Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
maystry, _trial of skill_, _feat_.
meal-pock, _meal-bag_.
meatrif, _abounding in provisions_.
mell, _meddle_.
menyè, meynè, _company_.
mete, _measured_.
methe, _meat_.
meyt, meythe, _might_.
mickle, _great_.
middle streame, 274, _middle of the stream_.
misters, 203, _sorts of_.
mo, _more_.
molde, _ground_.
mot, _may_.
mote, _meeting_.
mought, _might_.
mow, _mouth_.
muckle, _much_.
mych, _much_.
mylner, _miller_.
mysaunter, _misadventure_, _ill luck_.
myster, _need_.
myzt, _might_.
nae, _not_.
nar, _nor_, _than_.
ner, _never_.
ner, _were it not_.
ner; they ner, _thine ear_.
nere, _nearer_.
next way, _nearest way_.
nicked, _notched_, _cut_, _slashed_.
niddart, 403, _assailed_.
nip, _bit_;
curn nips of sticks, 191, _bundle of small sticks_.
nipped, _pinched_.
nombles, numbles, _[the eatable] entrails_.
nouther, _neither_.
odur, _other_.
ohon, _interjection of grief_, _alas_.
okerer, _usurer_.
oltrance, _outrance_, _utterance_.
on, _one_.
onfere, _together_.
on lyve, _alive_.
onslepe, _asleep_.
onys, _once_.
or, _before_.
os, _us_.
ought, _owed_.
out-horne, _a horn blown to summon people to assist in capturing a
fugitive_.
over all, _everywhere_.
owthe, _out_.
owtlay, _outlaw_.
oysyd, _used_, _followed_.
passe, _extent_, _bounds_, _limits_, _district_;
as the pas de Calais. RITSON.
partakers, _persons to take one's part_.
pawage, pauage, pavag, _toll for the privilege of passing over the
territory of another_.
pay, _satisfaction_.
peces, 75, _vessels_;
_unless it be gold pieces_.
pinder, _pounder_, _pound-keeper_.
pine, _pain_.
plucke, _stroke_, _blow_;
423, _bout_;
plucke-buffet, 118, _is explained by the context_.
prece, prese, _crowd_;
prees, 65, _press (of battle)_.
preced, _pressed_.
preke, _the pin in the centre of a target_.
president, _precedent_.
prest, 29, _fast_, _zealously_.
prest, _quick_, _in a hurry_;
prestly, _quickly_.
pricke-wande, _a rod set up as a mark. The prick is the peg in the
centre of a target_.
prycker, 425, _a galloping horse_.
pryffe, 430, _prove_.
pryme, _six in the morning_.
pudding-prick, _a skewer to fasten a pudding-bag_.
put at the stane, _throw the stone as a trial of strength_;
putting-stane, _the stone used in this exercise_.
pyne, _suffering_;
goddes pyne, _Christ's passion_.
quequer, _quiver_.
queyt, qwyte, _reward_.
raked, 196, _proceeded leisurely_, _sauntered_.
raking, 259, 275, _walking hastily_, _running_.
rawe, _row_.
ray, _prepare_.
raye, 84, _striped cloth. "Cloth not coloured or dyed. It is mentioned
in many old statutes in contradistinction to cloth of colour."_
RITSON.
reachles, _reckless_, _careless_.
red, _advice_.
red, _rid_.
reddely, _quickly_.
reede, _advise_.
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