Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
Carr gives _demin_, a term applied to clouds when collected
in masses. Sw. _dämma_. O.Fris. _demma_, to stop, obstruct.
Dene, vale, dale, A. 295. A.S. _dene_, _denu_.
Denely, loud, A. 51.
Denned, resounded. If it does not signify _dinned_, it must mean
settled, took up its abode. A. 51.
Denounce, renounce, forsake, B. 106.
Departe, separate, part, A. 378; B. 396, 1677.
Depaynt, painted, adorned, A. 1102.
{Dep, Depe,} profound, A. 406; B. 1609.
Depres, depress, A. 778.
Depryue, A. 449; take away, B. 185.
Dere, _vb._ to harm, injure, A. 1157; B. 862. See T. B. 1260. A.S.
_derian_, to hurt, damage, injure.
Dere, precious, A. 400; valuable, B. 1792. A.S. _deóre_, dear,
precious.
Dere, dear ones, A. 777.
{Derelych, Derely,} = dearly, beautifully, excellently, A. 995; very,
B. 270.
Dereȝ, _sb._ harms, injuries, A. 102. See T. B. 920. A.S. _dar_,
_daru_, hurt, harm.
“Thai dreȝe him up to the drye (land), and he na _dere_ sufird.”
--(K. Alex. p. 189.)
Derf, great, bold, B. 862. O.N. _diafr_. Sw. _djerf_, strong, bold. “A
_derfe_ dragon,” T. B. 166. “Dang him _derffly_ don in a ded hate.”
_Ib._ 1339.
Derfly, quickly, B. 1641; C. 110.
Derk, dark, B. 1020; C. 263; night, B. 1755. A.S. _deorc_.
Derne, _adj._ secret, hidden, B. 588, 1611; _adv._ secretly, B. 697.
See T. B. 1962. A.S. _dearn_, dark, secret, hidden.
Derrest, dearest, B. 115, 1306.
Derþe = dearth, preciousness, value, worth, A. 99. See _Dere_.
Deruely = derfely, quickly, B. 632.
Derworth, precious, beautiful, A. 109. See _Dere_.
{Des, Dese,} dais, seat of honour, A. 766; B. 115, 1394.
Desert, C. 84.
Desserte, desert, A. 595.
Deseuered, severed, C. 315.
Dessypele, disciple, A. 715.
Destyné, A. 758; C. 49.
Desyre, B. 545.
Determynable, A. 594.
Deuine, _sb._ divine, B. 1302; _vb._ B. 1561.
Deuinores, diviner, B. 1578.
Deuote, devout, A. 406.
Deuoutly, B. 814.
Deuoyde, do away with, destroy, A. 15; B. 908.
{Deuyce, Deuyse, Deuice,} devise, imagine, B. 1046, 1100; describe,
A. 99, 984; order, B. 110, 238.
Deuyse, _sb._ device, A. 139.
Deuysement, description, A. 1019.
Devoydynge, putting away, _sb._ B. 544.
Dewoutly, devoutly, C. 333.
Dewoyde = devoyde, C. 284.
Dewyne = dwine, pine, A. 11.
Deystyné, destiny, B. 400.
{Deȝter, Deȝteres, Deȝtters,} daughters, B. 270, 866, 899, 933, 939.
See T. B. 1489.
Dialoke, discourse, B. 1157.
Dispayred, in despair, C. 169.
Display, B. 1107.
Displese, C. 1.
Dispit, spite, C. 50.
Dispoyled, stripped, C. 95.
Disserued, B. 613.
Disstrye, destroy, B. 907, 1160.
Disserne, discern, C. 513.
Dissert, desert, C. 12.
Distres, B. 880, 1160.
Diuinité, B. 1609.
Ditteȝ, stops up, closes, B. 588. N.Prov.E. _ditt_, to stop up. A.S.
_dyttan_.
Diȝe, die, C. 488.
Diȝte, order, arrange, B. 1266. A.S. _dihtan_, to set in order,
dispose, arrange, direct, etc.
Do, doe, “_daunce as any do_,” A. 345.
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