Search Constraints

« Previous | 1 - 100 of 262 |
Number of results to display per page

Search Results

1. appurtenaunt adj. & n.

16 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Belonging (to a country, a manor) as a possession or a right; (b) as noun: what belongs to or forms a subsidiary part (of a manor, etc.). …

2. arreinen v.

19 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) To interrogate (sb.), ask (sb.) a question; ask (a question); (b) to rebuke (sb.), censure. …

3. aschītes n.

12 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Pathol. A collection of serous fluid in the peritoneal cavity; dropsy of the abdomen; ascites. …

4. audī̆tǒur n.

22 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
An official who examines and verifies accounts, an auditor or examiner; also fig. of God. …

5. bercher n.

16 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A shepherd. …

6. bille n.

71 quotations in 6 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A formal document (embodying a will, a permit, etc.); fig. a list or inventory; (b) a papal bull. …

7. blẹ̄aunt n.

8 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A costly silk fabric; (b) a garment of this fabric, a tunic; (c) a bedspread of this fabric. …

8. bolās n.

14 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A wild plum (Prunus insititia), bullace; bolas fruit; bolas tre; (b) see quots. …

9. cāble n.

38 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A heavy rope or cable used on a ship; esp., the anchor cable; (b) a rope; (c) cable hok, instrument used in making cables; cable rop, a heavy rope; cable yarn, yarn for cables. …

10. caccherel n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A petty tax collector; a minor bailiff. …

11. Calibǒurne n.

8 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
King Arthur's sword [the early name, of which Excalibur is a later variant]. …

12. calketrappe n.

19 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
Mil. A device with sharp iron spikes set on the ground to cripple the feet of an advancing enemy; similar device used against trespassers, etc.; fig. a spiritual trap or pitfall. …

13. camerelle n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A small room. …

14. camoroche n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A plant resembling tansy; ?silverweed, wild tansy Potentilla anserina. …

15. cancellen v.

15 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) To annul or revoke (a charter, patent, etc.), mark (a document) void; also, to have the king revoke (one's patent); (b) to make (an agreement or obligation) null and void; to mark (a document) in……

16. cāne n.

26 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A reed (esp., Arundo donax & Phragmites communis); (b) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum); (c) a Javanese reed; prob., bamboo; (d) a fragrant reed of India and Persia. …

17. canevā̆s n.

41 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
A fabric made from flax or hemp, canvas [see Rogers Hist.Agric. 2.511-6]. …

18. canǧī n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A kind of cloth. …

19. capdawe n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A feudal lord (in Gascony). …

20. capitūlēr adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Of an ecclesiastical assembly or chapter, capitular. …

21. capstan n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Naut. A device for hauling up the anchor, etc.; capstan bar, capstan spoke, a capstan bar. …

22. carcais n.

25 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) The body of an animal slaughtered for meat or for sacrifice, a carcass; flesh, meat [quot.: 1448]; (b) a dead body (of man or beast), cadaver, corpse; (c) the living human body [used……

23. carfǒuk n.

10 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A crossroads or intersection; also, a place name [see Smith PNElem. 1.81]; (b) fig. the meeting place of the four liberal arts, the quadrivium. …

24. castelain n.

24 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) The governor of a castle, a castellan; (b) the mistress of a castle, chatelaine; (c) a surname. …

25. caudē̆l n.

16 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A hot fortified drink, esp. one containing spiced wine or ale; also, a broth; (b) a pudding, meat loaf, or the like; (c) a mess. …

26. caudrǒun n.

26 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A kettle or pot (as for heating water or cooking), a caldron; (b) fig. uses; (c) caudroun bọ̄ter, one who mends or makes kettles [cp. boten (1)]. …

27. clamǒurǒus adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Clamorous; (b) extremely painful; clamourous goute, an extremely painful kind of gout. …

28. clei(e n.

Additional spellings: cleie
7 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A movable, rectangular frame of interwoven slats or twigs, a hurdle. …

29. cōparsonẹ̄r n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A joint heir, coheir. …

30. cǒrrectāǧe n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
The transaction of business by a broker; brokerage. …

31. corrōdie n.

10 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
An allowance of provisions for lodging, board, money, etc., granted, usually by a religious house, to a grantee as an annuity for life-term or to successive grantees in perpetuity; also, a bill making……

32. cǒuntẹ̄ n.(3)

42 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) The territory ruled by a count; also, an English earldom; also fig.; (b) ?country, territory. …

33. cǒuntes(se n.

Additional spellings: countesse
28 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) The wife of a count or an earl; also, the female heir of an earl (a countess in her own right); (b) the wife of a nobleman in ancient times; (c) a viscountess; (d) as a surname. …

34. cǒuntǒur n.(1)

71 quotations in 4 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) An accountant; esp., an official who oversees the collecting and auditing of taxes for a shire, a kingdom, etc.; (b) one who calculates, an arithmetician; (c) a pleader in court, a lawyer; (d) as……

35. cǒuntrollǒur n.

33 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) The official in charge of accounts in the king's household; (b) an accountant in the customs; (c) any officer of the king having charge of receipts and/or disbursements; (d) a lord's accountant; a……

36. cros n.

251 quotations in 12 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

37. crū̆cifix n.

37 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Christ on the cross; the crucified one, Christ; image of the crucifix, an image of Christ crucified, a crucifix; also, a mental image of Christ on the cross; signe of the crucifix, a……

38. debentūr n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A written statement that one owes a certain sum to a person named; esp., an acknowledgment of debt issued in the king's name. …

39. dēcās n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
State of being thrown down, ruin. …

40. discant n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A melody or counterpoint sung above the plainsong on one of three levels, mene, treble, and countertenor [see quots.]; singing in parts. …

41. dǒuerīe n.

27 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
The life interest of a spouse or widow in a share of her husband's property [whether conferred at marriage by the husband or his family, by will, or by law], dower. …

42. endenten v.

53 quotations in 4 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) To make notches, dents, or indentations in (something); give (something) a toothed, serrate, or jagged character or appearance; (b) fig. heckle. …

43. endentūre n.

43 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
Law A written formal agreement. [For method of preparation, see endenten; endentures, pair of endentures are the several identical copies of the agreement.] (a) The written record of a lease or of an……

44. endōsen v.

14 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
Law (a) To confirm or approve (a charter, bill, agreement, etc.), [orig. by writing on the back of the document];--also fig.; (b) to approve a reply to (a petition), to grant (a petition) under seal……

45. execūtǒur, -er n.

Additional spellings: executer
21 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
An executor (of a will); an agent; also fig. …

46. execūtrīce, -trix n.

Additional spellings: executrix
8 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A woman executor; (b) administrator (of the Law); (c) wielder (of Fate). …

47. exiǧend n.

13 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Law A writ requiring a defendant to appear on pain of outlawry; the condition of a person named in such a writ; putten in exigend, ben at exigend. …

48. feliper n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A dealer in second-hand clothes; a fripperer. …

49. fermisǒun n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
The closed season in which it is not lawful to hunt male deer; bi fermisounes, in fermisoun time, during the closed season on male deer; flourished of fermisoun, fattened in the closed season. …

50. frank(e)lein, -in, -en n.

Additional spellings: frankelein, franklin, franklen
22 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A landowner and member of the gentry ranking immediately below the nobility; a freeman, a gentleman; franklein of toun, a free citizen, an owner of property in a town, a burgess; (b) as a personal……

51. freitǒur, -ur n.

Additional spellings: freitur
16 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) The refectory of a religious house; the room or building in which monks, nuns, or friars eat; freitour bel, refectory bell; (b) in personal names (given to one who works in, or is in charge of, a……

52. garbelāǧe n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
The removal of refuse from spices; office of garbelage, the office of garbelour. …

53. garbelen v.

4 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
To inspect and remove refuse from (spices). …

54. goliǒun n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A kind of coat. …

55. hastelē̆r(e n.

Additional spellings: hastelere
10 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A roaster of meat, turnspit; -- also as surname. …

56. heraud n.

64 quotations in 4 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) An officer of a tournament who makes announcements, introduces knights, reports their actions, awards prizes, etc.; heraud of armes [cp. OF hiraut darmes]; (b) an expert in the records of knights……

57. hōsier n.

26 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A maker or seller of hose, hosier; (b) hosier craft, the guild of hosiers; (c) in surnames and place names. …

58. hō̆stilē̆r n.

57 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
The guest master or mistress in a religious house; also fig. …

59. interesse n.

39 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Law A legal claim or right; also fig.; haven interesse in (of), to have a claim upon (sth.), have rights in (sth.); (b) the right to claim compensation for damage; ?also, damage, injury; (c) the……

60. interlīniārē̆ adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Written between the lines of a text; glose interliniare, Anselm's interlinear gloss to the Vulgate; par interliniare, by interlining, in the manner of an interlinear gloss. …

61. jūrāt(e n.

Additional spellings: jurate
8 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A member of the ruling body of a city; jurates men, aldermen; (b) a juror [Latin only]; an informant under oath in an investigation leading to canonization. …

62. laner n.

11 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A kind of falcon used in falconry, a laner; esp. the female of the species; (b) a cowardly man. …

63. letuse n.(2)

10 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A white or light gray fur; perh. the winter fur of the common European weasel Mustela vulgaris; lettice; (b) a pelt of this fur; ?also, a piece of lettice used for trimming a garment; letuse skin……

64. lī̆neāl adj.

17 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) In a line or row; lineal ordre, linear order; (b) straight, not crooked; (c) lineal climat, the climate of a certain latitude [cp. climat 2. (a)]. …

65. liter(e n.

Additional spellings: litere
50 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A portable bed carried by man or beasts, a litter; hors liter [see hors n. 8. (f)]; (b) a bed; also, bedding; also fig.; bed liter [see bed n. (1) 1c.]. …

66. manē̆r n.(1)

61 quotations in 4 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A manorial estate, consisting of a manor house, service buildings, lands, etc.; (b) ?a field; (c) a stronghold. …

67. mē̆s n.(3)

32 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A dwelling house with the adjacent outbuildings and grounds; a messuage; also, the house on such an estate; (b) mes place. …

68. mortuārī(e n.

Additional spellings: mortuarie
13 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A customary gift or exaction from the estate of a deceased parishioner to the parish priest; (b) a funeral service. …

69. multūr n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A fee for grinding grain, usually consisting of a share of the grain; multure; (b) multur arke, a chest for storing multure; multur dish, a container for measuring multure; multur greive, multur……

70. nāsẹ̄ adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Iron. Having a nose or a big nose; i.e., having no nose or a mutilated one. …

71. nept(e n.

Additional spellings: nepte
23 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Catnip, catmint (Nepeta cataria), often used in cooking or in medecines; nept roial; (b) ?one of various plants (including Teucrium chamædrys, Arum colocasia, and Asarum europeæum). …

72. octāve(s n. singular & plural

Additional spellings: octaves
23 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) The eighth day following a feast day counting the day itself, an octave; octave dai; (b) the period of eight days beginning with the feast day; (c) ? = (a) or (b); (d) a period of eight days……

73. osprai n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) An osprey (Pandion haliaetus); (b) her. a representation of an osprey. …

74. pain-demeine n.

Additional spellings: paindemeine
18 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
White bread of fine quality; also, a loaf or roll of fine white bread; pain-demeine bakere, a baker of pain-demeine; flour of pain-demeine, the kind of flour used to make pain-demeine. …

75. pakken v.

17 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) To package (sth.), bundle, wrap; pakken samen (togederes), pack up (articles, clothing); (b) to cram (a container with sth.); pack (sth.) compactly; (c) to carry (sth.); refl. betake (oneself)……

76. panāde n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A long knife or dagger. …

77. pannāǧe n.

22 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Acorns and other food which swine find in the forest; pannage time, the season when swine are allowed to feed in the forest; (b) the right to let one's swine feed in a forest; (c) a fee paid to……

78. pareil n.(2)

25 quotations in 5 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Furnishing, accoutrements; a decorative cloth (for an altar); (b) naut. equipment belonging to a boat; rigging; (c) Naut. A rope or chain used to fasten a yard to a mast, a parrel; pareil rop, a……

79. pelf(e n.

Additional spellings: pelfe
12 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a)Stolen goods, booty, spoil; forfeited property; also, the goods of a conquered people [quot.: MOTest.]; (b) property, goods, riches, an object of value. …

80. peltrī n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Furs and skins prepared for sale; peltri ware; (b) a skinner's or furrier's shop. …

81. pentis n.

25 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A shed or lean-to added on to a building; a projection, sloping roof, or continuation of the eaves of a building over a window, gate, wall, etc., to provide protection against the weather; pentis……

82. peritōrī(e n.

Additional spellings: peritorie
20 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
The herbaceous medicinal plant, pellitory of the wall Parietaria officinalis; the leaves of this plant; lef of peritori; water of peritori, a decoction of pellitory. …

83. perselī n.

57 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) One of several plants belonging to the parsley family; esp. the common or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum); (b) wilde perseli, one of several uncultivated plants allied to common parsley……

84. peverāde n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A peppery sauce served with meat; peverade sauce. …

85. peverēr n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A seller of pepper. …

86. pikeis n.

42 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A pickax, a tool used for breaking up and digging up ground, breaking up walls, quarrying, etc. (often identified with other tools, such as a mattock, spade, hoe, etc.); also fig.; ?also, a tool……

87. polet n.

12 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A young chicken; a pullet; (b) in surnames. …

88. pō̆mēr n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) An orchard; (b) an apple tree. …

89. prē̆lā̆cī(e n.

Additional spellings: prelacie
24 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) The office of a bishop or other prelate or the superior of a religious house; also, the fact of holding such an office; office of prelaci, duties of the prelacy; (b) the authority of a prelate……

90. prērogancī n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
The possession of privilege, a prerogative. …

91. prōcūrācī(e n.

Additional spellings: procuracie
22 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Advocacy; instigation; (b) a document authorizing a person to act on behalf of another, a proxy; lettres of procuraci, a letter of attorney; (c) a legation; a legate or group of legates; (d) a……

92. profre n.

43 quotations in 5 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) An act of offering or presenting a gift; an offer of a gift, money, reward, help, etc.; (b) an offer of battle, a challenge; a peace offer or proposal, an offer to surrender; fig. the Devil's……

93. pultē̆r(e n.

Additional spellings: pultere
25 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A poulterer; a member of the craft of poulterers; pulter panier, a poulterer's basket, basket for poultry; (b) a minor officer in a great household dealing with poultry; (c) as surname. …

94. purtenaunce n. singular & plural

34 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Something associated with or adjunct to a larger thing or whole, an accessory, appurtenance; also, appurtenances; belongings; purtenaunce to, an accessory or a thing incidental to (sth.)……

95. quarrer(e n.

Additional spellings: quarrere
21 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) A quarry; quarrer ston, a stone from a quarry; (b) a mine; gold quarrer; (c) in surnames & place names [see Smith PNElem.2.77]. …

96. quishin n.

52 quotations in 4 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A cushion, bolster, or pillow; a cushion for the arm or for sitting or kneeling on; also, a hassock or footstool; (b) quishin(es cloth, a case or cover for a cushion. …

97. quī̆te-claime n.

Additional spellings: quiteclaime
9 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Law A relinquishing to another of the entirety of alegal right or interest, esp. in real property; a deed of release, quitclaim deed; chartre of quite-claime; (b) gon quite-claime, to go free……

98. quī̆te-claimen v.

Additional spellings: quiteclaimen
20 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) To relinquish entirely (a legal right or claim), relinquish all rights to (property, possessions); also fig.; (b) quite-claimen querele, to abandon a dispute, relinquish the right to redress of a……

99. reclaimen v.

29 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
Hawk. (a) To call back (a hawk); also in sayings; (b) to make (a hawk) tame; ppl. reclaimed, tame, trained. …

100. recoilen v.

7 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) To drive (an enemy or opponent) back; beat back (the devil); recoilen abak (ayen-ward); (b) to retreat, draw back; recoilen ayen. …

©2024 Regents of the University of Michigan. For details about this collection's copyright see the MEC copyright statement and the U-M Library Copyright Policy. Data last refreshed Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 13:27:00.