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- 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.
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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