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
FRAY, to rub off the velvet on stag's antlers, 26, 135
FRAYING-POST, the tree against which it was done
FREYN, excrements of the wild boar, App.
FROOT, FROTID, rub, 53, 94, 95, 146
FUANTS, excrements of the fox, martin, badger, and wolf, App.
FUES, track, line, 18, 31
FUMES, FUMEE, FUMAGEN, FIMESHEN, FEWMETS, FEMEGEN, FEWMISHINGS,
excrements, droppings, particularly of deer, 9, 16, 38, 39, 133
FURKIE, pieces of venison hung on a fork-shaped stick
FURROUR, fur, Fr. _fourrure_, 63
FUTAIE, FUTELAIE, forest, wood of old trees, also plantation of
beech-trees, App.
FYNDERS, finders, hounds to start or find deer, 161, 165
GADERYNGE, GADERYNG, gathering, meet, 156, 163
GADIRE, gather, 43
GAR, to force, to compel, 39
GARDES, the dew-claws of the wild boar
GARSED, cupped, 90
GIN, GYNNE, trap, snare
GIRLE, the roebuck in the second year, App.
GISE, guise, manner of
GLADNESSE, a glade, a clear space, 137
GLAUNDRES, glanders, 96
GLEMYNG, GLEYMING, slime, stickiness, 133
GLOTENY, gluttony
GNAPPE, snap, 92
GOBETTES, small pieces, 81, 177
GOOT, goat
GORGEAUNT, wild boar in his second year
GOTERS, GOOTERE, GOUTIERES, gutters, the small grooves in the antlers
of a stag, 143
GRAUNT SOUR, stag of fifth year
GRAUYLL, gravel, 143
GREASE, GRECE, the fat of certain animals, 25, 27, 49
GREASE-TIME, the season of hart and buck when they were fattest, 160
GREATER, OF THE, term used in counting the tines of a stag's antlers,
App.
GREDE, seek, hunt, 183
GRES, upper tusks of wild boar, grinders, 50
GRESSOPPES, grasshoppers, 66
GRETE, greet, great, 13
GREUE, grieve, harass, injure, 45
GREY, badger, 68
GROVYS, grooves
GUSTUMES, customs, 4
GUTTES, guts
GUYEN, GUEYNE, Guienne
GUYRREIS, quarry (_curée_), 105
GYNNES, GYNES, gins, traps, ruses, wiles, tricks, 35, 73
GYNNOUSLY, by stratagem or ingenuity, 15, 39, 43, 59
HAIES, HAYES, nets, hedges, 74
HALLOW, the reward given to the hounds at the death
HALOWE, halloa, App.
HAMYLONS, the wiles of a fox
HARBOUR, HERBOROWE, HARBOURE, HARBOROW, to track a hart to his lair,
29
HARBOURER, man who harbours the deer, 130, 148
HARDIETHE, herds with
HARDLE, HERDLE, HERDEL, HARLING, HARDEL, fasten or couple hounds
together, also to fasten the four legs of a roebuck together, 45, 190
HARDY, bold, courageous
HARIS, hares, 17
HARNAYS, HERNEIS, harness, appurtenances, arms, &c., 60
HARONSBLAST, a crossbow, from O.F. _Arcbaleste_, 27
HAROWDE, herald, 139
HARTHOUND, HERTHOUND, hound used to chase the stag
HAST, haste
HASTILETTIZ, the dividing of the wild boar into thirty-two pieces
HATT, hath
HATTE, thicket, 118
HAUKES, hawks, 120
HAUKYNG, hawking
HAUNTELERS, antlers, App.
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