Nose-thrilles, _s. pl._ nostrils, 84/2; nosethrylles, 75/3; _sing._ nosethryll, 85/3. Nother, _for_ other; an nother, another, 2/19. Nourysshe, _v._ nourish, 130/24. Nowe-a-dayes, _adv._ nowadays, 153/5. Nycked, _pp._ notched, 21/4. Nyckes, _s. pl._ notches, 4/38, 122/41. Occupy, _v._ use, 1/5; occupie, 148/10; occupied, _pp._ used, 15/36. Of, _adv._ off, away from it, 136/12; off, 27/7, 139/19. Of, _prep._ during, 6/13. Oke, _s._ oak, 15/7, 24/10. Oke-settes, _s. pl._ young plants or cuttings of oak, 124/8. Oke-water, _s._ oak-water, apparently water in which oak-galls have been steeped, 87/2. Olde, _adj._ old; the olde of the mone, at full moon, 12/37. Ones, _adv._ once, 147/28. Or, _adv._ ere, before, 5/1, 119/8. Oratory, 165/47. Orchyarde, _s._ orchard, 122/3. Order, _v._ determine, 3/41. Ordeyne, _v._ to order, send, 146/14. Osyerde, _s._ osier, 130/12. Otemele, _s._ oatmeal, 14/10. Otes, _s. pl._ oats, 13/26, 14/1. Other whyle, _adv._ sometimes, occasionally, 4/16, 48/4, 60/5. Ouer, _adj._ upper, 5/22, 91/2, 133/14. Ouerlay, _v._ cover by laying over, 127/41. Ouermoste, _adj. superl._ uppermost, 131/16. Ouerplus, _s._ overplus, surplus, 148/8. Ouer-rechynge, _s._ overstepping, 113/1. Ouerthwarte, _adv._ across, sideways, 7/21, 112/3, 131/14. Oughte, _pt. s._ owed, 146/106. Outragious, _adj._ extravagant, 150/6. Oxe-bowes, _s. pl._ bent pieces of wood passing round the necks of oxen, and fastened to the yoke, 5/44. Oygrane wheate, white wheat, _note_ to 34/23. Oyse, _v._ to ooze, 111/2. Pale, _s._ paling, 40/3. Paper, _s._ paper, 142/4. Parcels, _s. pl._ parts, divisions, 68/63. Parchment, _s._ parchment, 142/4. Pare, _v._ to pare, cut, 124/30, 136/16; pared, _pp._ 136/21. Partener, _s._ partner, 134/27, 30. Paryng, _s._ paring, 100/12. Paste, _adv._ past, over, 13/15. Pasturnes, _s. pl._ pasterns, 112/3. Pastyme, _s._ pastime, something to pass or fill up leisure time, 146/47. Pater-noster, 166/12. Paule, St. Paul, 153/28, 158/6, 161/8, 169/29. Payle, _s._ pail, 56/7. Payre, _v._ to impair, make worse, 97/3; payreth, _pr. s._ spoils, 4/26. Pease, peas, 10/3, 8. Properly a singular form. Peeke countreye, country round the Peak, in Derbyshire, 39/16. Peeke-wheate, _s._ peek-wheat, a kind of poor wheat, 34/41. Cf. _peeked_, thin. Pees, _s._ pease, 10/14. _See_ Pease. Pees-stubble, _s._ pea-stubble, 34/5. Pelte-rotte, _s._ rot in the fleece, 54/33. Penknyfe, _s._ penknife, 142/5. Penne, _s._ pen, 142/4. Pens, _s. pl._ pence, 54/10. Peny, _s._ penny, 36/11. Peny-grasse, _s._ a kind of grasse that never bears a flower, 54/8. It must therefore be distinct from _Rhinanthus Crista-galli_, also called _penny-grass_ by some; see Old Country Words, ed. Britten, p. 37.
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