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Wone, custom, usage, P. 335, K. 182.
Woneden, pt. pl., dwelt, K. 2069; pr. pt.

wonyng, dwelling, living, P. 388.
Wonyng, a dwelling, home, P. 606.
Wood, mad, P. 582, K. 471.
Woodly, madly, K. 443.
Woodnesse, madness, K. 1153.
Wook, awake, K. 535.

Worship, honor, respect, K. 1065.
Worshipful, honorable, K. 577.

Worshipe, to honor, render due respect to, K. 1393.

Y-bete, beaten, K. 121; newe y-b., just forged, K. 1304.

Y-bore, y-born, borne, carried, P. 378, K. 1836.

Y-born, born, K. 161.

Y-bounden, bound, K. 291.
Y-brent, burnt, K. 88.
Y-broght, brought, K. 253.
Y-clenched, clinched, K. 1133.
Y-cleped, called, P. 410, K. 9; y-ciep

P. 376.

Y-corve, cut, K. 1155.

Y-don, done, K. 167; y-doon, N. 60 y-do, K. 1676.

Y-drawe, drawn, P. 396, K. 86. Y-dropped, bedropped, bedewed, h 2026.

Ye, eye, P. 10, K. 238 (this is the form in rime; within the verse eye, pl. eyen, is common).

Yeddynges, songs (particularly ballads and romances), P. 237.

Yeer, yer, year, P. 347, K. 523; pl. yeer, P. 82.

Worth, was noght, was not worth while, Yeld-halle, guild-hall, P. 370 (see P. 364,

P. 785.

Wortes, herbs, N. 401.
Wostowwost thou, see wite.
Wrastleth, wrestles, K. 2103.
Wrastlyng, wrestling, P. 548.
Wrecche, wretched, K. 248.
Wreke, wreak, avenge, K. 103.
Wrethe, a wreath, K. 1287.
Wrighte, workman, P. 614.
Writ, writes, N. 303.

Wrooth, wroth, angry, P. 451.
Wydwe, widow, P. 253, N. 1.
Wyke, week, K. 681; pl., K. 992.
Wynne, win, conquer, P. 594; pt. s.
wan, won, P. 442, K. 131.

Wys, adv., truly, surely, K. 1928; as w. God helpe me, as surely as God may help me, N. 588.

Wyve, to, dat., to wife, as a wife, K. 1002.

Y-, a prefix chiefly used with the pps. of verbs. It represents A.S. ge, which is cognate with the same prefix in Germ. e. g., gehabt, gegeben.

Yaf (pt. of yeve), gave, K. 583; cared, P. 177.

-been, been, N. 477.

note).

Yeldyng, yielding, produce, P. 596.
Yelleden, yelled, N. 569.

Yelpe, to boast, K. 1380.

Yeman, yeoman, commoner, retainer
P. 101; pl. yemen, K. 1870.
Yerde, rod, P. 149, K. 529.
Yerd, yard, enclosure, N. 27.
Yet now, even now, K. 298.
Yeve, to give, P. 223.
Y-falle, fallen, P. 25.
Y-fetered, fettered, K. 371.
Y-go, gone, P. 286.

Y-holde, held, esteemed, K. 1516, 210C
Yiftes, gifts, K. 1340.

Yif (imper. of yive), give, K. 1402 1562.

Yive, to give, P. 225; pp. yiven
57.

Y-knowe, known, P. 423.
Y-lad, drawn, P. 530.
Y-laft, left, K. 1888.
Y-liche, alike, K. 1668.
Y-logged, lodged, N. 171.

Y-lyk, alike, P. 592; y-lik, K. 187
y-like, K. 681.

Y-maked, pp., made, K. 1207, 1997.
Y-met, pp., met, K. 1766.

Y-meynd, mingled, mixed, K. 1312.
Y-nogh, enough, P. 373.

Yolden, yielded, K. 2194.
Yolle, pr. pl., yell, K. 1814.
Yond, yonder, K. 241.

Yore agoon, a long time ago, K. 955.
Youlyng, loud weeping, yelling, K. 420.
Y-payed, paid, rewarded, K. 944.
Ypolita, Hippolita, queen of the Ama-
zons, K. 10, 827.

-preved, proved, P. 485.

Ypres, in West Flanders, P. 448 (the cloth-making industry has left its monument there in the splendid Halle des Drapiers).

Y-raft, bereft, plundered, K. 1157

Y-ronne, run, P. 8; arranged, (was

fell, K. 1307; had flowed, K. 1835. Y-sene, adj., visible, P. 592 (see sene). Y-seyled, sailed, N. 279.

Y-shave, shaven, P. 690. Y-shrive, shriven, P. 226. | Y-slayn, slain, K. 1850.

Y-spreynd, sprinkled, K. 1311.
Y-stiked, pierced, stuck, K. 707.
Y-storve, dead, K. 1156 (pp. of sterve
Y-teyd, tied, P. 457.
Yve, ivy, N. 146.

Y-wis, certainly, truly, N. 379, 622.
Y-wrye, covered, hung, K. 2046.
Y-wympled, wimpled, wearing a wimp
P. 470.

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