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
MECHE, big, 113
MEDE, meadow, 163
MEDLE, MEDEL, mix, 91
MENE, lesser, small, 128
MENEE, MENNEE, note sounded on a horn; also the baying of a hound
hunting, 171, 179
MENG, MENGE, mingle, 102
MERREIN, the main beam of a stag's antlers, App.
MERVAILE, marvel
MERVEILIOST, most marvellous, 181
MERVEILLOUS, MERUEYLOUS, marvellous
MESTIFIS, mastifs, 118, 122
METIS, meats
METYNG, METYNGIS, meet, meeting, 148
METYNGE, METYNG, feeding or pasture of deer, 9, 25, 34, 152
MEUE, MEW, MEVE, move, start, shed, 26, 42, 166
MEULE, MULE, burr, part of the antler, App.
MEUTE, pack of hounds
MEVETHE, meweth, to mew, casts or sheds. _See_ MEUE
MEWS, house for hawks
MODIR, mother, 105
MODIRWORT, motherwort (_Leonurus cardiaca_), 101
MONYTHE, MONETH, MONETHENYS, month, 27
MOOTE, MOTE, a note or horn signal, App.
MORFOUND, MORFOND, to catch cold, glanders, 124
MORNYNGIS, morning, 7
MORSUS GALLINE, chickweed, 101
MORT, a note sounded on the horn at the death of the hart
MOSEL, MOSELLE, muzzle, 77
MOTE, MOOTE, a note sounded on the horn, 168, 185
MOTYING, MOVING, 150
MOUNTENANCE, MOUNTANCE, extent of, as far as, 21, 101
MOUSTENESSE, moisture, 124
MOW, MOWE, MOWEN, to have power, to be able, 97, 178
MOWSE, burr of an antler
MUE, mew, shed antlers, or feathers, molt. _See_ MEUE
MULE, MEULE, burr of a stag's antler, 141
MUTE, MEUTE, a pack of hounds
MYCHE, the assibulated form of _mukel_, _mikl_, great, much, 41
MYDDES, midst
MYDDIL, middle
MYNDE, memory, 2
MYSIUGEN, misjudge, 29
NAIL, name given to a disease in dogs' eyes, now called Pterygium, 94
NARTHELESS, NATHELESS, nevertheless, 149
NATYUITE, nativity
NEDEL, needle, 61
NEKYS, NEKE, NECKYD, neck, necked, App.
NEMETH, taketh, 75
NEMPE, name, 165
NERES, kidneys
NESCHE, NEYSSH, NESSH, soft, tender, moist, 52, 130, 131
NETHIR, nether, lower
NETTELIS, nettles, 89, 101
NEWLICH, newly, freshly
NOMBLES, NOMBLIS, part of the stag's intestines, App.
NOONE, no more
NOORCHE, NORSHE, NORSSH, nourish, to bring up, to educate, 56, 58, 80
NOOSETHERLIS, NOSETHRELLES, nostrils, 96, 105
NORTURE, bringing up, 30
NOTIS, nuts, 91
NOUGH, nigh
NOYAUNCE, annoyance, 163
NYME, to take, to hold
OKIS, oaks, 144
OLYFF, olive, 90, 102
ONYS, once, 156
OO, OON, one, 17
OPENE, OPYN, open (of hounds to give tongue), 108, 155
OR, ERE, before, 17
ORDEYNE, ordain
ORPED, brave, valiant, 107
OS, the dew-claws of the stag and hind, App.
OSCORBIN (OS CORBIN), a small bone in the stag's body given to the
crows, App.
OSTORACES CALAMYNT, storax or resin, 96
OTYR, OTERE, otter, 72-4
OUERJAWES, upper jaws, 176
OUERSETTE, overcome, 60, 66
OUERWHERTE, athwart, 87
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