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
Ta, take, arrest, C. 78. “Ta me,” take, arrest me. Tatȝ, take, B. 735.
(Cf. O.E. _ma_ = make.)
Tabarde, coat. It sometimes signifies a short coat or mantle, B. 41.
Fr. _tabar_. Ital. _tabaro_.
Tabelment, A. 994.
Taborne, tabour, B. 1414.
Tached, fixed, fastened, A. 464.
Takel, C. 233.
Tale, tale, message, B. 1437.
Talent, will, pleasure, C. 416. See T. B. 464.
Talle = tuly (?), B. 48.
Tan, taken, B. 763.
Tatȝ, take, B. 735. See _Ta_.
Tayt, agreeable, lively, B. 871. O.N. _teitr_.
“The laddes were kaske and _teyte_.” --(Havelok the Dane, 1841.)
“Ther mouhte men se the boles beyte,
And the bores with hundes _teyte_.” --(_Ibid._ 2331.)
Tayt, fear, B. 889.
“Brynges furthe, [as] sayd the boke, bestes out of noumbre,
And trottes on toward Tyre with _taite_ at thaire hertes.”
--(K. Alex. p. 42.)
Teche, teach, B. 160.
Teche, mark, sign, B. 1049.
Teche, fault, B. 1230; device, B. 943. Fr. _tache_.
Tede, an error for _tene_ = ten (?), B. 1634.
Tee, go, B. 9, 1262; C. 87.
“Let hym _tegh_ to þe tempull.”
--(T. B. 2541.)
A.S. _teon_. Cf. _teght_, T. B. 1786.
Telde, tent, B. 866. A.S. _teld_.
Telded, raised, B. 1342. See T. B. 6075.
Telle, raise, excite, B. 1808. Du. _tillen_, to lift up.
Teme, approach, A. 460; B. 9; C. 316. See T. B. 3306. It seems to be
connected with the A.S. _geteman_, to bear witness; _teama_, to
cite, summon. In Laȝamon _teman_ signifies to go, proceed, approach,
vol. i. p. 53, l. 1245.
“Albion hatte that lond;
Ah leode ne beoth thar nane,
Ther to thu scalt _teman_ [wende]
& ane neowe Troye thar makian.”
Teme, team, C. 37.
Teme, theme, C. 358.
Tempest, C. 231.
Temple, A. 1062.
Tempre, moderate, B. 775.
Temptande, tempting, B. 283.
Tender, A. 412; B. 630.
Tene, _sb._ anger, sorrow, A. 332; B. 283, 687, 1137; C. 90; _adj._
angry, B. 1808; _vb._ punish, B. 759. A.S. _teonan_, _tynan_, to
anger; _teona_, wrong, mischief.
Tenfully, sorrowfully, bitterly, B. 160.
Tenor, C. 358.
Tenoun, A. 993.
{Tent, Tente,} attend, care for, B. 676, 935; C. 59, 498; heed,
A. 387.
Terme, term, A. 1053; B. 1393.
Terne, lake, B. 1041. N.Prov.E. _tarn_. O.N. _tjörn_.
Teuel (or _tenel_ ?), enclose, or ? _undermine_, B. 1189.
Þacce, blow, C. 325. A.S. _thaccian_, to stroke.
Þayreȝ, theirs, B. 1527.
Þaȝ, though, A. 134.
Þede, country, A. 711. A.S. _theód_.
“I sett ȝowe ane ensample ȝe se it alle day,
In thorps and in many _thede_ ther ȝe thurȝe ride,
At ilka cote a kene curr, as he the chache walde,
Bot as bremely as he baies, he bitis never the faster.”
--(K. Alex. p. 62.)
Þede, vessel, B. 1717. Prov.E. _thead_, a strainer used in brewing.
“_Thede_, bruares instrument, qualus.” (Prompt. Parv.)
Þeder, thither, B. 461.
Þef, thief, A. 273.
Theme, A. 944; C. 358.
{Þen, Þenne,} than, A. 134.
Þenkande, thinking, C. 294.
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