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
GUERDONE, _v._ reward, I 283; Guerdon (_for_ Guerdone, _before a vowel_),
T. ii. 1295; Guerdoned, _pp._ B 4. p 3. 28; B 2462.
GUERDONING, _s._ reward-giving, reward, 5. 455; Guerdoninge, T. ii. 392.
GUNNE, -N; see GINNE, _v._
GUTTES, _pl._ entrails, B 3791, 3794.
GYDE, _s._ guide, L. 94, 969; A 804; ruler, G 45; guide, wielder, 5. 136,
153.
GYDE, _ger._ to direct, lead, T. i. 183, E 776; to guide, T. iii. 1811;
Gyden, _ger._ B 1670; Gydeth, _pr. pl._ conduct, T. ii. 1104; Gyde, _imp.
s._ conduct, T. v. 322; may (He) guide, B 245; Gydeth, _imp. pl._ direct, B
1677.
GYDERESSE, _s._ conductress, B 4. p 1. 6.
GYDING, _s._ guidance, T. v. 643.
GYE, _v._ guide, 7. 340; HF. 943; A 1950, E 1429; conduct (myself), L.
2045; govern, A 3046; rule, B 3587, E 75; instruct, control, B 1286; _ger._
to guide, T. v. 546; to regulate, I 13; _imp. s._ guide, direct, 7. 6; HF.
1093; G 136; Gye, _pr. s. subj._ may (he) guide, A 2786, 2815; _as wisly he
gye_, so verily may he guide, 25. 8.
GYLE, _s._ deceit, guile, 3. 620; R. 151; A 2596, H 196; trick, T. iii.
777.
GYLOUR, _s._ beguiler, trickster, A 4321.
GYSE, _s._ guise, way, R. 182; A 663; manner, 5. 399; R. 789, 1212; A 1208,
1789, F 332, 540; custom, A 993; way, plan, T. iv. 1370; way, L. 105 _a_;
Gyses, _pl._ ways, B 4. p 6. 35.
GYTE, _s._ dress, _perhaps_ skirt _or_ mantle, A 3954; Gytes, _pl._ D 559.
See note to A 3954; cf. _gyde_ in Jamieson's Dict., where the sense is
dress, skirt, or mantle. Gascoigne uses _gite_ in the sense of dress in his
Philomena, l. 117: 'A stately Nimph, a dame of heauenly kinde, Whose
glittering _gite_ so glimsed in mine eyes, As yet I not what proper hew it
bare.'
HA! HA! _interj._ B 4571.
HABERDASSHER, _s._ seller of hats, A 361. 'The _haberdasher_ heapeth wealth
by _hattes_;' Gascoigne, Fruites of Warre, st. 64.
HABERGEOUN, _s._ a hauberk or coat of mail, A 76, 2119, B 2051;
Haubergeons, _pl._ I 1052. O.F. _hauberjon_, small hauberk, dimin. of
_hauberc_, a hauberk.
HABIT, _s._ (1) habit, A 1378; Habite, disposition, mood, B 3. p 1. 16;
practice, B 4. p 4. 195; Habit (2), dress, L. 214; Habite (_better_ Habit),
T. i. 170.
HABITACIOUN, _s._ dwelling-place, A 2926.
HABITACLE, _s._ habitable space, B 2. p 7. 36; Habitacles, _pl._ niches,
HF. 1194.
HABOUNDAUNT, _pres. pt._ abounding, B 3. p 2. 19; superabundant, B 4. p 6.
253; Habundant, E 59.
HABOUNDE, _v._ abound, 12. 12; B 3938, E 1286; Haboundinge, _pres. pt._ 1.
135.
HABUNDANT, _adj._ abundant, E 59. See HABOUNDANT.
HABUNDANTLY, _adv._ abundantly, B 870.
HABUNDAUNCE, _s._ plenty, B 2322; Habundance, T. iii. 1042; E 203, I 627;
Haboundance, 10. 29; D 1723.
HAB['Y]TEN, _pr. pl._ inhabit, R. 660.
HACCHES, _pl._ hatches, L. 648.
HACKING, _a false reading_, HF. 1303 _n_.
HADE, HADDE, _pt. s. of_ Haven.
HAF, _pt. s. of_ Heve.
HAIL, _s._ L. 1220; Hayl, D 465; Hailes, _pl._ hail-storms, HF. 967.
HAINSELINS, _s. pl._ short jackets, I 422. See note.
HAIRE, _s._ hair-shirt, R. 438. See HEYRE.
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