, misery.
Balys, 105, plural of "bale."
Balys, 210, bales.
Balke, 343, a ridge of land between two burrowes, Cotgrave. "Balke of a londe eryd, porca," Prompt. Parv. See Boucher's Glossary, in voc.
Bane, bone.
Bairn, child.
Barne, 160, 168, 180, 182, &c. Vide bairn.
Baron, 182, vide bairn.
Barrany, barren.
Bat, 12, debate.
Bath, both.
Batte, 296, stroke. So it may be interpreted in this place, but see Stevenson's additions to Boucher, in voc. bat. "Batte-staffe, perticulus," Prompt. Parv.
Be-dene, 2, 4, 7, 62, 161, immediately, moreover, collectively.
Beetes, 22, beets. "Betys herbe, beta," Prompt. Parv.
Befforn, before.
Begchis, 384, bitches.
Behest, promised. "I have beheste, voto nuncupavi," Hormanni Vulgaria, fol. 3.
Behestes, promises.
Be-lyff, 181, quickly, instantly.
Belle, 189. To bere the belle, i. e., to carry the prize; a proverbial expression, which occurs also in Chaucer's Troilus and Cresseide, 199.
Belle, 18, clock.
Bemys, beams.
Benethe, 145, begin.
Benyson, 86, benediction, blessing.
Bent, subject.
Bent, a bending or declivity.
