AY, ever, GK. 26, 73, 128, 167, 893. GG.1160. AY-QUERE,AY-WHERE, everywhere, GK. 599, 629, 745, 800.

AIR, previously, before, GG. 157, 606. See ARE, ER.

AIRE, AYERE, heir, AA. liii. 4.

AYTHER, AYTHIRE, either, GK. 841, 939, 1307. AA. xxxix. 6.

+AKER, perhaps an error for UCH A, each, every, GK. 1421.

+ALCE, also, likewise, GK. 2492. ALDER-TRUEST, truest of all, GK. 1486. ALDERES, ancestors, GK. 95.

ALGATE, every way, GK. 141, always, c. 58.
AL-HAL-DAY, All-hallows day, 1 November,
GK. 536.

ALKIN, ALKYN, of all kind, (ealles cynnes.
Sax.) GG. 461, 794.
ALLYNS, altogether, GG. 207.
ALMOUS-DEDIS, almsdeeds, AA. XX. 5.

AL ONE, alone, GK.735, 2155. AL HYM ONE,
AL HIS ONE, by himself, 749, 1048. See
ONE.

A-LOSED, p. p. praised, GK. 1512.

ALS, ALSE, also, likewise, GK. 270, 720, 933, 1627, etc. GG. 1171, 1250; as, Gк. 1067. ▲▲.i. 2, et pass. (MS. Douce generally reads As.) GG. 945.

ALSO, as, GC. 153.

ALTHER-GRATTEST, greatest of all, GK. 1441. ALUISCH, elvish, having preternatural power, GK. 681.

AMNANT, pleasantly? GK.806.

A-MONGE, amidst, at intervals, Gc.437. c. 220.
AMONGEZ, amongst, GK. 1361.
AN, on? GK. 1808. if, Gr.K. 338.
AN-HY3TE, ANE HY3T, on high, Gc.356,551.
ANAIRMIT, p. p. armed, GG. 842.
ANAMAYLD, p. p. enamelled, GK. 169.

AND, if, GK. 1245, 1509, 1647. AA. xvi. 2.
GG.347. GC. 189. J. 423. Gr.K.36. TG.31.
ANE, one, GK. 223.

ANE-BAK, aback, GG. 449, 987.
A-NELEDE, p. t. approached, GK. 723.
ANERDIS, pr. t. adheres, dwells with, GG. 410.
ANGARDEZ, gen. c. arrogance? GK. 681. The

same word occurs as an adjective in the Scotish alliterative Romance of Alexander:

Thire athils of Atenes, ther angard clerkis, Than reuerenst thai the riche seele, and red ouer the pistille.

MS. Ashm. 44, f. 40.

It is possible that the word in both the above instances should be spelt with a u. See Jamieson, v. Ogart, and Roquefort's Glossaire, v. Angarde.

ANIOUS, wearisome, fatiguing, GK. 535. ANLAS, pointed blade or spike, aa. xxx. 13, MS. D. The reading of the Linc. MS. is a corruption.

ANOTHER, otherwise, GK. 1268.

ANTERUS, adventurous, GG. 393. APENDES, APENDEZ, pr. t. appertains, belongs, GK. 623, 913.

APERT, openly, manifestly, GK. 154, 2392. APPERTLY, openly, aa. xix. 6.

APPAREMENTIS, adornments? AA. xix. 5. ARE, ere, previously, GK. 239, 1632, 1891. AA. xxxi. 13. MS. D. Gc. 197. See AIR, ER.

ARERED, p. p. retreated, GK. 1902. AREWEZ, ARWES, ARWEZ, arrows, GK. 1160, 1455, 1460.

ARN, are, GK. 280, 1094.

ARSOUNEZ, ARSOUNZ, saddle-bows, GK. 171, 602.

ARZE, timid, fearful, GK. 241.

ARZE, subj. should wax timid, GK. 2301. Arzez, pr. t. waxest timed, 2277. ARZED, p. t.

waxed timid, 1463, 2271. ASAY, n. the point in the breast of the buck, at which the hunter's knife was inserted, to make trial of the animal's fatness, GK. 1328. See the Book of St. Alban's, and Boucher's Glossary, v. Assay, new edit. ASAY, to try, tempt, KG. 2362.

ASCRYED, p. t. shouted, GK. 1153. Printed
by Guest astryed, and explained opposed, in
Hist. Engl. Rhythms, ii. 168.
ASKEZ, ashes, GK. 2.

ASOYLED, p. t. absolved, GK. 1883.

ASPYE, to discover, GK. 1199. ASSAUT, assault, GK. 1.

ASSWYTHE, quickly, GK. 1400. See SWITHE. ASTALIT, p. p. decked, GG. 63.

ASTYT, suddenly, GK. 1210. See TIT. ASTONAIT, ASTONAYT, p. p. confounded, stunned, GG. 107, 575.

AT, for, GK. 648; of, 703, (a modern Scoticism.) In Stevenson's Additions to Boucher the line in GG. 1006 is quoted as an instance of the Northern use of the relative at for that; but I regard it as a mistake of the scribe, since no other example of such a form occurs throughout the poem.

ATHEL, noble, good, GK. 5, 171, 241, 904, 1654, 2466. See HATHEL.

ATHER, either, GK. 1357.

ATTLE, pr. t. aim, design, GK. 27. ATLED, p. t. 2263. See ETYLLEDE. ATTANIS, at once, GG. 985.

AT-WAPED, p. p. escaped, GK. 1167. Explained by Guest, let fly at, Hist. Engl. Rh. ii. 169. The word occurs again in another of the poems by the same author in the Cotton MS. Nero A. x. f. 736.

Thay stel out on a stylle ny3t, er any steuen rysed,
& harde hurles thur; the oste, er enmies hit wyste;
Bot er thay at-wappe ne mozt the wach wyth oute,
Hize skelt watz the askry the skewes an vnder, etc.

AUEN, AWEN, own, GK. 10, 293, 836.
AUMAYL, enamel, GK. 236.
AUNCIAN, aged, GK. 1001, 2463. Used sub-
stantively, 948.

AUN

AUNTER, AWENTURE, AwNTIR, adventure,
GK. 27, 29, 2522. AA. i. 1. lv. 13.
TEREZ, pl. 2527.

AUNTERED, p. p. ventured, GK. 1516. AUTHER, either, GK. 88, 702. AA. xvi. 3. MS. D. Pinkerton misprints this word anyes, which is explained by Mr. Guest once!

A-VANTERS, portions of the nombles of a deer, which lay near the neck; a term used in wood-craft, GK. 1342.

Then dresse the nombles, fyrst that ye recke; Downe the auauncers kerue, that cleuyth to the necke;

And down wyth the bolthrote put theym anone.
Boke of St. Alban's, 1496, sign. d. iv.

One croke of the nombles lyeth euermore
Under the throte-bolle of the beest before,
That callyd is auauncers, whoso can theym kenne.
ib, sign. e. i.

AUENAND, AUENANT, AUENANTE, comely, AA.XXIV.3. GG.339. Used substantively,

man being understood, GG. 1194, 1283. AUYNANTIS, pl. 648. AUENTAYLE, the open and moveable portion of the helmet which covered the mouth, for the purpose of respiration, GK. 608. So in the alliterative Scotish romance of Morte Arthure,

He brayedez one a bacenett, burneschte of syluer, The beste that was in Basille, wyth bordurs ryche; The creste and the coronalle enclosed so faire, Wyth clasppes of clere golde, couched wyth stones; The vesare, the aventaile, enarmede so faire, Voyde w' owttyne vice, wt wyndowes of syluer. MS. Linc. A. 1. 17. f. 63.

This term is frequently used in early writers for the whole front of the helmet, including the visor, and much confusion has hence arisen. Consult Allou's paper Sur les Casques du Moyen Age, 4me epoque, published in the Memoires des Antiquaires de France, Nouv. Ser., tome i. pp. 161-191, 8vo, 1835. It must be also remarked, that in the prose French romances of the Round Table, the ventaille is a distinct piece of armour, and put on before the helmet. See particularly Roman de Perceval, f. cxii, cxivb, ed. 1530; Roman de Lancelot, vol. i. f. xlii. ed. 1513; Rom. de Meliadus, f. clxxi. ed. 1528; and Rom. de Merlin, vol. ii. f. cxb, ed. 1498. AUENTURUS, adventures, GK. 491. A-VYSE, AWYSE, to think, devise, GK.45,1389. AUYSED, p. t. viewed, observed, 771.

Avow, A-vOWE, vow, oath, AA.xvi. 11. GG. 273, 296. GC. 518. AKC. 22, 129, 147. Aw,pr. t.owns, possesses, GG. 262; demands, requires, 730. See A3г.

A-WHARF, p. p. whirled round, GK. 2220.
A-wondirde, p. p. astonished, aa. xxvi. 9.
AXYD, p. t. asked, &c. 334.

A3AYN, A3AYNES, A3AYNEZ, A-3enst, to-
wards, GK. 815, 971; against, 1459, 1661,
GC. 388, 478; opposite, 362.
A3LEZ, fearless, GK. 2335.

A3т, A3TE, p. t. owned, possessed, GK. 767, 843, 1775, 1941. See Aw.

B.

BACHILER, BACHILERE, bachelor, GG. 94, 1335.

BACENETT, BASNET, a light helmet, worn with or without a moveable front, AA. xxx. 3. GG. 601, 844.

BADE, BAID, p. t. abode, tarried, GK. 1699. AA. iv. 1. GG.841; endured, persisted, 686, 936. See BODE.

BAY, round, GK. 967.

BAY, BAYE, bay or baiting of a wild-boar, when attacked by dogs, GK. 1450, 1564,

1582.

BAID, n. delay, GG. 1349. See ABAID. BAYEN, pr. t. bay, bait, bark at, GK. 1909. BAYED, p. t. 1142, 1362, 1603. BAILL, BALE, harm, evil, grief, GK. 2041, 2419. AA. xxiii. 4, xxv. 9. GG. 293, 716, 1134. GC. 530. Gr.K. 222. c. 197, 418. BALES, pl. AA. viii. 12.

BAINE, BAYN, Bayne, Bane, prompt, ready, GK. 1092, 2158. GG.1209. TG. 108. c.308. Used adverbially, GG. 74, 79, 921. See BOUN.

BAIR, boar, GG. 733, 822. BAYST, p. t. was abashed, GK. 376. A word of no unusual occurrence, from the Fr. abaisser. Stevenson quotes it incorrectly the bayst, and then, without any authority, converts bayst into a substantive, and explains it blow. On re-considering the pas

He prints the

sage, I think he will be convinced of his mistake. See Boucher, v. Baist. BAYTHE, to grant, GK. 327. BAYTHE, BAYTHEN, pr. t. 1404, 1840. Stevenson is here again greatly in error. line, schal bay then thy bone, and interprets bay by obey! It is in defence of my own explanations that I feel obliged to notice these mistakes in a truly valuable work, which I still trust will be continued. BALE, belly, GK.1333. In Stevenson's Add. to Boucher, this word is, I conceive, erroneously interpreted the scrotum. BALEFULLE, evil, noxious, aa. xvii. 3. BALEZ, bowels, GK. 1333.

BAL3E, ample, swelling, GK. 2032,2172. Mr. Stevenson, however, explains it in the sense of plain, smooth.

BAN, to curse, TG. 157. BANNE, BANNENE, pr. t. AA. vii. 11. MS. D. xlvi. 7. BANKERS, BANKOWRES, table-clothes, AA. xxvii. 4. MS. D. xxxv. 2.

BANRENT, banneret, noble, GG. 207, 1335. BANRENTIS, pl. 5, 1274.

BARAYNE, barren, applied to hinds not gravid, GK. 1320. BARAYNES, BARRayne, pl. used substantively, AA. iv. 2. BARBE, edge of an axe, GK. 2310. BEZ, pl. points of arrows, 1457. BARBICAN, out-work or tower of a castle, GK. 793.

BAR

BARBORANNE, barberry, a shrub, aa. vi. 6. See BERBER.

BARCELETT, species of bow, Aa. iii. 12, iv. 1. See Stevenson's Add. to Boucher, v. Berselet.

BARE, mere, unconditional, GK. 277. In GK. 1141, it is applied to the motes or blasts of a horn, and seems to mean short, or without rechate. It is used adverbially, 465. BARELY, unconditionally, certainly, GK.548. BARE-HEUEDIS, boars' heads, AA. XXX. 8. See BER-HEDIS.

BARET, BARRAT, strife, contest, GK.21,353. 2115; grief, GK. 752. AA. xxiii. 4. GG. 1133.

BARFRAY, tower, GG. 774. By the mention of bells in the following line the connexion between this word and belfrey would seem to be established. See Stevenson's Add. to Boucher, in v.

BARLAY, apparently a corruption of the
French par loi, GK. 296.
BARNE, child, AA. xxiv. 11. MS. D. Applied
to Christ, xviii. 1. See BERNE.
BARRED, p. p. striped diagonally, GK. 159,
600. See Tyrwhitt's Notes on Chaucer,
iv. 150, ed. 1822, and Warton's Hist. Engl.
Poetr. ii. 213. Stevenson interprets it
cross-chequered, but, I think, erroneously.
BARRES, diagonal stripes, GK. 162.
BARTYNIT, p. p. struck, battered, GG. 716,
The Editor of the reprint of 1827 is mis-
taken in wishing to read Barkynit.
BASNET, see BACENETT.
BASTEL-ROUEZ, turreted or castellated roofs,
GK.799.

BATE, debate, conflict, GK. 1461.
BATED, p. t. abated, J. 88.

BATOLLIT, p. p. imbattled, GG. 43.

BAUDERYK, strap by which the shield was suspended round the neck, GK. 621; belt or lace, 2486.

BAWE, bow of a saddle? GK. 435.
BAWE-MEN, bowmen, GK. 1564.
Be, by, GK. 652, 1216.

BEAU, fair, GK. 1222.

BE-CALLE, pr. t. require, challenge, AA. xxxii. 7.

BE-COм, p. t. went, GK. 460.

BEDDEZ, pr. t. bids, GK. 1374. BEDE, p. t. bade, 1437, 2090.

BEDE, to proffer, GK. 374. BEDE, pr. t. and imp. proffer, offer, 382, 2322. Bede, BEDDE, p. t. 1824, 1834, 2248. AA.1.8. BE-DENE, BE-DEENE, BYDEENE, continously? together? moreover? AA. i. 11, xxiv. 6. xxvi. 6. xxxvi. 4. xl. 9. GG. 29, 239, 319, 322. Gr.K. 230; forthwith? Gc. 48. Consult Boucher's Glossary in v. with regard to this difficult word. BEDIS, prayers, aa. xvi. 5.

BEENE, are, TG. 22.

BEFORNE, BYFORNE, before, GK. 1375, 1577,
GG. 87.

BEFT, p. p. beaten, GG. 870.
BEGE, big, GC. 229.

BEGGYNGE, mansion, GG. 159. SEE BIG

GING.

BEILD, BELDE, protection, shelter, GG. 445, 641, 650, 822, 935, 1184. BEILDING, place of shelter, GG. 32. BEILDIT, p. t. imaged, formed, GG. 390,1146. See Jamieson, v. Beldit. I think he is mistaken in the explanation given under Beild.

BEIRDIS, ladies, GG. 1146. See BIRDE, Burde.

BEIRNIS, BEIRNYS, men, knights, GG. 204,
686. See BEryn, Burn.
BEIS, pr. t. is or will be, GG. 821.
BEKIRE, to attack, act hostilely against, AA.
iv. 2.

BE-KNEW, subj. should acknowledge, GK.903.
BE-KNOWEN, p.p. acknowledged, 2391.
See BI-KNOWE.
BELDE, See Beild.

BELE-CHERE, good company or presence,

GK. 1034.

BELEF, badge? GK. 2486, 2517. Has this word any connexion with the Fr. belif, as it appears in the following passage? "Et quel escu portiez vous ? Dame, je portay à la premiere foys ungescu blanc à une bande de belif vermeille."-Rom. de Lancelot, i. f. lxxxii. Elsewhere I find une bende blanche de bellif."—ib. i. f. cxxx. BELIFE, BE-LYFE, quickly, AA.xxxix. 3. GG. 369, 622. See BILIUE. BELLE, bonfire, aa. xv. 6.

BELLE, part of a lady's dress, perhaps the mantle, AA. xxix. 3.

BEMYS, trumpets, GG. 467. BEMYT, p. p. summoned by sound of trumpet, GG. 746.

BEN, prompt, ready, c. 302. See BAINE. BE-NAME, p. t. took, acquired, GG. 227. BENDE, band, bond, GK. 2505, 2517.

BENDE, p. t. and p. p. bent, GK. 305, 2224;

put down, 2105.

BENE, to be, GK. 141. BEN, pr. t. are or will be, 1646.

BENE, well, fair, GK. 2402, 2475. GG. 601, 688, 844, 1032. AA. vi. 6. xxix. 4. xxx. 3. lii. 8. In every instance but one this word is coupled with ful. It is impossible to interpret the majority of these passages by quickly, as Stevenson would have us. See his Additions to Boucher, in v. BENT, plain, field, so denominated from a coarse grass growing on open lands. GK. 353, 1465, 1599, 2115, 2233, 2338. AA. xxvi. 5, xlix. 5. GG. 156, 637. c.68. BER, beer, GK. 129.

BER-HEDIS, BERE-Hedes, boars' heads, AA. xxx. 8. MS. D. GG. 605. See BARE

HEUEDIS.

BERBER, barberry, a shrub, aa. vi. 6. MS. D. BER, BERE, p. t. bare, carried, GK.637,1913. BERE, noise, AA. x. 8.

Beriallis, Beryallis, Beryell, Beriles, beryls, precious stones, AA. xlvi. 2. GG. 896, 952, 1086.

BERYNE, BERNE, man, knight, noble, GG. 59, 91, 115. AA. X. 5. BERYNS, BERNIS, BERNYS, pl. GG. 5, 378, 637. aa. iv. 1, xiv. 5, xxxviii. 9, xlix. 5. See BEIRNIS, BURN.

BERN, barn, GC. 52.

BERZ, BERZE, mount, hill, GK. 2172, 2178. BESANDIS, BESANTES, besants, AA. xxix. 4. GG. 1086.

BEST, beast, animal, GK. 1436. AA. 553.
BESTES, pl. 1377.

BE-STAD, p. p. circumstanced, J. 428.
BETE, to amend, better, AA. viii. 12. BEtte,
p. p. applied to fire, GK. 1367.
BETTE, to beat, Gc. 148, 158. BET, BETIT,

p. t. GG. 626, 680, 989. BETEN, p. t. pl. GK. 1437. BETEN, BETIN, p. p. worked, embroidered (Fr. battu), GK. 78, 1833, 2028. GG. 317.

BEVERAGE, drink, liquor, GK. 1112, 1409.

From the first passage, and one in Piers

Plouhman, it would seem to have been the custom to drink, when making a bargain. BEUEREN, flowing? AA. xxviii. 6. MS. D. The Lincoln MS. reads burely. Jamieson seems inclined to explain it shaking, but I think he is wrong. The word occurs again in the alliterative Morte Arthur.

The bolde kynge is in a barge, and a-bowthe rowes, Alle bare-heuede for besye, with beueryne lokkes. MS. Linc. A. 1. 17. f. 91.

BEUER-Hwed, color of a beaver? GK. 845. Is there any connexion with the preceding word?

BEWES, BEWIS, boughs, AA. iii. 13, x. 10. GG. 468.

BY-BLED, p. p. made bloody, aa. xliv. 11.
BY-CLAGGEDE, p. p. besmeared, aa. ix. 2.
BYCOMES, pr. t. befits, GK. 471. BICOME,
p. t. became, 6.

BIDE, BYDE, BYDEN, to abide, endure, GK.
374, 520, 1582, 2041. GG. 1037. BIDES,
BYDEZ, BYDIS, pr. t. abides, awaits, stays,
GK. 376. AA. iii. 3, x. 5, xxv. 9.
BY-DENE, See BE-DENE.
BIGES, pr. t. builds, GK. 9. BIGGED, BYG-
Ged, Byggede, p. p. inhabited, built, 20.
AA. vi. 6, lii. 8.

BIGGING, mansion, c. 109. See BEGGYNGE.
BIGLY, BYGLY, loudly, GK. 1141; deeply, se-
verely, 1162; boldly, 1584; strongly, GG.
43. The second of these instances is in-
terpreted hugely by Guest, Hist. Engl. Rh.
ii. 167, but under a misapplication.
BIGRAUEN, p. p. engraved, GK. 216.
BI-GRYPTE, p. t. grasped, GK. 214.
BIHALDEN, BIHOLDE, p. p. indebted, be-
holden, GK. 1547, 1842.
BY-HODE, p. t. behoued, GK. 717.
BIKE, building, GG. 406.

BYKENNEN, pr. t. commend, GK. 1307. BIKENDE, p. t. 596, 1982. See Stevenson's Add. to Boucher, v. Bekenne, which is, however, far from satisfactory as to the etymology.