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
Rourde, sound, A. 112. A.S. _reord_, _reard_, speech, language.
Route, snore, C. 186. Fr. _router_. O.N. _rauta_, to roar, bellow.
“Dormiendo sonare, Anglice to _rowtyn_.”
--(MS. Bibl. Reg. 12 B. i. f. 88.)
Rownande, murmuring, A. 112.
Rowned, sounded, C. 64. A.S. _rúnian_, to whisper.
Rowtande, rushing, B. 354. “A _routond_ rayn,” T. B. 1986.
Rowte, company, band, host, B. 969, 1197, 1782.
Rowwe, row, C. 216.
Royl, royal, B. 790.
{Roȝ, Roȝe,} rough, B. 382, 1724; C. 139, 147; roughness, B. 1545;
C. 144.
Roȝly, roughly, B. 433. Is it an error for _rwly_, sorrowful?
Roȝt, cared for (_pret._ of _reche_), C. 460.
Ruchen, fettle, set in order, C. 101. M.H.G. _rechen_. O.S. _recon_.
A.S. _recan_, to order, direct.
“(He) _riches_ him radly to ride and remowis his ost.”
--(K. Alex. p. 172.)
“[The king] Ricchis his reynys.” --(T. B. 1231.)
Ruddon, light, literally redness, B. 893. O.N. _rodna_, rubescere,
erubescere; _rodi_, rubor, rubigo. Prov.E. _roaded_, _rody_,
streaked.
Rudnyng, ? lightning, C. 139. See _Ruddon_.
Rueled, rushed, B. 953. O.N. _hrolla_. Dan. _rulle_.
Ruful, sorrowful, pitiful, A. 916.
Runnen (_p.p._ of _rinne_), run, A. 26, 874.
Runisch, strange, B. 1545. A.S. _rénisc_, hidden; from _rún_,
a mystery.
Runyschly, fiercely, roughly, C. 191. _Renisch_ or _runisch_,
signifies not only strange but fierce, rough. N.Prov.E. _rennish_,
_rinnish_, furious.
“Than has sire Dary dedeyne and derfely he lokes;
Rysys him up _renysche_ and reȝt in his sete.”
--(K. Alex. p. 100.)
Rurd, cry, noise, B. 390; C. 64. A.S. _reord_.
Ruþe, arouse, B. 895, 1208. See _Roþeled_.
Ruyt, hasten, endeavour, C. 216. Fris. _rite_, to pull.
Rwe, to pity, C. 176, 502; _vb. impers._ _rwe_, repent, B. 290, 561.
A.S. _hreówan_, to rue, repent, grieve; _hreówian_, to be sorry for.
Rwly = ruly, sorrowfully, piteously, B. 390; C. 96.
Ryal, royal, A. 160; B. 786.
Ryally, royally, A. 987; B. 812.
Rybaude, ribald, C. 96.
Rybe, ruby, A. 1007.
Ryche, kingdom, A. 601, 722. A.S. _ríce_.
Ryche, rich, A. 770.
Rydelande, drifting, C. 254. See _Ridlande_.
Rydelles, without counsel, uncertain, B. 969. See _Redeles_.
Ryf = rife, abundant, plentiful, A. 770, 844. A.S. _ryf_, frequent.
O.N. _rifr_.
“Forþi he hight (promised) þam giftes _riif_,
Þat suld bring David of his liif;
In feild and tun, in frith and felle,
Saul soght David for to quelle.”
--(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 43a.)
{Ryg, Ryge,} rain, torrent, shower, B. 354, 382. O.N. _hregg_. A.S.
_racu_. N.Prov.E. _rag_.
Ryngande, ringing, B. 1082.
Rynk, man, C. 216. See _Renk_.
Rypande, searching, trying, B. 592. O.E. _rype_, to probe, plunder.
A.S. _rypan_; N.Prov.E. to investigate.
“Now if ye have suspowse to Gille or to me,
Com and _rype_ oure howse, and then may ye se who had hir.”
--(Town. Myst. p. 112.)
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