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
Vnstered, unmoved, B. 706.
Vnstrayned, untroubled, A. 248.
Vnswolȝed, unhurt, B. 1253. See _Swolȝe_.
{Vnþank, Vnþonk,} wrath, displeasure, B. 183; C. 55.
Vnþewe, fault, vice, B. 190. See _Thewe_.
Vnþryfte, folly, wickedness, B. 516, 1728.
Vnþryftyly, unwisely, badly, B. 267.
Vnþryuandly = unthrivingly, badly, B. 135. See T. B. 4893.
Vntrwe, untrue, A. 897; B. 456; unfaithful, B. 1160.
Vntwynne, separate; and hence, destroy, B. 757.
Vnwar, foolish, C. 115.
Vnwaschen, unwashed, B. 34.
Vnwelcum, B. 49.
Vnworþelych, unworthy, B. 305.
Vnwytté, unwise, foolish, simple, C. 511.
Vpbrayde, literally to raise; and hence to utter loudly, rebuke,
C. 430. See _Brayde_. In the sense of to utter, speak, we find
_upbrayde_ used in the following passage.
“Again my brether haue I bene
Oft-sith lightly for to tene,
Wit flitt, wit brixil, strive and strut;
Myn euen cristen haue I hurt,
And oft unsaght o him I said,
And of his lastes (faults) gane upbraid.”
--(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 156.)
Vp-caste, spoken, B. 1574.
Vp-folden, up-folded, B. 643.
Vp-lyfte, uplifted, B. 987.
Vpon, open, B. 453.
Vp-rerde, upreared, B. 561.
Vp-ros, uprose, C. 378.
Vpryse, C. 433.
Vp-set, raised, C. 239.
Vp-so-doun, upside down, C. 362.
Vp-wafte, uprose, B. 949.
Vpynyoun, opinion, C. 40.
Vrnementes, ornaments, B. 1284.
Vrþe, earth, A. 442.
Vrþely, earthly, A. 135; B. 35.
Vsage, B. 710.
Vsched, B. 1393, _to vsched_ = ? _tousched_ = _towched_, approached.
See B. 1437.
Vse, B. 11.
{Vsle, Vslle,} ashes, cinders, B. 747, 1010. A.S. _ysle_, ashes. O.N.
_usli_, fire. “Isyl, of fyre. Favilla.” (Prompt. Parv.) Prov.E.
_isle_, _easle_, embers; _eizle_, ashes.
Vtter, out, B. 42; without, B. 927.
Vt-wyth, without, outside, A. 969.
Vus, us, B. 842.
Vȝten, the morning, dawn, B. 893. A.S. _uhta_.
“Hi sloȝen and fuȝten
Þe niȝt and þe _uȝten_.” --(K. Horn, 1424.)
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