_Tray_, anger. _Tree_, staff. _Treyffe_, thrive. _Trow_, true. _Trowet_, troth. _True_, trow, believe. _Trystell_, _Trystyll_. _Tynde_, _Tyndes_, tines, antlers, the pointed branches that issue from the main beam of a stag. “In Ynglond ther ys a shepcote, the wyche schepekote hayt ix dorys, & at yeuery dor stondet ix ramys, & every ram hat ix ewys, & yevery ewe hathe ix lambys, & yevery lambe hayt ix homes, & every horne hayt ix TYNDES: what ys the somm of all thes belle?” (MSS. More, Ee. 4. 35.) _Unketh_, uncouth, strange. _Unneth_, scarcely. _Up-chaunce_, by chance. _Venie_, _Brave venie_, merry vein, jovial humour. {399} _Wan_, _Wonnynge wan_, dwelling-place. _Wan_, got. _Warden-pies._ _Wardens_ are a species of large pears. In Shakespeare’s _Winter’s Tale_, the clown, enumerating the articles he had to provide for the sheep-shearing feast, says he “must have saffron to colour the _warden-pies_.” _Warse_, worse. _Was_, wash. “And afterward the justices arise and _wasse_, and geffe thanks unto the new serjaunts forther gode dyner” (_Origines Juridiciales_, p. 116). This ceremony, which, in former times, was constantly practised as well before as after meat, seems to have fallen into disuse on the introduction of forks, about the year 1620: as before that period our ancestors supplyed the place of this necessary utensil with their fingers. _Watchman_, a probable mistake for _Waithman_, outlaw. See Notes, &c., p. lxxiii. _Wed_, _Wedde_, pawn, pledge, or deposit. _To wedde_, in mortgage. _Lay my life to wedde_, pawn my life. _Weele_, well. _Welt_, _Welt them at his wyll_, did as he pleased with them, used them at his pleasure. _Wed_, _Wende_, go, hye. _Wenest_, thinkest. _Wenion_, _Marry gep with a wenion!_ “He shoulde have bene at home a preaching _with a waniant_,” says Bishop Latimer, _Sermons before King Edward VI._, p. 35. This phrase, _with a wannion_, is common in old plays, but, though its meaning be obvious, even Mr. Steevens is unable to “explain the word at the end of it” (_Shak._ xiii. 440). It is now corrupted to _with a vengeance_. _Went_, wended, gone. _Werschep_, worshipped, reverenced, respected. _West_, wist, known. _Wete_, know. _Whang_, _Leathern whang_, leather thong or string. _Whereas_, where. _Whute_, whistle. _Wigger wand_, wicker wand. _Wight_, _Wighty_, strong. _N.B._ The latter word seems everywhere a mistake for the former. _Wilfulle_, doubtful. _Win_, see _Wen_. _Win_, get. _Wist_, wis, trow, believe. _Wist_, knew. _Wode_, mad. _Wodys_, woods. _Wolwarde_, wearing a flannel shirt, by way of penance. See Steeven’s _Shakespeare_, 1793, v. 360. {400} _Won_, dwell. _Wonest_, dwellest. _Woodweele_, “the golden ouzle, a bird of the thrush kind.”—P. _Worthe_, _Wo worthe the_, woe be to thee. _Wrack_, ruin, destruction. _Wroken_, wreaked, revenged. _Wyght_, strong, stout. _Wynne_, go. _Wys_, trow; there is no modern word precisely synonymous. _Wyte_, _Wytte_, know. _Y_, I.