The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting

LIST OF SOME BOOKS CONSULTED AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXT

• Albertus Magnus. De Animalibus. Ed. 1788.
• —— The Secrets of. London, 1617.
• Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales. 1841.
• —— Cambria. E. Williams. 1823.
• Anc. Ten., for Ancient Tenures of Land. By Thomas Blount. London, 1874.
• Andreæ, E. C. A. Die Geschichte der Jagd. Frankfurt, 1894.
• Archæologia. Pub. by Soc. of Antiq. Beginning 1770.
• Arcussia, Ch. d'. La Conference des Fauconniers (Cab. de Vénerie, vii.). 1880.
• Arkwright, for The Pointer and his Predecessor. By William A. London, 1902. 4to. See Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• Arrow Release, The. By Ed. S. Morse. 1885.
• Aymon, for Le Roman des quatres fils Aymon. Edit. P. Tarbé. 1861.

• Bad. Lib. Hunt., for "Badminton Library." Volume on Hunting by the Duke of Beaufort and Mowbray Morris. Ed. 7. London, 1901. Errors in, see Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• —— vol. on The Poetry of Sport. London, 1896. Errors in, see Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• Bangert, for Die Tiere des Altfranz. Epos. Von Fried. Bangert. Marburg, 1885.
• Barrière-Flavy, C. Censier du pays de Foix. Toulouse, 1898.
• Barthold, F. W. Georg von Frundsberg. 1833.
• Bastard, A. de. Libraire du duc de Berry. Paris, 1834.
• Baudrillart, for Traité des Eaux et Forêts, Chasse et Pêches. Par M. B. Paris, 1834.
• Beckford, for Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting. By Peter B.London, 1796.
• Beltz, G. F. Memorials of the Garter. 1841.
• Berg, L. F. Freiherr. Gesch. der deutschen Wälder. Dresden, 1871.
• Bertheleti, T., General Collections of Statutes, 1225-1546. London, 1543-51.
• Bib. Accip., for Bibliotheca Accipitraria. By James Edm. Harting. London, 1891.
• Blancandin, ed. H. V. Michelant. 1867.
• Blane, for Cynegetica, or Observations on Hare Hunting. By W. B. London, 1788.
• Blaze, Elezéar. Catalogue d'une Collection. Paris, 1852.
• —— Le Livre du Roy Modus. Paris, 1839.
• Blome, for The Gentleman's Recreation. By Richard Blome. London, 1686.
• Blount, T. A Law Dictionary and Glossary. 1717.
• Bodl. MS. 546, for the MS. of the "Master of Game" in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. See "Existing MSS. of the 'Master of Game'"; see Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• Borman, for Die Jagd in den Altfranz Artus-und Abenteuer-Romanen. Von Ernst . Marburg, 1887.
• Boldon Book, for Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland (vol. iii.). By Sir Th. Duffus-Hardy. London, 1875.
• B. of St. Albans, for The Boke of St. Albans. Edit. by William Blades. London, 1881. See Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• "B. of C." for Boke of Curtasye. 14th cent. poem. Pub. by I. O. Halliwell. Percy Soc. vol. iv.
• Bonney, for Historic Notices on Fotheringhay. By Rev. H. K. Bonney, Oundle, 1821.
• Borel, P., Dictionnaire des termes du vieux François. 2 vols. 1882.
• Bouton, Victor. L'Auteur du Roy Modus. Paris, 1888.
• Brachet, Ang. An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language (Clarendon Press). 1866.
• Brehm, for B.'s Tierleben. 3. ed. Von Dr. Pechuel-Loesche. Leipzig and Wien, 1891.
• Brézé, Jacque de. La Chasse du grand Sénéschal de Normandye. Paris, between 1489 and 1494.
• Brière, L. de la. Livre de Prières par Gaston Phébus (1835). Paris, 1893.
• Broebel, P. Die Fährte des Hirsches. Halle, 1854.
• Browne, for Pseudoxia Epidemica. By Sir Ths. B. 1650.
• Brut., for Le Roman de Brut. By Wace. Ed. by Le Roux de Lincy. Rouen, 1836-38.
• Budé. Traitte de la Vénerie. Par B. Ed. H. Chevreul (Paris). 1861.
• Burrows, Montagu, Prof. The Family of Brocas. 1886.

• Caius, for Englishe Dogges. By Johannes Caius. Reprint of ed. of 1576. 1880.
• Camden, W. Britannia. 1586.
• Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's. Ed. Furnivall. 1868.
• Castellamonte, A. di. La Venaria reale. Torino, 1674.
• Catalogue of the Duke of Marlborough's Library at White Knight. London, 1819.
• —— London, 1881-83.
• —— Oxford, 1772.
• "Cecil," for Records of the Chase. By "Cecil," edit. London, 1877. See Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• Chaffourt, Jacques de. Instructions. Paris, 1609. (2nd ed.)
• Champgrand, for Traité de Vénerie et Chasse. Par Goury de Champgrand, Paris, 1769.
• Champollion-Figeac, Aimi. Louis et Charles, ducs d'Orleans. Paris, 1844.
• Charles d'Orleans, for Charles de Valois. Les poésies du duc Charles d'Orleans. Edit. Champollion-Figeac. Paris, 1842.
• —— Charles of Orleans' Poems. Roxburgh Club. Ed. G. W. Taylor. London, 1827.
• —— Edit. by Charles d'Héricault. Paris, 1874.
• Chassant, Alphonse. L'Auteur du Livre du Roy Modus. 1869. See Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• Chaucer, Minor Poems. Ed. Furnivall. 1871.
• Chézelles, H. de. Vieille Vénerie. Paris, 1894.
• Chronique de la traïson de Richard II. Eng. Hist. Soc. 1846.
• Cla., for Li Romans de Claris et Laris. Ed. by Dr. Alton. 1884.
• Clam. La Chasse du Loup. Par Jean de Clamorgan. Paris, 1566.
• Close Rolls, for Calendars of the Close Rolls preserved in the Pub. Rec. Office.
• Codorniu, J. Etude historique sur Gaston Phœbus. Floraux, 1895.
• Cogho. Des Erstlings Geweih. Leipzig, 1886.
• Collyns, C. P. The Chase of the Wild Red Deer. London, 1862.
• Compleat Angler. See Walton.
• Com. Sports., for The Complete Sportsman. By T. Fairfax. London.
• Corneli, R. Die Jagd. Amsterdam, 1884.
• Cornish, Ch. J. Shooting. Ed. by Horace G. Hutchinson. 2 vols. (Newnes). London, 1903.
• Cotgrave. Dictionary. 1679.
• Cotgrave and Sherwood's Dictionary. 1632.
• —— —— —— 1673.
• Cox, Nich. The Gentleman's Recreation. London, 1674.
• Cran. Ch., for Anecdotes and History of Cranbourne Chase. By Wm. Chafin. London, 1818.
• Culemann, L. Delineatio Venatus. Hanover, 1564.
• Cupples, George. Scotch Deerhounds and their Masters. London, 1894.
• Curmer, L. Verure de J. Foncquet. Paris, 1866.
• Curtasye, Boke of. Ed. by Halliwell. Percy Soc. Pub. Vol. iv.
• Cynegetica. London, 1788.

• Dalton, Michael. The Country Justice. 1666.
• Daniel, W. B. Rural Sports. London, 1801.
• D. et B., for Daurel et Beton. Ed. by Paul Meyer. Paris, 1880.
• Dalziel, for British Dogs. By Hugh Dalziel. 3 vols. London, 1887-96.
• Daurel et Beton. Ed. Paul Meyer. Paris, 1880.
• Duc d'Aumale, for Recueil de la Philobiblion Society. Vol. ii. London, 1855-56.
• Delacourt, for Le Chasse à la Haie. Par Peigne Delacourt. Péronne, 1872.
• Delisle, L. Inventaire des MSS. de la Biblioth. Nationale. Paris, 1876, &c.
• De Noir., for Histoire de la Chasse. Par le Baron Dunoyer de Noirmont. Paris, 1876. 3 vols.
• Dillon, Viscount. Fairholt's Costumes in England. London, 1885.
• Ditschfield, R. H. Old English Sport. London, 1891.
• Doebel, H. W. Neueröffnete Jäger Practica. Leipzig, 1783.
• Dolopathos, for Li Romans de D. Ed. by Brunet et Montaiglon. 1856.
• Dombrowski, E. von. Die Lehre von dem Zeichen. 1836.
• Dombrowski, R. von. Allgemeine Encyklopadie der gesammter Forst und Jagdwissenschaft. Wien, 1886.
• Domesday Book. By Henry Ellis (2 vols.). London, 1833.
• Drake, Francis. Eboracum. London, 1736.
• Dryden, Alice. Memorials of Northamptonshire. 1903.
• Dryden, Sir Henry. Twici's Art of Hunting. Middle Hill Press. 1840. See Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• —— Daventry. 1843.
• —— Gaston III. Le livre de la Chasse. Daventry, 1844.
• Dudik. Kaiser Maximilian's II. Jagdordnung. Wien, 1867.
• Du Fouil., for La Vénerie. Par Jacques du Fouilloux. Niort, 1864.
• Dugdale Bar., for The Baronage of England. 1675.

• Eglamoure, for The Romance of E. of Artoys. Camden Soc. 1844.
• Ellis. See Domesday Book.
• Elyot, Sir Thomas. The Boke named the Governour. Ed. H. H. S. Croft. 1880.
• Emmanuel John, Infant of Spain. El libro de la Caza. Edit. by G. Baist. Halle, 1880.
• Ency. of Sport, for Encyclopædia of Sport. London, 1897.
• Enslin, Th. Ch. Fr. der Forst and Jagdwissenschaft. Leipzig, 1823.
• Essenwein, Augst. Quellen zur Geschichte der Feuerwaffen. 1872.
• Estlander, T., for Pièces inedites du Roman de Tristan. Ed. by C. G. E. Helsingfors. 1867.
• Evans, D. S. An English and Welsh Dict. 1852-58.
• Ex. Brit. An., for Extinct British Animals. By J. E. Harting. London, 1880.
• Excerpta Historica. London, 1831.

• Fleming, H. F. von. Der Volkommene Teutsche Jäger. Leipzig, 1719.
• Fortescue, Hon. J. W. Records of the Stag-hunting on Exmoor. London, 1887.
• Foudras, Marquis de. Recits de Chasseurs. Bruxelles, 1858.
• Fourtier, A. Les grands Louvetiers de France. Paris.
• Frederic II. Reliquæ liborum Frederici II. August. Vindob. 1596.
• Frunsberg, G. v. Schlacht bei Pavia. 1525.

• Gace de la Buigne. Bulletin du Bibliophile, 13th series, by the Duc d'Aumale; also in Philobiblion Society, vol. ii. London. See Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• Garin de Loh. Die Geste der Loherains. A. Feist. 1884.
• Garnier, P. Chasse du Sanglier. 1876.
• Gaucheraud, H. Histoire de C. de Foix. 1834.
• Gawaine, A Collection of Ancient Romance Poems. Edit. by Sir Fred. Madden. 1839.
• G. de F. stands for Joseph Lavallée's edition of Gaston de Foix's La Chasse de Gaston Phœbus. Paris, 1854.
• G. de P., for Roman de Guillaume de Palerne. Ed. H. Michelant. Paris, 1876.
• G. de St., for Gottfried von Strassburg. Ed. by P. A. Lehmann. Hamburg, 1703.
• Gentleman's Magazine. 1752.
• Gent. Recreation, for Gentleman's Recreation. By Nicholas Cox. London, 1686.
• God. de Bouill., for Godefroi de Bouillon. C. Hippeau. Paris, 1877.
• Goechhausen, H. F. von. Notabilia Venatoris. Weimar, 1751.
• Goury de Champgrand. Traité de Vénerie. Paris, 1769.
• Graesse, J. G. T. Jägerbrevier. Wien, 1869.
• —— Literaturgeschichte. Dresden, 1845.
• Greyhounds. By a Sportsman. London, 1819.

• Halliwell, for J. O. H.'s A Selection from the Minor Poems of Lydgate. Pub. by the Percy Society. Vol. ii. 1842.
• —— Carols. Pub. by the Percy Society. Vol. iv. 1842.
• —— Dictionary of Provincial and Archaic Words. 1850.
• Hammer-Purgstall, Jos. von. Falkner Klee. Wien und Pest, 1840.
• Hard, de Font.-G. Le Trésor de la Vénerie. Par Hardouin de Fontaines-Guérin. Ed. by Baron J. Pichon. Paris, 1855.
• —— Ed. by Michelant. Metz, 1856.
• Hardyng, for The Chronicles of John Hardyng. Ed. 1543. London.
• Harewood, H. A Dictionary of Sport. London, 1835.
• Harrison, for Harrison's Description of England (Holinshed). Edit. by F. J. Furnivall. London, 1877.
• Hartig, G. L. Lehrbuch fin Jäger. Tübingen, 1810.
• Harting, James Ed. See Bib. Accip. and Ex. Brit. An.
• —— Zoologist. 1878-80.
• H. de B., for Huon de Bordeaux. Ed. by F. Guessard and C. Grandmaison. Paris, 1866.
• Hartopp, E. C. C. Sport in England. London, 1894.
• Hearne, T. Liber Niger Scaccarii. 1728.
• Heresbach, Conrad. Rei rusticæ libri quatuor ... Item de Venatione ... 1570.
• Historical Review. Jan. 1903.
• Hollinshed, R. (Harrison). Ed. F. G. Furnivall. London, 1877.
• Hore, J. P. History of the Buckhounds. 1893.
• Horn., for Das Anglonormannische Lied vom Ritter Horn. Ed. by E. Stengel. Marburg, 1883.
• Houdedot, C. F. A. d'. Les Femmes Chasseresses. Paris, 1859.

• Jesse, for Researches into the History of the British Dog. By G. R. Jesse. 2 vols. London, 1866.
• Journal des Chasseurs. Vols. 27, 28, 29, and 30. Paris.
• Jubinal, Michel. Nouveau Recueil de Conte, &c. (La Chace dou Serf.) 1839.
• Jullien, E. La Chasse, son Histoire et sa Législation. Paris, 1868.
• —— La Chasse du Loup. Paris, 1881.

• Karajan, T. G. von. Kaiser Maximilian's Geheimes Jagdbuch. Wien, 1858.
• Kellar, for Thiere des Class. Alterthums. Von Otto Kellar. Innsbruck, 1887.
• Kennet, White. Parochial Antiquities. 1695.
• Kobell, F. von. Der Wildanger. Stuttgart, 1859.
• Kreiger, Otto von. Die hohe und niedere Jagd. Trier, 1879.
• Kreysig, G. C. Biblioteca Scriptorum Veneticorum. Altenburg, 1750.
• Kroeger, C. The Minnesinger of Germany. Camb. (Mass.), 1873.

• Laborde, Leon E. S. J. de. Glossaire Français du Moyen Age. 1872.
• —— Les ducs de Bourgogne. 1847.
• La Chace dou Serf. Edited by Baron Jerome Pichon. Paris, 1840. See also Jubinal. See Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• La Chasse Royal, for La Chasse Royale, composée par le Roy Charles IX. Ed. by H. Chevreul. Paris, 1857.
• La Croix, P. La Moyen Age. Paris, 1848-51.
• La Curne de Sainte Palaye: Mémoires sur l'ancienne Chevalerie. Paris, 1781.
• La Ferrière, Hector Conte. Les Chasses de François I. Paris, 1869.
• Lallemand. Bibliothèque historique ... de la Chasse. Rouen, 1763.
• Lancaster, Henry, Earl of. Expenses of John of Brabant. Camden Soc., 1847.
• Landau, G. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Jagd. Kassel, 1849.
• Latini, Brunetto. Li livres dou Trésor. Edit. by Chabaille. Paris, 1835.
• Lauchert, Prof. Fr. Das Weidwerk der Römer. Rottweil, 1848.
• Lavallée, for La Chasse à Courre en France par Joseph La Vallée. Paris, 1859.
• —— Technologie Cynégétique, Journal des Chasseurs. 1863.
• —— La Chasse à tir en France. 1854.
• Le Coulteux de Cauteleu, Baron. La Vénerie Française. Paris, 1858.
• Leguina, Enrique de. Estudios bibliográficos La Caza. 1888.
• Lenz, J. O. Zoologie der Alten Griechen und Römer. Gotha, 1856.
• Le Verrier de la Conterie. L'école de la Chasse aux Chiens Courants. Rouen, 1783.
• Liber Niger. See Hearne.
• Lib. de la Mont., for Biblioteca Venatoria de Gutierrez de la Vega, Libro de la Montería del Rey Alfonso XI. Del D. Jose Gutierrez de la Vega, Madrid, 1877. See Bibliog. in 1st edit.
• Liebermann, Felix. Constitutionis de Foresta. Halle, A. S. 1894.
• Lindsay, Robert. Chronicles of Scotland. Edinb., 1814.
• Loh., for Die Geste des Loherains. Ed. A. Feist. 1844.

• Madden, for The Diary of Master William Silence. By D. H. M. London, 1897.
• Madden, Sir Fred. Privy Purse Expenses of Princess Mary. 1831.
• Maison Rustique, for Maison Rustique de Maistres Charles Estienne and Jean Liebault. Used ed. Paris, 1572 and 1578.
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• Maluquer, Dufau de. Comté de Foix. Foix. Pau, 1901.
• Man., for Manwood's Forest Laws. 4th ed. by W. Nelson. London, 1717. See Pleas of the Forest.
• Markham, Gervase. Country Contentments, or the Husbandman's Recreation. London, 1611.
• —— Cheap and Good Husbandry. London, 1614.
• —— The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor. London, 1652.
• Maricourt, René de. La Chasse du Lievre, &c. Paris, 1858.
• Maundeville. The Book of John Maundeville. Ed. Dr. G. F. Warner (Roxburgh Club). London, 1889.
• Meurer, Noe. Jägerkunst. 1618.
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• Montauban, Renans de. Ed. by Michelant. 1843.
• Mont., for L'antiquite expliquée. By Bernard de Montfaulcon. Paris, 1719.
• Mortillet, G. de. Origines de la Chasse. Paris, 1890.

• Neckham, Alexander. De Naturis Rerum. Edit. Wright, 1858.
• Négociation du Marechal de Bassompierre. 1626.
• Nichols, J. Royal Wills. London, 1780.
• —— The Battle of Agincourt. London, 1832.
• —— History of the Navy. London, 1847.
• —— Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council.
• —— Privy Purse Expen. of Elizabeth of York and Wardrobe Exp. of Edward IV. London, 1830.
• Notabilia Venatoris. Nordhausen, 1710.

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• Pärson, J. W. von. Der edle hirschgerechte Jäger. 1683.
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• Philobiblion Society. Vol. ii. London, 1854-55.
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• Planché, I. R. Military Antiquities. 1834.
• Pleas of the Forest. By G. J. Turner. London, B. Quaritch, 1901.
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• Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York. London, 1830.
• Prutz, Dr. H. Rechnungen über Heinrich von Derby's Preussenfahrt. Leipzig, 1893.

• Ramsay, Sir James. Lancaster and York. 1892.
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• Ribbesdale, for The Queen's Hounds. By Lord R. London, 1887.
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• Rol. Lied., for Das Altfranzötische Rolandslied. Ed. by Ed. Max Stengel. Heilbronn, 1878 and 1900.
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• —— Der Jagdtraktat Twici's. Von Paul Sahlender. Leipzig, 1894.
• —— Das englische Jagdwesen in seiner gesch Entwicklung. Von D. P. Sahlender-Bautzen. Dresden and Leipzig, 1898.
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• —— —— New ed. by J. C. Cox. 1903.
• —— Dress and Habits of the People of England.
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• —— Speculi majoriis. 1591.
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• —— Altfranzösische Jagdlehrbücher. Halle, 1889.
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• Wylie, for History of England under Henry IV. By James H. Wylie. London, 1884-98. 4 vols.
• Wynn, for History of the Mastiff. By M. B. Wynn. Melton Mowbray, 1886.

• D'Yauville. Traité de Vénerie. Paris, 1688.

GLOSSARY
OF OBSOLETE ENGLISH TERMS AND WORDS OCCURRING IN THE ANCIENT TEXTS OF "THE MASTER OF GAME" AND IN APPENDIX.

• Abai, abay, being at bay, 29, 118
• Acharneth, acharne, to set on, to eat flesh, 59, 60, 62
• Achauf, heat, 38, 98
• Acquiller, enquiller, to rouse animals of the chase with hounds, App.
• Aferaunt, the haunch, 38
• Affeted, fashioned, trained, 27, 141
• Aforce, par force, by force, App.
• Aiguillounce, thorny
• Akelid, cooled, 186
• Akire, Akkerne, acorns, 144
• Alauntis, alauntz, alond, allans or allauntes, a large hound, 3, 116-8
• Alvelue, covered with fleece, fat or woolly substance, App.
• Analed, for avaled, hanging down, 114
• Anceps, haussepied, a snare which caught the game by the foot and lifted it into the air, 61
• Anches, rosemary
• Apel, French hunting-note, App.
• Aperyng, stoned, the roughness of antlers, 143
• Apparaille, dressed venison
• Arbitten, bitten, devoured
• Arblast, cross-bow, 27
• Areche, reach, 60
• Arere, arrière, behind, back there, 182, App.
• Areyn, spider, 137
• Areyn, rain, 157
• Arracher, to tear out; a term used for skinning certain animals, App.
• Asaute, saute, in heat, 64, 66
• Ascriethe, ascrie, to rate, shout at, to scold, 63, 74, 170
• Assaien, try or test, 88
• Assaye, essay, to try; taking assay, to see by a cut the thickness of the fat, App.
• Assise, note on hunting-horn blown at death of stag which has been hunted by staghounds, App.
• Asterte, escape
• Astifled, inflammation in the stifle-joint, 103
• Astried, rated, shouted at, 170
• Athrest, thrust or push, 106
• Atte fulle, when the stag's antlers show a certain number of tines, App.
• Attire, the stag's antlers, App.
• Aualed, availed, hanging down, 106, 114
• Auerille, Avrille, April, 30
• Auntelere, auntiller, aunculer, antler, 130, 140
• Auntred, ventured, 28
• Avaunt, auaunt, a hunting cry, "Forward," 182
• Avauntellay, relay of hounds
• Avayl, avail, profit, 13, 31
• Avenaud, approachable
• Avenery, oats
• Avised, aware of, warned, informed, advised, cautious
• Avoy, a hunting cry, probably from "Away," App.

• Bace, for Luce, a pike
• Baffers, barkers, 120
• Bake, back
• Balista, balesta, cross-bow, haronsblast, 27
• Balowe, bellow, roaring of a stag
• Bandrike, baldric, belt to which horn was fastened, 128, 140
• Barateur, quarreller
• Barbouris, barbers
• Bareyn, barren, 35
• Basco, Basque, Biscay, 106
• Batyd, bruised, sore, 98
• Batyng, bating
• Baudes, baubles, trifles, 83
• Beam, the main part of the stag's antlers, 142
• Beendyng, bending
• Beerners, berners, attendant on hounds, 148, 165
• Beestale, bestaile, beasts, cattle, 36, 61
• Beestis, beasts, App.
• Bellen, belowyn, belerve, belowen, bellow or roar, 160
• Beluez, velvet, 26
• Beme, beam; also trumpet
• Benes, beans, 26
• Bercel, a mark to shoot at, App.
• Bercelet, berslettis, barcelette, a shooting-dog used by archers, 122
• Beries, burrows, earth of fox and badger, 67, 68
• Beryed, buried
• Berying, bearing, breaking, 136
• Bestis of the Chace, beasts of the chase, usually fallow deer, roe-deer, fox, martin, 3
• Bestis of Vénerie, beasts of venery, usually the hart, hare, boar, and wolf, 3
• Bevy, a number of roe-deer together, App.
• Bevygrease, the fat of the roe-deer, App.
• Bewellis, bawaylles, bawellis, bowels
• Billetings, the excrements of the fox, App.
• Bisses, bises, bisches, red-deer hinds
• Bisshunters, fur-hunters, 74
• Bitte, bitten, taken, 17, 186
• Blenches, marks, tricks, deceits, 159
• Bocherie, butchery, 116
• Bokeying, the rut of the roe-deer, 41
• Boln, bolk, bolne, bellow or bark, 39, 162
• Boochers houndis, butchers' dogs, 118
• Boole, bull, 118
• Boones, bones, stag's foot
• Boonys, bones, 131
• Boordcloth, table-cloth, 164
• Boordes, boards
• Booris, boars, 143
• Boost, boast
• Botches, booches, sores, 63
• Botirflies, butterflies, 66
• Bounte, bounty, goodness, 79
• Bouyes, boughs, App.
• Bowis, bowes, boughs, 137, 153
• Brach, brache, a scenting-hound; later on it meant bitches
• Brachetus, a hound for hunting, 22
• Braconier, the man who held the hounds
• Brayne, breyn, brain, 176
• Brede, breadth
• Brede, broad, 138
• Breke, brook, break; also applied to dress a deer
• Bremed, burnt, 112
• Brent, burnt, 79
• Breres, briars, 93
• Brigilla, mildew, 96
• Brimming, bremyng, be in heat, said of boar; the word breme, bryme, or brim, valiant-spirited, 47
• Broacher, a red-deer stag of second year, App.
• Brocard, a roebuck of the third year and upwards, App.
• Brock, badger, App.
• Brokes, brooches, broaches, the first head of a red-deer stag, and of roebuck, 45
• Broket, brocket, young stag, 29
• Broket's sister, hind in the second year, App.
• Brond, proud, 46
• Buche, byches, bitch
• Bugle, buffalo; also horn for sounding hunting signals, App.
• Bukkes, bukes, buckes, bucks
• Bukmast, beechmast, App.
• Bulloke, young stag in second year, 29
• Burnysshen, burnish, to rub the antlers when the velvet is off, 134
• Burr, the lowest part of the stag's antlers

• Caboche, to cut off the hart's head near the antlers, 176
• Calf, calfe, the young stag in his first year
• Camamyle, camomile, 95
• Campestris, beast of the field or chase—i.e. buck, doe, fox, martin, and roe-deer
• Candlemas, February 2
• Caraynes, carreyns, karin, carrion, carcase, 62, 77
• Cardiac, cardryacle, a disease of the heart, 34
• Carres, marshes, 45
• Case to, stripping or skinning the hare, App.
• Catapucia, spurge (Euphorbia resinifera), 101
• Catt, catte, cattys, cat, App.
• Cautelous, cautels, cautious, crafty, 45
• Cete, a number of badgers
• Chaceable, chaseable, a hert chaseable, which is now called a warrantable stag, one fit to be hunted
• Chacechiens, grooms in attendance on hounds, 148, 177
• Chalaunge, challenge
• Chase, forest; also used to designate a method of hunting, and also a hunting-party
• Chasse, a French hunting-note
• Chastised, trained, 189
• Chater, chacer (rechater, recheat), a horn signal; also to chastise hounds
• Chaufed, achaufed, heated, in heat, 49, 98
• Chaule, chaulis, chavel, jaw, 170
• Chaunge, change, 31, 108, 111
• Cheere, chere, cherish, welcome, 85
• Cheveraus, roe-deer
• Chibollis, chives, 90
• Childermas, Innocents' Day (December 28)
• Chis, dainty, 83
• Chivaucher, chevaucher, to ride
• Chymer, riding-cloak
• Chymneyis, chimney, 98, 126
• Clees, clawes, the "toes" of a deer's foot, 77, 80, 131
• Cleeves, sur or dew cleeves at the back of a deer's fetlock
• Cleped, clepyd, called, 59, 140
• Clere speres, clear spires, woods, App.
• Clicqueting, vixen fox when in heat, App.
• Clistre, enema, 100
• Coddes, testicles of the hart
• Coiting stone, a quoit
• Colers, coliers places, collier or charcoal pits, 26
• Concilida maior, comfrey (Symphytum officinale), 98
• Concilida minor, prunella, selfheal (Prunella vulgaris), 98
• Coninger, conigree, rabbit warren, App.
• Contre, counter, back, heel
• Contre, country, 36
• Controugle, contreongle, hunt counter, hunt heel, 150
• Conynge, rabbit, 18
• Coolwort, cabbage, 100
• Copeis, copis, coppice, 155
• Corner, corneer, horn blower
• Cotes, quoits, 178
• Couch, the resting-place of game; also hound's bed
• Couchers, setters, 120
• Couertts, covert, shelter
• Counterfeet, countfeit, abnormal, 28, 142
• Courser, cursar, curser, swift horse
• Couthen, conthen, couth, knew, to be able, ob. could, 2
• Cowe, cow, also tail, from queue
• Crie, cry (of hounds), 65
• Croches, the upper tines of a deer's horns; called also troches
• Croise, cross, 150
• Crokes, stomach (of red-deer)
• Crokyng, crooked, curved, 128
• Crommes, crumbs
• Cronen, groan, the roar of the stag
• Cross to, to dislodge roe-deer by hounds
• Crotethe, voiding excrements, 29
• Crotey, crotils, crotisen, crotisings, excrements, 16, 29, 30, 133
• Cuer, coer, heart
• Cuir, quir, leather, hide
• Curée, cure, rewarding the hounds (also kyrre and guyrre), 7, 29, 52, 208
• Curres, currys, curs
• Curtaise, courteous, 115

• Daungere, danger, 161
• Dedis, deeds, 49
• Dedut, deudiz, deduiz, déduit, pleasure pursuit, sport
• Defaute, defaunt, lack, default, 84, 140
• Defet, deffeten, opening or undoing the boar and removing the entrails
• Defoile, track, 150
• Delyuere, deliver, active, 124
• Depiled, stripped of hair
• Desfaire, undoing (brittling) of deer or boar, App.
• Despitous, despytous, despiteful, furious, 49
• Desterere, destrier, horse
• Detourner (le cerf), to harbour the hart, App.
• Deyeng, doing
• Deym, deyme, daine, dine, fallow-deer
• Dislaue, wild, 159
• Dissese, disease
• Doo, doe
• Down, or huske, a number of hares, App.
• Dragmes, drachms
• Dreynt, drowned
• Drit, dritt, excrements of animals called "stinking beasts," also mud, 50, 66
• Dryen, dry, 102
• Dryue, driven, 128
• Dryve, made
• Dune, donn, dun
• Dure, to last, endure, 43
• Dyette, diet

• Earth, a fox and badger's lodging-place, App.
• Edight, done, set in order
• Eelde, old age, 123
• Eendis, ends
• Eeren, hairs, 44
• Eerys, eres, ears
• Egre, eager, 115
• Eireres, harriers, 190
• Ellis, else, 90
• Emelle, emel, female, 41
• Empaumure, the croches or top tines of a stag's antlers, App.
• Enbrowed, brewed, soaked, 177
• Enchace, to hunt, 108
• Encharnyng, blooding, feeding on flesh, 113
• Enchasez, moving deer, &c., with a limer, App.
• Encorne, to place a dead stag on his back, the antlers on the ground underneath the shoulders, 174
• Enfourmed, informed
• Engleymed, glutinous, 29
• Enosed, a bone in the throat, 87
• Enpeshed, prevented, 11
• Enquest, hunt, 182
• Enquiller, rousing a buck with hounds, App.
• Enquyrid, enqueyrreide, blooding hounds after death of deer; also rewarding of hounds, 173
• Ensaumple, example, 79
• Entente, intent
• Entrying, entering, beginning of
• Entryngis, entering, beginning of, 35
• Envoise, envoyse, O. F. envoisse, to leave the line, or overshoot the line of the animal hunted, 31, 108, 170
• Erbis, herbs
• Eres of roebuck, "target," 44
• Ergots, argus, claws of boar, buck and doe; those of the boar were sometimes called gardes, 130, 144
• Eris, eres, ars, anus, hinder parts; ears, occasionally thus spelt, 89, 95, 106, 116
• Erthe, earth
• Escorcher, estorcher, flaying deer, and other beasts of venery, App.
• Espaules, shoulders
• Espayard, spayard, spayer, stag of the third year, App.
• Essemble, assembly, 150
• Establie, stand occupied by sportsmen; also beaters
• Estoracis calamita, storax, resin, 96
• Esye, easy
• Etawed, tanned
• Etyn, itvn, eat
• Euenyngis, evening, 11
• Euerychone, everichon, each one, every one, 163
• Euille, euell, evil, wicked, bad, 6
• Evoised, at fault, or off the line
• Expedite, to maim dogs by cutting off some of their claws
• Eyne, eygh, eynen, eye, 116
• Eyre, air

• Facon, faucon, falcon, 121
• Fadir, fadere, father, 105
• Fadmys, fadoms, fathoms, 125
• Farowe, farewyn, pharowyn, farrow, bringing forth young pig, 47, 48, 68
• Farsyn, farsine, farcy, 69, 92
• Fasson, fassion, fashion
• Faund, fawned
• Faus, false
• Fausmanche, false sleeve
• Faut, fault
• Fechewe, fitchew, polecat
• Feeldes, fields, 158
• Feerne, fern
• Felaues, fellows
• fele, many; also sensible, feeling
• Felle, fierce, cruel, treacherous
• Felle, fele, wise, sensible, feeling; also cunning, 30, 115
• Felnesse, cruelty, fierceness, 71
• Femellis, females
• Fencemonth, the month when deer had their young and were left undisturbed, App.
• Fermyd, firm, 162
• Ferre, far, 16
• Ferrettis, ferrets, 72
• Ferrtest, farthest
• Fers, fierce, 47
• Fersliche, fiercely, 86
• Fesawnt, pheasant
• Feueryere, February
• Fewes, fewte, track, trace, foot. Some animals were called of the sweet foot, others of the stinking foot, 10. See Appendix.
• Fewterer, feutreres, dewtrees, man who leads greyhounds, 129
• Fiants, also Lesses, excrements of the wild boar, App.
• Fistoles, fistula, 92
• Fixen, vixen, O. G. fuchsen, 64
• Flay, flean, flene, to skin deer and certain other game, 174
• Flayssh, flesh, 5
• Flux, dysentery
• Foillyng, stag going downstream when hunted, 32, 173
• Folies, foly, folly, lesser deer, not hart or buck, 196
• Foltisch, foolish, 45
• Foorme, forme, fourme, form of the hare, 14, 17
• Foragle, strangle, straggle
• Forche, fourched, forked, said of stag's antlers, 140, 177
• Forloyne, forlogne, forlonge, a note sounded on the horn, to denote that the quarry or hounds or both had distanced the hunters, 173
• Forsters, foresters, 148
• Forswong, M. E. Forswinger, bruised, beaten (tucked up), 88
• Fort, the thick part of woods
• Forun, forewarn, 148
• Fotyde, footed
• Fouaill, the reward given to the hounds after a boar hunt, consisting of the bowels cooked over a fire, App.
• Foumart, faulmart, folmert, polecat
• Fowtreres, fewterers, huntsmen who led greyhounds, slippers
• Foxen, ffixen, A. S. fixen—vixen, a bitch fox, 64
• Foyne, weasel
• Fraied, rubbed, 135
• Fray, frighten, scare, 149
• Fray, to rub off the velvet on stag's antlers, 26, 135
• Fraying-post, the tree against which it was done
• Freyn, excrements of the wild boar, App.
• Froot, frotid, rub, 53, 94, 95, 146
• Fuants, excrements of the fox, martin, badger, and wolf, App.
• Fues, track, line, 18, 31
• Fumes, fumee, fumagen, fimeshen, fewmets, femegen, fewmishings, excrements, droppings, particularly of deer, 9, 16, 38, 39, 133
• Furkie, pieces of venison hung on a fork-shaped stick
• Furrour, fur, Fr. fourrure, 63
• Futaie, futelaie, forest, wood of old trees, also plantation of beech-trees, App.
• Fynders, finders, hounds to start or find deer, 161, 165

• Gaderynge, gaderyng, gathering, meet, 156, 163
• Gadire, gather, 43
• Gar, to force, to compel, 39
• Gardes, the dew-claws of the wild boar
• Garsed, cupped, 90
• Gin, gynne, trap, snare
• Girle, the roebuck in the second year, App.
• Gise, guise, manner of
• Gladnesse, a glade, a clear space, 137
• Glaundres, glanders, 96
• Glemyng, gleyming, slime, stickiness, 133
• Gloteny, gluttony
• Gnappe, snap, 92
• Gobettes, small pieces, 81, 177
• Goot, goat
• Gorgeaunt, wild boar in his second year
• Goters, gootere, goutieres, gutters, the small grooves in the antlers of a stag, 143
• Graunt sour, stag of fifth year
• Grauyll, gravel, 143
• Grease, grece, the fat of certain animals, 25, 27, 49
• Grease-time, the season of hart and buck when they were fattest, 160
• Greater, of the, term used in counting the tines of a stag's antlers, App.
• Grede, seek, hunt, 183
• Gres, upper tusks of wild boar, grinders, 50
• Gressoppes, grasshoppers, 66
• Grete, greet, great, 13
• Greue, grieve, harass, injure, 45
• Grey, badger, 68
• Grovys, grooves
• Gustumes, customs, 4
• Guttes, guts
• Guyen, gueyne, Guienne
• Guyrreis, quarry (curée), 105
• Gynnes, gynes, gins, traps, ruses, wiles, tricks, 35, 73
• Gynnously, by stratagem or ingenuity, 15, 39, 43, 59

• Haies, hayes, nets, hedges, 74
• Hallow, the reward given to the hounds at the death
• Halowe, halloa, App.
• Hamylons, the wiles of a fox
• Harbour, herborowe, harboure, harborow, to track a hart to his lair, 29
• Harbourer, man who harbours the deer, 130, 148
• Hardiethe, herds with
• Hardle, herdle, herdel, harling, hardel, fasten or couple hounds together, also to fasten the four legs of a roebuck together, 45, 190
• Hardy, bold, courageous
• Haris, hares, 17
• Harnays, herneis, harness, appurtenances, arms, &c., 60
• Haronsblast, a crossbow, from O.F. Arcbaleste, 27
• Harowde, herald, 139
• Harthound, herthound, hound used to chase the stag
• Hast, haste
• Hastilettiz, the dividing of the wild boar into thirty-two pieces
• Hatt, hath
• Hatte, thicket, 118
• Haukes, hawks, 120
• Haukyng, hawking
• Hauntelers, antlers, App.
• Hauspee, haussepee, a trap; also a siege engine, 61
• Hayter, harrier, App.
• Hearse, also Broket's sister, a red-deer hind in her second year, App.
• Heddyd, headed
• Heere, hair, 27
• Heghes, hocks
• Heirers, harriers, 111
• Hele, helthe, health
• Helyn, heal, 127
• Hemule, hemuse, heymuse, roebuck in the third year
• Hendis, red-deer hind, 130
• Her, hear
• Herbis, herbs, 14
• Herborowe. See Harbour
• Herdle, to dress a roebuck
• Herneis, harness. See Harnays, also Appendix
• Heroun, heron, 1
• Hert, heart; also stag, 23, 34
• Hertis, harts, stags, 130
• Hidre, hinder
• Highten, called, named, 148, 182
• Hire, her, 19
• Hoggaster, wild boar in his third year, App.
• Hokkes, hoghes, houghs, hocks, 99, 114
• Hookes, hooks, first teeth of wolf and dog, 56, 83
• Hoot (Be), promised, 79
• Hoote, hot, 32
• Hopeland, hopoland, houppeland, a long surcoat or gownlike garment
• Hoppyn, hoping
• Horred, hairy, 106
• Hos, hoarse, 66
• Houe, hoof
• Hough, howff, houff, a haunt, a resort, used especially for the holt, or dwelling-place of an otter, App.
• Houndis, hundes, hounds; also hands, 1
• Hounger, hunger
• Hounter, hunter
• Howlyn, howl
• Hoxtide, feast fifteen days after Easter, App.
• Huske, a number of hares, App.

• Iboyled, boiled
• Iclepid, called, 105, 144
• Ileyn, lain, 136
• Illoeques, illeoqs, here in this place, 183, 234
• Ilost, lost
• Imakyd, made, 137
• Imeyngid, mingled, 102
• Imprime, unharbouring a hart
• Ingwere, inquere, inquire or seek, 151
• Ipressid, pressed, 136
• Ireeyned, rained, 157
• Iren, iron, 90
• Irenged, arranged, 142
• Ironged, ranged
• Iroos, iris, 93
• Ispaide, spayed, castrated; also to kill with a sword. See Spay
• Istamped, stamped, crushed, 93
• Istered, stirred, 91
• Itawed, tawed, tanned, 126
• Ithrest, thrust, pushe, 136
• Itred, trodden
• Itynded, tined, 142
• Iweryd, worn, 147
• Iweted, wetted, moistened, 97
• Iwrethede, wreathed, 133

• Jangelere, jangler, 124
• Jannere, January
• Jawle, jaw, 50
• Jengeleth, jangeleth, said of a noisy hound, 110
• Jolly, a bitch in heat, 54, 58
• Jopey, juppey, to holloa, to cry out, to call, 171, 234
• Juge, jugge, judge
• Juggementz, judgments, 130
• Juill, July
• Juin, June
• Jus, juice
• Jweryd, worn

• Kareynes, carrion, 48, 58, 68
• Kele, cool, 91
• Kembe, comb, 127
• Kennettis, kenet, a small hunting hound, 111
• Kepyn, keeping
• Kerre, kirre, kyrre, cure, curée, quarry, reward of hounds. See Curée
• Keuere, cover, 65
• Keuered, covered, 80
• Kitte, to cut, sharp, 95
• Kittyng, cutting, 50
• Knobber, stag in second year or broket, App.
• Knyff, knife, 90
• Kounyngly, cunningly; also wisely
• Kunne, ken, to know, to be able, 15
• Kyde, roebuck in first year
• Kyen, kine, cattle, 120
• Kylleic, Welsh for grease time
• Kyndeleth, bring forth (said of the hare), 181
• Kyndels, young hare, 19
• Kyndely, naturally, M. E. kindely, kendeliche, cundeliche
• Kynningly, cunningly
• Kytons, kyttons, kittens, 71

• Labelles, small flaps, 174
• Ladde, led
• Ladil, ladle
• Laies, pools, lakes
• Lair, the resting-place of the various kinds of deer, 10
• Lammas, Lammasse, August 1, 2
• Lammasse of Peter Apostull, June 29
• Lappe, lap, 158
• Lasse, less, smaller
• Launcet, lancet
• Laundes, Londes, wild uncultivated land, 36
• Lavey, unrestrained, wild, 111
• Leather, the skin of deer and of the wild boar, App.
• Leches, leeches, doctor or surgeon, 12
• Leder, leather, 126
• Lefrer, levrier, greyhound
• Left, last, or live
• Legges, legs
• Leie, lair
• Leire, river Loire in France, 77
• Leires, lair, bed of a stag, 136
• Leith, layeth
• Lekes, leeks, 90
• Lernyd, learned, taught
• Lese, leash, 59
• Leseth, loseth, 52
• Less, of the, term used in counting the tines, App.
• Lesses, Fr. laissées, excrements of boar and wolves, 139, 146
• Lesshe, lesse, lesche, leash, 140
• Lesshes, lesses, inferiors, 189
• Lesyng, loosing, 119
• Lette, hindered, 51, 163
• Leuere, leaver, rather, sooner
• Leurettis, leverets, 19
• Leuve, leave, 31
• Leuys, leues, leaves, 138
• Levir, leaver, rather
• Levrier, a hare hound
• Liam, lyam, rope by which the limer was held
• Libard, leopard, 70
• Liff, life, 31
• Liflode, lyvelode, livelihood, 59
• Ligging, lygging, lair, resting-place, 24, 71, 149, 191
• Lippis, lips
• Litere, litter
• Logges, lodges, 190
• Londe, land, 75
• Louen, love
• Loupes corryners (loup cerviers), lynx; occasionally it was probably applied to the wolverine, 70
• Lowre, laugh, 81
• Luce, pike, 113
• Lyff, life
• Lymer, a tracking hound on a leash, 31, 38, 152, 157, 167-9, 235
• Lymmes, limbs
• Lymner, lymerer, limerer, man who leads hounds on a leash, 148, 166, 235
• Lymnere, used both for man and hound, App.
• Lynsed, linseed, 104
• Lyoun, lion
• Lythis, lightis, lungs
• Lyven, lyuen, live

• Maistives, mastif, mastiff
• Maistris, masters
• Malemort, glanders, 96
• Malencolious, melancholy
• Malice, cunning, 34
• Mamewe, mamunesre, mameue, mauewe, mange, 90, 91
• Manesseth, threatening, 51
• Mannys, man's, 151
• Marches, district, 19
• Marie, marrow
• Marrubium album, white horehound (Marrubium vulgare), 101
• Martryn, martin, 73
• Mary Magdalene day, July 22nd, 26
• Mascle, masche, male, 67
• Mastin, a hound used for boar-hunting, a mongrel
• Matere, matter
• Mayned, maimed, bitten
• Mayntyn, maintain
• Maystif, mastif, mestifis, mastowe, mastiff, 118, 122, App.
• Maystre, maistrie, maistrice, maystry, mastery, skill, 71, 107
• Meche, big, 113
• Mede, meadow, 163
• Medle, medel, mix, 91
• Mene, lesser, small, 128
• Menee, mennee, note sounded on a horn; also the baying of a hound hunting, 171, 179
• Meng, menge, mingle, 102
• Merrein, the main beam of a stag's antlers, App.
• Mervaile, marvel
• Merveiliost, most marvellous, 181
• Merveillous, merueylous, marvellous
• Mestifis, mastifs, 118, 122
• Metis, meats
• Metyng, metyngis, meet, meeting, 148
• Metynge, metyng, feeding or pasture of deer, 9, 25, 34, 152
• Meue, mew, meve, move, start, shed, 26, 42, 166
• Meule, mule, burr, part of the antler, App.
• Meute, pack of hounds
• Mevethe, meweth, to mew, casts or sheds. See Meue
• Mews, house for hawks
• Modir, mother, 105
• Modirwort, motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca), 101
• Monythe, moneth, monethenys, month, 27
• Moote, mote, a note or horn signal, App.
• Morfound, morfond, to catch cold, glanders, 124
• Mornyngis, morning, 7
• MORSUS galline, chickweed, 101
• Mort, a note sounded on the horn at the death of the hart
• Mosel, moselle, muzzle, 77
• Mote, moote, a note sounded on the horn, 168, 185
• Motying, moving, 150
• Mountenance, mountance, extent of, as far as, 21, 101
• Moustenesse, moisture, 124
• Mow, mowe, mowen, to have power, to be able, 97, 178
• Mowse, burr of an antler
• Mue, mew, shed antlers, or feathers, molt. See Meue
• Mule, meule, burr of a stag's antler, 141
• Mute, meute, a pack of hounds
• Myche, the assibulated form of mukel, mikl, great, much, 41
• Myddes, midst
• Myddil, middle
• Mynde, memory, 2
• Mysiugen, misjudge, 29

• Nail, name given to a disease in dogs' eyes, now called Pterygium, 94
• Nartheless, natheless, nevertheless, 149
• Natyuite, nativity
• Nedel, needle, 61
• Nekys, neke, neckyd, neck, necked, App.
• Nemeth, taketh, 75
• Nempe, name, 165
• Neres, kidneys
• Nesche, neyssh, nessh, soft, tender, moist, 52, 130, 131
• Nethir, nether, lower
• Nettelis, nettles, 89, 101
• Newlich, newly, freshly
• Nombles, nomblis, part of the stag's intestines, App.
• Noone, no more
• Noorche, norshe, norssh, nourish, to bring up, to educate, 56, 58, 80
• Noosetherlis, nosethrelles, nostrils, 96, 105
• Norture, bringing up, 30
• Notis, nuts, 91
• Nough, nigh
• Noyaunce, annoyance, 163
• Nyme, to take, to hold

• Okis, oaks, 144
• Olyff, olive, 90, 102
• Onys, once, 156
• Oo, oon, one, 17
• Opene, opyn, open (of hounds to give tongue), 108, 155
• Or, ere, before, 17
• Ordeyne, ordain
• Orped, brave, valiant, 107
• Os, the dew-claws of the stag and hind, App.
• Oscorbin (os corbin), a small bone in the stag's body given to the crows, App.
• Ostoraces calamynt, storax or resin, 96
• Otyr, otere, otter, 72-4
• Ouerjawes, upper jaws, 176
• Ouersette, overcome, 60, 66
• Ouerwherte, athwart, 87
• Ourshette, overshoot, 159
• Ouyr, over
• Oweth, owen, ought
• Owrers, harriers
• Oye, eye, 157
• Oyle, oil, 102

• Paas, piz, chest, 114
• Paas, pace, to walk slowly
• Pace, slot, track of stag, 132
• Pamed, palmated
• Parasceve, Parasseue, Good Friday
• Parfiters, parfitors, parfitours, parfyteiros, the third or last relay of hounds 7, 10
• Partel, a part of portion
• Parteyneth, appertaineth
• Partie, part
• Pase, pace, to step slowly, 130
• Pearls, the excrescences on the stag's antlers, App.
• Pece, piece
• Peechtre, peochetre, peachtree, 102
• Pel, Fr. peau, skin
• Percel, parsley, 101
• Perche, the main beam of the stag's antler, App.
• Perfite, perfeet, perfit, perfect; also note sounded on the horn, 174
• Peritorie, wall pellitory (Parietaria), 101
• Pesen, peas, 26
• Peseth, paceth, 149
• Peyn, pain
• Pierrures, "pearls" or excrescences on the stag's antlers
• Pilches, pelisse, a coat of skin or fur, 63
• Playn contre, clear open country, 19, 65
• Playnes, plains
• Playstire, plaster
• Plecke, plek, pleck, plecca, piece of ground, place, 183
• Pleyn, pleyneth, complain, lament, 51
• Pleyn, playneth, pleignen, Fr. pleigner, complain, lament
• Pointyng, pointing, track of hare
• Polcattes, polecats, 73
• Pomeled, mottled, dappled, spotted, 45
• Poonde, poon, pond
• Poort, parts, behaviour, manners, 4
• Popy, puppy
• Porche. See Perche
• Pouere, pouer, power, 164
• Pouture, keep, food, used in connection with hounds
• Poynted, painted
• Preef, proof, 88
• Prees, press, crowd, 118
• Preuyd, proved, 90
• Preuyli, priuyli, privily, 149
• Price, prise, priee, take, capture
• Pricket, priket, the fallow buck in his second year, App.
• Prik, prick, to hunt, 116
• Prikherid curris, rough-coated curs, App.
• Prikkyng, pricking, footprint of hare, App.
• Prime, noon (hie prime), midday
• Prise, prize, pryce, a horn signal blown in France for the buck, in England for the hart and buck after the kill, 175
• Prive, tame
• Procatours, proctors, 195
• Profiteness, perfectness, 2
• Pulegrun, pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium), 20
• Pulleth, poileth, take the hair off, Fr. poiler, 90
• Pursnettis, purse-nets, 67
• Purueaunce, perseverance, 80
• Puttes, pits
• Pyche, pitch
• Pyles, piles, the skin of the boar, wolf, and smaller animals
• Pynsours, pincers, 98

• Quales, quails, 119
• Quarry, the reward given to the hounds. See Curée, App.
• Quat, couched, lying down, used for deer, 172
• Quattell, to quat, to squat, to crouch, to lie down, App.
• Questy, Quest, to hunt, to give tongue, 110, 130, 155
• Quyere, quyrre, quir, quare, curée, quarry for hounds, reward, App.
• Quyk, euelis, Quickevil, a disease of hounds
• Quyrrcis, reward given to hounds. See Curée, App.

• Racches, hounds, 3, 74, 167
• Rage, madness
• Ragerunet, ragemuet, dumb madness, 86
• Rascaile, rascayle, raskaile, lean deer; any deer under ten was usually called rascal, 7, 25, 150, 193
• Raveyn, prey, rapine, 57, 60
• Real, reall, a tine (in France, the bay) on the stag's antler
• Reame, reaume, realm, 78
• Rear to, to dislodge a wild boar, App.
• Rebelly, rebellious, unruly, 191
• Rechase, recheat, sound a note on the horn, to call back the hounds by sound of horn, also to put them on the right scent, 168, 178, 191-8, App.
• Reche, to reck, to care, 57, 131
• Recheless, reckless
• Recopes, recoupling, 179
• Refraied, refreide, refrected, chilled, cooled, 47, 99
• Reies, nets, App.
• Relaies, relays (of hounds), 165
• Releved, Fr. relever, said of the hare rising from her form to go to her pasture, 14, 183
• Relie, relye, rally, 167
• Remeuve, remeyid, removed
• Rennen, rained, rains
• Rennyng, renneth, running
• Renouet, renovel, Fr. renouveler, to renew, 48
• Resceyued, received
• Reseeyuour, receiver, a greyhound in front of deer, 198
• Reseityng, reseating
• Resouns, resouns, resons, reasons, 6
• Restif, quiet, restive, unwilling to go or to move forward, 109
• Restreyed, restrained, held back, 109
• Retreved, retrieved, 29
• Reuere, revere, river
• Rewe, rue, 90
• Rewe, row, 193
• Rewle, rule, 55
• Rewme, Fr. rhume, a cold, 96
• Reyne, rain, 21
• Reyndere, reindeer
• Reyson, reyse, raising, raise, 29
• Rialle, rial, royal, also tine of stag's antlers, 28, 140
• Ridingtime, redengtime, bucking time of the hare, 20
• Rig, ragge, backbone, App.
• Riot, 74, App.
• Roches, rokkes, rocks, 26
• Rodes, rods
• Rotelyng, rattling, 162
• Roungeth, Fr. ronger, chews the cud, 181, App.
• Rouse to, rowze, rouse, to dislodge buck or doe, App.
• Rout, a number of wolves, 62
• Routes, synonymous with slot, line of deer, 132
• Royal, a tine, sometimes the trez tine (see Rialle), 28, 140
• Ruettis, horn or trumpet, 128
• Rusyng, rusing, 31, 45, 173
• Rutsomtime, rutson, rutte, rutting time of deer, 24, 109
• Ryges, back, haunches, 17
• Ryghtes, rights, a stag's rights, three lower tines of antlers; a hound was in his "rights" when hunting line, 174
• Ryot, noise, 121
• Ryuere, reuere, river, 77

• Saynolfes, spaynels, spaniels, 119
• Scantilonn, measure, 150, 165
• Scombre, scombere (stercoro in MS. Bod. 546), voiding excrements, 100, 127
• Scomfited, discomfited, 82
• Seat, the form of a hare, 16
• Seche, seek
• Sechyng, sekyng, seeking, 110
• Seegh, seghe, saw, 13
• Seeld, seelden, seldom, 181
• Selidoyn, celandine, 94
• Semblaunt, semblance, pretence, 16
• Semble, assembly or meet, 9
• Semoly, seemly, 75
• Sengler, wild boar (Sanglier)
• Sens, incense, 96
• Sentyn, scent
• Serchyng, searching, 6, 29
• Sergeauntis, sergeants, 165
• Sesounn, sesoun, seson, season, 29
• Sesours, seizers, 114, 117
• Sette, set, place, part of forest round which "stables" or stations of men and hounds were placed, 149, 189
• Sewe, sue, Fr. suir, hunt, pursue, 150, 161
• Sewet, suet, fat of deer
• Sewre, swear
• Seyn, say, see
• Shap, shape
• Shapon, shaped
• Sheeld, shield, shoulder of a boar, 49
• Sheellen, shall
• Sheerde, cut, wound, 99
• Shent, shamed, disgraced, 79
• Sikerli, securely, 159
• Singular, the wild boar when he leaves the sounder, App.
• Skirtis, skyrtis, the skin and tissue surrounding the stomach
• Skulk, a number of foxes, App.
• Slawthe, sloth, 5
• Slough, lower part of the heart
• Slug-hound, a sleuth-hound, a track hound, App.
• Slyke, slick, sleek or smooth, 44
• Smet, smytten, smitten, 192
• Snawe, snow
• Soar, a buck in his fourth year
• Soepol, wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum), 20
• Soile, soule, souille, wallowing pool, soil or mud; "to soil" means when a deer or wild boar takes to water or wallows in it, 37, 50, 144
• Soiourne, soiourn, soiournying, sojorn, sojourn, to remain, 98
• Solere, upper chamber, 126
• Somedele, somewhat
• Somere, somer, summer, 45
• Sone, soon
• Sonne, sunne, sun, 9
• Sonne, soune, sound
• Sopere, soper, supper, 180
• Soppe, soppers, herd of deer, 25
• Sorrell, a buck in his third year
• Sotelly, subtlety, cleverly
• Sotil, sotille, sotilte, subtle, clever, 67, 80, 95
• Soule, soile, alone, 168
• Sounder, soundre, sundre, a herd of wild boars, 53, 143
• Sour, stag of fourth year, the colour of a deer's hide; according to Roquefort, a herd of swine, App.
• Sousse, oxide of zinc, 95
• Souz-real, souch-real, sur-ryal, sur-antler, a tine of the stag's head, 140, 177, App.
• Sowle, soul, 12
• Spainel, spaynels, spaniel
• Sparhauke, sparrowhawk, 114
• Spatell, spittle, 92
• Spay, to kill a deer with a sword 10, 174, 258;
  to castrate, 84, 258
• Spayard, spayde, spayer, spycard, the stag in his third year, App.
• Spaynel, spaniel, 119
• Speies, spires, young wood, 157
• Spires, spoyes, stalks, young wood; thick spires means thick wood, 65, 118
• Spitous, despiteful, 115
• Spraintes, spraytyng, excrements of the otter, 73, 139
• Springol, springald, springold, springall, siege engine to throw stones or balks of timber, 23
• Stable, stablys, Fr. establie, a post or station of huntsmen and hounds, 188
• Staggart, the stag in his fourth year, 29, 131
• Stalk, to go softly, creep, "Stalk the deer full still" (used by John Lydgate, about 1430)
• Stall, to corner, to bring to bay, to stand still, 153
• Stanc, stank, stanges, stangkes, Fr. estanc, pool, tank, pond, 32, 72
• Steppis, steps, footprint of deer, 73, 137
• Stere, stir, 91
• Stert, stirt, start
• Stinte, stynte, to stop, to blow a stint—i.e. to stop or check the hounds, a false scent, check, 19, 165
• Stone-bow, Fr. arc-à-pierre, a kind of cross-bow
• Stoonys, stones, 143
• Stordy, estordic, giddy, 116
• Stoupen, stoop
• Strake, to blow, 178
• Strangle, straggle, 188
• Stranling, stranlyn, squirrel
• Stratere, straighter
• Straught, straight, 128
• Strenge, strength, stronghold, thick woods, 16, 118, 156
• Strengeste, strongest
• Strepid, to strip
• Streynour, strainer
• Streynt, strain, progeny or breed
• Stripid, stripped, term to denote skinning of hare, wild boar, and wolf, App.
• Stroke, strake, or stuke, to sound a note on a hunting-horn, 52
• Strong, said of woods and coverts, thick, dense, 25
• Sue, to seek, to hunt, 161
• Suers, followers
• Suet, the fat of the red-deer and fallow-deer
• Suete, sweet, 19
• Sugre, sugar
• Surantler, a tine, generally the bay
• Sur-royal, the surroyal tine, 28
• Sure batyd (of hounds' feet), battered, bruised from over running, 98
• Susrial, surroyal tine
• Stynt, at fault; to stop
• Suyte, suite, following
• Swef, a hunting cry, meaning gently or softly, 182
• Swerde, sword, 11
• Swoor, swore
• Swoot, swote, sweat
• Sylvestres, beasts of venery—i.e. red-deer, hare, boar, and wolf, App.
• Synnes, sins, 7
• Synowes, synewes, sinews
• Sythes, times

• Tacches, habits, also spots, markings, 121
• Taloun, talon, heel, 130, 131
• Tawed, a kind of tanning, preparation of white leathers, 63
• Tawne, tan, tawny, 105
• Taylyd, tailed
• Teaser, teazer, tesours, a small hound that "teases" forth the game in coverts, 189
• Teg, the fallow doe in her second year
• Tent, tended, cared for, 103
• Tercelle, tiercel, the male of any species of hawk, 119
• Terer, teerors, terrier, 4
• Terpse, to poise an arrow for shooting
• Terryers, terriers, 4
• Teste, head or antlers (tête)
• Teyntes, touches, 65
• Thenderleggis, hind legs
• Thenkyngis, thinking, 75
• Thennes, thence
• Thidere, thither
• Toches, teeth, 50, 56
• Togadere, togidre, together
• Tokenys, tokens, 86
• Tosshes, tusks
• Tounge, toong, tongue
• Toure, tower, 77
• Towailles, towels, 164
• Townge, tunge, tongue
• Trace, track or footprint of an animal, 9, 73, 130, 137
• Trauaille, travayle, Fr. travaillé, work, labour, 54, 93
• Tredeles, excrements of otter, 73
• Trenchour, trencher, 174
• Trestes, tryst, trist, 190
• Tresteth, trusteth, 49
• Treu, trewe, true, faithful
• Trip, a herd of tame swine, 53
• Trochis, troches, the tines "on top," 28, 135, 140
• Trodes, trod
• Troweth, believes or knows
• Trustre, tryst, 118
• Twies, twyes, twice, 82
• Twin, between
• Twygges, twigs, 22
• Tyme, season
• Tyndes, tynys, tines, 132, 142
• Tysane, a medicinal tea, 11

• Umbicast, to cast round, 151
• Undirnethe, underneath
• Undoing, dressing of a deer
• Undoon, undone, to cut up
• Unneth, scarcely, 80
• Unsicker, uncertain
• Unthende, unsuccessful
• Unwayssh, unwashed
• Unwexid, unwaxed
• Unyoyne, unjoin, 97
• Uprear to, finding of the hart buck, and boar with the limer
• Usyn, use

• Vanchasours, vanchasers, the relay of hounds that comes first, 7, 10
• Vannchace, the first in the chase, 7, 10
• Vauntellay, vauntlay, vnlay, part of the pack held in reserve, when uncoupled on the line of the stag before the hounds already hunting had passed, 169, 172
• Veel, calf, used sometimes for the stag in his first year, App.
• Veline, a horn signal, App.
• Veltraga, veltrarius, a hound, an alaunt, App.
• Vent to, said of an otter when it comes to surface of water for air; also to empty, to cast excrements, App.
• Ventrers, ventreres, 116, 117
• Venyin, venom
• Verfull, a glassful, 101
• Verrey, truly, true, 75, 105
• Vertegrece, vertegres, verdigris, 91
• Vesteing, investigating, looking, 151
• Veutreres, veautre, boarhound
• Veyn, vein
• Vishiteth, voiding excrements, 66
• Vmblis, umbles
• Vndirtakyng, undertaking
• Vndyrstondyng, understanding
• Vngles, bugles, 128
• Vnnanys, onions, 102
• Voide, voyde, leave, go away, empty, 51, 191
• Voiden, to purge, 61
• Vois, voys, voice, 66
• Voynes, veins, 99

• Waggyng, excrements of foxes, 139
• Waies, way, track
• Walouyng, wallowing, 146
• Waltrer, welter
• Wanlace, put up game, 122
• Waraunt, warrant, save, 31
• Warderobe, werdrobe, excrement of badgers, 139
• Ware, aware; also war, beware
• Wareyn, wareyns, warren, 66
• Warly, warily
• Wayssh, wash
• Wedir, weather, 8
• Wedis, weeds
• Welex, grow, 163
• Welle, wolle, wool
• Welspedde, well sped
• Wene, know, to think
• Wered, worn
• Werkis, works, 5
• Wervolf, werwolfe, a maneating wolf, 59
• Wery, weary, 107
• Wete, to wit, to know, 137
• Wex, wax, to grow, 56, 85
• Wexed, waxed, 128
• Wexing, wexyn, growth, 26
• Weytinge, waiting
• Wheder, whether
• Whitly, whiter
• Wif, wiff, wife, 75
• Wode, wood
• Wodemannys, woodman's, 129
• Wodmanly, woodmanly, 176
• Wold, wish or would
• Wones, dwellings
• Wonned, wouned, wont, accustomed, 85
• Woode, wode, mad, 61, 85
• Woodness, madness, 85
• Woote, know, 43
• Worth up, on horse, mount on horseback, 175
• Wortes, vegetables, roots, 11
• Woxen, part of verb wax, to grow
• Wreech, wreche, wretched, 55
• Wrethis, wreaths, 133
• Wroot, to root, 48, 144
• Wrooth, wrath, 49
• Wryteng, writing, 200
• Wurthynes, worthiness
• Wyleli, wililiche, wilily, 31
• Wymmen, women, 200
• Wynde, wind, scent, smell
• Wyndeth, winds, scents, 17

• Ybrend, burnt, dry, 134
• Yede, went, 150, 166
• Yeman, yeoman, 148, 165
• Yeue, give, 110
• Yfeted, made, well or evil shaped
• Yflanked, a species of madness in hounds, "lank madness," 88
• Yfore, therefore
• Yfounde, found, 164
• Ygote, begotten, bred
• Yhewe, hewn, 152
• Ylaft, left, 178
• Ymakyd, made
• Ynowe, ynow, enough, 1
• Yongis, young
• Youle, howl
• Ypocras, Hippocras, 11
• Ypoticaries, apothecary, 84, 101
• Yrest, rested, 136
• Ythowzt, thought of