A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300Coleridge, Herbert
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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300
Coleridge, Herbert
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Underfang, _v. a._ == take up. RG. 371; pret. ‘underfong’
---- == understand. HD. 115
---- == elect. RG. 447
---- == receive, acknowledge. RG. 461. Wright’s L. P. p. 59
Underfind, _v. a._ == discover. Wright’s L. P. p. 45
Underfoot. 2031 B.
Underganging, _sb._ == humiliation. Ps. xl. 10
Undergo, _v. a._ == make to go under. Ps. xvi. 13
Underhand, == under one’s hand, in one’s power. RG. 141
Underlay, _v. a._ == put under. Ps. viii. 8
Underlout, _v. n._ == bow to. Ps. lix. 10; xxxvi. 7. AS. underlútan
Undern, _sb._ == third hour of the day, or 9 A.M. 2482 B.; [under].
Wright’s L. P. p. 41. AS. undern. MG. undaurns
Undernime, _v. a._ == take up. Body and Soul, 111
Understand, _v. a._ RG. 386; ‘Thu nart understonde’ == thou dost not
understand. RG. 453
---- _v. n._ RG. 78; ‘To understonde hym’ == ‘suggest to himself or
devise.’ RG. 431
Understanding, _sb._ Ps. cx. 10; cxviii. 73
Underthewe, _v. a._ == subdue. Alys. 1406. AS. under þeowan
Underwit, _v. a._ == understand; pret. ‘underwat.’ O. and N. 1089
Underȝete, _v. a._ == understand. RG. 401; perceive, discover. RG. 165.
AS. under-gitan
Undeserved, _adj._ RG. 54
Undo, _v. a._ == destroy. RG. 384, 477
---- == open. Wright’s L. P. pp. 58, 71
Undreh, == intolerable? Wright’s L. P. p. 41. AS. dreogan
Uneasily, _adv._ 2252 B.
Uneasy, _adj._ 1482 B.
Uneaten, _adj._ [un-y-ete]. 296 β
Unelde, _sb._ == extreme old age. Ps. lxx. 18
Unele, _sb._ == sickness. RG. 377. AS. unhǽlu
---- == wickedness. RG. 384
---- _adj._ == evil. RG. 428
---- _v. n._ == become sick. RG. 349
Unfain, _adj._ Rel. Ant. i. 113
Unfast, _adj._ == insecure. Ps. xvii. 27
Unfele, _adj._ == evil. O. and N. 1379. See ‘unfæle’ in Gloss, to Laȝ.
Unfest, _adj._ == insecure. Ps. xxv. 1; xxvi. 2
Unfestand, _adj._ == insecure. Ps. ix. 4
Unfete, _adj._ == not feat, not good. Wright’s L. P. p. 43. Fr. faiteis
Unfiled, _adj._ == undefiled. Ps. xvii. 31
Unfillandlike, _adj._ == insatiable. Ps. c. 5
Unforholde, _adj._ == unrewarded. M. Ode, st. 30. AS. unforgolden
Unfree, _adj._ == niggardly, illiberal. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 191
Unfulmaking, _sb._ == imperfection. Ps. cxxxviii. 16
Ungirt, _part._ RG. 526
Unglad, _adj._ Wright’s L. P. p. 29
Ungood, _adj._ O. and N. 129. Ps. i. 1
Ungreithe, Ungreithed, _adj._ == unready. Wright’s L. P. p. 99. 2241 B.
Ungrete, _sb._ == smallness. O. and N. 752
Unhallowed, _adj._ RG. 349
Unhealth, _sb._ M. Ode, st. 96, 8
Unhele, _v. a._ == uncover. Ps. xxviii. 9. AS. unhélan
Unhendly, _adv._ RG. 412
Unholde, _adj._ == unpleasant. Wright’s L. P. p. 24. AS. unhold
Unhonest, _adj._ == foul, indecent. Alys. 6472
Unhooded, _adj._ Ritson’s AS. xvii. 126
---- == lay, a layman. O. and N. 1176
Unhosed, _adj._ RG. 526
Unicorn, _sb._ Alys. 6710. Ps. xxviii. 6
Unisome, _adj._ == disunited. O. and N. 1520
Uniune, _sb._ == pearl. Cok. 87. Lat. unio
Unker, == of us two. See I
Unkevel, _v. a._ == uncover. HD. 601
Unkindly, _adv._ == against nature or kind. HD. 1250
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