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.
---- _sb._ == learning, teaching. 2065 B.
Lore, _sb._ == loss. Alys. 7247
Loreless, _adj._ == without learning. Cok. fin.
Loren, _part._ == lost. See Lose
Loreyns, _sb._ == reins. 190 B. Fr. lorain. Lat. lorum
Los, _sb._ == fame. RG. 180, 330, 137. Fr. los
Lose, _v. a._ [lese]. RG. 436; 2 s. pres. ‘lust.’ 859 B.; pret. ‘las.’
Body and Soul, 123; part. ‘y-lore.’ RG. 160; ‘loren.’ RG. 39
Lot, _sb._ RG. 111. Ps. xxi. 18
---- == deceit? Wright’s L. P. p. 31. AS. lot
Lote, _sb._ == play, sport. Wright’s L. P. p. 49. ON. lota
Loting, _part._ == struggling? Alys. 6203. Fr. lutter
Loud, _adj._ RG. 140. HD. 2079; comp. ‘louder.’ 450 β
Lour, _v. n._ [lure]. K. Horn, 276; part. ‘luring.’ O. and N. 423. Lat.
luror
Louring, _adj._ Alys. 526
Louse, _sb._ Pol. S. 238
Lout, _v. n._ == go low. Body and Soul, 80; crouch, lie hid. O. and N.
373. AS. lútan
Love, _v. a._ [luvie]. Rel. S. v. 262; pret. ‘lovede.’ RG. 370, 375. AS.
lufian
---- _sb._ RG. 18. 39 B.
Love, _v. a._ == praise. Ps. cl. 2, sing. Ps. cv. 12; [loove]. AS. lófian
---- _adj._ == agreeable. O. and N. 1033
Loveing, _sb._ == praise. Ps. ix. 15
Lovely, _adj._ K. Horn, 464
Lovesome, _adj._ [lossom], Wright’s L. P. p. 26; comp. ‘lussomore.’ Ib. p.
51
Lovesong, _sb._ Wright’s L. P. p. 74
Low, _adj._ == humble, ‘high and low.’ RG. 514; [loȝe]. Wright’s L. P. p.
73; sup. ‘lowest.’ 1187 B.
---- == soft (of sound). HD. 2079
---- _v. n._ == become low, sink. Alys. 5746
Lowe, _sb._ == flame. Body and Soul, 216. ON. log
Lowe, _sb._ == hill. Alys. 4348. AS. hlǽw
Lud, _sb._ == voice. Wright’s L. P. p. 27. ON. hljoð
Lugge, _sb._ == log, rod. O. and N. 1607. Dut. blok. Cf. ‘lin’ and ‘blin,’
‘liss’ and ‘bliss’
Lugre, _sb._ == a precious stone. Cok. 89. The ligure of our version of
the Bible. Ex. xxviii. 19. Gr. λυγκουρίον
Lumbar, _sb._ == a ship of burthen. Alys. 6063
Lung, _sb._ Alys. 2156
Lure, _sb._ == loss. RG. 181. O. and N. 1151. AS. lor, lyre
Lurk, _v. n._ HD. 68. Sw. lura
Lust, _sb._ == sensuality. Wright’s L. P. p. 25
---- _vb. impers._ ‘him luste.’ RG. 472; ‘me lust.’ O. and N. 39, 287
Luther, _adj._ == wicked. RG. 389, 524. AS. lýðer
Luther, _sb._ == leather, a sling. RG. 394
Lutherhood, _sb._ == wickedness. RG. 454
Lutherness, _sb._ == wickedness. RG. 389, 465
Ly, _sb._ == voice. St Andrew, 84. AS. hlýd
Lye, _sb._ == moisture, [leȝe]. Pol. S. 154. AS. leah
Lyen, _sb._ == reward. M. Ode, 32. AS. leán
Lying, _sb._ Ps. iv. 3
M.
Ma, == more. Ritson’s AS. viii. 246
Ma, == make. Ps. liii. 5
---- == made. Ps. xxxii. 6
In the majority of passages where this word occurs in the Surtees
Psalter, it seems to be a mere expletive, introduced for the sake of
the rhyme. Cf. Ps. xv. 3; xvii. 34; xxi. 2; xxvii. 4; lxxxviii. 6;
xcv. 5; xcviii. 7; &c. &c.
Ma, == May? Ritson’s AS. viii. 146
Mace, _sb._ == club. RG. 207. Fr. massue
Mace, _sb._ == spice. Cok. 73. Fr. macis
Mace, _sb._ == masonry. Alys. 6258. Fr. maçonnerie
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