Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and IndexesChaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes
Chaucer, Geoffrey
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
ENTREDITED, _pp._ interdicted, I 965.
ENTREE, entry, entrance, R. 517, 530, 538; B 2. p 1. 22 (see note, ii.
427); T. ii. 77; A 4243, B 2229; way of access, B 1. p 6. 55; Entrees,
_pl._ entrances, HF. 1945; entries, A. ii. 44. 27.
ENTRELACED, _pp._ intertangled, intricate, B 3. p 12. 118.
ENTREMEDLED, _pp._ intermingled, HF. 2124; mingled, B 2. p 6. 70;
Entermedled, R. 906.
ENTREMES, _s._ intervening course, 5. 665. '_Entremets_, certaine choice
dishes served in between the courses of a feast;' Cotgrave. And see _Mess_
in my Etym. Dict.
ENTREMETTE, _v. refl._ interfere, D 834; Entremeten (him) meddle with, 5.
515; Entremetteth, _pr. s._ interferes, B 2731; Entremeteth, _pr. s._
meddles, B 3. p 12. 95; Entremete, _imp. s._ take part (in), meddle (with),
T. i. 1026.
ENTREPARTEN, _ger._ to share, T. i. 592.
ENTRETE, _v._; Entreteden, _pt. pl._ treated of, discussed, B 2466.
ENTRYKETH, _pr. s._ holds fast in its subtle grasp, ensnares, 5. 403;
Entryked, _pp._ entrapped, R. 1642; '_Intriquer_, to intricate, perplex,
pester, insnare, involve;' Cotgrave.
ENTUNE, _v._ intone, tune, T. iv. 4; Entuned, _pp._ intoned, A 123.
ENTUNES, _s. pl._ tunes, 3. 309. See above.
ENTYCE, _v._ entice; Entyced, _pt. s._ I 584.
ENTYSINGE, _s._ allurement, I 353.
ENVENIMINGE, _s._ poisonous effect, E 2060; poison, I 854.
ENVEN['Y]ME, _v._ infect, 3. 641; D 474; Envenimeth, _pr. s._ poisons, B 4.
p 3. 53; Envenimed, _pp._ R. 979; B 3314.
ENVIRONINGE, _s._ circumference, surface, B 5. m 4. 106; Envyrouninge,
circumference, B 4. p 6. 85.
ENVIROUN, _adv._ roundabout, L. 300.
ENVIROUNE, _v._ encompass, B 3. m 9. 29; Envirouneth, _pr. s._ encompasses,
B 3. m 9. 21; Environeth, includes, B 5. p 4. 145; Envirounde, _1 pt. s._
surrounded, B 2. p 2. 15; Envirouned, _pp._ surrounded, B 4. m 2. 3;
Envyroning, _pres. part._ skirting, going round, R. 526.
ENV['O]LUPED, _pp._ wrapped up, enveloped, involved, C 942.
ENV['Y]E, _s._ envy, R. 297; B 3584, 3888, C 114; longing, R. 1653; _to
e._, in rivalry, 3. 173 (see note).
ENVYE, _v._ vie, strive, 3. 406; Envyen, vie (with), HF. 1231.
ENVYNED, _pp._ stored with wine, A 342.
ENV['Y]OUS, _adj._ envious, 4. 206; T. ii. 857, iii. 1454; _as s._, envious
person, T. ii. 666.
ENVYR-; see ENVIR-.
EPISICLE, _s._ epicycle, A. ii. 35. 18. A small circle, the centre of which
moves along the circumference of a larger one.
EPISTEL, _s._ letter, T. iii. 501; Epistels, _pl._ Epistles, L. 305 _a_;
Epistelles, _pl._ B 55.
EQUACION, _s._ equal partition, A. ii. 37. 9; Equacions, _pl._ equations, F
1279; Equaciouns, A. ii. 36 (rubric); calculations, A. i. 23. 3. By
'equations of houses' is meant the division of the sphere into twelve equal
portions (or 'houses'), for astrological purposes.
EQUALES, _adj. pl._ of equal length; _houres equales_, hours each
containing sixty minutes, A. ii. 8. 2; Equals, equal, A. i. 16. 10.
EQUINOXIAL, _s._ equinoxial circle, A. i. 17. 12; B 4046.
EQUINOXIES, _s. pl._ equinoxes, A. i. 17. 19.
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