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
ESCORCHER, ESTORCHER, flaying deer, and other beasts of venery, App.
ESPAULES, shoulders
ESPAYARD, SPAYARD, SPAYER, stag of the third year, App.
ESSEMBLE, assembly, 150
ESTABLIE, stand occupied by sportsmen; also beaters
ESTORACIS CALAMITA, storax, resin, 96
ESYE, easy
ETAWED, tanned
ETYN, ITVN, eat
EUENYNGIS, evening, 11
EUERYCHONE, EVERICHON, each one, every one, 163
EUILLE, EUELL, evil, wicked, bad, 6
EVOISED, at fault, or off the line
EXPEDITE, to maim dogs by cutting off some of their claws
EYNE, EYGH, EYNEN, eye, 116
EYRE, air
FACON, FAUCON, falcon, 121
FADIR, FADERE, father, 105
FADMYS, FADOMS, fathoms, 125
FAROWE, FAREWYN, PHAROWYN, farrow, bringing forth young pig, 47, 48,
68
FARSYN, FARSINE, farcy, 69, 92
FASSON, FASSION, fashion
FAUND, fawned
FAUS, false
FAUSMANCHE, false sleeve
FAUT, fault
FECHEWE, fitchew, polecat
FEELDES, fields, 158
FEERNE, fern
FELAUES, fellows
FELE, many; also sensible, feeling
FELLE, fierce, cruel, treacherous
FELLE, FELE, wise, sensible, feeling; also cunning, 30, 115
FELNESSE, cruelty, fierceness, 71
FEMELLIS, females
FENCEMONTH, the month when deer had their young and were left
undisturbed, App.
FERMYD, firm, 162
FERRE, far, 16
FERRETTIS, ferrets, 72
FERRTEST, farthest
FERS, fierce, 47
FERSLICHE, fiercely, 86
FESAWNT, pheasant
FEUERYERE, February
FEWES, FEWTE, track, trace, foot. Some animals were called of the
sweet foot, others of the stinking foot, 10. _See_ Appendix.
FEWTERER, FEUTRERES, DEWTREES, man who leads greyhounds, 129
FIANTS, also LESSES, excrements of the wild boar, App.
FISTOLES, fistula, 92
FIXEN, vixen, O.G. _fuchsen_, 64
FLAY, FLEAN, FLENE, to skin deer and certain other game, 174
FLAYSSH, flesh, 5
FLUX, dysentery
FOILLYNG, stag going downstream when hunted, 32, 173
FOLIES, FOLY, FOLLY, lesser deer, not hart or buck, 196
FOLTISCH, foolish, 45
FOORME, FORME, FOURME, form of the hare, 14, 17
FORAGLE, strangle, straggle
FORCHE, FOURCHED, forked, said of stag's antlers, 140, 177
FORLOYNE, FORLOGNE, FORLONGE, a note sounded on the horn, to denote
that the quarry or hounds or both had distanced the hunters, 173
FORSTERS, foresters, 148
FORSWONG, M.E. _Forswinger_, bruised, beaten (tucked up), 88
FORT, the thick part of woods
FORUN, forewarn, 148
FOTYDE, footed
FOUAILL, the reward given to the hounds after a boar hunt, consisting
of the bowels cooked over a fire, App.
FOUMART, FAULMART, FOLMERT, polecat
FOWTRERES, FEWTERERS, huntsmen who led greyhounds, slippers
FOXEN, FFIXEN, A.S. _fixen_--_vixen_, a bitch fox, 64
FOYNE, weasel
FRAIED, rubbed, 135
FRAY, frighten, scare, 149
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