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Shakespeare’s Narrative Sources: Italian Novellas and Their European Dissemination

English Glossary

This glossary provides referencing to open-access dictionaries and encyclopedias and historical dictionaries:

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Encyclopedia Britannica

LEME – Lexicons of Early Modern English

A (pron.)

[Brooke 1562]

OED 1933: he, it.

ABASHED

[Elyot 1580]

ABHORRED

[Elyot 1580]

ACCOMPT

[Brooke 1562: accompt, account]

LEME  Rastell 1525, Thomas 1550,

ADJUDGED

[Elyot 1580]

AGHAST

[Brooke 1562]

ALLECTIVE

[Elyot 1580]

OED:  Something that allures or entices someone (to some course of action); an inducement

ANCIENT

[Brooke 1562]

ANNOY

[Brooke 1562]

OED: 1.a. A mental state akin to pain arising from the involuntary reception of impressions, or subjection to circumstances, which one dislikes; disturbed or ruffled feeling; discomfort, vexation, trouble. In earlier times often = modern French ennui; in later usage expressing more active feeling of discomfort.

ANON

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

APACE

[Brooke 1562]

APAID

[Brooke 1562]

APPAIR

[Elyot 1580]

OED: † appair | apair, v. 2. intransitive (by omission of reflexive pronoun.) To grow or become worse, less valuable, weaker, or less; to deteriorate, fall off, or decay.

APPEACH

[Brooke 1562: appeacher]

ARRAY

[Brooke 1562]

ASSAY

[Brooke 1562]

ASTONIED

[Elyot 1580]

ASTONE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: v. 1. transitive. To stun; to strike senseless with a blow, or partially senseless with a loud noise; to paralyse a limb with anæsthetics; to paralyse action, strike powerless, stupefy. (Obsolete.)

AT BAY

[Brooke 1562]

ATTAIN (v., 2)

[Brooke 1562: attaint 2270]

ATTAIN

[Brooke 1562: 2846]

OED: v., transitive †3. To catch or detect in an offence, convict, condemn, attaint n. (Obsolete.)  [Common sense of Old French ateindre: compare Britton i. xxvii. §1 La forme de atteyndre   nostre pes enfreynte. ‘The manner of convicting   offenders for breach of our peace’].

ATTAIN TO

[Brooke 1562: 2126]

OED: v., III. intransitive. 12. a. To reach, or arrive at, a state, condition, purpose, possession; to succeed in reaching.

ATTEMPTATE

[Elyot 1580]

 

OED: † attemptate, n. 1. An attempt, endeavour.

AUGHT (pron.)

[Brooke 1562]

AUGHT (adv.)

[Brooke 1562: 1272]

AYE (adv.)

[Brooke 1562]

BAIT (v. archaic)

[Brooke 1562]

BANE (n. 2)

[Brooke 1562]

BARRATOR

[Elyot 1580]

BASHFUL

[Brooke 1562]

BEAM

[Brooke 1562: 195, 240]

OED: n. 21. figurative. Ray, gleam, emanation: beam of sight, a glance (also eye-beam n.) 

BEAR (v. 2)

[Brooke 1562: bear, bare]

BESIEGE

[Brooke 1562: besiegen]

BETIME

[Brooke 1562]

BETOSS

[Brooke 1562: betost]

BILL

[Elyot 1580]

 

OED: bill, n.1 †1. A weapon of war mentioned in Old English poetry, a kind of broadsword, a falchion. Obsolete. (Probably passing with modified shape into sense 2.)

2. a. An obsolete military weapon used chiefly by infantry; varying in form from a simple concave blade with a long wooden handle, to a kind of concave axe with a spike at the back and its shaft terminating in a spear-head; a halberd.  b. A similar weapon used by constables of the watch till late in the 18th cent. Also attributive.

BIN (BE)

[Brooke 1562]

BEDECK

[Brooke 1562]

BEFALL

[Brooke 1562]

BEFILE

[Brooke 1562]

 OED: v., transitive. To make foul or dirty; to defile. (Obsolete.)

BEGUILE

[Brooke 1562]

BEHEST

[Brooke 1562]

BEHOVE

[Brooke 1562]

BELDAME

[Brooke 1562]

BEREFT

[Brooke 1562]

BESEECH

[Brooke 1562: beseek]

BESEEM

[Brooke 1562]

BESIDES

[Brooke 1562: beside 2354]

 

 OED: prep. B. 3. Other than, else than: in negative and interrogative (formerly sometimes in affirmative) sentences, capable of being rendered by ‘except, excluding’.

BESPEAK

[Brooke 1562]

OED: 5.a. To speak for; to arrange for, engage beforehand; to ‘order’ (goods).

BESPRENT

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

 

BESTOW (v., 2)

[Brooke 1562: 1273]

BESTRIDE

[Brooke 1562]

BET (adv.)

[Brooke 1562]

OED: better (Obsolete.)

BETAKE

[Brooke 1562]

BETIDE

[Brooke 1562]

BETIMES

[Brooke 1562]

BEWEEP

[Brooke 1562]

BEWRAY

[Brooke 1562]

BID (v., 2b)

[Brooke 1562: bidden]

BIT (n.1, 2)

[Brooke 1562]

BLAST

[Brooke 1562]

BLEAR

[Brooke 1562]

BLESS

[Brooke 1562: bless, bliss]

BLIN

[Brooke 1562]

 

OED: 1. a. intransitive. To cease, leave off, desist. (Obsolete.)

BOISTEROUS

[Brooke 1562]

BOLSTER

[Brooke 1562]

BOOT

[Brooke 1562]

BOOTLESS

[Brooke 1562]

BOWER

[Brooke 1562]

BRACKISH

[Brooke 1562]

BRAKE

[Brooke 1562: brakes]

OED: n.2,  A clump of bushes, brushwood, or briers; a thicket.

BRAND

[Brooke 1562]

BRAVE (adj., 2-3)

[Brooke 1562]

BREW (v., 2)

[Brooke 1562]

BRICKLE

[Brooke 1562]

BRIDLE

[Brooke 1562]

BRAST

[Brooke 1562]

BRUIT

[Brooke 1562]

BUSHELL

[Elyot 1580]

BUSILY

[Elyot 1580]

OED:  adv. †1. a. With fixed attention; carefully, heedfully; attentively, intently. Also: with attention to details; particularly, minutely. Obsolete.

CAMP (n. 1)

[Brooke 1562]

CHAFE (v. 2)

[Brooke 1562]

CAITIFF

[Brooke 1562]

CASTAWAY

[Brooke 1562]

CHURLISH

[Brooke 1562]

CITE (v., 1)

[Brooke 1562]

CLAD

[Brooke 1562]

CLAP (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

CLEPE

[Brooke 1562]

CLOSE (adj. 14)

[Brooke 1562: 2336]

COMELY

[Brooke 1562]

COMMODIOUS

[Elyot 1580]

CONTEMN

[Elyot 1580: contemneth]

CONDUIT

[Brooke 1562]

CONJURE

[Elyot 1580]

CONSUL

[Elyot 1580]

COUCHED

[Elyot 1580]

COVENANT

[Elyot 1580]

COVETISE

[Brooke 1562]

COVETOUSNESS

[Elyot 1580]

COWER

[Brooke 1562]

CREST (n., 1)

[Brooke 1562: creast]

CRUCIATE

[Elyot 1580]

OED: † cruciate, adj.1 Obsolete.   Tortured. (In quots. as past participle.)

CULL

[Brooke 1562]

CULVER

[Elyot 1580]

OED: culver, n.1 a. A dove, a pigeon; now the name of the wood-pigeon in the south and east of England.

CURIOUS (adj., 3 archaic)

[Brooke 1562]

DAINTY

[Brooke 1562]

DALLIANCE

[Elyot 1580]

DAMAGE

[Brooke 1562: domage]

DAW

[Brooke 1562]

OED: v. 1,  3. transitive. To rouse or awaken from sleep or a swoon; to revive, ‘bring to’; = adaw.

DECEASE

[Elyot 1580]

DEFAME

[Brooke 1562]

DEFAULT

[Elyot 1580]

DEFILE

[Brooke 1562]

DEPOSE (v., 3c)

[Brooke 1562]

DESART

[Brooke 1562]

OED: n. 1. Deserving; the becoming worthy of recompense, i.e. of reward or punishment, according to the good or ill of character or conduct; worthiness of recompense, merit or demerit.

DESCRY

[Brooke 1562]

DEFACE

[Elyot 1580]

DEIGN

[Elyot 1580]

DESERT (n. 2)

[Brooke 1562]

DESPITE

[Brooke 1562]

DESPITEFUL

[Elyot 1580]

DESPOIL

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580: despoiled]

DIFFICILE

[Elyot 1580]

OED:  Now rare. 1. Requiring great effort or skill to do or accomplish; not easy to manage or deal with.

DIGHT

[Brooke 1562]

DISAPPOINT

[Brooke 1562: 2943]

 OED: v., II. b. transitive. To thwart, frustrate, or foil (an aim, undertaking, objective, etc.); to prevent the realization of (a hope, intention, etc.); to fail to fulfil (an expectation).

DISCERN

[Elyot 1580]

DISDAIN

[Brooke 1562]

DISEASE (n. 2, obsolete v. trouble)

[Brooke 1562]

DISPEND

[Elyot 1580]

DISSIMULE

[Elyot 1580]

DISTAIN

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580: distained]

DISTRAIN

[Brooke 1562]

DOLOUR

[Elyot 1580]

DOOM

[Brooke 1562]

DOUGH

[Brooke 1562]

DOZEN

[Brooke 1562: dosyn]

DRIFT

[Brooke 1562]

OED: 5. A scheme, plot, design, device. (Obsolete.)

DURST

[Brooke 1562]

EARNEST (adj.)

[Brooke 1562]

EARNEST (n.)

[Brooke 1562: 1340]

OED: n.1. 2. Ardour in battle; (more widely) intense passion or desire. (Obsolete.)

EARTH (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

OED: 1. a. transitive. Originally Scottish. To bury (a corpse); also with up. In later use poetic or British regional.

ECLIPSE (v.)

[Brooke 1562: y-clipsed]

EFTSOONS

[Elyot 1580]

ENCLOSE

[Brooke 1562: inclose]

ENSEARCH

[Elyot 1580]

OED:  Obsolete exc. archaic. 1. transitive. To look carefully through (a country, place, book or document); to examine, pry into, scrutinize, search. Also figurative.

ETF

[Brooke 1562]

OED: adv. A second time, again; back.

EFTSOONS

[Brooke 1562]

EKE

[Brooke 1562]

ELSE (adv., 2)

[Brooke 1562: 616; 2,822]

EMBRAID

[Elyot 1580]

 

OED: The action or process of showing or teaching, instruction.

EMMET

[Elyot 1580]

 

ENSIGNMENT

[Elyot 1580]

OED: transitive. To upbraid, taunt, mock.

ENTHRALL

[Brooke 1562]

ERE

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

ERST

[Brooke 1562]

ESPY

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580: espied, espying]

EVEN (adv., 2)

[Brooke 1562]

EWER

[Brooke 1562]

EXPEDIENT

[Elyot 1580]

EXTOL

[Elyot 1580]

EYNE

[Brooke 1562]

FAIN

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580: fayne]

FARE  (n., 2)

[Brooke 1562: 2282]

FAST (adv., 6)

[Brooke 1562: 2763]

FATIGATE

[Elyot 1580]

OED:  adj. Obsolete.  Fatigued.

FAVOUR

[Elyot 1580]

FEAT (adj.)

[Brooke 1562]

FELL (adj.)

[Brooke 1562]

FELON

[Elyot 1580]

FERE

[Brooke 1562]

FERVENCE

[Elyot 1580]

OED: † fervence, n. Obsolete. 2. figurative. Warmth of the emotions, intensity of feeling or desire, fervency.

FETCH (v., 3c)

[Brooke 1562: fet]

FILE (v. 1)

[Brooke 1562]

FLAW (n. 2)

[Brooke 1562]

FLEET (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

FOE

[Brooke 1562: fone]

FOLD

[Brooke 1562]

FOOLHARDINESS

[Elyot 1580]

FORASMUCH

[Elyot 1580]

FORBEAR (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

FORBODE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: v. = forbid (Obsolete, rare.)

FORCE

[Brooke 1562: 860]

OED: II. 14 †(c) with infinitive as object. To care to, think it of consequence, or worth while to. Also, to hesitate, scruple. (Obsolete.)

FORDONE

[Brooke 1562]

FORLEASE

[Brooke 1562: 1204 forlorn]

 OED: v. 3. To leave, abandon, desert, forsake.

FOREPAST

[Brooke 1562]

FORESTOP

[Brooke 1562]

OED: v. 1. transitive. To stop up in front. (Obsolete.)

FORSAKE

[Brooke 1562, 171]

OED: v., 2. b. To decline or refuse to bear, encounter, have to do with, undertake; to avoid, shun. (Obsolete.)

FORSWEAR

[Brooke 1562]

FORSOOTH

[Brooke 1562]

FORTHWITH

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

FORWARD (adj.)

[Brooke 1562]

FRAUGHT (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

FRAY (n. 1)

[Brooke 1562]

FRAY (v. 2)

[Brooke 1562: 911, 2742]

FROWARD

[Brooke 1562]

GAGE

[Brooke 1562]

GAIT

[Brooke 1562]

GEAR

[Brooke 1562]

GEASON

[Brooke 1562]

GHOSTLY

[Brooke 1562]

GIRDLE

[Elyot 1580]

GLADE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: n. 3. A clear or bright space in the sky; a flash (of light or lightning). (Obsolete.)

GLADSOME

[Brooke 1562]

GLEAD

[Brooke 1562]

GRAFF (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

GUEST

[Brooke 1562: geast, guest]

GRAVE (v. 1)

[Brooke 1562]

GRIPE (n., 3)

[Brooke 1562]

GRISLY

[Brooke 1562]

GROSS

[Brooke 1562]

GRUTCHING

[Elyot 1580]

GROVEL

[Brooke 1562]

GUERDON

[Brooke 1562]

GUERDONLESS

[Brooke 1562]

GUY

[Brooke 1562]

 OED: v. 1. transitive. To conduct or lead on the way; = GUIDE; to direct the course of (a vehicle, an instrument, etc.). (Obsolete.)

HALT

[Brooke 1562]

OED 1933: adj. Halt obs. form of Haught a.

OED: s.v. haught: archaic. 1. High in one’s own estimation; bearing oneself loftily; haughty. archaic.

HAP

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

HAPLY

[Brooke 1562]

OED: Now archaic and poetic. (a) Perhaps, possibly; maybe. Cf. mayhap adv.  (b) By chance, by accident; (also) luckily, fortunately (contextually: unfortunately).

HARDY

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

HEED

[Brooke 1562]

HENT

[Brooke 1562]

HEREAT

[Elyot 1580]

HEREIN

[Brooke 1562]

HEREWITH

[Brooke 1562: herewithal]

HEREOF

[Brooke 1562]

HERETOFORE

[Brooke 1562]

HEST

[Brooke 1562]

HIE

[Brooke 1562]

HIGHT (adj.)

[Brooke 1562]

HIRE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: n. 3. figurative. Reward, recompense, payment (for work or service of any kind).

HOARISH (adj.)

[Brooke 1562]

 OED: Somewhat hoary. (Obsolete.)

HOLP

[Brooke 1562]

HUSBANDMAN

[Brooke 1562]

OED:  II. 3.a. A worker who tills and cultivates the soil; a farmer, typically one who works a smallholding. Also English regional (northern) and Scottish: the holder of a husbandland, a manorial tenant.

ILLECEBROUS

[Elyot 1580]

 

OED:   Alluring, enticing, attractive

IMBRUE

[Brooke 1562]

IMPORTABLE

[Elyot 1580]

IMPORTUNE

[Brooke 1562: importune, importuness]

IMPORTUNATE

[Elyot 1580]

INDITE

[Brooke 1562]

INDISCRETE

[Elyot 1580: undiscrete]

OED:  indiscrete, adj. †1. Not distinctly separate or distinguishable from contiguous objects or parts. Obsolete.

INDUE

[Brooke 1562]

INFORTUNE

[Elyot 1580]

OED: a. Lack of good fortune, success, or prosperity; misfortune, bad luck. Now poetic and rare.

INGRAVE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: v., transitive. To put in a grave; to entomb, bury. (Obsolete.)

INSTANCE

[Elyot 1580]

IWIS

[Brooke 1562: y-wis]

JENNET

[Brooke 1562]

JEOPARDY

[Brooke 1562]

JUICE

[Brooke 1562: juiceless]

KERCHIEF

[Elyot 1580]

KIN

[Elyot 1580]

KINDLY (adj., 3)

[Brooke 1562]

KNOWLEDGE (v.)

[Elyot 1580]

OED: † knowledge, v. Obsolete. 1.  a. transitive. To admit to knowledge of; to accept or admit the existence or truth of; to confess (one’s sins, etc.)

LADE

[Brooke 1562: laded]

OED: II. To draw water.

 5. a. transitive. To draw (water); to take up or remove (water or other fluids) from a river, a vessel, etc., with a ladle, scoop, or by similar means; to bale. †occasionally with cognate obj. (Now chiefly technical and dialect)

6. To empty by ‘lading’. Obsolete.

LASH (n.)

[Brooke 1562]

LAST

[Brooke 1562: lasten]

LAVISH

[Brooke 1562]

LEADY

[Elyot 1580]

LECHER

[Brooke 1562]

LEECH (n., 3)

[Brooke 1562]

LEESE

[Brooke 1562: lore 1813]

LET (v. 2)

[Brooke 1562: 1620, 2621]

LEWD

[Brooke 1562]

LIST (v., 4)

[Brooke 1562]

LO

[Brooke 1562]

LORN

[Brooke 1562]

LODESTAR

[Brooke 1562]

LOT (n. 1, 3)

[Brooke 1562]

LOTH

[Brooke 1562]

 

 

LOWER (v. 1)

[Brooke 1562]

LURK

[Brooke 1562]

LUST (n. 3)

[Brooke 1562]

MAIL (n. 2)

[Brooke 1562]

MATE (n. 2)

[Brooke 1562: make, mate]

MASK (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

“The masque was an evening entertainment in which the chief performers were masked courtiers, accompanied by torchbearers, all in costumes appropriate to the device presented: the elements of song and dialogue were developed later, the original nucleus being dances and conversations with spectators selected by the masquers.” (Edward Hall, Chronicles, in John W. Cunliffe. 1907. “Italian prototypes of the Masque and Dumb Shows.” MLA 22 (1): 146); “Disguised courtiers with torches, who dance with ladies selected from the spectators” (Cunliffe, 150: https://www.jstor.org/stable/456663?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents).

MAUGRE

[Brooke 1562]

MEAGRE

[Elyot 1580]

MEANS

[Brooke 1562: means, mean]

MEASURE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: v., II. To moderate, regulate; to make proportional or commensurate.

MINISHED

[Elyot 1580]

MISHAP

[Brooke 1562]

MOCK

[Brooke 1562]

OED: 1.a. transitive. To deceive or impose upon; to delude, befool; to tantalize, disappoint.

MOE

[Brooke 1562: moe, mo]

MUET

[Brooke 1562]

MUZZLE (v.)

[Brooke 1562: moosled]

NE

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

OED: adv.: not; cong.: nor

NIGH

[Brooke 1562]

NILL (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

 

 

NOULD

[Brooke 1562]

LEME Spenser 1579

NURSE-CHILD

[Brooke 1562]

OBLOQUY

[Elyot 1580]

OBTESTATIONS

[Elyot 1580]

OFT

[Brooke 1562]

OURSELF

[Brooke 1562]

OUTRAGE (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

OVERBLOW

[Brooke 1562]

OVERGO

[Brooke 1562]

OVERSOON

[Brooke 1562]

OED: A. adv. Too soon; †too quickly or readily (Obsolete.)

OVERSUBTLE

[Elyot 1580]

 PALLET (n. 1)

[Brooke 1562]

PARAMOUR

[Brooke 1562]

PARDONS

[Brooke 1562]

PEISE (v., trans. 1)

[Brooke 1562]

PERCASE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: adv.

1. In a statement of fact: by chance; as it happens or happened. (Obsolete.)

2. Expressing a hypothetical, contingent or uncertain possibility: it may chance or be the case that; perhaps, maybe, possibly. Now rare (archaic and English regional).

3. In a conditional clause (with if, except, lest, etc.): by any chance, as may happen, as may be the case, as is possible. (Obsolete.)

LEME Bartolomaeus  Anglicus1582, Coles 1667

PERCHER

[Brooke 1562]

OED: n. 1 Now archaic and rare. A large candle of wax or tallow, esp. one used on an altar.

PERISHED

[Elyot 1580]

OED: adj. 2. a. Of a material object or organic substance: decayed, rotted; damaged, in a poor physical state.

 

PIECEMEAL

[Brooke 1562]

PINE

[Brooke 1562]

PLIGHT (v.)

[Brooke 1562: 145, 562]

PLIGHT (n., 2)

[Brooke 1562]

PLIGHT (v.)

[Brooke 1562: 2,635]

OED: 2. transitive. To enfold in one’s arms; to embrace. rare

POMP

[Brooke 1562]

IN POST

[Brooke 1562]

P4. in post  [after Middle French, French en poste (1497–8); compare Middle French courir la poste to go very quickly (1522)]: in the manner or capacity of a courier or bearer of dispatches; (hence) at express speed, in haste. (Obsolete.)

POST-HORSE

[Brooke 1562]

PRACTISE

[Brooke 1562]

PREFER

[Elyot 1580]

OED: prefer, v.  I. To advance or elevate in status or rank

PREORDINATE

[Elyot 1580]

OED:  Ordained, decided, or appointed in advance, esp. by divine will or fate; predestined, predetermined. In early use frequently as past participle.

PRESS (n., 1)

[Brooke 1562]

PRESS (n, 2)

[Elyot 1580]

 

OED:  press II. Senses relating to crowding or pressure of people, circumstances, etc.

 5. a. The condition of being crowded; a crowd, a throng, a multitude. Now somewhat archaic.

PRISTINATE

[Elyot 1580]

OED: † pristinate, adj. and n. Obsolete. A. adj.  = PRISTINE adj. 1.

PRIVATE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: adj. 3.b particular or special (Obsolete.)

QUAIL

[Brooke 1562]

QUARRIER

[Brooke 1562]

 OED: n. 2 A large square candle.

QUELL

[Brooke 1562]

QUENCH

[Brooke 1562]

QUICK (n.)

[Brooke 1562]

QUIT (v., 4)

[Brooke 1562]

QUOTH

[Brooke 1562: quod]

RACE

(n. 2, 2)

[Brooke 1562]

RAKE (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

RAMP (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

RAMPIRE (n.)

[Brooke 1562]

RAUGHT

[Brooke 1562: raft, raught]

RAVISHER

[Brooke 1562]

REAVE

[Brooke 1562: reave, reaved, reft]

RECKLESS

[Brooke 1562]

RECURE (v. 2 obsolete)

[Brooke 1562]

REDE

[Brooke 1562]

REFECTIONS

[Elyot 1580]

RELENT

[Elyot 1580]

REPROACH

[Elyot 1580]

RESPITE

[Brooke 1562]

RESTIVE

[Brooke 1562: restiness]

OED: agj. 1. Characterized by erratic or adverse behaviour arising from discontent, disquiet, etc. Cf. restiff adj. 1a.In 19th-cent. examples it is frequently difficult to tell whether restlessness (as in the emergent sense 1c) or recalcitrance is the primary sense of the word. 

 a. Of a horse: refusing to go forward; stubbornly standing still; obstinately moving backwards or to the side when being driven or ridden; resisting control, intractable, refractory. Now rare.

RICHESSE

[Elyot 1580]

RIFE

[Brooke 1562]

RIVE

[Brooke 1562]

RIVEN

[Elyot 1580]

ROSEAL

[Elyot 1580]

ROUND (v., 2)

[Brooke 1562]

ROUT (n., 2)

[Brooke 1562]

RUE

[Brooke 1562]

RUFFIAN

[Elyot 1580]

RUSH (n.)

[Brooke 1562]

RUTH

[Brooke 1562]

SAD

[Elyot 1580]

OED: adj 2. a. Settled, firmly established in purpose or condition; steadfast, firm, constant. Obsolete.

SALLOW

[Elyot 1580]

SALVE

[Brooke 1562]

SAUCE (v.)

[Brooke 1562]

SCALDING

[Brooke 1562]

SCANT (adv.)

[Brooke 1562: 16]

SCARCE (adv.)

[Brooke 1562]

SCOUT (n.)

[Brooke 1562]

SEEK

[Brooke 1562: seech, seek]

SEELY

[Brooke 1562]

SELD

[Brooke 1562]

SELF (adj.)

[Brooke 1562]

SEMBLABLE

[Elyot 1580]

SEMBLABLY

[Elyot 1580]

SEMBLANT

[Elyot 1580]

SHAMEFAST

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

SHAPE (v.)

[Brooke 1562: shope]

OED: †15. a. reflexive. To set oneself, prepare. Const. to with infinitive, or for. (Obsolete.) Very common in Chaucer.

SHEND

[Brooke 1562]

SHIFT (n.)

[Brooke 1562]

SHRIFT

[Brooke 1562]

SHRIVE

[Brooke 1562]

SHROUD

[Brooke 1562]

SHUN

[Brooke 1562: shun, shonne]

SICKEN

[Brooke 1562: seek 413]

SIGHTLY

[Brooke 1562]

SITH

[Brooke 1562]

SLEIGHT

[Brooke 1562]

SLOTH

[Brooke 1562]

SOEVER

[Elyot 1580]

OED:  adv. 2. Used with generalizing or emphatic force after words or phrases preceded by how, what, which, whose, etc

SOMEDEAL

[Brooke 1562]

SMITTEN

[Brooke 1562]

SORE (adv.)

[Brooke 1562]

SPEED

[Brooke 1562: sped]

SPILL

[Brooke 1562]

SPOUSALS

[Elyot 1580]

SPRITE

[Brooke 1562]

STABLISH

[Elyot 1580: stablished]

STAGGER

[Brooke 1562]

STAKE

[Brooke 1562]

STAY (n. 3)

[Brooke 1562]

STAIN

[Brooke 1562]

OED: v., 1.c. To obscure the lustre of. literal and figurative. (Obsolete.)

STARVE

(v., 1.3)

[Brooke 1562: starve, sterve]

STAVE

stave, n.1, 2. A rod, bar, pole or the like. g. The shaft of a lance: = STAFF n.1 3a.

STEAD (n.)

[Brooke 1562: steed]

STERN

[Brooke 1562]

STICK

[Brooke 1562]

OED: †19. a. intransitive. To be reluctant or unwilling (to do something); to hesitate, to scruple. Chiefly in negative constructions (e.g. he did not stick to). (Obsolete.)

STRAIT

[Brooke 1562: straitly]

STRIEP

[Brooke 1562]

 

OED: n., 2.

a. A stroke or lash with a whip or scourge. Now archaic, chiefly in plural.

b. A stroke of divine judgement. Obsolete.

STRIKE

[Brooke 1562: strake]

STRIVE

[Elyot 1580]

STURDY

[Brooke 1562]

SUCCOUR

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

SUE

[Brooke 1562]

SUIT (n., 6)

[Brooke 1562]

SURMOUNT

[Elyot 1580]

OED: †surmount, v. 3. transitive. To prevail over, get the better of, overcome.

 a. a person; †also said of an emotion or desire. Now rare

c. absol. or intransitive. To overcome, prevail. Obsolete.

SWATHING BAND

[Brooke 1562]

SWOON

[Brooke 1562: sownd]

[Elyot 1580]

TAIL (n.1, 7a)

[Brooke 1562]

TAUNTING

[Brooke 1562]

TEAR (v. 1)

[Brooke 1562: tear, tare]

TEARY

[Brooke 1562]

TESTY

[Brooke 1562]

THEMSELF

[Brooke 1562]

THEREAT

[Elyot 1580]

THERETO

[Elyot 1580]

THEREWITH

[Elyot 1580]

THRALL

[Brooke 1562]

THRONG

[Brooke 1562]

THROUGH-GIRT

[Brooke 1562]

TICKLE

[Brooke 1562: tickel]

 OED: adj. 5. Not to be depended upon; uncertain (in fact, action, duration, etc.); unreliable; changeable, inconstant, capricious, fickle, ‘kittle’. Now dialect.

TILTH

[Brooke 1562: tilt]

TOFORE

[Brooke 1562]

TOOTING HOLE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: peep-hole (s.v. tooting, n., 1:  spying, peeping, looking.)

TOY

[Brooke 1562]

TRIM (adj., 4)

[Brooke 1562]

TROTH

[Brooke 1562]

TROUBLOUS

[Elyot 1580]

TROW

[Brooke 1562]

TRUMP (n., 2)

[Brooke 1562]

TWAIN (adj.)

[Brooke 1562]

UNLOOSE

[Elyot 1580: unlooseth]

OED:  unloose, v. a. transitive. To unfasten (a knot or other fastening); to undo, untie the fastenings of (an object).

UNALLURE

[Brooke 1562]

UNEATH

[Elyot 1580]

UNGRATE

[Brooke 1562]

UNMINDED

[Brooke 1562]

UNTHRIFTY

[Brooke 1562]

OED: 1. a. Producing or bringing about no advantage, profit, or gain; tending to, resulting in, or marked by thriftlessness, waste, or extravagance; unprofitable, wasteful; harmful.

UNWARES

[Brooke 1562]

UNWIELDLY

[Brooke 1562]

URE

[Brooke 1562]

OED: n. 1 Obsolete. I. in ure  1. a. In or into use, practice, or performance. Often with verbs, as bringcomehave, and esp. put (frequently c1510–1630). Also rarely with into.

VERILY

[Elyot 1580]

VISOR (n., 3)

[Brooke 1562]

WALTER

[Brooke 1562]

 OED: v.1, I intransitive, 1.a. To roll to and fro, move from side to side; to tumble or toss about; to lie sprawling on the ground, in mire, etc. (Obsolete.).

WAN

[Elyot 1580]

WARDER

[Brooke 1562]

WARE (n.)

[Brooke 1562]

WARE (adj.)

[Brooke 1562: 886]

WARELESS

[Brooke 1562]

 OED: adg.,1. Unwary, incautious, imprudent. (Obsolete.)

WARILY

[Brooke 1562: warely]

WAX (v., 2)

[Brooke 1562: wox, waxen]

WEAL

[Elyot 1580]

WEAR

[Brooke 1562: wear, ware]

WEED (n., 2)

[Brooke 1562]

WEEN

[Brooke 1562]

WELLAWAY

[Brooke 1562]

WELL-NIGH

[Brooke 1562]

WENCH

[Brooke 1562]

WEND

[Brooke 1562]

WHENSO

[Brooke 1562]

WHEREAS

[Brooke 1562: 2595]

1. = where adv., and conj. (Obsolete or rare archaic).

WHEREAT

[Brooke 1562]

[Elyot 1580]

WHEREFORE

[Elyot 1580]

WHERESO

[Brooke 1562]

WHERETO

[Brooke 1562]

WHEREUNTO

[Elyot 1580]

WETSHOD

[Brooke 1562]

WHET

[Brooke 1562]

WHIT

[Brooke 1562]

WHOSO

[Brooke 1562]

WIGHT

[Brooke 1562]

WILE

[Brooke 1562]

WILY

[Brooke 1562]

WIN

[Brooke 1562: wan]

WINK (n.)

[Brooke 1562]

WITHOUTEN

[Brooke 1562]

WITHSTAND

[Brooke 1562]

WON (v. archaic)

[Brooke 1562]

WONT

[Brooke 1562]

WORSHIPFUL

[Elyot 1580]

WRACKFUL

[Brooke 1562]

WREAKFUL

[Brooke 1562]

WREAK (v., 2)

[Brooke 1562]

WRING

[Brooke 1562: wring, wringed, wrang]

WROTH

[Brooke 1562]

-Y

[Brooke 1562]

OED: Perfective or intensive sense.