Havelok the Dane (Legendary character) -- Romances
Bisydes stondeth a feondes _trume_,
And waileth hwenne the saules cume.
_Les Unze peyne_, &c. MS. Coll. Jes. 29.
The same mode of expression used above occurs lower down, l. 24, “A
stalworþi man in a _flok_,” which is also found in Laȝamon,
Cador ther wes æc,
þe kene wes on _flocke_. --l. 23824.
And in _Sir Guy_, H. iii.
Then came a knight that hight Sadock,
A doughty man in every _flock_.
Trone, _n._ Lat. throne, 1316.
Trowe, _n._ S. to believe, trust, 1656. _Tro_, 2862. _Trowede_, _pa. t._
believed, 382. Sir Tr. p. 41.
Trusse, _v._ Fr. [_trousser_] to pack up, to truss, 2017. R. Gl. Hence
to _make ready_, K. Alisaund. 7006. Minot, p. 50, which Ritson was
unable to explain.
Tuenti, _num._ S. twenty, 259.
Tumberel, _n._ a porpoise, 757. In Spelm. _Timberellus_ is explained, a
small whale, on the authority of Skene, Vocab. Jur. Scot. L. Forest, _Si
quis cetum_. In Cotgr. also we find “_Tumbe_, the great Sea-Dragon, or
Quadriver; also the Gurnard, called so at Roan.” [But the Sw. _tumlare_,
a porpoise, _lit._ a tumbler, suggests that the name may be given from
its _tumbling_ or _rolling_. The Dan. _tumler_, however, is a dolphin.]
Tun. _See_ Toun.
Turues, _n. pl._ S. turf, peat, 939. Chauc. C. T. 10109. V. Spelm. in v.
and Jennings’ Somersetsh. Gl.
Twel _for_ Twelve, 2455.
Ueneysun, _n._ Fr. venison, 1726.
Vmbestonde, _adv._ S. for a while, formerly, 2297.
& heo seilede{n} forth,
þæt inne sæ heo comen,
þa _vmbe stunde_
ne sæge heo noht of londe.
_Laȝam._ l. 11967.
It is equivalent to _umbe-while_ or _vmwhile_, Sc. _umquhile_. _See_
Stunde.
Umbistode, _pa. t._ S. stood around, 1875. _See_ Bistode, Stonden.
Vn-bi-yeden, _pa. t. pl._ S. surrounded, 1842. _See_ Yede.
Vnblithe, _adj._ S. unhappy, 141. Sir Tr. p. 171.
Unbounden, _pa. t. pl._ S. unbound, 601.
Underfong, _pa. t._ S. understood, 115. This sense of the verb is not
found elsewhere. It is in the present poem synonymous with _Understod_
(as Lat. _accipere_, _percipere_).
Understonde, _v._ S. to receive, 2814. _Understod_, _pa. t._ received,
1760. _Understonde_, _pr. subj._ receive, 1159. So in K. Horn, 245, ed.
Rits.
Horn child thou _vnderstond_,
Tech him of harpe and song.
where the MS. Laud 108 reads _vnderfonge_. See Lumby’s ed. l. 239.
Unker, _pron. g. c. dual._ S. of you two, 1882.
Vnkeueleden, _pa. t. pl._ S. ungagged, 601. _See_ Keuel.
Unkyndelike, _adv._ S. unsuitably, 1250.
Vnornelike, _adj._ S. basely, or degradingly, 1941. The only word in the
Sax. remaining to which it can be referred, is _unornlic_, tritus, Jos.
9. 5. The following instances also approach the same stock:
Ne speke y nout with Horne,
Nis he nout so _vnorne._
_K. Horn_, 337.
Mi stefne is bold & noȝt _vnorne_,
Ho is ilich one grete horne,
& þin is ilich one pipe.
_Hule and Niȝtingale_, l. 317.
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