PURVEY, PURVEYED, "_purvey_ such a lad" (N68,_b_; also 65,_c_)--"hath _purveyed_ me" (N43,_c_), provide, plan, contrive: specifically to supply provisions. PUTTOCK (JE363,_b_), properly the common kite, but also applied to other birds of prey. QUALIFIED, "would not be _qualified_" (R224,_c_), appeased, mollified, calmed. "Whan the quene was thus _qualyfyed_"--tr. _Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist._ (_c._ 1540), 210 (Camden, No. 29). QUORUM, see Justices of Quorum. RAIL, "if thou _rail_ too far" (N52,_b_), wander, roam. "I _rayle_, I straye abrode, _je trace, je tracasse_. He doth naught els but _rayle_ here and there."--Palsgrave, _Lang. Franc._ (1530), 678, I. RAISE, "is that the great love ye _raise_ her" (WS147,_a_), bear: cf. the now (except as regards cattle) rare sense of _raise_ = beget. RAT, "we have smelled a _rat_" (R187,_a_), one of the earliest instances of this proverbial saying. RATHER, "later or _rather_" (R188,_c_), earlier. "Aftir me is comun a man, which was maad bifor me; for he was _rather_ than Y."--Wyclif (1388), _John_ i. 30. RAUGHT, "_raught_ to Cumberland" (R254,_a_), reached. REBATED, "openly _rebated_" (R197,_a_): see Respublica, _Var. readings_, etc. RECH, "For other wealth I not _rech_" (WH278,_c_), strive or reach out for. RECREATORY, "my singular _recreatory_" (M38,_d_), source of comfort, "joy": the only quotation in the _O.E.D._ RECUMBENTIBUS, "a shrewd _recumbentibus_" (M20,_b_)--"speak to Mankind for the _recumbentibus_ of my jewels" (M22,_c_), "a knock-down blow" (_O.E.D._), but the second example does not quite fit this sense which seems to refer to the position of the object attacked, rather than the act of attacking. RED CAP, "him that wears the _red cap_" (WH303,_c_). Remedy seems to have worn a red cap:? as the symbol of spiritual authority. The term is of rare occurrence; only two examples of so early a date are quoted in the _O.E.D._, both from State papers--(_a_) "Captaine _Redde Cappe_, one of the rebelles of the last yere" (1549); (_b_) = _red-hat_ = cardinal (1539). REDE, "by my _rede_" (N121,_d_), counsel. Also as verb.