Able,adj.fit, suitable,121/16.Abrode,adv.abroad,10/30.Abused,pp.ill-suited,151/13.Accompte,s.account, inventory,151/1; A-compte, account,146/92.A-cloyde,s.accloyed; a hurt caused by running a nail into a horse’s foot,115/1. From O. F.cloyer, same asclouer, to nail.Acre,s.acre,12/4.A-crosse,adv.on the cross, crosswise,61/8.Affreyd,s.a disease in horses caused by hard riding,104/1. Cf. E.fray; and seefrayerin Cotgrave.After,prep.according to,15/22,121/12; close to,25/22.Aftermath,s.a second crop of grass,70/32.All-onely,adv.only,37/23,65/4. Cf. Lowl. Sc.al-anerly, only.Almes,s.alms,168/3.Almes-dedes,s.alms-deeds,168/1.Al-onely,adv.alone,141/9. SeeAll-onely.Ambrose, St.,156/23,163/9,167/11.Amended,pp.mended,141/32.Amerced,pp.fined,148/22.An,num. adj.one,133/11.Anastasius,164/14.And,conj.if,6/12,24/21,25/16,68/62,70/34,142/7.Anis,s. pl.awns,34/25, 29.Anna, Hannah,165/53.Apparell,s.apparel,151/3.Appeyre,v.injure,18/31; appeyreth,pr. s.impairs, injures,18/17.Aray,s.array,151/13.Araye,imp. s.dress,146/11.A-slope,adv.slanting,2/24.Assaut,s.assault,167/37.At-after,prep.after,22/10. (Not uncommon.) It occurs in Chaucer, C.T. 11531.Athanasii,gen. s.of Athanasius,161/4.Attempte,v.to tempt,167/4.Atteynt,s.attaint, a disease caused by overstepping,113/1. “Of an upperattaint, or netherattaint, or any hurt by over-reaching.”—G. Markham, Husbandry, b. i. c. 54.Auctorytie,s.authority,141/19; auctorytes,pl.powers,prol.21.Aue, Ave Maria,166/12.Augur,s.auger, tool for boring holes,41/8;gen.augurs, i.e. made by an auger,3/57.Auoyde,v.depart,167/36.Austyn, St. Augustine,156/19,157/3,158/1,164/26,168/25.Auyse,pr. s.advise,141/1.Awry,adv.awry,50/5.Axil-pynnes,s. pl.axle-pins,5/20.Axiltre,s.axle-tree,5/18.Backe-syde,s.back side, back,127/9.Badger,s.badger,71/7.Bagges,s. pl.bags,141/69.Bakbandes,s. pl.back-bands for a horse in a cart,5/28.Baken,s.bacon,121/18.Balkes,s. pl.divisions of land (covered with grass) in an open field,6/17.Ball,s.a white streak,73/1. SeeBaldin my Etym. Dict.Band,s.band for barley,28/8. See below.Bandes,s. pl.bands, the bands that tie bundles of faggots together,131/8.Bargeins,s. pl.transactions,36/20.Barbes,s. pl.the barbles, small excrescences of flesh in a horse’s mouth,82/1.SeeLampas.Baste,s.piece of bast,138/30; bastes,pl.136/22.Bate,v.to lower, abate,153/16.Bauson,s.badger,71/7.Bayly,orBaylye,s.bailiff,134/3,141/57,148/40.Bayting. Seenoteto sect. 8(ch. 8, ll. 9 and 13); p. 131.Beate,v.improve [notbeat],8/20. Lowl. Sc.beet, A. S.bétan, to better. “Beet-axe, the instrument used inbeetingground in denshering.”—Wright.Beetle-browed, having projecting brows,noteto56/9; p. 139.Begonne, prob. an error forbe gone, i.e. are dropped,18/10. Seethe note.Begotten,pp.obtained,169/30, 42.Behouable,adj.fitting,155/10.Belte,v.to shear the buttocks and tails of sheep,40/24.Burlis used in the same sense; seebeltandburlin Old Country Words, ed. Britten, pp. 134, 136.Belybandes,s. pl.belly-bands for a horse in a cart,5/28.Bende,adj.bent,3/49;as s.bent piece,4/33.Bendfoder,s.fodder of straw and hay mingled,noteto6/27; p. 131.Be-pysse hym-selfe, give out moisture,25/27.Bere-barleye,s.a kind of barley,13/26. A reduplicated word.Bereis the same asbar-inbar-ley. A.S.bere, barley.Bernard, St.,156/25,164/10.Best lykinge,adj. superl.goodliest, best in appearance,48/13.Besyde,prep.on the one side, sideways out of,139/17.Better,adj. compar.5/12.Beyked,pp.warmed, dried,24/23. M.E.beken, answering to an A.S. formbécan* (not found), formed as a secondary verb, by vowel-change, from A.S.bóc, pt. t. ofbacan, to bake. So alsolayfromlie,setfromsit, etc. Seebekenin Stratmann, who refers to Le Bone Florence, l. 99, Iwain and Gawain, l. 1459, O.E. Homilies, i. 269, and Test. of Creseyde, 26.Beykyng,s.warming, drying,24/12. See above.Beytynge,pres. pt.feeding, lit. baiting,22/12.Bier,s.buyer,134/30.Bigge,adj.big, large (with reference to clods),10/4.Blacke-thorne,s.blackthorn,124/14.Blankettes,s. pl.blankets,146/79.Blend-corn,s.wheat mixed with rye,34/19. (Blend= blended.)Blesse,v.to bless,146/2.Blome,pr. pl.bloom,24/16.Bloude,s.blood,145/8; also the name of a sickness among sheep,48/2.Bloud-yren,s.bleeding-iron, lancet,58/29.Blyssomme,v.to copulate, said of sheep,37/14. A ewe is said to beblissom, i.e. blithe-some, eager. Cf.lissom= lithe-some.Bobbed,pt. pl., struck,166/29.Bodkyn,s.bodkin,142/6.Boget,s.a budget, wallet,142/1.Boke, book,3/2, etc.; bokes,pl.142/4.Bolles,s. pl.pods,146/50. Lit. “swellings;” see below. Cf. Du.bol, swollen.Bolne,v.to swell,128/29; bolneth,pr. s.swells,128/21. Cf. Swed.bulna, Dan.bulne, to swell.Bolster,s.place of support,4/51. The bed of a timber carriage is called abolster(Wright).Bord-clothes,s. pl.table-cloths,146/45.Borde,s.board,122/27.Bores,s. pl.boars,121/9.Bottelles,s. pl.bottles,141/69.Bottes,s. pl.bots, a kind of worms troublesome to horses,102/1.Bowes,s. pl.boughs,122/21.Bowes,s. pl.the bent pieces of wood (beneath the yoke) which pass round the necks of yoked oxen,5/3. Usually calledoxbows, as in Tusser.Bracer,s.bracer, armour for the arms,142/3. See Chaucer, C.T. 111.Braked,pp.bruised in a brake or machine for crushing flax,146/42.Breade-come,s.corn to be ground tobread meal, for making brown bread,20/16. See note to P. Plowman, C. ix. 61.Breake thy faste,phr.breakfast,149/8.Breaketh,pr. s.breaks in,120/3.Brede,s.breadth,110/3,132/18. A.S.brǽdu.Brekefaste,s.breakfast,146/12.Bren,v.burn,27/10; brenne,131/2.Brode,adj.broad,2/14.Brodye,adj.ready to lay (as hens), lit. brood-y,146/24.Broken-wynded,s.a being broken in the wind (said of a horse),85/1.Brome,s.the plant broom,44/4.Brouse,s.small sprigs which the cattle eat,132/3; and seenotesto38/3,126/9. O. F.broust, a sprig.Brouse,v.to browze, eat off,131/3. Derived from the sb. above.Broyse,imp. s.bruise,59/12; broysed,pp.6/30.Brue,v.to brew,146/15.Brumentes,s. pl.inventories,152/5. Roquefort gives: ‘Brevememt[obviously an error forBrevement], état de dépense, mémoire, agenda, bordereau.’ He also notesbreumen, used forbrevement, briefly. Hencebrumentis forbrevement, i.e. short list, abstract.Brused,pp.bruised,129/4.Bryckle,adj.brittle,100/8.Bryne,s.brine,44/8.Brynke,s.brink, brim, top,148/3.Bryse,imp. s.bruise,129/3.SeeBroyse.Buddes,s. pl.buds, shoots,126/11.Bukler,s.buckler,142/3.Bulder-stones,s. pl.smooth large round stones,15/28.Bull,s.harrow-bull,15/9.SeeHarowe-bulles.Bulleys,s. pl.bullaces,136/4,140/1.Bunnes,s. pl.dry stalks,70/9. “Bun, a dry stalk;” Wright. Cf. Gael.bun, a root, stock, stump;bunan, stubble.Burges,pr. s.buds, burgeons,135/8.Burthen,s.crop,12/21.Bussheles,s. pl.bushels,12/8.Busshell-pokes,s. pl.bags or sacks holding a bushel,141/69.Bustardes,s. pl.bustards,146/29.But,prep.except,122/1; but and,conj.if,44/2.By,v.buy,56/5; bye,148/36.By and by,phr.exactly, distinctly, in order one after the other,126/15; immediately,42/8. See Wright’s Gloss.Byd,v.to bid, invite,152/18.Byer,s.buyer,118/6.Bygge,s.bigg, the name of a kind of barley,13/27.Biggoccurs as the name of a kind of barleyA.D.1474–5; see Rogers, Hist. Agric. vol. iii. Icel.bygg, Dan.byg, barley.Byghte,s.(bight), bend,132/6.Byrdes,s. pl.birds, chickens,146/30.Caluary, Calvary,166/32.Cambrydge-shyre,2/27.Camborell,s.the hock of an animal,107/3. Usuallycambrelorgambrel.Can,pr. s.knows,52/7;pr. pl.147/26.Candell-lyghte,s.candle-light,149/5.Candelmas,s.the day of the purification of the Virgin, Feb. 2,134/22.Canker, cancer, a disease of horses,noteto83/1; p. 141.Cannes,s. pl.cans,141/68.Capitayne,s.captain,167/28.Carte-ladder,s.a frame-work behind a cart,5/27. Seecarte-ladders,5/30.Cart-sadel,s.the small saddle placed on a horse in the shafts,5/27.Caryage,s.traffic of carts,128/12.Caryen,s.carrion,6/34,58/10.Casses,s. pl.the name of a kind of apple,130/4. Roquefort givescasse, as meaning an oak. Cf. Low Lat.casnus, F.chêne, an oak.Caste,v.to swarm, as bees,122/6; caste,pp.thrown over, as ploughed earth,33/4.Castynge,s.casting,13/16. See13/13.Cattell,s.cattle,37/2.Cayphas, Caiphas,166/27.Chafed,pp.heated, over-ridden,85/5.Chafynge,pres. pt.growing warm,88/2.Chall-bones,s. pl.jawbones,86/3.Challes,s. pl.jaws,75/3.Chall=jowl; seejowlin my Etym. Dict.Champyon,s.flat, open, said of country,66/15. (The same aschampaign.) See Tusser’s Husbandry.Chapmannes,s. gen.merchants, purchasers,118/4.Chapyter,s.chapter,141/13;pl.chapyters,141/3.Charte,s.cart,19/5.Cheape,adj.cheap;better cheape, cheaper (wherecheapwas orig. a sb.),5/13.Chekyns,s. pl.chickens,146/89.Chepeth,pr. s.bargains for,157/27.Cheryes,s. pl.cherries,136/3,140/1.Chesse,s.chess,prol.15.Chesses,s. pl.rows,noteto125/4. Achaseis “a row”; see Old Country Words, ed. Britten, p. 59.Chowe,v.chew,23/11; chowynge,pr. pt.79/7.Chrisostome, St. Chrysostom,155/16; Crysostome,156/30.Churle hempe,s.male hemp (so called),146/58.Chylturne,s.the name of a kind of soil,2/5. Seenote. We findCilternas a place-name in the A. S. Chron. an. 1009. And see Old Country Words, ed. Britten, p. 11.Chyne,s.the chine, back,87/1,119/4.Chynynge,s.cracking,138/30. A. S.cínan, to crack. Cf. E.chine,chink.Clarkes,s. pl.clerks, scholars,7/15.Clayenge,s.putting on the clay,138/33.Cleauynge,s.cleft,138/29.Cleese,s. pl.claws,64/2; clese,47/3, 9. (Properlyclees.)Clerkes,s. pl.scholars,166/39.Cley,s.clay,2/4.Close,s.an inclosure,66/17; closes,pl.123/2.Clothes,s. pl.cloths,146/79.Clothe-makers,s. pl.cloth-makers,146/81.Clot,s.clod,15/47; clottes,pl.15/14.Clotty,adj.lumpy, full of clods,15/45.Clouen,pp.cloven, divided,136/20.Clouen-footed,adj.cloven-footed,146/27.Clout,pp.clouted, strengthened with nails or pieces of iron,5/18.Cloute,s.rag,64/9.Cockole,s.corn-cockle,20/13.Cocledrake,an error forcocle, drake,two distinct words; cocle = corn-cockle,20/3.SeeDrake; and see above.Codde,s.cod,57/5; a pod,29/11 (wherecoddes, pl. would be better); coddes,pl.pods,20/11.Codde,v.bear fruit (said of peas),12/38. Cf.peascod= pea-pod; see above.Coffyns,s. pl.baskets,166/21.Cogges,s. pl.cogs,134/9. “But thecogge-whelein a corne-mylne is a great helper, if it be well pycked [clean cut], wellcogged, and well ronged; sixe ronges and xlviii.coggesare best for a great ryuer;” On Surveying, c. 39. Thus therungsare the divisions of the smaller, and thecogsof the larger wheel, at the circumference.Coke,s.another name for the plough-ear,3/5. Perhaps connected withCokers, iron rims round clogs, andcalkins,cawkins, the parts of a horse-shoe turned up and sharpened to prevent slipping (Wright; Gloss.)Coke,s.a piece of iron used instead of a plough-foot,4/46. See above.Cole,s.coal,19/3.Coltes euyll,s.a disease in colts,101/1. See G. Markham; Husbandry, b. i. c. 32.Combe,s.comb,142/5.Commons,s. pl.common pasture-grounds,6/10.Common weale,s.general advantage,151/22.Compasse,adj.circular, encompassing,136/11.Conclusion, in, finally, at last,132/18.Connynge,s.knowledge,141/22.Content,adj.pleased,120/17.Conuenyente,adj.fitting,prol.14,145/15,146/75.Conuocation,s.gathering,155/3.Copyoke,s.part of the harness for a waggon,5/5. Wright givescop, (1) top ... (7) the part of a waggon which hangs over the thiller-horse, (8) the beam placed between a pair of drawing oxen.SeeYoke.Cordes,s. pl.cords, a disease in front of a horse’s fore-legs,92/1. “Cords, or string-halt, is an unnaturall binding of the sinews;” G. Markham, Husbandry, b. i. c. 64.Corne,s.kind of corn,32/2; cornes,pl.grains,15/4.Corser,s.a horse-dealer,119/15,120/4. We also findscorserin the same sense.Cotes,s. pl.coats,151/13.Couer,v.cover, a term applied to collecting sheaves by tens, two of them covering the other eight by being laid across,31/2.Couerlettes,s. pl.coverlets,146/80.Countre,s.county,3/7; countreys,s. pl.counties,2/2,35/6; countreyes,2/28,3/8.Courbe,s.a curb, a kind of lameness in horses, 107/l.Cowpers,s. pl.coopers,134/7.Crabtree,s.crabtree,124/5; crabbe-tree,137/11.Cranes,s. pl.cranes,146/29.Cratches,s. pl.racks, mangers,70/44. F.crèche.Cratches,s. pl.scratches, a disease in a horse’s pasterns,112/1.Credence,s.credit, belief,141/18.Crofote, s. crowfoot,15/22. Acrowfootis aRanunculus; see Dict. of E. Plant-names.Croke,pr. pl.crook, bend,27/12.Croked,adj.crooked,3/39.Cromely,adj.liable to crumble,100/6.Croper,s.the crupper,105/2.Croppe,v.to crop, to cut off the top-most shoots or the sprigs,131/1.Croppes,s. pl.shoots, sprigs,44/4.Crosse,adj.going across,5/22.Crume,s.crumb,11/23.Cudde,s.cud,17/33.Culture,s.coulter,3/6, 34, 48;63/4.Cure,s.endeavour,146/2.Currante,adj.running, moving,128/4; sloping downwards,
Able,adj.fit, suitable,121/16.Abrode,adv.abroad,10/30.Abused,pp.ill-suited,151/13.Accompte,s.account, inventory,151/1; A-compte, account,146/92.A-cloyde,s.accloyed; a hurt caused by running a nail into a horse’s foot,115/1. From O. F.cloyer, same asclouer, to nail.Acre,s.acre,12/4.A-crosse,adv.on the cross, crosswise,61/8.Affreyd,s.a disease in horses caused by hard riding,104/1. Cf. E.fray; and seefrayerin Cotgrave.After,prep.according to,15/22,121/12; close to,25/22.Aftermath,s.a second crop of grass,70/32.All-onely,adv.only,37/23,65/4. Cf. Lowl. Sc.al-anerly, only.Almes,s.alms,168/3.Almes-dedes,s.alms-deeds,168/1.Al-onely,adv.alone,141/9. SeeAll-onely.Ambrose, St.,156/23,163/9,167/11.Amended,pp.mended,141/32.Amerced,pp.fined,148/22.An,num. adj.one,133/11.Anastasius,164/14.And,conj.if,6/12,24/21,25/16,68/62,70/34,142/7.Anis,s. pl.awns,34/25, 29.Anna, Hannah,165/53.Apparell,s.apparel,151/3.Appeyre,v.injure,18/31; appeyreth,pr. s.impairs, injures,18/17.Aray,s.array,151/13.Araye,imp. s.dress,146/11.A-slope,adv.slanting,2/24.Assaut,s.assault,167/37.At-after,prep.after,22/10. (Not uncommon.) It occurs in Chaucer, C.T. 11531.Athanasii,gen. s.of Athanasius,161/4.Attempte,v.to tempt,167/4.Atteynt,s.attaint, a disease caused by overstepping,113/1. “Of an upperattaint, or netherattaint, or any hurt by over-reaching.”—G. Markham, Husbandry, b. i. c. 54.Auctorytie,s.authority,141/19; auctorytes,pl.powers,prol.21.Aue, Ave Maria,166/12.Augur,s.auger, tool for boring holes,41/8;gen.augurs, i.e. made by an auger,3/57.Auoyde,v.depart,167/36.Austyn, St. Augustine,156/19,157/3,158/1,164/26,168/25.Auyse,pr. s.advise,141/1.Awry,adv.awry,50/5.Axil-pynnes,s. pl.axle-pins,5/20.Axiltre,s.axle-tree,5/18.Backe-syde,s.back side, back,127/9.Badger,s.badger,71/7.Bagges,s. pl.bags,141/69.Bakbandes,s. pl.back-bands for a horse in a cart,5/28.Baken,s.bacon,121/18.Balkes,s. pl.divisions of land (covered with grass) in an open field,6/17.Ball,s.a white streak,73/1. SeeBaldin my Etym. Dict.Band,s.band for barley,28/8. See below.Bandes,s. pl.bands, the bands that tie bundles of faggots together,131/8.Bargeins,s. pl.transactions,36/20.Barbes,s. pl.the barbles, small excrescences of flesh in a horse’s mouth,82/1.SeeLampas.Baste,s.piece of bast,138/30; bastes,pl.136/22.Bate,v.to lower, abate,153/16.Bauson,s.badger,71/7.Bayly,orBaylye,s.bailiff,134/3,141/57,148/40.Bayting. Seenoteto sect. 8(ch. 8, ll. 9 and 13); p. 131.Beate,v.improve [notbeat],8/20. Lowl. Sc.beet, A. S.bétan, to better. “Beet-axe, the instrument used inbeetingground in denshering.”—Wright.Beetle-browed, having projecting brows,noteto56/9; p. 139.Begonne, prob. an error forbe gone, i.e. are dropped,18/10. Seethe note.Begotten,pp.obtained,169/30, 42.Behouable,adj.fitting,155/10.Belte,v.to shear the buttocks and tails of sheep,40/24.Burlis used in the same sense; seebeltandburlin Old Country Words, ed. Britten, pp. 134, 136.Belybandes,s. pl.belly-bands for a horse in a cart,5/28.Bende,adj.bent,3/49;as s.bent piece,4/33.Bendfoder,s.fodder of straw and hay mingled,noteto6/27; p. 131.Be-pysse hym-selfe, give out moisture,25/27.Bere-barleye,s.a kind of barley,13/26. A reduplicated word.Bereis the same asbar-inbar-ley. A.S.bere, barley.Bernard, St.,156/25,164/10.Best lykinge,adj. superl.goodliest, best in appearance,48/13.Besyde,prep.on the one side, sideways out of,139/17.Better,adj. compar.5/12.Beyked,pp.warmed, dried,24/23. M.E.beken, answering to an A.S. formbécan* (not found), formed as a secondary verb, by vowel-change, from A.S.bóc, pt. t. ofbacan, to bake. So alsolayfromlie,setfromsit, etc. Seebekenin Stratmann, who refers to Le Bone Florence, l. 99, Iwain and Gawain, l. 1459, O.E. Homilies, i. 269, and Test. of Creseyde, 26.Beykyng,s.warming, drying,24/12. See above.Beytynge,pres. pt.feeding, lit. baiting,22/12.Bier,s.buyer,134/30.Bigge,adj.big, large (with reference to clods),10/4.Blacke-thorne,s.blackthorn,124/14.Blankettes,s. pl.blankets,146/79.Blend-corn,s.wheat mixed with rye,34/19. (Blend= blended.)Blesse,v.to bless,146/2.Blome,pr. pl.bloom,24/16.Bloude,s.blood,145/8; also the name of a sickness among sheep,48/2.Bloud-yren,s.bleeding-iron, lancet,58/29.Blyssomme,v.to copulate, said of sheep,37/14. A ewe is said to beblissom, i.e. blithe-some, eager. Cf.lissom= lithe-some.Bobbed,pt. pl., struck,166/29.Bodkyn,s.bodkin,142/6.Boget,s.a budget, wallet,142/1.Boke, book,3/2, etc.; bokes,pl.142/4.Bolles,s. pl.pods,146/50. Lit. “swellings;” see below. Cf. Du.bol, swollen.Bolne,v.to swell,128/29; bolneth,pr. s.swells,128/21. Cf. Swed.bulna, Dan.bulne, to swell.Bolster,s.place of support,4/51. The bed of a timber carriage is called abolster(Wright).Bord-clothes,s. pl.table-cloths,146/45.Borde,s.board,122/27.Bores,s. pl.boars,121/9.Bottelles,s. pl.bottles,141/69.Bottes,s. pl.bots, a kind of worms troublesome to horses,102/1.Bowes,s. pl.boughs,122/21.Bowes,s. pl.the bent pieces of wood (beneath the yoke) which pass round the necks of yoked oxen,5/3. Usually calledoxbows, as in Tusser.Bracer,s.bracer, armour for the arms,142/3. See Chaucer, C.T. 111.Braked,pp.bruised in a brake or machine for crushing flax,146/42.Breade-come,s.corn to be ground tobread meal, for making brown bread,20/16. See note to P. Plowman, C. ix. 61.Breake thy faste,phr.breakfast,149/8.Breaketh,pr. s.breaks in,120/3.Brede,s.breadth,110/3,132/18. A.S.brǽdu.Brekefaste,s.breakfast,146/12.Bren,v.burn,27/10; brenne,131/2.Brode,adj.broad,2/14.Brodye,adj.ready to lay (as hens), lit. brood-y,146/24.Broken-wynded,s.a being broken in the wind (said of a horse),85/1.Brome,s.the plant broom,44/4.Brouse,s.small sprigs which the cattle eat,132/3; and seenotesto38/3,126/9. O. F.broust, a sprig.Brouse,v.to browze, eat off,131/3. Derived from the sb. above.Broyse,imp. s.bruise,59/12; broysed,pp.6/30.Brue,v.to brew,146/15.Brumentes,s. pl.inventories,152/5. Roquefort gives: ‘Brevememt[obviously an error forBrevement], état de dépense, mémoire, agenda, bordereau.’ He also notesbreumen, used forbrevement, briefly. Hencebrumentis forbrevement, i.e. short list, abstract.Brused,pp.bruised,129/4.Bryckle,adj.brittle,100/8.Bryne,s.brine,44/8.Brynke,s.brink, brim, top,148/3.Bryse,imp. s.bruise,129/3.SeeBroyse.Buddes,s. pl.buds, shoots,126/11.Bukler,s.buckler,142/3.Bulder-stones,s. pl.smooth large round stones,15/28.Bull,s.harrow-bull,15/9.SeeHarowe-bulles.Bulleys,s. pl.bullaces,136/4,140/1.Bunnes,s. pl.dry stalks,70/9. “Bun, a dry stalk;” Wright. Cf. Gael.bun, a root, stock, stump;bunan, stubble.Burges,pr. s.buds, burgeons,135/8.Burthen,s.crop,12/21.Bussheles,s. pl.bushels,12/8.Busshell-pokes,s. pl.bags or sacks holding a bushel,141/69.Bustardes,s. pl.bustards,146/29.But,prep.except,122/1; but and,conj.if,44/2.By,v.buy,56/5; bye,148/36.By and by,phr.exactly, distinctly, in order one after the other,126/15; immediately,42/8. See Wright’s Gloss.Byd,v.to bid, invite,152/18.Byer,s.buyer,118/6.Bygge,s.bigg, the name of a kind of barley,13/27.Biggoccurs as the name of a kind of barleyA.D.1474–5; see Rogers, Hist. Agric. vol. iii. Icel.bygg, Dan.byg, barley.Byghte,s.(bight), bend,132/6.Byrdes,s. pl.birds, chickens,146/30.Caluary, Calvary,166/32.Cambrydge-shyre,2/27.Camborell,s.the hock of an animal,107/3. Usuallycambrelorgambrel.Can,pr. s.knows,52/7;pr. pl.147/26.Candell-lyghte,s.candle-light,149/5.Candelmas,s.the day of the purification of the Virgin, Feb. 2,134/22.Canker, cancer, a disease of horses,noteto83/1; p. 141.Cannes,s. pl.cans,141/68.Capitayne,s.captain,167/28.Carte-ladder,s.a frame-work behind a cart,5/27. Seecarte-ladders,5/30.Cart-sadel,s.the small saddle placed on a horse in the shafts,5/27.Caryage,s.traffic of carts,128/12.Caryen,s.carrion,6/34,58/10.Casses,s. pl.the name of a kind of apple,130/4. Roquefort givescasse, as meaning an oak. Cf. Low Lat.casnus, F.chêne, an oak.Caste,v.to swarm, as bees,122/6; caste,pp.thrown over, as ploughed earth,33/4.Castynge,s.casting,13/16. See13/13.Cattell,s.cattle,37/2.Cayphas, Caiphas,166/27.Chafed,pp.heated, over-ridden,85/5.Chafynge,pres. pt.growing warm,88/2.Chall-bones,s. pl.jawbones,86/3.Challes,s. pl.jaws,75/3.Chall=jowl; seejowlin my Etym. Dict.Champyon,s.flat, open, said of country,66/15. (The same aschampaign.) See Tusser’s Husbandry.Chapmannes,s. gen.merchants, purchasers,118/4.Chapyter,s.chapter,141/13;pl.chapyters,141/3.Charte,s.cart,19/5.Cheape,adj.cheap;better cheape, cheaper (wherecheapwas orig. a sb.),5/13.Chekyns,s. pl.chickens,146/89.Chepeth,pr. s.bargains for,157/27.Cheryes,s. pl.cherries,136/3,140/1.Chesse,s.chess,prol.15.Chesses,s. pl.rows,noteto125/4. Achaseis “a row”; see Old Country Words, ed. Britten, p. 59.Chowe,v.chew,23/11; chowynge,pr. pt.79/7.Chrisostome, St. Chrysostom,155/16; Crysostome,156/30.Churle hempe,s.male hemp (so called),146/58.Chylturne,s.the name of a kind of soil,2/5. Seenote. We findCilternas a place-name in the A. S. Chron. an. 1009. And see Old Country Words, ed. Britten, p. 11.Chyne,s.the chine, back,87/1,119/4.Chynynge,s.cracking,138/30. A. S.cínan, to crack. Cf. E.chine,chink.Clarkes,s. pl.clerks, scholars,7/15.Clayenge,s.putting on the clay,138/33.Cleauynge,s.cleft,138/29.Cleese,s. pl.claws,64/2; clese,47/3, 9. (Properlyclees.)Clerkes,s. pl.scholars,166/39.Cley,s.clay,2/4.Close,s.an inclosure,66/17; closes,pl.123/2.Clothes,s. pl.cloths,146/79.Clothe-makers,s. pl.cloth-makers,146/81.Clot,s.clod,15/47; clottes,pl.15/14.Clotty,adj.lumpy, full of clods,15/45.Clouen,pp.cloven, divided,136/20.Clouen-footed,adj.cloven-footed,146/27.Clout,pp.clouted, strengthened with nails or pieces of iron,5/18.Cloute,s.rag,64/9.Cockole,s.corn-cockle,20/13.Cocledrake,an error forcocle, drake,two distinct words; cocle = corn-cockle,20/3.SeeDrake; and see above.Codde,s.cod,57/5; a pod,29/11 (wherecoddes, pl. would be better); coddes,pl.pods,20/11.Codde,v.bear fruit (said of peas),12/38. Cf.peascod= pea-pod; see above.Coffyns,s. pl.baskets,166/21.Cogges,s. pl.cogs,134/9. “But thecogge-whelein a corne-mylne is a great helper, if it be well pycked [clean cut], wellcogged, and well ronged; sixe ronges and xlviii.coggesare best for a great ryuer;” On Surveying, c. 39. Thus therungsare the divisions of the smaller, and thecogsof the larger wheel, at the circumference.Coke,s.another name for the plough-ear,3/5. Perhaps connected withCokers, iron rims round clogs, andcalkins,cawkins, the parts of a horse-shoe turned up and sharpened to prevent slipping (Wright; Gloss.)Coke,s.a piece of iron used instead of a plough-foot,4/46. See above.Cole,s.coal,19/3.Coltes euyll,s.a disease in colts,101/1. See G. Markham; Husbandry, b. i. c. 32.Combe,s.comb,142/5.Commons,s. pl.common pasture-grounds,6/10.Common weale,s.general advantage,151/22.Compasse,adj.circular, encompassing,136/11.Conclusion, in, finally, at last,132/18.Connynge,s.knowledge,141/22.Content,adj.pleased,120/17.Conuenyente,adj.fitting,prol.14,145/15,146/75.Conuocation,s.gathering,155/3.Copyoke,s.part of the harness for a waggon,5/5. Wright givescop, (1) top ... (7) the part of a waggon which hangs over the thiller-horse, (8) the beam placed between a pair of drawing oxen.SeeYoke.Cordes,s. pl.cords, a disease in front of a horse’s fore-legs,92/1. “Cords, or string-halt, is an unnaturall binding of the sinews;” G. Markham, Husbandry, b. i. c. 64.Corne,s.kind of corn,32/2; cornes,pl.grains,15/4.Corser,s.a horse-dealer,119/15,120/4. We also findscorserin the same sense.Cotes,s. pl.coats,151/13.Couer,v.cover, a term applied to collecting sheaves by tens, two of them covering the other eight by being laid across,31/2.Couerlettes,s. pl.coverlets,146/80.Countre,s.county,3/7; countreys,s. pl.counties,2/2,35/6; countreyes,2/28,3/8.Courbe,s.a curb, a kind of lameness in horses, 107/l.Cowpers,s. pl.coopers,134/7.Crabtree,s.crabtree,124/5; crabbe-tree,137/11.Cranes,s. pl.cranes,146/29.Cratches,s. pl.racks, mangers,70/44. F.crèche.Cratches,s. pl.scratches, a disease in a horse’s pasterns,112/1.Credence,s.credit, belief,141/18.Crofote, s. crowfoot,15/22. Acrowfootis aRanunculus; see Dict. of E. Plant-names.Croke,pr. pl.crook, bend,27/12.Croked,adj.crooked,3/39.Cromely,adj.liable to crumble,100/6.Croper,s.the crupper,105/2.Croppe,v.to crop, to cut off the top-most shoots or the sprigs,131/1.Croppes,s. pl.shoots, sprigs,44/4.Crosse,adj.going across,5/22.Crume,s.crumb,11/23.Cudde,s.cud,17/33.Culture,s.coulter,3/6, 34, 48;63/4.Cure,s.endeavour,146/2.Currante,adj.running, moving,128/4; sloping downwards,