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
Quat, what, A. 293.
Quat-kyn, what kind of, A. 771.
Quauende, flowing, waving, B. 324.
Quayle, _sb._ quail, A. 1085.
Quayntyse, wisdom, craft, B. 1632. O.Fr. _accointer_, to make known;
_coint_, informed, acquainted with. Lat. _cognitus_.
Qued, _sb._ evil, crime, ill, B. 567; C. 4. Du. _kwaad_, bad. Pl. D.
_quat_.
Quelle, kill, A. 799; B. 324; subdue, C. 4. A.S. _cwellan_.
Queme, _adj._ pleasing, A. 1179. A.S. _cweman_, to please. Your
_qweme_ spouse, T. B. 634.
Quen, when, A. 40, 93, 232, 804.
Quenche, C. 4.
Quere, where, A. 65.
Query, A. 803.
Quest, C. 39.
Queþer-so-euer, whether-so-ever, A. 606.
Quikken, C. 471.
Quo, who, A. 747.
Quo-so, who-so, B. 1647; C. 5.
Quos, whose, B. 1648.
Quoynt, wise, A. 889; B. 160, 871; curious, B. 1459. See _Quayntyse_.
Quoyntis, clothing, B. 54. “_Quoyntyse_, yn gay floryschynge, or other
lyke. Virilia.” (Prompt. Parv.)
Quoyntyse, device, C. 39. See _Quayntyse_.
{Quyk, Quik,} quick, living (_pl._ _quykeȝ_, A. 1179; B. 567), B. 324.
Quyl, while, B. 627.
Quyte, requite, reward, A. 595; B. 1632.
Quyte, white, A. 220, 842, 844.
Raas = rase, rese, way, course, A. 1167. A.S. _ræs_, way, course,
race. Sw. _resa_.
Rac, storm, vapour, B. 433. N.Prov.E. _rack_, driving clouds, clouds
driven along by the wind.
“A _rak_ and a royde wynde rose in her saile.” --(T. B. 1984)
Rachche, proceed, go, B. 619. A.S. _ræcan_, to reach, extend. O.H.G.
_rechen_. N.Prov.E. _ratch_, stretch. Perhaps _rachche_ is a
softened form of _rayke_ (Icel. _reika_, to go), to go. S.Sax.
_ruchen_.
Rad, frightened, B. 1543. Sw. _raedd_, afraid. N.Prov.E. _rade_.
“In a _rad_ haste.” --(T. B. 917.)
“Vn-to the gryselyche gost Syr Gauane is gone,
And rayket to hit in a res, for he was neuyr _radde_;
_Rad_ was he neuyr ȝette, quoso ryȝte redus.”
--(The Anturs of Arther, p. 5; ix. 8, 9.)
Radde, advised, C. 406 (_pret._ of _rede_, to advise). See _Rede_.
Radly, readily, quickly. A.S. _rád_, ready, quick; _rádlice_,
speedily.
“The sight of þat semely sanke in hir herte,
And rauysshed hir _radly_ þe rest of hir sawle.” --(T. B. 462)
Raft, bereft, took, (_pret._ of _reve_), B. 1142, 1431; taken,
B. 1739. See _Reue_.
Rak, C. 176. See _Rac_.
Rakel, hasty, rash, C. 526. N.Prov.E. _rackle_.
Rakente, chain (?), C. 188. A.S. _raccenta_.
Rakke, C. 139. See _Rac_.
Ramelande, fetid, filthy, C. 279. Prov.E. _ram_, fetid; _rammely_,
tall, rank; _ramel_, rubbish, dirt.
Randeȝ, paths, borders, A. 105. A.S. _rand_, _rond_, a border, rim,
edge.
Rank, strong, severe, B. 233. Fris. _rank_, long-grown, rank. Dan.
_rank_, upright. See T. B. 1392, 1879.
Ranker, rancour, B. 756.
Rape, blow, B. 233. Sw. _rapp_.
Rapely, quickly, A. 363, 1168. O.E. _rape_, haste. O.N. _rápa_,
cursitare. In T. B. rape = to hasten (818).
Rasch, A. 1167.
Rasp, B. 1545, 1724.
Rasse, summit, top, B. 446.
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