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
CROCHES, the upper tines of a deer's horns; called also _troches_
CROISE, cross, 150
CROKES, stomach (of red-deer)
CROKYNG, crooked, curved, 128
CROMMES, crumbs
CRONEN, groan, the roar of the stag
CROSS TO, to dislodge roe-deer by hounds
CROTETHE, voiding excrements, 29
CROTEY, CROTILS, CROTISEN, CROTISINGS, excrements, 16, 29, 30, 133
CUER, COER, heart
CUIR, QUIR, leather, hide
CURÉE, CURE, rewarding the hounds (also KYRRE and GUYRRE), 7, 29, 52,
208
CURRES, CURRYS, curs
CURTAISE, courteous, 115
DAUNGERE, danger, 161
DEDIS, deeds, 49
DEDUT, DEUDIZ, DEDUIZ, _déduit_, pleasure, pursuit, sport
DEFAUTE, DEFAUNT, lack, default, 84, 140
DEFET, DEFFETEN, opening or undoing the boar and removing the entrails
DEFOILE, track, 150
DELYUERE, deliver, active, 124
DEPILED, stripped of hair
DESFAIRE, undoing (brittling) of deer or boar, App.
DESPITOUS, DESPYTOUS, despiteful, furious, 49
DESTERERE, DESTRIER, horse
DETOURNER (LE CERF), to harbour the hart, App.
DEYENG, doing
DEYM, DEYME, DAINE, DINE, fallow-deer
DISLAUE, wild, 159
DISSESE, disease
DOO, doe
DOWN, OR HUSKE, a number of hares, App.
DRAGMES, drachms
DREYNT, drowned
DRIT, DRITT, excrements of animals called "stinking beasts," also mud,
50, 66
DRYEN, dry, 102
DRYUE, driven, 128
DRYVE, made
DUNE, donn, dun
DURE, to last, endure, 43
DYETTE, diet
EARTH, a fox and badger's lodging-place, App.
EDIGHT, done, set in order
EELDE, old age, 123
EENDIS, ends
EEREN, hairs, 44
EERYS, ERES, ears
EGRE, eager, 115
EIRERES, harriers, 190
ELLIS, else, 90
EMELLE, EMEL, female, 41
EMPAUMURE, the croches or top tines of a stag's antlers, App.
ENBROWED, brewed, soaked, 177
ENCHACE, to hunt, 108
ENCHARNYNG, blooding, feeding on flesh, 113
ENCHASEZ, moving deer, &c., with a limer, App.
ENCORNE, to place a dead stag on his back, the antlers on the ground
underneath the shoulders, 174
ENFOURMED, informed
ENGLEYMED, glutinous, 29
ENOSED, a bone in the throat, 87
ENPESHED, prevented, 11
ENQUEST, hunt, 182
ENQUILLER, rousing a buck with hounds, App.
ENQUYRID, ENQUEYRREIDE blooding hounds after death of deer; also
rewarding of hounds, 173
ENSAUMPLE, example, 79
ENTENTE, intent
ENTRYING, entering, beginning of
ENTRYNGIS, entering, beginning of, 35
ENVOISE, ENVOYSE, O.F. _envoisse_, to leave the line, or overshoot the
line of the animal hunted, 31, 108, 170
ERBIS, herbs
ERES OF ROEBUCK, "target," 44
ERGOTS, ARGUS, claws of boar, buck and doe; those of the boar were
sometimes called _gardes_, 130, 144
ERIS, ERES, ARS, anus, hinder parts; ears, occasionally thus spelt,
89, 95, 106, 116
ERTHE, earth
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