GLOSSARY
abashed, bent, lowered; cast down.
abate, cast down.
abiden, waited for.
abought, bought.
abrayed, started up.
accord, ‘make at a.,’ reconcile.
accorded, agreed, reconciled.
accordment, reconciliation.
account, count.
accounted, counted.
acquit, requite.
adoubted, afeared.
adread, afraid.
adventure, peril, venture.
advice; ‘at mine a.,’ in my opinion.
advised him, deliberated with himself.
advisement, advice.
advision, avision, vision.
afeared, afraid.
after, according to, afterwards.
afterdele, disadvantage.
after-supper, dessert.
affiance, trust.
again, against, towards.
againward, against, towards.
agone, ago.
aknowe, acknowledge, know.
alighted, illumined.
alit, alighted.
all day, always.
all out, altogether, quite.
allegeance, alleviation.
allowed, praised.
almeryes, cupboards, chests.
alther, althers, of all; ‘our a.,’ of us all.
alygement, alleviation.
amazed, dazed.
amounted, mounted.
an, if.
ancient men, old, aged men.
anguishly, full of anguish.
anon, immediately.
apayed, satisfied.
apparelled, furnished, appointed.
appeach, impeach.
appeached, impeached.
appel, accuse, bring to trial.
appelled, impeached, accused.
apperceive, perceive.
appertices, feats, dexterities.
approved, tried.
a-purpose, on purpose.
araged, enraged.
araised, raised.
arase, efface.
armyvestal, (?) martial, fierce; or perhaps, solemn, grave (? earnestful, ‘arnystal’).
arrayment, garments.
arson, saddle-bow.
as, like, as if.
askance, sideways, indirectly, casually.
aspies, spies.
assay, try, essay, test.
assoil, absolve.
assoiled, absolved.
assotted, besotted, doted on, infatuated.
astonied, stunned.
at arms! to arms!
attaint, reached, come to.
a-two, in two, asunder.
avail, advantage.
avaled, lowered.
avaunt, vaunt, boast.
avaunting, boasting.
aventred, couched (spoken of a spear).
avised, advised, prepared.
avoid, quit, leave.
avoided, left, sprang from.
avow, vow, acknowledge.
avows, vows.
awayward, away.
awke, backward, back-handed.
awroke, avenged.
bain, bayne, bath.
bands, bonds.
barbican, an outwork of a fort.
barbs, (?) fences.
barget, small barge.
battle, battalion.
bawdy, dirty.
beamous = beaumes, trumpets.
be-bled, covered with blood.
beclosed, enclosed.
become, gone, got to; ‘is b.,’ has got to.
bedashed, bedecked.
begrip, grasp firmly.
behight, commanded, promised, threatened.
beholding, beholden.
behote, promise.
beleft, left.
benome, taken from, robbed.
bereave, deprive.
bereaved, taken from.
besaunte, a golden coin, so called because first coined at Byzantium or Constantinople.
beseek, seek earnestly.
beseemeth; ‘me b.’ it seems to me.
beseen, provided, appointed.
beset, set earnestly.
beskifte, thrust off, get rid of.
bestad, bestead, placed, situated; ‘hard b.,’ badly circumstanced, in hard plight.
bestial, cattle.
bestrad, bestrode.
betaken, handed over, intrusted.
betaught, commended.
betid, happened.
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