Glossary

GLOSSARY

Of obsolete words, or words used in an obsolete sense

Abearing		Behaviour
~~Abrenounce~~ Abecie		~~To renounce or repudiate~~An ABC i.e. a child's primer for the alphabet
Abrenounce		To renounce or repudiate
Abroach		To set abroach = to start something one cannot or will not stop
Acception		Acceptance
Accombred		Burdened
Accompt		Account
Accustomably		Normally
Acoluthes		Acolytes
Addict		Bound by oath or obligation
Adhibited		Applied
Adjure		To bind under penalty of an oath
Admiration		Astonishment
Advertise		To warn or advise
Advertisement		Formal notification or warning
Advocation		Praying to the saints
Advouterer		Adulterer
Advoutry, advowtry		Adultery
Advowson		The right of appointment to a benefice
Affection		A disposition or emotional attitude towards something
Affiance		Trust
Affray		To frighten
After-clap		A blow struck unexpectedly at an opponent who had thought the fight was over.
Againstond, againstand		Withstand, defeat
~~Agnize~~ Agamist		~~To acknowledge~~One who opposes the institution of marriage
~~Ale-stake~~ Agnize		~~An alehouse sign~~To acknowledge
~~Allegation~~ Agrest		~~Argument~~Rustic, wild
Ale-stake		An alehouse sign
Allegation		Argument
Allege		To cite in argument
Alligation		Attachment
All-to		Very much
Almany		Germany
Almose		Alms
Almous		Of or relating to almsgiving or charity
Ambage		Roundabout or deceitfully ambiguous speech; legal technicalities
Ambassade		Ambassadorship
~~Amerce~~ Ambassage		~~To fine or tax heavily~~A diplomatic mission
Amerce		To fine or tax heavily
Amice		A shawl of white linen, part of a priest's vestments
Amplect		To embrace
Ampliated		Enlarged or extended
Anences		Relating to; as anences = as regards
Annat		The income of a diocese or benefice for the first year of a new appointee's tenure, which was given to the Pope.
Annealed		Annointed
Annoiling		Anointing with sacred oil
~~Antelation~~ Annuates		~~A right of preference or precedence~~ Instructions given by signs or gestures
Antelation		A right of preference or precedence
Apaid		Satisfied
Apertly		Openly
Apostoil		The pope
Apostule		A marginal comment or footnote
Appair		To damage or weaken
Apparitor		An official, or civil or ecclestiacal servant
Appellatores		One who makes a false accusation for a reward
Applausion		Applause, mass shouting or cheering
Appliable to their beck		Ready to obey them
Appone		To make use of
Appose		To examine or question
Appose		To interrogate or question in court
Arectet		Raised up
Arrear		To gather and prepare an army
Articulate		Said, mentioned
Ascited		Summoned
Assay		Formally tasting food before giving it to a king or other important person
Assize		To impose or assess a tax; or, to set the price of a staple foodstuff etc.
Assoil		To pardon, absolve
Assuage		To reduce
Astonied		Astonished
Astonyings		Astonishment, confusion
At jar		Of different opinions
Attainder		Forfeiture of all property rights, which was a penalty for treason or felony;
Attemperate		To adapt
Auditory		Audience
Austin		St. Augustine of Hippo
Auter		Altar
Avoid		1. To depart 2. To discharge or excrete
Avouch		To declare publicly
Avowe		Vow
Awmbry		A storehouse
Ayens		Against
Baily		Bailiff, steward
Ballets		~~Ballads~~A ballad, especially a scurrilous or satirical one.
~~Band~~ Ballets		~~Agreement, contract~~Ballads
Band		Agreement, contract
Ban-dog		A big savage dog
Barrator		A ruffian or hired bully
Basin		A cymbal
Bassa		A Turkish general or pasha
Bate		Debate, strife
Battledore		A flat wooden club used to beat cloth when washing it
Beadman, Beadsman		A person employed or appointed to pray for others
Beadroll		A list of people to be prayed for.
Bead-roll		A long list of names
Bearing sheet		A winding-sheet or shroud in which a corpse is wrapped for burial
Bearward		A keeper or trainer of performing bears
Beck		Call
Bedlamite		A madman
Beetle		A mallet
Beetle-brow		A person with shaggy eyebrows, a low sullen scoundrel
Beguily		In wily beguily = trying to be clever but only succeeding in deceiving oneself; being "too clever by half"
Behanged		Decorated with hanging tapestries etc.
Behewed		Hacked with an axe
Behight		Gave, given
Bell~~y-cheer~~ -wether		~~Gluttony~~The best sheep in a flock
~~Bel-wether~~Belly-cheer		~~The best sheep in a flock~~Gluttony
Bene, ben		Are
Benemen, Benomin		Deprive, take away from
Bestead		Beset
Beth		Are, is
Bewray		To betray
Bill		A weapon resembling a pike, with a spear blade, and a hook sharpened on the inside of the curve.
~~Birth-poison~~ Bird-bolt		~~Original sin; in Christian theology an inherent inclination to sinfulness which is part of human nature~~A short arrow with a broad, flat head, used for shooting birds.
Birth-poison		Original sin; in Christian theology an inherent inclination to sinfulness which is part of human nature
Bite-sheep		A bishop who ill-treats his flock
Blaze		To proclaim or declare
Blemished		Disconcerted
Bliue		Believe
Bobbed		Beaten
Bolt		To sift
Bonchief		Good fortune, benefit
Bonhomme		One of an order orof begging friars
Borsholder		A parish constable
Bosom sermon		A sermon learned by heart and recited
Bounce		To thump
Boyly		Boyish
Brabbling		Quarrelling,
Brable		To quarrel loudly
Brary		One who brays or talks nonsense
Brast		Burst
Brenn		Burn
Brennen		Burn
Brent		Burnt
Bribe		To steal
Brickle		Fragile, brittle
Brim		Brightly shining
Bristow		Bristol
Broom-faggot		*A bundle of the broom plant (Genista scoparius) used for kindling*
Bruit		A noise or rumour. Bruited abroad = rumoured
Brunt		A blow
Buckle		Struggle with
Buckler		A shield
~~Buckling~~Bug		~~Struggling with~~A ghost, monster or other terrifying thing
~~Bug~~ Bulk		~~A ghost, monster or other terrifying thing~~A beam, baulk of timber
~~Bulk~~		~~A beam, baulk of timber~~
Bushment		An ambush
Buskle		To work busily, bustle about
Butt		An archery range; a target
Buxom		Obedient
Buxumnesse		Obedience
By-cavillation		Legal quibbling or trickery
Byelden		Build
Byhoten		Promised
Byneme, Bynome		Deprive, take away from
Caitiff		A miserable person
~~Camping cure~~ Callet		~~A benefice which involves serving God by warfare~~An immoral woman
~~Canicular~~ Camping cure		~~In canicular days: dog-days, early August~~A benefice which involves serving God by warfare
Canicular		In canicular days: dog-days, early August
Canivise		Apparently a nonce-word invented by Foxe; presumably "To make into a dog"
Canning		Ability
Canning		Memorizing
Canvassed		Beaten, knocked about, defeated
Capernaitical		Believing in the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation; Capernaites = those who believe it
Capper		A cap-maker
~~Carle~~ Cark		~~A low churl or villain~~Responsibility
~~Casule~~ Carle		~~A chasuble~~A low churl or villain
Casule		A chasuble
Catchpole		Contemptuous word for a debt- or tax-collector
Cater-cousin		A very close friend
Caterpillar		A robber or extortionist
Cautel		A quibble or reservation
Cavillations		Legal quibbles or trickery
Cecity		Blindness, poor eyesight
Celsitude		High rank, majesty; your celsitude = your highness
Cense		To bless with incense
Certes		Certainly
Chafe		A fit of temper; fury
Chaffare		Merchandise
Chambering		Sexual sin, lewdness
Channel		Gutter
Chantries, Chantry-masses		Masses performed daily or at set intervals as one of the conditions of a legacy or endowment
Chap-men		Merchants
Chaps		Fissures
Chargeous		Dependent upon
Chart		A charter or official decree. *Blank chart* = a blank royal decree to be filled in with the names etc. of those it will refer to
Cheeping		Flattering words
Cheer		Facial expression
Chequer		In chequer matters: Lawsuits relating to the collection of royal revenue
Chesille		A chasuble
~~Chimer, chimere~~ Chevance		~~A loose gown with red sleeves, worn by a bishop~~A way of raising money
Chievance		Success, accomplishments
Child-travail		Childbirth, labour
Chimer, chimere		A loose gown with red sleeves, worn by a bishop
Chisil		A chasuble
Chrismatory		1) A sacred anointing2) A jar containing the anointing oil called chrism.
Chrisoms		Chrism, a holy oil used for anointing
~~Cipher in Agrime~~ Chuff-headed		~~The zero in the Arabic numerals~~Having a big fat head
~~Circumscriptible~~ Cipher in Agrime		~~Capable of being measured; subject to limits of size or space~~The zero in the Arabic numerals
~~Civilian~~ Circumscriptible		~~A lawyer specialising in civil law.~~Capable of being measured; subject to limits of size or space
Civilian		A lawyer specialising in civil law
Clamper		To botch together
Clanculary		Secret
Clennere		To clean, absolve
Clepe		Call
Cloisterer		A monk or nun who stays in a monastery or convent; opposed to a friar, who wanders around begging.
Closter		An enclosure
Clout		N) A cloth or wrapping V) To wrap up
Coact		To coerce
Coactive		Coercive
Coadjutor		An assistant
Coast		To attack
Coat card		A court or picture card in a pack of playing cards
Cock in the hoop		To set cock in the hoop = to act boastfully or presumptuously
Cockle		A weed of corn fields (Lychnis githago)
Cog		To foist or publish a forged document
Coll		To embrace, cuddle
Collar		To wrestle
Collateral		Of equal rank; one of the joint holders of an office
Collation		1) Appointment of a clergyman to a benefice 2) A commentary on scripture 3) Comparison
Collect		A prayer said before the Epistle reading in the Mass
Colleginer		A fellow of a college
Collyrium		Eye-salve
Colourable		Superficially convincing, but in fact false
Comfortable		Comforting
Commencement		1) A conference2) At a university, the formal conferring of degrees.
Commendations		Prayers for the dead
Comminatory		1) Threatening punishment or revenge 2) A sealed-off place, a cloister
Commissary		The appointed deputy of a bishop
Commixion		Mingling, mixing together; in the Mass, the act of putting a small part of the host into the wine.
Commodity		Advantage
Commonly		A public meeting
Commorant		Officially resident
Communed		Discussed
Companied		Associated with
Compass		A circle, hence: roundabout way; circular or other enclosure; boundaries or limits
Compline		A church service held in the evening
Compter		A lock-up
Con		To study
Con-captives		Fellow-prisoners
Concion		A public speech
Concomitation		Consubstantiation, i.e. the co-existence of bread and wine, and the body and blood of Christ, in the Eucharist
Concupiscence		Overpowering desire (not necessarily sexual)
Concupiscentious		Lustful, unchaste
Conduct		A chaplain
Confer		To compare
Confute		To prove wrong
Congrue, Congruent		Appropriate, suitable
Conject		To conjecture or suppose
Conjunction adversative		A phrase (beginning with e.g. but or however) qualifying or contradicting the one before
Conning		Wisdom
Consistory		A court presided over by a bishop, for trying religious or ecclesiastical cases
Conspurcate		Filthy, defiled
Constitute proctors		To appoint lawyers to represent oneself in court
Contemn		To despise
Contentation		Contentment, satisfaction
Continue		Contents
Control		To contradict or object to some statement
Contumacy		Contemptuous refusal to obey
Contumelious		Degrading or insulting
Contumely, Contumelies		Insults
Convent		(V) To summon before a court
Conventicle		A clandestine or illegal religious meeting
~~Cope~~ Conveyance		1) A long silken cloak worn as an ecclesiastical vestment 2) A senior churchman, such as might wear one.A cunning deceitful action
Cope		1) A long silken cloak worn as an ecclesiastical vestment 2) A senior churchman, such as might wear one.
Coping tank		A tall narrow conical hat
Copulative		Forming a connected whole
Cormorant		A greedy or rapacious person
Cornleader		A carter of grain
Corporace, corporas		A cloth laid on the altar on which the chalice and paten are placed
Corporal		N) A cloth on which consecrated hosts are laid or which is used to wrap them A) -- 1) of the body, physical; *Corporally* = physically. *2) in Corporal oath, one taken while holding a physical object, such as a Bible, relic, or consecrated host.*
Coste		Breast
Couetice		Covetousness
Courser		A war-horse
Courtesan		A member of the Papal Curia
Cousin-germain, Cousin-german		A first cousin
~~Cousin-german~~Covetise		~~A first cousin~~Covetousness
Cowcher		A very large book, which can only be read on a table or lectern
Craker		A blowhard or boaster
Cramp-ring		A ring blessed by the King on Good Friday, believed to be a protection against cramps, fits etc.
Crayer		A small trading ship
Criminous		Criminal; relating to crime
Croised		Marked with a cross; having take the cross as a crusader
Croisy		To bestow the cross upon someone, i.e. to declare him a crusader
Croysies		Crusaders
Crudelity		Cruelty
Cullen		Cologne, in Germany
Cumber		Burden
Currier		One whose trade is the preparation and dyeing of leather
Customable		Customary or habitual
~~Dag~~ Customer		~~A pistol~~A customs officer or collector of customs duties
Dag		A pistol
Damnified		Damaged or injured
Damp		A state of stupefaction
Darnel		*A weed of cornfields, (Lolium temulentum), also known as cockle or tares, and referred to by Jesus in Matthew c. 13 v.24-30.*
Dastard		A coward
~~Decretal~~ Datary		~~Originally, a letter written by a Pope in response to a query; later, any papal decree or document~~A papal officer; originally one whose function was to register and date Papal documents
Decretal		Originally, a letter written by a Pope in response to a query; later, any papal decree or document
Deduce		1) To declare or describe 2) To bring
~~Deface~~ Deducted		~~To abash~~Traced or described from a date.
~~Defension~~ Deface		~~The formal public defence of his dissertation by a candidate for a university degree~~To abash, humiliate, put out of countenance.
~~Dehort~~ Defension		~~To advise or exhort against something~~The formal public defence of his dissertation by a candidate for a university degree
~~Deject~~ Dehort		To throw down. Deject oneself ~~= humble oneself~~To advise or exhort against something
~~Delated~~ Deject		~~Denounced to the authorities, informed against~~To throw down. *Deject oneself* = humble oneself
~~Deme, Demen~~ Delated		~~Judge~~Denounced to the authorities, informed against
Deme, Demen		Judge
Demi-lance		A short-shafted lance
Demurrer		In law, a plea that the facts alleged do not amount to a tort or crime; loosely, any legal objection
Denizen		A naturalized citizen
Depeach		To despatch a messenger
Descant		*In shift of descant* = changing the argument**
Detour		Debtor
Detour		Debtor
Deturbate		To cast down or thrust out
~~Deyeden~~ Devotion		~~Died~~At his devotion = at his command, free for his use.
~~Dial~~ Deyeden		~~A watch~~Died
~~Dignation~~ Dial		~~The act of a superior honouring or recognizing an inferior~~A watch
Didrachma		A two-drachma coin
Dignation		The act of a superior honouring or recognizing an inferior
Dimissory		A letter from a bishop recommending someone as fit for ordination or ecclesiastical office
Ding		To strike, beat
Dirige		The matins of the Service for the dead, beginning Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam.
Dirt-dauber		A plasterer esp. one who uses mud to make wattle-and-daub walls
Disceptation		Debate
Discommodity		Disadvantage
Disgarnish		To deprive of
Dishonest		To defile
Disme		A 10% tax or charge
Disparkle, disperkle		To scatter or disperse
Dispensator		One who dispenses or distributes goods
Disperkle		To scatter, disperse
Disple		To punish
Disseize		To dispossess
Dissever		To separate
Dissimule		To deceive by hiding one's true feelings or intentions
Distain		Dishonour
Distinction		A division or section of a book or document
Divers		Many, several
Doctress		A woman scholar
Dome		Judgement
Domesmen		Judges
Donates		An honorary or temporary member of a religious order
Donative		A benefice which can be bestowed by the founder or patron without reference to the bishop or abbot.
Dotipole		A dotty-headed person
Dought		Strongly
~~Draft~~ Draff		Spent ~~brewing~~brewer's grains, sometimes used as animal feed.
Draft		Spent brewing grains used as animal feed
Draught		A privy (US: bathroom)
Dromedary		An incompetent thief
Drumflade		A kind of trumpet
Dry-fats		A large basket or barrel for holding dry goods
Dubitation		Doubt
Dump		A state of bewilderment; In his dumps = reduced to silence
~~Ear~~ Durance		~~To plough~~Imprisonment
Ear		To plough
Earlich		Early
~~Eftsoons~~ Eft . . . eft . .		~~Soon afterwards, immediately~~First . . . then . .
Eftsoons		Soon afterwards, immediately
Eghenen		Eyes
Embassage		A diplomatic mission
Emblemish		To damage or disfigure
Embull		To seal
Emmet		An ant
Empery		Government or dominion
Endue		To grant or bestow something; to be endued with = to have
Enduing		Endowing
Enervate		To destroy
Enfeoff		To assign a fief of property or office to someone
Engrieve		To say that something is grievous
Engrossed		Written down
Enmious		Hostile
~~Ensample~~ Enow		~~Example~~Enough
Ensample		Example
Ensue		To follow
Ententive		Assiduous in learning
Entitle		To write down a properly edited version of something
Environ		To surround
Epicure		An atheist
Esay		The prophet Isiah
Escheat		Riches obtained by plunder
Eschew		Renounce, reject
Escript		A written decree or writ
Espie		Spy
Estall		To pay by installments
Ethnics		Pagans
Evacuate		To nullify
Evangely, Evangelies		The Gospels
Even		The day before a feast day
Even-christened		Fellow-Christians
Everichone		Each one
Examinate		A person under examination, either as witness or accused
Excerp		Summarize
Excheat		Confiscation of property, or encroachment on the privileges of another
Excoriate		To flay
Exeden		Asked
Exhibition		A pension or allowance of money
Exonerate		To remove an office or responsibility from someone
Exorable		Capable of being moved by pity or prayer
Exornate		To embellish or exaggerate
Experiment		To examine or test
Expugn		To conquer or overcome
Extravagant		A papal decree not included in the standard list
Face		A façade or sham
Facinorous		Extremely wicked
Fact		Deed
Factor		An agent or deputy
Faggot		A bundle of firewood
Faled		Broken or destroyed
Fane		A shrine
Fardel		A bundle or parcel
Farmary		An infirmary
Farmer		1) A bailiff2) a tenant or lessee
Fatigation		Weariness, long drawn-out effort
Fatue		A taboo word in Biblical times; "Whosoever shall say, Fatue, shall be in danger of hell fire." (Matt. 5. 23)
Fautor		A patron, supporter or abettor
Fedity		Filthiness
Feile		Many
Feoffer		In feoffer's hold: Literally, held as a feudal possession; metaphorically, as here, borrowed from someone else
Feoffment		Under the feudal system, the action of assigning lands to someone; or, the legal right to the lands so assigned
Ferial		A weekday
Ferula		A flat piece of wood used for punishing schoolchildren
Fet		Fetched
Fetch		(V) To steal by fraud or cunning (N) Such an act of theft or dishonest trick
Figurate		To symbolize
Fire-house		A house in which a fire is regularly lit (i.e. a dwelling-house)
Flagitious		Very wicked
Fleen		Fled from
Fleer		To sneer or mock
Flewet		A blow
Flight-shot		The distance an arrow can be shot from a bow
Floten		Flown
Flung		Rushed
Foil		A defeat
Foins		Trimmings of marten fur
Fond		(A) Foolish (V) To speak foolishly
Fore-elder		An ancestor
Foreface		Preface
Forefact		A criminal accusation
Forefend		To prevent
Foreshield		To prevent, avert
Foreslack		To neglect
Foreslow		To delay
Forfend		To prevent
Form		A bench
Forward		A contract or agreement
Founder		A maker of moulded metal objects
Foundment		Basis, foundation
Frail		A basket
Frater wall		The wall of the refectory in a monastery
Fraught		Filled with; (of a ship) fully laden.
Fray		To frighten
Fray-bug		An imaginary object of fear, bogey-man, etc.
Freedom		An area in or around a city, whose inhabitants had certain privileges or exemptions from taxation which prevailed elsewhere.
Frele		Frail
Fretted		1) Worn, rubbed 2) Inlaid with precious metal or stones
Frisk		A dance step or caper
Frowes		A dress in Dutch or German style
~~Fulleden~~ Frump		~~Baptised~~A sneer
Fulleden		Baptised
Fullen		To baptise
Fuller		A person whose occupation is the cleaning and preparation of newly-woven cloth
Fumish		Angry, irascible
Furniture		Equipment
Fustian		A coarse cloth of cotton and linen mixed
Fustigation		Flogging
Gage		(V) To pledge (N)An object given as a pledge
Gains~~tand~~		~~To oppose~~Gaudy jewellery, clothing etc.
Gainstand		To oppose
Gang-Monday		The Monday before Ascension Thursday (which is forty days after Easter)
Gape		To gag at or be unable to swallow
Gar		To make something happen
Garboil		Commotion, disturbance
Gardeviance		A treasure chest, or collection of valuables
Garner		A granary
Gat		Got
Gaud		A worthless trinket
Gaude		A public performance or display
~~Gazingstock~~ Gawishness		~~Something people stare at~~Ostentatious display of foolish fripperies
~~Gear~~ Gazingstock		~~A whim or fit of passion~~Something people stare at
~~Ghostly~~ Gear		~~Spiritual, spiritually~~A whim or fit of passion
Ghostly		~~Spititual~~Spiritual, spiritually
Gif		If
Gile		Guile, dishonesty
Gilten		To offend against
Gin		A mechanism
Glave		A weapon consisting of a short, broad blade fixed to a long handle
Glaverer		A flattering deceiver
Glavering		Flattering, deceiving
Gleer		To smear with paint
Gleve		The winning-post of a race
Glose, Gloze		To explain, or more often distort, the meaning of a text; to speak deceitfully
Glossary		A commentary or explanation
Gloss-writer		A writer of commentaries, or a spin-doctor
Gnatho		A flattering parasite
Goff		*In a barn which is divided into bays by internal projections from the walls, a goff* is the amount of grain which will fir into one of the bays**
Gossopry		The relationship of God-parent and God-child
Graffed		Set firmly, grafted
Gra-mercies		Thank you very much
~~Grope~~ Groat		~~To find out someone's business or secrets by cunning~~A fourpenny piece
Grope		To find out someone's business or secrets by cunning
Groundsel		A door-sill or threshold
~~Hale~~ Grundy		~~To drag away~~A short person
Gyves		Leg-irons, fetters
Hale		To drag away
Hanaper		An office of the court of chancery, which collected fees for sealing and registration of documents
Handfast		A firm grasp
Hand-fast		To hold tightly
Hanger		A short sword hung from the belt
~~Harness~~ Harborous		~~Armour~~Generous, hospitable
~~Hearse~~ Hardly		~~A wooden framework carrying a large number of candles, hangings etc., borne over a coffin.~~1) With great hardness and cruelty2) With great difficulty
~~Hem~~ Harness		~~Them~~Armour
Hastler		A cook's assistant, who turned the spit for roasting meat.
Hay-golph		A haystack
Hearse		A wooden framework carrying a large number of candles, hangings etc., borne over a coffin.
Heave-offering		An offering which is held up high by the priest for the people to see
Helme-sheaves		Bundles of straw
Hem		Them
Her		Their
Heren		Theirs
Hery		To worship
Hest		Commandment
Hight		Was named
Hobby		A kind of falcon (Falco subbuteo)
Holden		Held
Holocaust		A sacrifice where the entire animal is burnt (not just the inedible bits, as was more usual)
Holp, Holpen		Helped
Holydeme		Holiness
Homely		Friendly, familiar, over-familiar
Honest		To confer honour on something
Hoorehouse		A Brothel
Horen		Whores
Horsed up		Pulled up on a man's back or a frame, to be whipped
Hosen		~~Stockings~~Hose, stockings
Hostelar		The landlady of an inn
Housel		(N) The ~~eucharist;~~ Eucharist(V) To administer the ~~eucharist~~Eucharist
Hudder-mudder		Secret, secrecy
Huddipeak		A blockhead
Hundred		A subdivision of a county
Hutching		Literally: crouching or bowing low. Figuratively: with abject humility
Hylden		Hold
Hyperbolismum		An instance of dishonest exaggeration
Hypotyposis		A vivid description of a scene
Ich		I
Ides		The thirteenth or fifteenth day of the month
Ignavy		Negligence or laziness
Illude		To jeer or mock
Imbecility		Helplessness
Imbrued		Stained with blood
Imitation		Adoption as a heir
Immanity		Monstrous cruelty
Immarcessible		Incorruptible
Immission		Insertion
Imp		A child
Impanate		Embodied in bread
Importable		Unbearable
Importable		Unbearable
Imposthume		An abscess
Impotent		Enfeebled
Impotionate		To poison
Impropriate		Assigned
Inabilitation		Unfitness, disqualification
Incensive		Full of anger
Incommodity		Disadvantage
Incontinency		Lechery
Incontinent, Incontinently		Immediately
Indent		To make a formal promise or contract
Indiction		A period of fifteen years
Indifferency		Impartiality
Indurate		Hardened, stubborn or callous
Induration		Hardening
Inedge		To slip in edgeways
Infame		To make infamous
Infect		Imperfect
Infeoff		To assign a fief of property or office to someone
Infer		To state or bring forward as an argument
Infestine		Troublesome, annoying
~~Inspiral~~ Infirmation		~~Giving life to~~Disproof
Inspiral		Giving life to
Instant		Insistent
Instantly		Insistently
Interdictment		An interdict, i.e. a punishment laid by the church on a town etc., prohibiting any church service from being held there
Intermit		To interrupt
Interrogatory		A question formally put to a witness.
Interturb		To disturb or interrupt
Intestine		Internal
Invade		To attack
Invitory		A prayer or verse of the Bible recited at the beginning of a church service
Inwrap		Involve
Isay		The prophet ~~Isiah~~Isaiah
Jack		A jacket with metal plates or chain-mail sewn to it
Jakes		A privy (U.S: bathroom)
Jangler		A story-teller
Javel		A low scoundrel
~~Jouresse~~ Jill		~~Duress, punishment~~An immoral woman
~~Jurate~~ Jouresse		~~A lay magistrate or alderman, A sworn witness~~Duress, punishment
~~Kalends~~ Juggling-casts		~~The first day of the month~~Conjuring tricks
Jurate, Jurat		A lay magistrate or alderman, A sworn witness
Kalends		The first day of the month
Kele		To satisfy hunger or thirst
~~Key-clog~~ Kenning		~~A piece of wood tied to a key~~A distance of twenty miles from shore
Key-clog		A piece of wood tied to a key
Knack		A small or trifling article
Knapskal		A kind of helmet
Ladypsalter		The rosary, usually the full 15 decades
~~Landloper~~ Lance-knight		~~A renegade or fugitive~~A mercenary soldier, often one who has deserted and is living by banditry.
Landloper		A renegade or fugitive
Lanthorn		A lantern
Lapped		Wrapped, clothed
Latten		Brass or bronze
Laud		Praise
Lavatories		Ceremonial washings which were part of a royal levée
Laystall		A cesspit
Lean		Lend
Leasing		Lying
Lection		A reading
Leefen		Believe
Leefull		Lawful
Leese		To surrender or be deprived of
Leet		A court held by the lord of a manor to try minor offences and disputes between tenants
Leeue		A leeue Lord = O Lord in whom we believe
Lefull		Lawful
Legantine		Of or relating to a Papal legate
Legerdemain		Trickery
Leman		A lover
Leper		Leaper
Lesew, Lessewe		Pasture
Lesing		(A) False (V) Lying
Lesser Britain		Brittany
Let		To hinder or prevent (also past tense and noun)
Letter reverential		A letter from a bishop recommending someone as fit for ordination or ecclesiastical office
Leven		Faith or confidence
Lewd		Ignorant or futile
Libard		A leopard
Libel		A document or certificate
Lictor		In Roman times, an official who attended a magistrate and carried out his orders to arrest, flog, execute etc. malefactors
Lie for the whetstone		To tell outrageous lies
Lieger		The holder of a feudal lordship or office
Lieutenant-criminal		A chief of police
Lifelot		Livelihood
Lig		Lie
Like		Likely
Limbus		Limbo, in Catholic theology a state without either the torments of Hell or the bliss of Heaven, occupied by the souls of unbaptized children and virtuous pagans.
Limiting		Begging
Limitour		A begging friar
List		1. (N) A strip of cloth 2. (A) To want to do
Little Britain		Brittany
Little Ease		A prison cell too small to sit, stand or lie down in. Confinement in one was a form of torture.
Livelode		Livelihood
Lock		A handful of hay or straw; by extension a quantity of anything (OED); in modern Irish slang, a large quantity; which seems to be closer to the meaning here.
Losel		A low scoundrel
Lotion		Ritual washing
Low Sunday		The Sunday after Easter
Lucrified		Gained, profited
Lust		Powerful desire ? not necessarily sexual
Lying for the whetstone		Telling outrageous lies
Macerate		To mash or chop up
Mail		A travelling-bag
Mainprise, Mainprize		1) A surety or guarantor 2) The act of bailing a prisoner
Make-bait		A trouble-maker
Makebate		A lie designed to stir up trouble for someone
Malapert		Insolent
Mall		A heavy hammer
Mammering		A state of doubt or ~~perpelexity~~perplexity
Manchet		Fine white bread
Manducation		Nourishment; usually spiritual, via the Eucharist
Maniple		1) A troop of soldiers 2) A strip of cloth worn hanging from the cuff
Manqueller		A murderer
Mansuetude		Gentleness
Maozim, Mauzzim		Hebrew name of a false god mentioned in Dan. xi 38.
Maritage		A tax paid by a vassal to his lord on the marriage of his (i.e. the vassal's) daughter
Mark		Silver, or unspecified: Thirteen shillings and fourpence in money Gold: Eight ounces
Market-stead		Market-place
Marmoset		A grotesque painting or statue
~~Masses-trecenaries~~ Mary Magdalene's day		~~Series of three hundred masses~~22^nd July
Masses-trecenaries		Series of three hundred masses
Maugre		Despite
Maumet, Mawmet		An idol
Maundement		Commandment
Maundy		The Last Supper
Mawmetry, Maumetry		Idolatry
Maze		Confusion
~~Mecock~~ Mazed		~~An effeminate weakling~~Crazy
~~Meed~~ Meagred		~~Any valuable item or reward~~Starved
Mecock		An effeminate weakling
Meed		Any valuable item or reward
Meet		Suitable
Meiny		Household
Mentz		Mainz
Merce		To fine
Mercement		A fine or imposition
Mercery-ware		Fine cotton, velvet or silk goods; the stock-in-trade of a mercer
Mere		Pure, complete or unmixed
Merilich		Merrily
Mess		A group of people sitting together at a meal
Mete		Mete done = should do
~~Mickle~~ Mewing		~~Great~~Imprisoning
Mickle		Great
Millian		Milan, in Italy
Minever		A kind of fur used for trimming or edging clothing
Minish		To diminish
Ministratoriously		In the capacity of an administrator.
Misallege		To distort the meaning of something in support of an argument
Miser		A wretch
Misprision		Under an Act of Parliament of 1534, misprision was the crime of refusing to swear an oath acknowledging the King as head of the church
Mo Misture		~~More~~Loss
Mo~~nish~~		~~To admonish or warn~~More
Monish		To admonish or warn
Monition		Instruction, warning
Monitory		Containing a warning or admonishment
Morrow-mass		A Mass said first thing in the morning
Mote		1) May 2) Must
Mowe, Mow		May
Mulet		A young mule
Mumpsimus		A long-established but false belief, an old but mistaken custom (opposed to sumpsimus)
Muniment		A document proving ownership or entitlement to something
Munition		A fortification
Murrain		Cattle plague or other epidemic animal disease
Murrey		A purplish-red colour
Mychel		Great
Namely		Especially
Nard		An aromatic oil extracted from the spikenard plant (Nardostachys grandiflora)
Nasturcium		Watercress (the flower now called nasturtium was not known in England in Foxe's time)
Naught		Wicked
Naverne		Navarre
Ne		No, not, nor, neither
Neatherd		A cow-herd
Nele		Will not
Neme		To take
Nene		Destruction
Nice		A1) Silly. B, foolish. 2) Council of Nice = Council of Nicæa (525 A.D)
Nip		Nipped a great number so near = squeezed many people so painfully
Nocive		Harmful
Nole		Will not
~~Nones~~ Nonage		~~The 7th of March, May, July, or October; the 5th of any other month.~~The period of childhood
~~Note~~ Nones		~~A mark or characteristic~~The 7th of March, May, July, or October; the 5th of any other month.
Note		A mark or characteristic
Nother		Neither
Nousle		To train or educate
Noyous		Annoying, troublesome
Nursled		Nourished, brought up
Obits		Masses for the dead
Oblation		Literally, an offering, which can signify: 1) An animal offered for sacrifice; the sacrifice itself 2) Money given to the church 3) One of two parts of the Mass; either the Offertory, or the presentation of the consecrated bread and wine with the words "Behold the Lamb of God, etc"
Oblocutor		One who contradicts or abuses someone
Obsignation		Formal sealing or approval of a contract or other such document
Obtestation		Calling on God to witness that what you say is true
Obtrectation		Abuse, calumny
Occurrent		Happening
Offendicle		Something which leads or causes a person to commit sin
Offension		Injury or damage
Onerate		To lay an obligation on someone
Onychinus		Onyx
Opprobry		1) Infamy, shame 2) Insults
Oppugn		To fight against
~~Ordinal~~ Orator		~~A book of rules and regulations~~A person who prays
~~Ordinary~~Ordinal		~~The ecclesiastical chief of an area i.e. the Parish priest in a parish, the bishop in a diocese, etc.~~ A book of rules and regulations
~~Ornature~~ Ordinary		~~Personal adornment, fine clothing, jewellery etc.~~The ecclesiastical chief of an area i.e. the parish priest in a parish, the bishop in a diocese, etc.; also , the bishop having authority over a particular priest.
~~Ostent~~ Ornature		~~A wondrous event or miracle~~Personal adornment, fine clothing, jewellery etc.
Ostent		A wondrous event or miracle
Ouch		A gold or jewelled brooch or buckle
Outlandish		Foreign
Out-scape		A way of escape
Overthwart		Crosswise, either literally or figuratively
Oyster-board		A table or stall for selling oysters ? used contemptuously for a communion table because it was the same shape
Pack		A scoundrel
Packing		Fraudulent dealing
Paction		An alliance
Page		A canton of Switzerland
Painful		Painstaking
Pair		To impair or harm
~~Palfrey~~ Pale		~~A small horse~~A fence or fence-board
Palfrey		A small horse
Pall		A kind of scarf or stole worn by a bishop; used figuratively to mean the office of bishop.
Palsgrave		A Count Palatine, i.e. a ruler who has been granted full powers in his fief by the Holy Roman Emperor
Panim		A pagan or other non-Christian
Pantofle		Expensive, highly decorated slippers; Stood upon their pantofles = Stood on their dignity
Paralipomena		Alternative name for the two books of Chronicles, in the Bible (in some editions, called the third & fourth books of Kings)
Parcel		A part
Pardon-beads		Rosary beads blessed so that those using them would have an indulgence
Parochian		A parish priest
Partlet		An article of clothing worn about the neck or upper chest; a bib or dickey.
Paschal		Passover feast
Pash		To smash
Pasquil		A satire or lampoon
Patch		a1) A foolb2) A botch, shoddy work, distortion
Patin, patine, paten		A dish on which the communion bread is placed
Pattens		Wooden overshoes
Paunch		To cut open the belly
Pax		A small bas-relief of the crucifixion on a handle, kissed by the officiating priest and then the congregation at Mass
Paynim		A pagan or Muslim
~~Pelf~~ Pelagian		~~1)Worthless baubles~~ ~~2) Contemptuous word for money, regarded as the source of all evil.~~One who holds the belief that it is possible to attain salvation entirely through one's own efforts, without the special grace of God.
Pelf		1) Worthless baubles 2) Contemptuous word for money, regarded as the source of all evil.
Pelt		To address with insults or reproaches
Penitentiary		1) A penitent 2) A priest specially appointed to hear confessions of reserved sins (very serious ones which cannot be absolved by ordinary priests)
Penner		A case for holding writing pens
Percase		Perhaps
Perdurable		Long-lasting
Peregrine		A pilgrim
Perfitlich		Perfectly
Perk		To behave presumptuously
Permixt		Unified
Perpend		To consider
Person		A parson
Phylacteries		Hypocritical displays of virtue
Pictavia		Poitou, in France
Pike		A toll barrier
Pilch		A coat made of animal skins or coarsely tanned leather
Pill		To rob, pillage
Pilled		Tonsured i.e. having the top of the head shaved
Pinbank		The rack or similar instrument of torture
Pin-fold		A pound for stray animals
Pix		A small box in which consecrated hosts are carried about.
Plackard		An official document or proclamation
Plaice-mouth		A pursing of the lips
Plat		A) A plough B) A plot of land
Plenar		Complete
Plete		To argue one's case
Plumbat		A lead ball on a cord
Plumps		A compact group of people
Point-maker		A maker of laces for fastening clothes
Points		Laces for fastening clothes
Poising		Weighing
Poll		To extort money from
Polling		Shaving the top of the head
Pontifical, Pontificalibus		The robes of a bishop or cardinal
Popple		The corn-cockle (Lychnis githago), a weed of wheat fields
Porket		A pig
Port		Appearance
Porthose		To canonize as a saint
Portmen		Members of the town council
Portues		A breviary or book of liturgy
Portuous		(Of a saint) Included in the standard breviary or calendar
Position		A question or proposal
Post		A post-rider i.e. a man who carried letters from one post station to the next
Post alone		Entirely alone
Postcommon		The postcommunion, a prayer of thanksgiving said near the end of the mass, after the communion
Postil		A note or comment on a document
Potestate		A ruler, potentate
Pounced		Of a metal object, decorated by embossing or engraving
Practised		Worked on
Præmunire		The crime in English law of appealing to, or acknowledging, a power outside England (usually the Papacy) in defiance of the monarch.
Pravity		Wickedness
Prebend		The revenue of a specific plot of land belonging to an ecclesiastical foundation; a *prebendary* was the priest to which a prebend was allocated or prebendated
Prefe		Proof
Pregnancy		Fullness
Premonish		To speak of beforehand, to warn
Preparature		Preparation
Prepense		Inclined towards
Prescript		A written command
President		An example to be followed
Prest money		Money given to a recruit on enlistment; "the King's shilling"
Presul		A prelate or bishop
Pretensed		Pretended, falsely claimed
Pretermit		To leave out, omit
Preue, preve		Proof
Prick		To shoot an arrow
Prick-louse		A tailor
Prick-song		Vocal music in more than one part or with an accompaniment
Primer and accidence		The elements of reading and writing
Priuilich		Privately
Privation		Deprivation, removal from office
Privily		Secretly
Privy		1) Secret 2) *made privy of/unto something* = told about it in confidence 3) privy chamber = private quarters 4) privy council = a committee of notables appointed by the King to advise him. 5) Lord privy seal = An officer of state whose formal duty is to keep and apply the King's seal to documents; he is usually a member of the cabinet or privy council
Probably		Plausibly, convincingly
Probation		Conclusive argument, proof
Problem		To keep a problem = to discuss an academic proposition
Proclive		Inclined towards
Prodition		Treachery
Proem		A prologue or introduction
Profect		Profit
Professor		One who proclaims his faith in the true religion
Prolation		A phrase or sentence spoken continuously, without a pause
Prolix		Long-winded
Proll		To prowl or rob
Prolocutor		1) a spokesman 2) The chairman of a parliament or congress
Promoter		An informer or unofficial prosecutor
Prompt		Prompt with = armed with, and very ready to use
Prone		Willing or inclined to do something.
Proper		Special, particular
Propone		To propose
Proprietary		The holder of an ecclesiastical benefice
Prorogations		Postponements
Prorogue		To postpone
Proscript		Proscribed
Prosopopœia		An orator's trick of speaking as if in the voice or person of someone else
Proterve		Stubborn, petulant
Protonotary		A senior papal clerk or envoy
Prototypon		The first or original version of a document etc.
Prove		To test
Provisor		A person holding the right to be appointed to an office or benefice when it becomes vacant
Provoke		To invite
Psalmograph		Writer of Psalms; a title of King David of Israel and Judah
Puissance		Power
Puissant		Powerful
Pung		To peck
Pursue		To persecute
Pursuivant		A messenger or agent
Quadrant-place		A quadrangle or courtyard
Quail		To quell, suppress
Quarrel		A cross-bow arrow
Querell		To dispute or demur
Quest		A court or commission of enquiry
Questionary		At the University of Cambridge, an undergraduate in his final term
Questmen		Members of a commission of enquiry
Quick		Alive, living
Quier		A book
Quindecim		A fifteenth part
Quire		1) A choir 2) A book or document
Quondam		Former, formerly
Rabbin		A Jewish Rabbi; used contemptuously to refer to other religious leaders
Raca		An offensive word in Biblical times; "Whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council:" (Matt. 5. 22)
Ranging-wise		At random
Rap		To plunder or destroy
Rase		A measure
Rashful		Rash
Rate		To scold, abuse verbally
Ratle		To scold, abuse
Readie		Quick-witted and eloquent
Reave		To rob
Receitor? Receptor		A harbourer of criminals
Recluse		A prison cell
Recordative		Commemorative
Recule		To retreat
Recure		To restore to health
Recusation		An appeal based on the alleged partiality of a judge
Recuse		To reject someone's authority to do something
Reed		Advise
Refel		Disprove
Refocillation		Revival, refreshment
Refract, Refractorious		Stubborn
Refricate		To open up a wound
Refuse		To reject
Regiment		Rule
Register		A keeper of records, registrar.
Reiterate		Repeat, repeated
Relent		To return to one's original beliefs
Replication, Replication duplic		Stages in the arguing of a case before a court i.e. The prosecutor makes a charge, then The defendant makes a reply, then The prosecutor makes a **replication, then** The defendant makes a replication duplic
Repugn		To oppose, fight against
Rescript		Strictly, the decision of the Roman emperor on a case referred to him by a governor or judge; more loosely, any formal written command by a person in authority
Residentiary		The canons of a cathedral
Resperse		To accuse
Respond		A responsary, i.e. a hymn or prayer sung or spoken in turn, by a single voice, and the choir or congregation alternately
Retcheth		Reck, care themselves with
Retract		A military retreat
Revest		To don vestments for a religious ceremony
Revestry		The vestry of a church
Rhodanus		The River Rhine
Rochet		A linen surplice
Rocker		A child's nurse, who rocks the cradle
Rode, Rood		A crucifix
Rogation		Chanting the litany of the saints during a procession
Rood		A crucifix
Rood-loft		A loft gallery above and behind a rood-screen
Rood-screen		A screen, usually richly decorated or carved, at the end of the nave of a church before the altar.
Rood-sollor		A rood-loft (qv).
Room		Place, position of authority
Rooten		Dig up with the snout, like a pig in filth
Rounding		Trimming the hair to the same length all the way around
Rouse		To rest or sleep
Rown		To whisper
Royal		An English gold coin, worth ten shillings
Ruff		A state of excitement or pride
Ruffler		A fine-clothed but useless fellow
Ruffling		Showing off
Runagate		A fugitive scoundrel or vagrant ruffian
Sabaoth		Lord of Sabaoth = Lord of Hosts, a title of God
Sacramentals		In Catholic practice, various things which resemble sacraments but are not one of the seven; as, the sign of the Cross; blessing of holy water etc.
Sacramentary		One who holds "heretical" (i.e. not Catholic) views on the Eucharist
Sacring		The consecration of the Mass
Sale		To assail
~~Saturity~~ Sarcenet		~~Repletion~~A fine silk cloth
~~Sauter~~ Saturity		~~The Book of Psalms~~Repletion
~~Say~~ Sauter		~~A fine cloth of silk and wool woven together~~The Book of Psalms
Say		A fine cloth of silk and wool woven together
Scathe		Injury, damage
Schone		Shall
Scurrier		A soldier sent out to see what the enemy is doing, a scout
Scutage		A tax paid instead of military service
Seam		Eight bushels
Searcher		A minor customs official, who searches for contraband
Sechen		Seek
Secluding		Prohibiting
Seggen		Say
Seigniory		Lordship or dominion; or the lands over which this is held
Sein		Say
Seised		Of land or property: assigned or granted to someone
Seizin-taking		Taking possession of a token of ownership e.g. the keys of a house.
Seker		Certain
Semblable Semblably		Similar, similarly
Sententially		As a judicial sentence
Sententiary		A person who has compiled a compendium of theological opinions.
Sepulture		A tomb
Sequestration		Confiscation of the income of a benefice
Seraphical		Angel-like, a title specifically given to St. Bonaventure (1221-1274)
Servage		Bondage, serfdom
Several		Separate or individual
Severally		Separately or individually
Sewer		A servant who lays the table, serves the meal etc.
Seyen		See
Shad		Shed
Share-Thursday		Holy, or Maundy Thursday ? the Thursday before Easter
Shaveling		A tonsured monk
Shawm		A musical instrument resembling an oboe.
Shearman		A cloth-shearer
Sheave		To collect, gather up
Shelt-toad		A toad from the river Scheldt
Shent		Ruined, destroyed
Shere-Thursday		Maundy or Holy Thursday, i.e. the Thursday before Easter
Shew-bread		Special loaves of bread which were placed on a table in the Temple of Jerusalem every Sabbath and eaten by the priests at the end of the week. See Exod. xxv. 30.
~~Shog~~ Shifter		~~To shake vigorously~~An idle worthless fellow
Shog		To shake vigorously
Shone		Shoes
Shrewd		False and malicious
Shrift		Absolution
Shriuing		Confession
~~Shullen~~ Shrove Sunday		~~Shall~~The Sunday seven weeks before Easter
Shullen		Shall
Shulne		Shall
~~Siege~~ Sideman		~~Seat~~An assistant churchwarden
~~Silly~~ Siege		~~Innocent~~Seat
~~Sink~~ Silly		~~A sewer or drain~~Innocent
Sink		A sewer or drain
Sith		Since
Sith that		Provided that
Sithe		Times
Sithen		So that
Sithence		Since
Skill		To be of importance
Slander-giving		Encouraging others to sin by bad example
~~Sle~~ Slaughter-slave		~~Slay~~An executioner
Sle		Slay
Slean		Slay
Sleight, sleighty		Deceitful
Slipper-dealing		Deceitful ~~pratices~~practices
Slops		Baggy trousers
Slorried		Smeared with dirt
Slowen		Slain
Smaragd		An emerald
Smit		Struck
Snaffle		A kind of horse -bridle
Snag		To jeer at, nag, abuse
Snarled		Strangled, or tortured with a twisted rope
Snuff		To take snuff = to take offence
Sod, Sodden		Boiled
Soke		The area within which a particular court or grand jury had authority
Soldan		Sultan
Soldier-fare		Military service
Solicitor		An agent or deputy
Solution		An answer or explanation
Somoner, Somnor		A bailiff of an ecclesiastical court, who summons people to attend
Sooth-deacon		A formally appointed deputy or representative
Soothfastness		Constancy in holding to the truth
Sop~~histry~~		~~False or dishonest arguments~~A piece of bread dipped in wine or other liquid
Sophistry		False or dishonest arguments
Sorbonical		After the fashion of the Sorbonne, or University of Paris
Souter		A cobbler or shoemaker
Spar		To bolt down, fasten tightly
Sparsed		Spread
Specialty		A particular point of argument
~~Spiritualty~~ Speed		~~The clergy or hierarchy~~To succeed
~~Splent~~ Spinster		~~The elbow-piece in a suit of armour~~A woman whose occupation was spinning thread
~~Spouse-breach~~ Spiritualty		~~Adultery~~The clergy or hierarchy
Splent		The elbow-piece in a suit of armour
Spouse-breach		Adultery
Spoushod		Marriage
Springall		A young man
Spur-gall		To injure a horse by excessive use of spurs
Spurging		Oozing of matter, fæces etc. from the body
Spurn		Kick or trample underfoot
St~~aple~~ . James's tide		~~A, or the only, legally licensed market for wool for purchase by foreigners~~25^th July
Staple		A, or the only, legally licensed market for wool for purchase by foreigners
Starting-hole		Literally, a hole in which a hunted animal can hide; metaphorically, a loophole, or "get-out"
Stellify		To place among the stars
Sternship		Haughtiness
Stied		Went (the word is principally used to describe Christ's ascension into heaven)
~~Stocks~~ Stiver		~~The name of a market for meat and fish in the City of London~~A Dutch coin, worth about one English penny
Stocks		The name of a market for meat and fish in the City of London
Stover		Fodder, animal food
Strait		Strict, rigorous, narrow, closely confined.
Strumpet		A whore
Sturdy		Obstinate
Suffice		To serve
Suffragan		An assistant or subordinate bishop
Suffrage		1) An assistant 2) Help, assistance of any kind
Sugge		To say
Sugget		A saying
Suit		Requirement
Sumner		A bailiff of an ecclesiastical court, who summons people to attend
Sum-papal		A summary of papal edicts on a particular topic
Sumpsimus		A new but correct belief or custom (opposed to mumpsimus)
Sumpter		A pack-horse
Super-altar		A slab of stone consecrated for use as an altar when placed on a table etc.
Superaltare		The ritual of profession as a Benedictine monk
Supererogation		In works of supererogation: in Catholic theology, the performance of good works beyond what God commands or requires; this builds up a store of grace which the Church can dispense in the form of indulgences etc.
Supple		To soften
Supposition		An argument for a proposition
Supputation		A system of calculation
Surname		A nickname
Sustentation		Provision of food, drink and other necessities
Sweat		A disease marked by high fever and copious sweating
Sweuen		A false vision or fake miracle
Swill		Liquid filth
Swinge		Power or authority; in phrase To bear the swinge = to have power or authority
Swingel of a flail		A flail was an implement for threshing corn, consisting of a long handle or staff and a shorter stick, the swingle, loosely tied to the end of the staff so it could swing freely. The thresher held the flail by the staff and beat the sheaves of corn with the swingle to dislodge the grains from the straw.
Synagogue		A church or abbey notorious for corrupt practices or false doctrines, blasphemy etc.; An assembly of false religion or blasphemy
Synecdoche		A figure of speech where the part is taken for the whole, or vice versa
~~Tallage~~ Tabret		~~An arbitrary tax levied by special order~~A small drum
Tallage		An arbitrary tax levied by special order
Tally for his own cates		To obtain food and other necessities on credit
Tarriance		Delay
Teende		Attend with
Temerarious		Rash, reckless
Temporalty		The laity
Tender		To treat with tenderness or affection
Tent		To clean a wound with a small roll of cloth
Tenths		Tithes
Tergiversation		Changing sides; denying what one has previously asserted or vice versa
Term probatory		A period of time given to a litigant to prepare his case
Terrene		Of the earth in the sense (1) as opposed to heavenly or (2) peasant-like, low-class
Tertian		A fever recurring every third day
The land of behest		The Promised Land
Thicker		A ~~fulller~~fuller, i.e. a person whose occupation is the cleaning and preparation of newly-woven cloth
Thilke		This
Tho		Then
Thoore		Unharmed
Thrall		A slave
Thrasonical		Boastful [like Thraso, a character in the play Eunuchus by the Roman playwright Terence]
Threnes of Jeremy		The book of Lamentations, in the Old Testament
Thurify		To bless with incense
Tickle		Unstable, ready to fall at a touch ; Credulous, easily persuaded
Tied his points		Fastened his laces
Tippet		A hood or hooded cloak
Tipstaff, Tipstave		A court usher or bailiff
Tithed to death		Decimated (i.e. every tenth man killed)
Titiviller		The name of a demon in a morality play; hence, a scoundrel
Tituled		Named
To lie for the whetstone		To tell outrageous lies
To-brast		Completely destroy
To-broken		Destroyed, torn up
Tofore		In front of
Tollage		Money paid in tolls or taxes
Toll-booth		The name of the town prison in Cambridge and Edinburgh
Tonsure		A shaven patch on the top of the head
Tose		To card wool
Totquots		A papal dispensation allowing the holder to have any number of benefices
Towardness		Exceptional aptitude.
Toy		A trifle or bauble, a whimsy
Tractation		Written discussion or discourse
Trade		A way of life, moral attitude towards living
Train		A deception or fraud
Transumpt		(N) A transcript or formal copy of a record or decree (V) To copy, transfer or transform
Trauel		Labour
Travail		1) Labour 2) Suffering
Travell		Suffering
Traverse		A dispute or controversy
Travise		A dispute or controversy
Treen shoes		Wooden shoes, clogs
Trencher		A wooden dish
Trental		A series of thirty requiem masses
Trim-couched		Well-chosen to deceive
Trindles		A wax taper rolled into a coil
Trope		A figure of speech
Tropical		Metaphorical
Trought		Truth
Trow		To believe
Tucker		A cloth-fuller or finisher
Tuition		Protection, guardianship
Tunably		Harmoniously
Tunned		Got drunk with
Tympany		A swelling of the abdomen caused by gas in the intestines or stomach.
Uiker, Uicar		Vicar, in the sense of appointed representative
Unconning		Foolish
Unlefull		Unlawful
Unmeet		Unsuitable
Unwitty		Foolish, stupid
Unworshipped		Disrespected
Usance		Lending or borrowing at (usually usurious) interest
Utas		The eighth day after the specified feast day
Vail		An extra payment or profit, a perk
Vantage		Advantage
Vastation		Devastation, destruction
Vaumure		An outer fortification
Vaward		The vanguard
Verament		Truly
Verilich		Truly
Very		True, truly; pure
Viage		Voyage
Vicegerent		A person appointed by the king with full authority to act on his behalf
Vidame		A layman who acted for a bishop in legal and business matters
Vie crowns		A gambling game by tossing coins for double or quits
Vilipend		To regard, or treat, a person as being vile or worthless
Vility		Vileness
Vineat		An ornamental border of vine leaves in a manuscript
Visor		A mask or outward show
Vitiate		To spoil or wear out
Vocable		A spoken word
Void		To depart from
Waits		The members of a municipal band, employed by the city to play on public occasions
Walisch		Welsh
Wan hope		Despair
Wanyand		An imprecation or curse
Ward		A lock; prison
Warren		An area of land enclosed for breeding game animals or birds.
Wast		Year, day and wast = "a prerogative whereby the sovereign was entitled to the profits for a year and a day of a tenement held by a person attainted of petty treason or felony, with the right of wasting the tenement" (OED)
Waster		A wooden sword used for fencing practice
~~Waxen~~ Watchet-hose		~~Grown up~~Pale blue stockings
Waxen		Grown up
Weasand		The throat
Web		A piece of woven cloth, as it comes from the loom
Weed		A cloak or costume
Ween		Suppose, believe
Weet		To know
Wele		Prosperity
Wete, weten		1) to know 2) to ask of someone
Wheeler		A wheel-maker
Where-through		Through which
Whirlpit		A whirlpool
Whist		To whisper
~~Wild he, nild he~~ Whittled		~~Whether he wanted or not~~Drunk
Wild he, nild he		Whether he wanted or not
Will-works		Works performed by the human will, without divine grace
Will-worship		Worship of God in a form or way not authorised by Him (i.e. different from those of the speaker)
Wimble		An auger or gimlet
Wis		1) To know 2) To declare
Wist		Knew
Wit		To know
Witty		Sensible, intelligent
Wolden		Would
Wonnyer, Wonnier		Inhabitant
Wood-knife		A short sword or large knife, used by huntsmen for disembowelling and cutting up game
Woodness		Madness, violent anger
Woolward		To go woolward = to wear coarse woollen cloth next the skin, as a penance or punishment
Wot		Know
Wracke		Revenge
Wrakers		Those who wreak vengeance
Wreke		To work, do something
Writhe		To distort
Wyllingly		Thankfully
Ybeden		Bade
Ybore		Born
Ych		I
Year-mind		A Mass said on the anniversary of someone's death
Yeve		To give
Yift		A gift
Ylich		Equally
You~~-ward~~ nker		~~Towards you~~A young gentleman
~~Yuill~~ You-ward		~~Evil~~Towards you
~~Ywit~~ Yuill		~~Know~~Evil
Ywit		Know
Zif		Thus; or as phrase *zif all* = although

A court usher or bailiff