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.
---- == cruelly. 1540 B.
Unkindness, _sb._ RG. 31
Unkunde, _adj._ == not legitimate (of a king). RG. 423
Unkundede, _sb._ == unkindness. RG. 479
Unlast, _v. n._ == not to last. Ps. lxxxix. 6
Unlaw, _v. a._ == outlaw. RG. 473. 602 B.
Unlawfully, _adv._ Wright’s L. P. p. 53
Unlede, _adj._ == wicked. O. and N. 974. AS. unlǽd
Unlength, _sb._ == want of length. O. and N. 752
Unliche, _adv._ == only. Alys. 69
Unlike, _adj._ O. and N. 804
Unlovesome, _adj._ Alys. 6423
Unlust, _sb._ == misery, want of pleasure. Body and Soul, 95
Unmade, _adj._ Creed of St Athan. 31
Unmarried, _adj._ RG. 31
Unmeek, _adj._ Ps. iv. 3
Unmeet, _adj._ Wright’s L. P. p. 23
Unmerry, _adj._ [unmurie]. O. and N. 346
Unmethe, _sb._ == want of moderation. O. and N. 352. AS. unmæte
Unmight, _sb._ == weakness. 1443 B.
Unmighty, _adj._ Wright’s L. P. p. 22
Unmild, _adj._ O. and N. 61; 1497 B.
Unnait, _adj._ == vain, useless. Ps. ii. 1. AS. unnet
Unnaitlike, _adv._ == vainly. Ps. xxxviii. 12
Unnaitnes, _sb._ == vanity. Ps. xl. 7
Unne, _v. a._ == love. Wright’s L. P. p. 40. ON. unna
Unne, _v. n._ == grant, allow. M. Ode, 158; 1 s. pres. ‘an.’ O. and N.
1737. AS. unnan
Unnethe, _adv._ == scarcely. RG. 377, 491
Unnoteful, _adj._ == useless. Ps. lii. 4
Unorn, _adj._ == rude. K. Horn, 328. AS. unórne, unórnlíc
Unornelske, _adv._ == rudely. HD. 1941
Unpared, _adj._ Pilate, 232
Unplye, _v. a._ == unfold. Alys. 3000
Unquert, _sb._ == sorrow. Ps. xxx. 13. See Quert
---- _adj._ == sorrowful. Ps. x. 3
Unred, _sb._ == want of wisdom. O. and N. 161. AS. unrǽd
Unreken, _adj._ == disorderly, bad. Wright’s L. P. p. 100. AS. ungerec
Unride, _adj._ == large. HD. 964; unwieldy. HD. 1795; deep, or wide (of a
wound). HD. 1981, 2673; numerous. HD. 2947. AS. ungerýdu
Unright, _sb._ RG. 375, 417
---- _adj._ 330 B.
Unrighteous, _adj._ Ps. v. 6
Unrighteousness, _sb._ Ps. xxxvi. 7
Unrightfulness, _sb._ O. and N. 1740
Unripe, _adj._ O. and N. 320
Unroned, _adj._ == desolate. Ps. lxxviii. 7. See Rone
Unroningness, _sb._ == desolation. Ps. lxxii. 18
Unryde, _v. n._ == make incursion, attack. Manuel des Pecches, v. 904. AS.
onrídan
Unsaht, _adj._ == unreconciled. Wright’s L. P. p. 42. AS. unsæht
Unseemly, _adj._ Wright’s L. P. p. 31
Unsele, _adj._ == miserable, bad. O. and N. 1002. AS. unsǽl
Unselines, _sb._ == misery. Ps. xiii. 3
Unselthe, _sb._ == misfortune. M. Ode, st. 96. O. and N. 1261
Unsete, _adj._ == not good, or right. Wright’s L. P. pp. 23, 31. AS.
unsidu
Unsewed, _part._ Pilate, 169
Unshapen, _adj._ == uncreated. Creed of St Athan. 23
Unshent, _adj._ == unpunished. Manuel des Pecches, 2733
Unshrined, _adj._ RG. 518
Unshut, _adj._ Alys. 2767
Unsithe, _sb._ == misfortune. O. and N. 1162. AS. unsið
Unsode, _adj._ == unsodden, unboiled. O. and N. 1005
Unspeedy, _adj._ Ps. lxxxviii. 35
Unspring, _v. n._ == open? Alys. 2902
Unspurn, _v. a._ == kick open. K. Horn, 1106
Unstable, _adj._ RG. 510
Unsteadfast, _adj._ Moral Ode, st. 122
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