The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on HuntingEdward, of Norwich
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The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting
Edward, of Norwich
Hunting -- Early works to 1800
AVAUNTELLAY, relay of hounds
AVAYL, avail, profit, 13, 31
AVENAUD, approachable
AVENERY, oats
AVISED, aware of, warned, informed, advised, cautious
AVOY, a hunting cry, probably from "Away," App.
BACE, for Luce, a pike
BAFFERS, barkers, 120
BAKE, back
BALISTA, BALESTA, cross-bow, haronsblast, 27
BALOWE, bellow, roaring of a stag
BANDRIKE, BALDRIC, belt to which horn was fastened, 128, 140
BARATEUR, quarreller
BARBOURIS, barbers
BAREYN, barren, 35
BASCO, Basque, Biscay, 106
BATYD, bruised, sore, 98
BATYNG, bating
BAUDES, baubles, trifles, 83
BEAM, the main part of the stag's antlers, 142
BEENDYNG, bending
BEERNERS, BERNERS, attendant on hounds, 148, 165
BEESTALE, BESTAILE, beasts, cattle, 36, 61
BEESTIS, beasts, App.
BELLEN, BELOWYN, BELERVE, BELOWEN, bellow or roar, 160
BELUEZ, velvet, 26
BEME, beam; also trumpet
BENES, beans, 26
BERCEL, a mark to shoot at, App.
BERCELET, BERSLETTIS, BARCELETTE, a shooting-dog used by archers, 122
BERIES, burrows, earth of fox and badger, 67, 68
BERYED, buried
BERYING, bearing, breaking, 136
BESTIS OF THE CHACE, beasts of the chase, usually fallow deer,
roe-deer, fox, martin, 3
BESTIS OF VENERIE, beasts of venery, usually the hart, hare, boar, and
wolf, 3
BEVY, a number of roe-deer together, App.
BEVYGREASE, the fat of the roe-deer, App.
BEWELLIS, BAWAYLLES, BAWELLIS, bowels
BILLETINGS, the excrements of the fox, App.
BISSES, BISES, BISCHES, red-deer hinds
BISSHUNTERS, fur-hunters, 74
BITTE, bitten, taken, 17, 186
BLENCHES, marks, tricks, deceits, 159
BOCHERIE, butchery, 116
BOKEYING, the rut of the roe-deer, 41
BOLN, BOLK, BOLNE, bellow or bark, 39, 162
BOOCHERS HOUNDIS, butchers' dogs, 118
BOOLE, bull, 118
BOONES, bones, stag's foot
BOONYS, bones, 131
BOORDCLOTH, table-cloth, 164
BOORDES, boards
BOORIS, boars, 143
BOOST, boast
BOTCHES, BOOCHES, sores, 63
BOTIRFLIES, butterflies, 66
BOUNTE, bounty, goodness, 79
BOUYES, boughs, App.
BOWIS, BOWES, boughs, 137, 153
BRACH, BRACHE, a scenting-hound; later on it meant bitches
BRACHETUS, a hound for hunting, 22
BRACONIER, the man who held the hounds
BRAYNE, BREYN, brain, 176
BREDE, breadth
BREDE, broad, 138
BREKE, brook, break; also applied to dress a deer
BREMED, burnt, 112
BRENT, burnt, 79
BRERES, briars, 93
BRIGILLA, mildew, 96
BRIMMING, BREMYNG, be in heat, said of boar; the word _breme_,
_bryme_, or _brim_, valiant-spirited, 47
BROACHER, a red-deer stag of second year, App.
BROCARD, a roebuck of the third year and upwards, App.
BROCK, badger, App.
BROKES, BROOCHES, BROACHES, the first head of a red-deer stag, and of
roebuck, 45
BROKET, brocket, young stag, 29
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