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.
Outend, _v. a._ == exterminate. Ps. lxxix. 14
Outerly, _adv._ ‘al outerliche’ == intently. Alys. 220
Outgang, _sb._ Ps. xxx. 23
Outgate, _sb._ == going out. Ps. cxiii. 1
Outgo, _v. n._ Ps. xliii. 10. pret. ‘outyhode.’ Ps. xviii. 5
Outgoing, _sb._ Rel. Ant. ii. p. 191
Outlaw, _sb._ HD. 41
Outlead, _v. a._ Ps. lxvii. 7
Outlet, _sb._ [utlete]. O. and N. 1752
Outloted, _part._ == overthrown? Ps. cxl. 6. AS. lútan. part. ‘loten’
Outly, _adv._ RG. 66, 239
Outmost, _adj._ RG. 549
Output, _v. a._ Ps. v. 11
Outrage, _sb._ RG. 136; ‘said none outrage’ == spoke truly. RG. 432
Outseek, _v. a._ RG. 435
Outsend, _v. a._ Ps. ciii. 30
Outsheath, _v. a._ Ps. xxxvi. 14
Outshun, _v. a._ == make to avoid. Ps. xxiv. 15; to pluck up? Ps. cxxviii.
6
Outspit, _v. a._ part. ‘outspat.’ Alys. 1628
Outspring, _v. n._ pret. ‘outsprang.’ Alys. 493
Outsterandness, _sb._ == excuse. Probably for ‘outscerandness.’ Ps. cxl.
4. See the V. L. AS. scíran
Outstere, _sb._ == excuse. Probably for ‘outscere.’ Ps. cxl. 4. See the V.
L. So ‘stakered’ is written for ‘skatered’ in v. 7
Outtake, _v. a._ == take out. Ps. vi. 5. part. ‘outane.’ Ps. cxxiii. 7
Outthrow, _v. a._ Ps. lxxii. 18
Outward, _adv._ 2208 B.
Outwending, _sb._ == departure. Wright’s L. P. p. 75
Outweringnes, _sb._ == vexation, weariness. Ps. xxx. 19
Outwryghe, _v. a._ == discover. Alys. 6483. AS. wreon
Ovemest, _adj._ == highest, upmost. Fragm. Sci. 24
Oven, _sb._ O. and N. 292 (in dat. ‘ofne’). AS. ofen
Ovenon, _adv._ ‘on ovenon’ == above, upon. Alys. 2234. S. S. anovenan. See
Laȝ. iii. 34
Over, _prep._ == ‘across.’ Pol. S. 70
---- == superior to, beyond. Ps. cxviii. 103
Overal, _adv._ RG. 375
Overcast, _adj._ (of the sky). 1415 B.
Overcome, _v. a._ RG. 401, 454, 548
Overdear, _adj._ == very costly. RG. 389
Overdeed, _sb._ == a doing too much, surfeit. O. and N. 352
Overest, _sb._ == highest part. Ps. ciii. 3
Overfall, _v. a._ == fall upon. Ps. lvii. 9
Overfare, _v. n._ == pass away. HD. 2163
---- _v. a._ == pass over. O. and N. 387. pret. ‘overfore.’ Ps. cxxiii. 5.
part. ‘overfaren.’ Ps. cxxiii. 5
Overgilt, _part._ == gilt. St Kath. 158
Overgo, _v. n._ [over-gan]. O. and N. 950
Overhead, _sb._ == blow on the head. Alys. 7396
Overheave, _v. a._ part. ‘overhoven.’ Ps. lxxi. 16
Overhele, _v. a._ == conceal. Ps. xliii. 16
Overhohe, _v. a._ == despise. O. and N. 1404. AS. ofer-hogian
Overhope, _v. n._ == hope constantly. Ps. cxviii. 43
Overmirth, _v. n._ == insult. Ps. xxxiv. 19
Overmost, _adj._ == highest. Ps. ciii. 13
Overnoon, _sb._ == midday. Ps. xxxvi. 6
Overquatie, _v. a._ == overfill. O. and N. 353. Halliwell gives ‘Quatted’
== full, satiated. Probably from the ON. kvett, meat; another form of kjöt
Oversee, _v. a._ == look over (lit.). O. and N. 30
Overshun, _v. a._ == swallow up? Ps. cxxiii. 4
Oversid. O. and N. 1436; either == oversees, looks after, from AS.
ofer-seon; or == regards, takes charge of, from AS. ofer-sittan
Oversore, _adj._ RG. 280
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