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
{Oȝt, Oȝte,} _vb._ ought, A. 341.
{Oȝt, Oȝte,} _pr._ aught, A. 274; B. 663.
Pace, passage, A. 677.
{Pacience, Pacyence,} C. 1, 36.
Pakke, pack, B. 1282.
Pakke, company, A. 929.
{Palayce, Palays,} B. 83, 1389, 1531.
Pale, A. 1004.
Palle = pall, fine cloth, B. 1384, 1637.
Pane, a side, division of a building, A. 1034. Lat. _pagina_, a leaf,
any flat expanse. “A _pane_, piece or pannel of a wall, of wainscot,
of a glasse window.” (Cotg.) “_Pane_ of a wall, _pan de
mur_.” (Palsg.)
Panne, head, but we may read _paune_, paws, claws, B. 1697.
Papeiay = a popinjay, a parrot, B. 1465. It. _papagallo_. O.Fr.
_papegau_, _papegay_. Sp. _papagayo_, parrot.
Parage, kindred, rank, nobleness, A. 419; B. 167. O.Fr. _parage_.
Paramoreȝ, paramours, lovers, B. 700. Fr. _par amour_, by way of love.
Paraunter, peradventure, A. 588.
Parchmen, parchment, B. 1134.
Pare, cut, B. 1408, 1536.
Parform, perform, B. 542; C. 406.
Parfyt, perfect, A. 638.
Parget, plaister of a wall, B. 1536. “_Pariette_ for walles,
blanchissure.” (Palsg.)
Parlatyk, paralytic, B. 1095.
Partleȝ, partless, portionless, A. 335.
Partrykes, partridges, B. 57.
Pass, surpass, A. 428.
Passage, journey, C. 97.
Passande, passing, B. 1389.
Pasture, C. 393.
Pater, paternoster, A. 485.
Paume, palm, hand, B. 1533, 1542.
{Pay, Paye,} pleasure, A. 1, 1164, 1176; C. 99.
Pay, please, A. 1165, 1177.
Payment, A. 598.
Paynt, A. 750.
Payre, pair, B. 335.
Payre = appayre, become worse, fade, B. 1124. Lat. _pejor_, worse.
“To _appayre_ to waxe worse.” (Palsg.)
Payred, impaired, A. 246.
Pechche, sin, fault, A. 841. Fr. _péché_.
{Penance, Penaunce,} A. 477.
Peneȝ, pens, folds (for cattle), B. 322.
Penitotes, (? _Peritotes_), a kind of stone (the _peritot_ or
_peridot_ Marsh), B. 1472.
Penne, B. 1724.
Penne-fed, B. 57.
Pensyf, pensive, A. 246.
Pented, appertained, belonged to, B. 1270.
Peraunter, peradventure, B. 43.
{Pere, Per,} equal, peer, A. 4; B. 1214, 1336.
Pereȝ, pears, A. 104.
Perile, B. 856, 942.
Perré, precious stones, jewelry, A. 730; B. 1117.
Pertly = apertly, openly, B. 244. See T. B. 1130. Cf. “_pert_ wordes,”
T. B. 977.
Peryle, A. 695; C. 85.
Pes, peace, A. 952.
Pich, pitch, B. 1008.
Pike = pick, pluck, B. 1464.
Pinnacle, B. 1463.
Pité, pity, B. 232.
{Pitously, Pytosly,} A. 370, 798.
Planed, B. 310.
Planete, A. 1075.
Plaster, B. 1549.
Plat, flat, B. 1379.
Plat, struck (_pret._ of _plette_, to strike), B. 1265. A.S.
_plættian_.
“Hwan he hauede him so schamed,
His hand (he) of _plat_, and yvele lamed.”
--(Havelok the Dane, 2755.)
Plater, plate, platter, B. 638.
Plateȝ, A. 1036.
Plat-ful, brimful, B. 83.
Plattyng, _sb._ striking (or folding?), B. 1542.
Play, A. 261.
Play-fere, play-fellow, companion, C. 45.
Playn, _adj._ even, clear, A. 178, 689; B. 1068; C. 439.
Playn, _sb._ A. 104, 122; B. 1216.
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