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.
Afterblismed, == pregnant. Ps. lxxvii. 70. AS. blósma == a bud
Afterward, _adv._ == in the after part (of a book). RG. 6
---- == next in order, afterwards. Wright’s L. P. p. 24
Aftertale, _sb._ == postscript. 627 B.
Afterwending, _sb._ == following. Alys. 7280
Again, _adv._ == iterum, a second time. RG. 36
---- == back again [aȝé]. 147 B.
Againbuy, _v. a._ == redeem, pret. ‘agaynboghte.’ Ps. lxxiii. 2
Againbuying, _sb._ == redemption. Ps. xlviii. 9
Againcall, _v. a._ Ps. ci. 25
Againlook, _v. a._ == look back upon. Ps. xxxiv. 3
Againres, _sb._ == meeting. Ps. lviii. 6. [ogain raas]. Ps. xviii. 7
Againsaw, _sb._ == contradiction. Ps. lxxx. 8
Againsaying, _sb._ == contradiction. Ps. cv. 32
Against, _prep._ == contra, [aȝe]. 54 B. [aȝen]. RG. 367. [ogaines] Ps.
lxxxii. 4
---- == opposite to, of place, [aȝeyn]. RG. 6
---- == by the time that. Wright’s L. P. p. 23
---- == in comparison with, [aȝeynes]. Wright’s L. P. p. 68
Againstand, _v. n._ Ps. lxxv. 8
Againturn, _v. n._ == return. Ps. lxxvii. 39
Againward, _adv._ Ps. lxxvii. 57
Againwend, _v. n._ == retreat, part, ‘aȝenwendand.’ Ps. lxxvii. 9
Agast, _v. a._ == frighten. RG. 387
---- _adj._ == frightened. RG. 402. Alys. 3912. MG. us-gaisjan.
Age, _sb._ == sæculum. RG. 9
Agesse, _vb._ == calculate on, expect. K. Horn, 1219
Agin, _v. n._ == begin. O. and N. 1287
Ago, _v. n._ == go. O. and N. 1451. part. ‘agonne.’ == proceeded. RG. 561
Ago, == gone, neglected. Pol. S. 197
Agrame, _v. a._ == make angry. Alys. 3309
Agrief, _v. a._ Alys. 3785
Agrill, _v. a._ == annoy. [a-grulle]. O. and N. 1108. AS. grillan
Agrise, _v. a._ == terrify. RG. 463. pret. ‘agros.’ RG. 549. part.
‘agrise,’ == frightened. RG. 539. ‘To agrise him,’ == become furious. K.
Horn, 895. AS. agrýsan
Aground, or ‘alaground,’ == on the ground. RG. 378
Ahen, _adj._ == own. O. and N. 1284. AS. ágen
Aheve, _v. a._ == lit. lift up; hence, bring up, educate. Marg. 5. AS.
a-hefan
Ahte, _sb._ == property, goods. Wright’s L. P. p. 46. AS. æht
Ahwene, _v. a._ == vex, trouble. O. and N. 1562. AS. a-hwænan
Ainoȝe, _adj._ == anew. RG. 397
Air, _sb._ 697 β
---- == airs, pride, vaunting. RG. 51, 397
Aither, == either. 434 β
Aiware--Aihwar, == everywhere. O. and N. 216. Moral Ode, st. 42, ed.
Hickes, but the Egerton MS. reads the verse “eiðer he mai him finde”
Akelde, _vb. a._ pret. == cooled. The other reading is ‘acoled,’ q. v. RG.
442
Aken, _v. a._ == reconnoitre. Alys. 3468
Aknee, _adv._ == on the knee’s. 993 B. [aknawe]. Alys. 3540
Alaboute, _adv._ 2258 B. Many other compounds of ‘all’ are thus written as
one word, where they are now generally disjoined, thus--‘alaground.’ RG.
378
Alamed, _part._ == lamed. O. and N. 1602
Alas! _interj._ RG. 443
Alast, _adv._ == at last. Pol. S. 216
Alb, _sb._ == clothing, lit. a white robe. RG. 347. AS. albe
Albidene, _adv._ == by and by. HD. 730. Wright’s L. P. p. 61
Albysi, _adv._ == about, scarcely. RG. 81. The V. L. gives ‘unnethe’
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