William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. Glossary
Aboon, above Admire, wonder at Advowson, the revision of a spiritual promotion, and signifies in our common law a right to present a clergyman to a Benefice. (Berdan), used to signify future possession. Airns, irons Amain, lower 5 Bale, mischief sorrow Ballup, front or flap of breeches Band, bound Bane, bone Basnets, helmets 10 Battening, feeding Befalle, befits Belive, quickly Bent, field, plain Bergamot, a pear 15 Bested, help, avail Big, to build Birk, birch Blame, wrong Blane, stopped 20 Boune, make ready Bout, bend, turn Boutesel, French boute-selle, bouter to put, selle, saddle; a trumpet call warning knights or cavalry to put on the saddle. Buskit, attired Buske, bush 25 But, rude, merely Buxom, spirited, debonair Brittling, cutting up Brome, broom Brook, preserve 30 Byckarte, hurried Bylle, battle-axe Byre, cow-house Call, cold Captived, captivated 35 Capull-Hyde, Horse-hide Carp, talk Case, cage Cast, intend Channerin’, fretting 40 Consent, harmony Consort, Latin: consortium, society Corbies, ravens Crude, unripe Curch, kerchief 45 Deal, bit Descent, Latin: deceus: comely, handsome Deodands, forfeits to Gods Den, hollow Dight, disposed of 50 Distrain, to make seizure for debt Dyghtande, preparing, in preparation Draw, inhale Dree, endure Drumlie, gloomy 55 Drury, dowry Even Cloth, fine cloth Fadge, hag Fail, turf Fare, doings 60 Farley, strange Felone, traitor, rebel Fend, keep, support Ferlies, marvels Fettled, make ready 65 Find, end Finikin, fine, handsomely dressed Flashy, insipid, tasteless Flatter’d, tossed about Fley’d, frightened 70 Fond, Fondly: foolish, foolishly For Piling, to keep clear Forced, fated Forehammers, sledge-hammers Free, precious 75 Free, noble Freits, ill omens Freyke, warrior Furs, furrows Gadding, straggling 80 Gar, make Gare, hem Gare, gore Gard, made Gaudy, joyful 85 Gin, latch Gleat, gleamed Glent, glanced Golett of ye Hode, throat, part covering the throat Grat, wept 90 Greet, cry Grevis, groves Groom, man Gryte, great Harp and Carp, chat 95 Hause, neck Hautboys, Fr. hautbois; Musical instrument Hente, caught Heriot, a vassal’s tribute to his lord Herry, harry 100 Hight, promise Hooly, slowly, gently Individual, inseparable Indu’th, endoweth Jaw, wave 105 Jimp, slender, trim Jow, stroke Kale, broth Kames, combs Lancepesade, lowest officer in foot company, commanding ten soldiers 110 Lack, ease, dowie, sad Lake, grave Lap, sprang Lawing, reckoning Lear, lying 115 Let, hinder, stop Leven, lawn Lift, sky Lin, to cease List, desire, to be dispose 120 Lowe, flame Lowe, small hill Luckets, sweetmeats Lynde, Lyne, linden, tree Margent, margin 125 Make, mate, husband Meany, company Monand, moaning Muir, moor Myllan, steel 130 Nice, coy, squeamish Palmer, pilgrim, tramp, vagabond, beggar Pallions, pavilions, tents Parley, speech Passe, limits, extent 135 Pickering, skirmishing Pistolette, pistol Quit, requited Ragged, rugged Rathe, early 140 Read, explain Reacheles, reckless Rebeck, medieval musical instrument, earliest form of violin Rede, advice Reiver, robber 145 Regealing, re-freezing Row, Rowed: wrap, wrapped Row-footed, rough-footed Sad, sober, serious Sark, shirt 150 Scapyd, hurt Scrannell, slight, thin Secure, Latin securus, free from care Sen, when Sequacious, following 155 Shamefaced, modest Shauld, shoulder Shawes, woods Shear, at once Shete, short 160 Sheen, shoes Sheugh, furrow Shradds, opening in a wood Shrindled, sparkled Shroggs, shrubs 165 Silly, harmless, innocent, simple Sith, since Skeely, skilful Slade, valley Slaiked, loosened, i.e., took off 170 Sleet, slat Slogan, war-cry Sloken, slake Slon, slay Slough, slew 175 Sparred, shut Splent, armour Sprent, spurted Spurn, retaliation Spyrred, asked, inquired 180 Starkest, strongest Stear, stir Sterne, arose Steven, voice Stint, stop 185 Stour, fight Strayght, narrow Strete, street Stye, small thoroughfare, alley Swakked, smote 190 Swapped, smote Sweavens, dreams Syke, march Tear, injury Tett, tuft, lock or knot of hair 195 The, thee: they The, prosper, thrive Theek, thatch Thir, their, these, those Thole, endure 200 Threw, throve Throly, strenuously, doggedly Tift, puff Tow, rope Town, stead 205 Toyes, trifles, vanities Tree, wood, woods Trew, trust Twin’d, deprived, parted Uncouth, unknown 210 Undershrieve, under-sheriff Unreproved, unreprovable, innocent Unrooted, uprooted Wame, womb Wane, crowd 215 Wanton, playful Wardle’s make, life-mate Warisone, reward Weal, wing Weed, garment 220 Weeds, garments, now confined to garment of widows Welt, to have power over, commanded Wex, wax, grow Whist, hushed White-thorn, hawthorn 225 Wighty, nimble Win, make Wouche, injury Wons, dwells Wrocken, wroken: revenged 230 Wud, mad Wyld, deer Yate, gate Yclept, called Your lane, alone 235 Zade, went Zare, ready Zatis, yates Ze, yea Zemen, yeomen 240
