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
wink.
Glymme, brightness, A. 1088. O.Sw. _glimma_, to shine.
Glysnande, shining, glistening. A. 1018. A.S. _glisnian_. O.N.
_glyssa_, to sparkle, glitter.
Glyȝt, shone, A. 114; looked, C. 453. Du. _glicken_, to shine. Icel.
_glugga_, to peep. _A-glyȝte_, slipped from, in line 245, is
evidently another form of _glyȝt_. Cf. N.Prov.E. _glea_, _aglea_,
crooked, aside; _gledge_, to look asquint. Sc. _gley_, _gly_, to
squint, all of which originally signified simply to look, shine. See
T. B. 3943.
Gnede, niggardly, beggarly, B. 146. The MS. reads nede, but _gnede_ is
the correct form. Dan. _gnide_, to rub. A.S. _gnidan_. Cf. O.E.
_nithing_, a miser. A.S. _gnethen_, moderate, sparing.
“Sua lang has thir tua boght þair sede,
Þat þair moné wex al _gnede_.”
--(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 31a.)
“Bot fra þair store bigan to sprede
The pastur þam bigan to _knede_.” --(_Ibid._ fol. 15a.)
“Bot al he tok in godds nam,
And thold luveli al þat scam;
For al to _gnede_ him thoght þe gram
Þat he moght thol on his licam” --(_Ibid._ fol. 51a.)
Goande, going, B. 931.
Goblote, goblet, B. 1277.
{God, Gode,} good, wealth. See _Goud_.
Godhede, godhead, A. 413.
Godlych, good, B. 753.
Golf, deep, abyss, A. 608.
Gome, man, A. 231; B. 1315.
Gorde = _girde_, rush, go headlong, B. 911, 957. See T. B. 169.
Gore, filth, B. 306. A.S. _gor_, wet, filth, mud. N. _gor_.
Gorste, gorse, B. 99, 534. W. _gores_, _gorest_, waste, open.
{Gost, Goste,} spirit, A. 86; B. 325, 1598.
Gostly, spiritual, ghostly, A. 790.
Gote, stream, A. 934; B. 413; C. 310; _pl._ goteȝ, A. 608. Prov.E.
_gote_, _goit_, _gowt_, ditch, sluice, mill-stream. Du. _gote_,
kennel, conduit. A.S. _geotan_, to pour.
“As _gotes_ out of _guttars_ in golanand, (glomand ?) wedors,
So voidis doun the venom be vermyns schaftes.”
--(K. Alex. p. 163.)
{Goud, Goude, God,} _adj._ good, A. 33, 568; _sb._ wealth, riches,
A. 731, 734; B. 1326.
{Goun, Goune,} gown, dress, B. 145, 1568.
Governor, B. 1645; C. 199.
Gowdeȝ, goods, C. 286.
Grace, A. 436.
{Gracios, Gracious,} A. 95, 260, 934; C. 26.
Gracyously, B. 488.
Grame, wrath, vengeance, C. 53. A.S. _grama_. Ger. _gram_, anger,
displeasure.
Graunt, _sb._ leave, permission, A. 317; _vb._ grant, B. 765; C. 240.
Grauayl, gravel, pebbles, A. 81.
Grauen, graven, B. 1324.
Grauen, buried, B. 1332.
Grayneȝ, grains, A. 31.
Grayþed, prepared, B. 343, placed, B. 1485; availed, C. 53. See T. B.
229. O.N. _greitha_, to make ready. N.Prov.E. _graid_.
Grayþely, quickly, readily, B. 341; truly, A. 499; C. 240. N.Prov.E.
_gradely_. See T. B. 54.
“On Gydo, a gome þat _graidly_ had soght,
And wist all þe werks by weghes he hade.” --(T. B. 229.)
Cf. _Graiþe_ = ready.
Gre, will, desire, C. 348; hence _bongre_, _malgre_, etc. O.Fr.
_gret_. Fr. _gré_, will, pleasure. Lat.
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