Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

Glossary

Aboon, above

Admire, wonder at

Advowson, the revision of a spiritual promotion, and signifies in our common law a right to present a clergyman to a Benefice. (Berdan), used to signify future possession.

Airns, irons

Amain, lower

Bale, mischief sorrow

Ballup, front or flap of breeches

Band, bound

Bane, bone

Basnets, helmets

Battening, feeding

Befalle, befits

Belive, quickly

Bent, field, plain

Bergamot, a pear

Bested, help, avail

Big, to build

Birk, birch

Blame, wrong

Blane, stopped

Boune, make ready

Bout, bend, turn

Boutesel, French boute-selle, bouter to put, selle, saddle; a trumpet call warning knights or cavalry to put on the saddle.

Buskit, attired

Buske, bush

But, rude, merely

Buxom, spirited, debonair

Brittling, cutting up

Brome, broom

Brook, preserve

Byckarte, hurried

Bylle, battle-axe

Byre, cow-house

Call, cold

Captived, captivated

Capull-Hyde, Horse-hide

Carp, talk

Case, cage

Cast, intend

Channerin’, fretting

Consent, harmony

Consort, Latin: consortium, society

Corbies, ravens

Crude, unripe

Curch, kerchief

Deal, bit

Descent, Latin: deceus: comely, handsome

Deodands, forfeits to Gods

Den, hollow

Dight, disposed of

Distrain, to make seizure for debt

Dyghtande, preparing, in preparation

Draw, inhale

Dree, endure

Drumlie, gloomy

Drury, dowry

Even Cloth, fine cloth

Fadge, hag

Fail, turf

Fare, doings

Farley, strange

Felone, traitor, rebel

Fend, keep, support

Ferlies, marvels

Fettled, make ready

Find, end

Finikin, fine, handsomely dressed

Flashy, insipid, tasteless

Flatter’d, tossed about

Fley’d, frightened

Fond, Fondly: foolish, foolishly

For Piling, to keep clear

Forced, fated

Forehammers, sledge-hammers

Free, precious

Free, noble

Freits, ill omens

Freyke, warrior

Furs, furrows

Gadding, straggling

Gar, make

Gare, hem

Gare, gore

Gard, made

Gaudy, joyful

Gin, latch

Gleat, gleamed

Glent, glanced

Golett of ye Hode, throat, part covering the throat

Grat, wept

Greet, cry

Grevis, groves

Groom, man

Gryte, great

Harp and Carp, chat

Hause, neck

Hautboys, Fr. hautbois; Musical instrument

Hente, caught

Heriot, a vassal’s tribute to his lord

Herry, harry

Hight, promise

Hooly, slowly, gently

Individual, inseparable

Indu’th, endoweth

Jaw, wave

Jimp, slender, trim

Jow, stroke

Kale, broth

Kames, combs

Lancepesade, lowest officer in foot company, commanding ten soldiers

Lack, ease, dowie, sad

Lake, grave

Lap, sprang

Lawing, reckoning

Lear, lying

Let, hinder, stop

Leven, lawn

Lift, sky

Lin, to cease

List, desire, to be dispose

Lowe, flame

Lowe, small hill

Luckets, sweetmeats

Lynde, Lyne, linden, tree

Margent, margin

Make, mate, husband

Meany, company

Monand, moaning

Muir, moor

Myllan, steel

Nice, coy, squeamish

Palmer, pilgrim, tramp, vagabond, beggar

Pallions, pavilions, tents

Parley, speech

Passe, limits, extent

Pickering, skirmishing

Pistolette, pistol

Quit, requited

Ragged, rugged

Rathe, early

Read, explain

Reacheles, reckless

Rebeck, medieval musical instrument, earliest form of violin

Rede, advice

Reiver, robber

Regealing, re-freezing

Row, Rowed: wrap, wrapped

Row-footed, rough-footed

Sad, sober, serious

Sark, shirt

Scapyd, hurt

Scrannell, slight, thin

Secure, Latin securus, free from care

Sen, when

Sequacious, following

Shamefaced, modest

Shauld, shoulder

Shawes, woods

Shear, at once

Shete, short

Sheen, shoes

Sheugh, furrow

Shradds, opening in a wood

Shrindled, sparkled

Shroggs, shrubs

Silly, harmless, innocent, simple

Sith, since

Skeely, skilful

Slade, valley

Slaiked, loosened, i.e., took off

Sleet, slat

Slogan, war-cry

Sloken, slake

Slon, slay

Slough, slew

Sparred, shut

Splent, armour

Sprent, spurted

Spurn, retaliation

Spyrred, asked, inquired

Starkest, strongest

Stear, stir

Sterne, arose

Steven, voice

Stint, stop

Stour, fight

Strayght, narrow

Strete, street

Stye, small thoroughfare, alley

Swakked, smote

Swapped, smote

Sweavens, dreams

Syke, march

Tear, injury

Tett, tuft, lock or knot of hair

The, thee: they

The, prosper, thrive

Theek, thatch

Thir, their, these, those

Thole, endure

Threw, throve

Throly, strenuously, doggedly

Tift, puff

Tow, rope

Town, stead

Toyes, trifles, vanities

Tree, wood, woods

Trew, trust

Twin’d, deprived, parted

Uncouth, unknown

Undershrieve, under-sheriff

Unreproved, unreprovable, innocent

Unrooted, uprooted

Wame, womb

Wane, crowd

Wanton, playful

Wardle’s make, life-mate

Warisone, reward

Weal, wing

Weed, garment

Weeds, garments, now confined to garment of widows

Welt, to have power over, commanded

Wex, wax, grow

Whist, hushed

White-thorn, hawthorn

Wighty, nimble

Win, make

Wouche, injury

Wons, dwells

Wrocken, wroken: revenged

Wud, mad

Wyld, deer

Yate, gate

Yclept, called

Your lane, alone

Zade, went

Zare, ready

Zatis, yates

Ze, yea

Zemen, yeomen