Askaunce, to look askance, enviously, obliquely, sideways, awry Aslake, to appease Assot, to besot, deceive, make a tool of Assotted, stupified Astond, Astound, astonished Alchievement, enterprise, or performance At earst, instantly Atone, i. e. friends again; at one; to absorb it, and to put it out by its superior splendour Attempter tempter Attente, most heedfully Attonce, once for all; at one and the same time Attone, bereaved, taken away altogether Attrapt, Attrapped, adorned dtween, between Avale, to lower, abate, bring down, descend Avaunting, vaunting, the a superadded. According to Hughes it signifies advancing Avenge, vengeance. Avengement, Bases. any coverings for the legs Battill, to grow fat Bauldrick, a belt; Bauldrick of the heavens, the zodiac, in which are the twelve signs Bay, to bark, Faerie Queene, Book i. Canto 7, Stanza 3, it signifies to bathe, cherish, or foment. To hold or keep at bay, is the hunter's phrase of the stag, when the hounds are baying, or barking at him Bayt to rest Beacon, a raised building of combustible matter, to be fired in order to give notice to distant people of invasions. Upton Beadmen, prayer-men. Beadroll, properly a catalogue of prayers, but used for a catalogue in general Beard him, affront him to his face; Beathed in fire, hardened in the fire Begored, smeared with gore Behight, or behote, called, named; and sometimes bid, promised, pressure, or bearing Bereave, to bereave, to take away Beseek, beseech Beseem, to become, to grace, to look seemly Beseen, well beseen, i. e. courtesy, bearing a good aspect, hand some treatment Besits, becomes, Besprint, or Besprent, besprinkled Betake, took into his hand, bestow upon Beteem, deliver, bestow Bevie, a company, a troop prayers Bilive, forthwith, immediately Blatant beast, detraction repre sented as a monster Blaze, to divulge, or spread abroad Bleard, dimmed, darkened Blemishment, blemish, stain Blend, not only to mix, but to spoil with mixing, to confound. It also sometimes signities to blind Bless, Spenser has used this word to signify the waving or bran dishing of a sword Blin, to cease, give over Blist for Blest, blessed, B. iv. C.7. St. 46. But in B. vi. C. 8. St. 13. all about so blest, i. e. injured, wounded Blive, forthwith, presently Bloosme, blossom. Pronounce it bloom, B. iv. C. 8. St. 2. Bode, id abide Bolt, an arrow Bond, bound; kept as bond-slaves Bord, a jest Bordragings, ravagings or incur sions on the borders Borrel, rude, clownish Bosse, a protuberance in the middle of the shield Boughts, circular folds or wind. Bore, often used for an inner chamber or private apartment Brade, for broad Brag, proudly Braided, knitted, plaited, wreathed Brakes, bushes, brambles, fern Brame, vexation; Breem, fierce Brand, sometimes a fire-brand, sometimes a sword Brave, not only valiant and bold, Brent, burnt Brigandine, a coat of mail Brond, Brond-iron, vide Brand Bruteness, sottishness, stupidity, brutishness To buckle, to buckle on armour; to prepare for battle Buffe, a blow, buffet Bugle, a small bugle-horn Burgein, to spring forth or bud Buxome, yielding Chayre, charily, with great care and caution Checklaton, a kind of chequered or motley stuff Checkmate, a word borrowed from the game of chess Cheere, countenance, air, mien Chevalrie, knighthood, knightly exploits Chevisaunce, atchievement, enter- Cleped, called, named Colourable, counterfeited Commen, commune, discourse to gether. Also to come Comment, devise, feign Compare, procure Compast creast, his crest compassed around, or well-rounded, proportioned, or framed Compeld, called upon Complot, a plot, combination, or contrivance Comportance, behaviour, carriage Conge, bow, reverence, leave Containe, hold together Contrive, spend, consume, reckon, count, invent, imagine Convenable, agreeable Convent, to summon to appear Coosen passions, kindred passions Coronal, crown, garland Cosset, a lamb brought up with out the ewe Cotes, sheep-folds Cott, floating cottage, a little boat Could, as Could his god to all; i. e. dispensed his bounty Count, account, reckoning Countercast, a counter contrivance or cunning Counterchange, mutual exchange Counterfeasaunce, counterfeiting, dissimulation Counterprise, counterpoise, weigh equally Counterstoke, an opposite stroke Countervayle, sweet counterwayle, i.e. pleasing requital Couplement, union, marriage, coupling together Cour'd, for covered, hung over. Darrayne, to hazard, venture, at tempt, or prepare to fight Darred larke, alluding to catching of larks by what they call a daring glass Dayes-man, umpire, arbitrator Dearnly, Dernly, eagerly, earnestly Debonaire, sprightly, courteous. good, kind Decetto, deceit Decretals, a volume of the Canon Law, or books containing the Decrewed, decreased Defeasaunce, defeating Lejeature, destructio Defend, keep off, forbid Define, to end, to determine or decide Defould, defiled or brought to shame Defray'd, furnished Delay'd, put away, removed Dent or Dint, blow Derring doe, bold deeds, man- Deviseful, full of rare devices or Diapase. a term in music including all tones Dight, to order, prepare, dress, adorn Disioignd, Disloined, remote, far Disple, discipline, correction Disthronized, dethroned Distraught, drawn aside, distracted A Ditt, a ditty, a song Doule or Dole, sorrow, portion Doe, doe him not to dye, put him not to death Dofte, do off, put off Dolor, Dolour, grief, pain, sorrow Doole, complaint, sorrow, pain, grief Don, to do on, to put on Dortours, dormitories, or lodgings for monks Doted, doting, impaired Doughtie, stout, valiant, courageous B. ii. C. 20. St. 51. resemblance Dreare, Drere, sorrow, sadness Drent, drenched or drowned Dreriment, heaviness, sorrowful ness Drerihedd, a sorrowful and dreary state Drest, ordered, prepared Drevill, a driveller, a focl Drift, impulse, force, or driving on, purpose Drowsyhedd, drowsiness Duresse, confinement, imprisonment, hardship. embossed work, Embost with gold, raised as in relievo. Ebost with pearles, raised or overlaid. In case embost, hid, concealed. The salvage beast embost in weary chace, meaning hard run and wearied out. To embosse his speare in his body, i.e. to lodge, to inclose. But the most difficult place seems in B. iii. C. 1. St. 64. Embosse themselves in so glorious spoile, probably from the Italian Imboscarsi, i. e. by ambuscade to avail themselves of so glorious a spoil.-Upton. Embowed, imbewed, arched; covered archwise Emboyled, emboyling wrath, B. ii. C. 5. St. 18. the same as Boyled, Boyling Embrave, adorn, make brave or fine; to dress Eme, an uncle by the mother's side Emparlance, a law term, used in petitioning the court for respite Empeach, to hinder Emperill, quartos; folios Impert!!, endanger Englut, satiate, glut Ensew, follow. Ensude, followel skein of silk Entayle, engraving Entayled with anticks, engraven of carved with images Enterdeale, meditation, negocia Enteriake, to entertain Entirely, or enturelu, earnestly Entrailed, intermingled, interlaced, interwoven Enure, accustom to, make use of, practise Enured, effected, committed Ency, to vie with, emulate, refuse to give Errant Knights, who travel about the world seeking adventure Eschewed; avoided. Eschew, avoid Esloyne, withdraw to a distance; separate Espial, sight, spying Euftes, efts, newts, or evets. Exprest, pressed out, squeezed Giambeaux, boots, greaves, armour, for the legs Gibe and geare, joke and jeer Gin, begin, Gin, engine, contrivance Giusts, justs or tournaments; more particularly single combat on horseback with spears and swords Glade, a passage; generally for a Glen, a valley Glib, a curled bush of hair hanging down over the eyes Glitterand, glittering Glode, did glide, glance, or swiftly pass Glozing speeches, flattering, deceitful Gnarre, to snarl or bark Gondelay, properly a Venetian wherry Goodlyhead, godliness Gorget,armour defending the throat Gride, Gryde, to strike, wound, pierce, or cut through Griefful, full of grief Griple, one that snatches greedily, Guarish, to garnish, to dress out gorgeously Gueld, a guildhall Guerdon, reward, recompense prize Guilers, cheats Guise, Guise, way, fashion, man ner, Upton. Form, habit, con dition, Hughes Gyre, circling, turning round H. haberjeon, armour covering the neck and breast. Upton. Armour covering the head and shoulders. Hughes Habiliments, apparel, clothing Hable, fit, ready, able, apt, nimble Harqueton, a piece of armour Hafendeale, in partition Halidom, Holy Dame; an oath by the Virgin Mary Han, for have Harbrough, harbour Hardy, brave, bold. Hurdiment, courage, boldness Hardyhood, Hardyhead, a brave state of mind Harrow, to lay waste, to destroy Harrow! an interjection and exclamation, showing distress Husk, a wicker basket to carry fish Hauberg, Hauberque. berjeon Vide Ha Haught corage, high mind Heast, Hest, or Behest, command, precept Heben bow, a bow made of ebony Hedeguies, a sort dances Hem, them Hend, to take hold of Hent, seized Herbars, herbs, plants of country Hight, named, called Hilding, a term of reproach of the castle is put for the castle Hele, so spelled in the 1st and 24 quartos, in the folios whole, B. iii C. 12. St. 38. Hed, condition, state. Frequently used in compounds, as knighthood, priesthood, widowhood, &c. Hore, hoar, hoary, Upton. White; sometimes it signities squalid, filthy, rough. Hughes Hostru, an inn Hot, Hote, from Hight, was named, called Housling fire, sacramental fire Horing, hovering, floating Hurtle to rush with violence Ire, Yre, wrath, anger K. Keep, care, heed, custody, charge Ken, Kenn, to know, to spy, to discover Kend, Kent, knew, kenned Kest, cast Leach, surgeon or physician Leard, levied, raised Legierdemayne, sleight of hand Leman, sweetheart, concubine, mistress Lenger, longer L'Envoy, the epilogue after a copy of verses Levin-brond, thunderbolt Lich, like Liefe, dear. Liefer, Lever, dearer. Liefest, dearest Liege-lord, sovereign lord. Liege man, who owes allegiance to the liege-lord Lig, or Liggen, to lie Lignage, lineage, or descent Lilled out his tongue, for lolled cut &c. Lime-hound, a blood-hound Limiter, one that goes about sel ling indulgences Lin, to lean, give way. Sometimes to cease or give over Lincolne-greene, a species of cloth manufactured at Lincoln Lists, ground inclosed for tils or tournaments Lite, alight, get off horse mortals Livetod, livelihood, maintenance Lovelyhed, liveliness, life, spirit Livery and seisin, law phrases Lone, a thing lent, a loan Long, belong Loord, as lazy Loord, idle fellow Lordings, sirs, masters. A din. Lay, a song. Layes, songs, Lute, light on, settle, fall on Lythe, soft Mage, magician, enchanter Laystall, a place to lay dung or rubbish Lazars, leprous persons M. Magnes stone, the load-stone |