dunts, III, 491, 13: dints, blows. See dynt.
dwine, IV, 303 f., 12, 21, 27; 304, 10: pine, waste.
dwrf, IV, 290, D c 5: dowf seems to be intended, lethargic, inert, impotent; rather than dwarf, as being puny or incomplete.
dyd him to, III, 72, 328: betook himself. See do to.
dyde adowne, III, 67, 226: put down.
dye, IV, 260, 16: dey, dairy-woman. See day.
dyght, III, 72, 320, dedes that here be dyght: prepared, concerted.
dyght (to the deth), III, 309, 40: done, brought.
dyghtande, III, 75, 388: making ready (but seems to be intended for a past participle).
dyke==wall, IV, 295, E 6; 296, F 6. castle-dyke, II, 410, 4. garden-dyke, II, 370, 5; 371, 5. fail dyke, I, 253, 2: turf wall. hollan dyke, II, 195, 32; nettle-dyke, II, 463, 22: wall on which hollies, nettles, are growing.
dyke, III, 441, 36: ditch.
dyne, garre me ones to dyne, III, 296, 24: give me my dinner, my fill, beat thoroughly. (Able to give the greatest prince in Christendome a mortall breakfast, if he had been the king’s enemie. Holinshed’s Chronicle, III, 512, ed. 1807-8. G. L. Kittredge.)
dynt(e), dint, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: stroke, hit, lunge, shot (of spear, arrow). See dunts.
dypper, V, 283, 5, 15: deeper.
dysheryte, III, 60 f., 87, 95: dispossessed.
dyspyse, II, 478, 6: cause to be despised.
dyth, deythe, I, 334, 7: dight, furnished or built.
E an O me, E an O an O me, V, 275 a, 9, 10: simple exclamations, having here the character of a refrain.
é, II, 217, 24: ae, only.
ea, V, 214 b, 3: to be dropped; remnant of a corrected reading.
eaen, V, 267, 4: even.
eaght, the, the eighth.
ealky, elky, eke a, ylk a, ilka, V, 220 f., 4, 5, 8: each (one).
ean, V, 165, 2: eyes. See ee.
ear, I, 395, 1; 480, 54: early.
ear, eer, ever.
eare, ere, ayre, heir.
eare, v., I, 15, 12: plough.
earn, V, 115, 6: curdle.
eartly, II, 494, 1: earthly.
eased, III, 61, 101 (of horses): cared for, attended to.
eased we, V, 239, 35: used (as in 33), familiar with.
easer, IV, 315, 14; V, 271, 14: maple (mazer). See ezar.
easterling (born), V, 54, 3, 4 (in A, 48, 3, 4, stranger borne). The boy learned too fast for a native. Easterling, a native of the Hanse towns, or of the East of Germany. Halliwell.
eathe, III, 408, 33: easy.
eather, V, 224, 25; 241, No 156, 6: other.
eay, eayn, V, 238, 18, 28; 248, 18: eye(s). See ee.
edder-flowe, IV, 450 a, 2: adder-morass.
ee, III, 4, 9; 11, K: eye. Pl. een, eeen, II, 158 f., 5, 8, 18; 160, 4, 7, 17. See ean, eay, eghne, eyen.
ee (of a cup), IV, 221, 9: may be eye, top, brim.
ee, the table ee, II, 409, 20 (Motherwell, table eye): seems to be nonsense; edge does not suit. b, the printed copy, has play.
ee (A. S. ege, O. Eng. eȝe, eie, etc.), IV, 3, 15: awe; an unsatisfying emendation of lee, lye (eie would be better; I have not found ee). The Campbell MS. has fee, meant, I suppose, for value.
ee-bree, III, 11, K; IV, 257, 5: eye-brow.
een, IV, 257, 13: one.
een, v., III, 495, 23, 24; IV, 517, 21: even, make of the same value.
eenin, IV, 169, F 1: evening.
eerie, eiry, I, 342, 24, 36; 355, 46; II, 466, 39; IV, 175, N 5; 368, G 8: dreary, gloomy, weird, exciting superstitious dread.
eft, eft agayne = eftsones, III, 83, 238; 87, 238.
eftsones, III, 68, 238: hereafter, another time.
eghne, I, 327, 23: eyn, eyes.
eh, IV, 512, 11: exclamation of grief.
eight, the eight, I, 55, 9; 56, B 10; C 5, 11: eighth.
eihte, I, 244, 11: possession, valuable thing.
eild, III, 162, 46: age.
ein, I, 134, 13: een, evening.
eiry. See eerie.
eisin, IV, 331 b, 2: serve.
eke, also. At I, 133, L 1, eke ... eke seems to be wrongly used for either ... or.
eke a, III, 298, 57: each (one). See ealky.
elbouthe, I, 334, 5: elbow (the th for g or ȝ).
eldelike, I, 334, 5: elderly.
eldern, eldren, eldrin, I, 350, 12, 13; II, 20, 2; 26, 2; 27, 2; 61, 2; IV, 485, 28: old.
eldrige, elridge (hill, king), II, 58 f., 14, 15, 23, 25-7, 36==Scottish elric, elvish. The eldrige king has something of the character of the ellor-gást family in Beówulf (spirits who belong outside of mankind), haunts a hill, is a pagan, no one that has coped with him has come off alive. The lady who attends him, however, seems in no way extra-human. elric hour, I, 140, N (Pinkerton): hour when elves, or bad spirits, are active. In Elrick’s hill, II, 62, 8, 10, etc., the adjective is improperly turned into a noun. See elrick.
element, I, 286, 44: air, sky.
elephant, III, 211, 2: a species of scabious is so called, according to Halliwell.
elfin, elphin, elphan, n. and adj., I, 15 ff.; 341, 15; IV, 456, 13: elf, elvish. I, 346, 15 (the Elfins); 350, 28; IV, 456 f., 14, 15, 19, 24: fairy-land.
Elfins, the, I, 346, 15: fairy-land. See elfin.
elfish, n., I, 343, 15: elf.
elflyn, of the elves.
Elizium, V, 158, 16: Elysian.
elky. See ealky.
ell, ill, ull, v., will.
ellish, III, 481, 9: ellis, ells. (h may well be dropped.)
elphan, elphin, n. and adj. See elfin.
elrick, elritch, adj., II, 63, 18; I, 357, 53: elvish. Elrick’s, 62 f., 8, 10, 16, 21: as a substantive. See eldrige.
embowered, pret., II, 503, 13: used as bower.
eme, III, 296, 26: uncle. emys, III, 98, 38: uncle’s.
-en, -n, -yn, sign of plural of verb, I, 244, 9; II, 5 b, 3; 54, 61; 445, 62; III, 13, 2, 3, 4, 8; 35, 31; 63, 134; 92, 11; 104, 7; 105, 9, 11; 277, 15; 284, 3, 8, 17; 285, 30, 32, 33; 286, 48, 49; 404, 3; 406, 28; etc.
end, en, end. hous(e)-end, -en, I, 254, variations of Twa Corbies, b, 1, c, 1; toun-end, V, 267 f., 10, 11, 24. on end, IV, 353, 18: to an end.
-end, termination of the present participle. sighend, I, 55 f., B 7, 9.
endres daye, þis, I, 326, 1: the other day.
eneuch, enew, I, 102, 5; III, 318, 6; 440, 10; IV, 117, 8; 384, 8: enough.
enlured, III, 36, 45: allured (which is the word in b).
enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32: unintelligible to me. iollye should probably be iollytë. The king will have the head to serve some inscrutable purpose when he is making merry.
enterprise, v., I, 411, 9; III, 230, 70: undertake.
entertain, III, 153, 18: take into service.
envye, III, 296 f., 12, 30: ill-will, hostility, spite.
ere, V, 300, 3: eer, ever.
ere, eare, ayre, n., heir.
ere, v., heir.
ere, II, 216, 19; 470, 44; IV, 242 a; 378, 6; 433, 31: till.
ere syne, II, 362, 34: ere then, before that.
erlis, I, 329, 60: should probably be ernis, eagle’s (herons, yrons in other texts).
erlish, I, 355, 49: elrish, elvish.
ermeline, ermine.
ern, IV, 490, 12: iron.
-ës, -is, -ys, -us, preserved in gen. sing., I, 69, 52; II, 25, 7; III, 40, n.; 98, 21, 35; 99, 47 f., 52; 100, 64 f.; 111, 33, 36, 42, etc. In the plural, I, 72, 15; III, 40, n.; 97, 2, 3, 20; 98, 25, 33, 37, 40-2; 100, 63, 82; 109, 1; 111, 29, 31-37, 45 f., etc.
esk, I, 355, 50: newt. See ask.
ettled, IV, 47, 2: purposed.
even cloth, I, 324, 16: smooth, with the nap well shorn.
even down, IV, 110, 10, 11: flat to the ground. V, 124, B 14: perpendicular. 225 b, No 78: straight down (of heavy rain).
even forward, I, 324, 3: straight forward.
even up, I, 305, 7: straight up.
evening-mass, II, 168, A, 4: a religious service at the end of the day (as in Romeo and Juliet, IV, 1).
euery syde, III, 75, 398: each side of.
euerych, euerichone, euerechone, euerilkon, everlke ane, I, 334, 5; III, 22, 4; 65, 174; 67, 230; 98, 30: each, each one.
evidents, IV, 40 b: title-deeds.
evyll, adv., III, 26, 93: ill. euyll go, III, 77, 429: ill walk.
ew-bught. See bucht.
ewer, IV, 19, 8: dug, udder.
exaltre, III, 90 b: axletree.
examine, II, 58, 15: put you to test.
exite, II, 125, B 22; excit, V, 223 a, No 65, B 22: amended to sight under the supposition that exit must be impossible.
exoner, IV, 307, 42: exonerate.
ey, I, 415 b: egg.
eye (cote with one eye), III, 360, 117: window?
eyen, eyne, I, 472, 29; III, 74, 359: eyes. See ee.
eylde het the, III, 112, 62: yield, requite thee for it.
eylyt, I, 241 f., 5, 7: aileth.
eyre, pl., III, 113, 70: years.
ezar, II, 271, 17; 273, 23: maple. See easer, masar.
f, in Northern Scotch, often for wh; as, fa, faa, who; fan, when; far, faer, where.
fa, IV, 260, 6; 261, 6: who.
fa, V, 118, B 10: fault.
fa, my lady cannot fa sic servants, I, 116, 11: have such fall to her, put up with. fa frae her, II, 133, D 1: break off, give up.
fa, fae, IV, 256, 5; 337, f 2, 3, 7: from.
faa, V, 275 a, 8: who.
face, with a, III, 180, 12: with effrontery, boldness.
fache, fetch.
fact, III, 229, 32; IV, 11, 11: offence, crime.
fadge. fat fadge, II, 182, 8: “a lusty and clumsy woman.” Jamieson. “fadgy, corpulent, unwieldy. fudge, a little, fat person. North.” Halliwell. “fodge, a fat person; evidently the same with fadge.” Jamieson. A dirty drab is the phrase corresponding to fat fadge, II, 194, 10 (fusom fag, IV, 469, I 10, 12). See fag, fug.
fadther, IV, 260, 7: father.
fae, fay, fey, fee, fie, I, 245, 6; III, 481 f., 30, 24; 489, 39; 490, 24; 492, 26; IV, 430, 2: (A. S. fǽge) destined to die.
fae, II, 184, 19; 196, 9: foe.
fae, IV, 165 f., 2, 10; 337 f, 2, 3, 7: frae, from. See fa.
faein, faen, fawn, fallen.
faem, fame, I, 68, 1; 70, 1; 86, 1; II, 24, 12; 25, G 14: foam, sea.
faer, IV, 262, 15; 378 f., 6, 19: where.
fag, I, 304, F 2, 3; IV, 469, I 10, 12: a dirty drab. Cf. fusome fug, described as a dirty drab, B 3-6; dirty slut, C 4; dirty bitch, E 4; filthy foul flag, G 4. See fadge, fug.
faikine, III, 199, 24: faith.
fail, feall, fell, I, 304, F 6: turf.
fail-dyke, I, 253, 2: turf-wall.
fails, II, 365 f., 2, 3, 23: falls, befalls.
fain(e), fayn(e), II, 444, 48, 57; 453, 28; III, 100, 66; 298, 50; 309, 32: glad, pleased, eager. IV, 211, 13; V, 115, 2: fond. for faine, III, 479, 40: for glad, for gladness.
fainly, joyfully, blithely.
fair, V, 26 f., 13, 39: far.
fairlie, farlie, ferlie, I, 324, 11; 325, B 9: wonder. gars me fairlie, IV, 357, 2: causes me astonishment.
fairly (fields), IV, 57, D 1: fair, looking well.
fait, faitt, fett, V, 224, 18, 19; 274, 10; 278, 29: white.
faith and troth, to be, IV, 147, 34: to be in the relation of men who have taken the engagement of mutual fidelity, sworn-brethren.
fald, fall, fauld, n., V, 105, A 3; 248, 21: fold.
fall, III, 76, 406: suit, become. well falls me, V, 25, 5: my luck is good.
fall, V, 206 b, 8: pret. of fall, unless there is ellipsis of did.
falling, III, 470 a: sunset.
fallow’s deed, I, 448, 7-10: deed of a bad fellow seems unlikely. felloun’s? farlie, strange?
falsh, IV, 442, 1, 10, 12: false.
falyf, III, 13, 4: fallow.
fame, faem, I, 68, 1; 86, 1: foam, sea.
fa’n, IV, 6, 7; V, 249, 7: fallen.
fan, fand, found.
fan, IV, 262, 19; V, 110, 4; 116, 1; 184, 49: when.
fancy, fell in her, V, 272 b, 2: fell in love with her. faen deap in my fancy, 273, 12.
fand, found.
fang, III, 160, 5: fastening. (164, b 5, whang.) Perhaps North Scotch for whang.
fankit, IV, 27, 28: entangled, obstructed.
far, III, 513 b, 1-4: fair.
far, fare, faur, I, 165, N 1; II, 191, 23; 335, N 3-5; V, 224, 17, 18; 227, 8; 248, 22: where.
fare, go, I, 170, 4; II, 222, 21; III, 22, 6; 98, 24; 340, 23, 24; 421, 43; V, 183, 22, 32. I fare you well, II, 207, A 1: I bid you fare well. pret. foor. p. p. forn.
fare, go on, comport oneself: III, 188, 6; 357, 59.
fare, n., III, 160, 11, 20: going on, procedure. III, 76, 403: (in the modern sense) fortune, experience.
fared, favored, well-fared, well-(weel-)fard, weel-fart, well-(weel-)faird, weil-faurit, weill-(weel-)faurd, well-fard, II, 268, 21; 317, B a 21; 408, 26; 462, 7, 8; IV, 220, 8, 1, 4; 223, 3; 274, 2; 434, 2, 3; V, 16, 1; 154, 10; 163, 12; 177, 14: well-favored, handsome.
farei, farie, Farie (MS. farie), V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: should be emended to Fyvie. See V, 305 f.
farer, I, 369, 51; V, 91 f., 4, 8, 12, etc.; 208, 9: further.
ffarley, adj., ffarley thinge, III, 92, 9: strange.
farlies, farleys, ferlies, I, 325, B 9; IV, 147, 26: wonders, novelties. See fairlie.
far sought, was, V, 161, 6: required long to reach.
fart, weel-fart, IV, 223, 3: fared, favored. See fared.
fas, fase, III, 299, 6; V, 248, 5: false.
fa’s, IV, 399, 46: fall, 1st per. sing. pres.
fash, IV, 493, 21, 23; V, 238, 22: meddle, make trouble, or, perhaps, trouble yourself. fashed himself, IV, 69, 18, 19: got himself into trouble by meddling.
fashes, II, 238, 4: troubles (emendation for fishes; possibly we should read freshes).
fast, fast they bad, III, 26, 90: strenuously. stare, look, III, 62, 122; V, 82, 35: intently. weep, II, 240, 3: copiously. fast unto, III, 131, 6: close down to.
Fastness, IV, 103, 15: originally meant for faustness, falseness.
fat, fatt, III, 281, 4; IV, 260, 2; 357, C 5, 7, 9, etc.; V, 111, 18; 214 b, 5: what.
fate they coud na fa, II, 130 1: from it (fae it, frae it) they could not desist.
fatten a, V, 221, 22; 247, 2: what, what sort of.
faue, V, 260, 7: fie!
fauld-dyke, IV, 199, 11: fold-wall,
faun, fallen.
faur, V, 124, 2: where. See far.
faurit, faurd. See fared.
fause, false.
fause fa thee, III, 435, F 5: may treachery befall thee, be thy lot!
fave, V, 275 b, 8: five.
fawe, IV, 505, 54: fall.
fawn, IV, 277, 13: fallen.
fay, adj. See fae.
fay, III, 74, 362; 110, 13; V, 85, 16: faith.
ffayne, III, 297 f., 48, 50: glad. III, 100, 66: fond of, pleased with. See fain.
fe, feea, wage, etc. See fee.
feall, feale, fail, fell, IV, 262, 29: turf.
Feansell, feanser, V, 55, 30: emended to le and fell.
fear, II, 470, 51: frighten (us from dancing).
fearder, feardest. See feart.
feare, in, V, 15, 18: together. See fere.
fearsome, II, 394, 18: fearful.
feart, feert, III, 262 f., 11, 13, 15, 17; IV, 456, 15; 498, 12, 14, 16: frightened. fearder, III, 267, 13: more frightened. feardest, III, 162, 55: most frightened.
feather, IV, 512 b, 2, 9: father.
feathern, IV, 482 f., 4, 9, 13: feathers.
fecht, feght, v., II, 319, 16; 391, 16, 17; III, 370, 15; IV, 224, 14, 15: fight. See ficht.
feckless, I, 429, 28 (dress): weak, feeble, effectless, miserable, silly. (here==inefficacious, of no account.)
fedred, ifedred fre, III, 69, 275; 70, 288: feathered liberally, handsomely.
fee (A. S. feoh), I, 327, 16 (wylde fee): animals. I, 58, 2; 434, 31; II, 25, 7; 172 f., 40, 42, 45; 442, 8; 447, 8; III, 94, 51; IV, 18, 17: wealth, possessions, property, having. I, 182, 2; II, 31, N 4; 114, 17; 123, 15; 379, 1; 403, 9; III, 433, 12; 435, F 6; 436, 14; IV, 514, 21: pay, wages. II, 117, 5, 6; III, 163, 72; 299, 5: reward. I, 328, 57: tribute. gentylman of clothynge and of fee, III, 30, 165: entitled to a regular stipend. knights fee, III, 94, 51: land of the value of £20 per annum (under Edward I., II.). See foster of the fe, III, 28, 140. penny-fee(-fie), I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift.
fee, v., I, 211, 3, 4: hire. (gae fee, go hire yourself.) See feet, pret.
fee, fey, doomed. See fae.
feed, feid, III, 436, 2; 464, 2; 468, c 2; IV, 2, 9; 36, 3; 37 f., 3, 10: feud.
feed, fode, food, I, 309, B 1: child, man.
feed about your fire, II, 184, 13: the sense eat seems unlikely. Possibly, to move about, to sit or move restlessly (like feik).
feed, pret. of feed, V, 236, 18: fed.
feel, fiel, II, 175, 1; 176, C 3; IV, 262, 29: fool.
feel daft, II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.
feel==fell: very.
feere, fere, feire, feer, mate, consort (fere): I, 295, 43; II, 58, 2. V, 15, 13: fellow (contemptuously). See feires.
feert. See feart.
feet, pret., IV, 355 b, D: hired. See fee.
feeties, V, 209 b, 4: feet.
feght, fight. See fecht.
feid: feud. See feed.
feires, feiries, I, 295, 43; IV, 2 f., 7, 20, 22: comrades, consorts. See feere.
felaushyp, III, 67, 229: abstract for concrete, our fellows.
felischepe, fellowship.
fell, fail, feale, feall, IV, 266, E 29: turf.
fell, III, 300, 9; IV, 500, 10: skin, hide.
fell, III, 439 f., 4, 8, 11; IV, 455, 15; V, 55, 30: high land, fit only for pastures, a wild hill. fells, III, 299 f., C 3, 6; IV, 26, 6; 500, 3: chain of hills.
fell (yard), I, 287, 63: severe, cutting. (spice), III, 388, 3: hot, biting. IV, 258, 20: strange, prodigious. fell thing to see, II, 132, 27: strange. freezes fell, IV, 93, 7; 105, 7; 514, 17: sharply, severely.
fell, v., II, 419, 46: kill.
fell, feel, I, 478, 14; II, 344, 15; V, 183, 20: very.
fellen, p. p. of fell, III, 483, 7: felled (a tree).
fells, befalls. well fells me, IV, 437, 25: good for me!
felon (the kynggis), III, 98, 21, 22: traitor, rebel.
felt, III, 146, 14: should be emended delt.
fences, cock shall crow fences three, II, 8, 10, 11: evidently bouts, coups; but I have not found this usage elsewhere.
fend, fende, V, 283, 2; 284, 22: fiend.
fend, v., III, 300, 12; IV, 500, 13: provision.
fend, III, 440, 12: defence.
ffend. that ffend I Godys fforbod, III, 113, 72: seems to be a double expression for deprecation,—I inhibit, protest, God forbid (see forbode). “I fende to Goddes forbode it should be so: a Dieu ne playse qu’aynsi il aduiengne. Palsgrave, p. 548, col. 1.” Hales and Furnivall, Percy MS., III, 554.
fende, III, 61, 106; 117, 8: defend.
fer dayes, III, 57, 16: far on in the day.
ferd, III, 99, 52: fear.
fere, fere love, IV, 219, B 3, 5: fair. (fair love, V, 260, E 5.)
fere, feere, II, 58, 2; III, 22, 5: mate, consort.
fere, in, on, III, 57, 27; 59, 61; 67, 231; 77, 423; 98, 38: in company, together. See feare.
fferli, I, 334, 7: fairly, civilly.
ferlicke, I, 334, 8: strange. See ferly.
ferly, ferlie, ferley, farlie, I, 325, C 1, 10; 329, 4; 333, 2; 424, d 11; III, 440, 20; IV, 455, 1, 13; 524, 10; V, 244, 8, 12: marvel, wonder, news.
ferly, adj., ferly strife, III, 97, 13: strange, extraordinary. See ffarley.
ferra-cow, farrow-cow, I, 224, I 9, 11; II, 261, 8: a cow not producing a calf for the current year.
fesh, fess, III, 319, 15; IV, 94, 14; 257, 1, 2: fetch.
fet. See fett.
fetchie, III, 520 b (note to II, 272, 22): tricky, practising fetches? Cf. wylie, st. 21.
fetcht a race, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a swift preliminary run.
fett, I, 432, 5: fetch, pret. fet, fette, III, 31, 14; 63, 145; 64, 172; 298, 67.
fett, V, 224, 18: white.
ffettle, III, 92 ff., 15, 37, 56: make ready.
feud, II, 279 a, 16: contest of feeling?
feughten, p. p. of fecht, ficht, fight, I, 109, 15.
feume, IV, 473, 44: foam.
fey, I, 245, 6; IV, 44, 4; 430, 2: destined to death. See fae.
ffeyt, faith.
feyther, V, 296 a: father.
ficht, fecht, feght, v., IV, 84 f., 16, 26, 27, etc.: fight. pret. focht, foucht. p. p. foughten, feughten.
fie. See fee.
fie, doomed. See fae.
fiel, feel, II, 176, C 3: fool.
fieldert, V, 126, 1: fieldward, away (from where they were).
fiend thing, IV, 23, A c 18: devil of a thing.
fift, II, 75, 6: fifth.
file, v., I, 135, 4: defile.
file, IV, 494, 33: while, till.
fileshap, V, 260, 16: fellowship.
fill, full.
fill, I, 403, 10: follow, pursue.
filtt, p. p., III, 490, 20: filed.
fin, find.
fin, craig and fin, II, 28, 27: whin, whin-stone, synonymous with greenstone, but applied to any hard rock.
finikin, III, 174, 18: fine, handsomely dressed.
fire-beams, IV, 96, 3: should be fire-boams (bombs), as at 99, G 8, H 6.
fire-boams, bombs. See fire-beams.
firlot, IV, 46, 3; 379, 13: the fourth part of a fou, which is a dry measure varying from two to six Winchester bushels (a Winchester bushel being of a slightly less capacity than the present imperial bushel).
firmaty, V, 114, 3: frumenty; in old cookery, wheat pottage, with flesh in it; hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with cinnamon, sugar, etc.
fit, fitt, fyt, fytte, II, 54, 60: song. I, 329, 62; III, 25, 51; 27, 97; 308, 24: division of a song. (A. S. fitt.)
fit, I, 131, G 4, 5; 164, J 6; 302, A 7; 472, 28; 491, 26; IV, 119, 6: foot, feet.
fit, III, 142, 32; V, 240, 5: ready.
fitches (of deer), II, 132, 19: flitches, sides.
fite (bread), V, 220, 6: (probably) wheat. See white bread.
fitt, III, 465, 21: it is better to read sitt, as in Caw’s text.
fitted, IV, 18, 9: footed.
fitted, II, 485, 18, 31; V, 103 a: suitably treated or served. V, 132, 2: ready, disposed.
fittie, IV, 450 a, 4: foot.
fivesome, III, 472, 3: five together.
flaff, IV, 470, 20: flap, fan.
flag, I, 305, 3, 4; V, 213, 3, 4: corruption of fag, drab, slut. See fag.
flain in, IV, 224, 23: correct to fla or flai (flew) in?
flamboy, V, 298, 7: flambeau, torch.
flat, II, 258, 45, 46: highest and lowest layer of a grave.
flatte, IV, 504, 32: positively determined on.
flattered, flottered (on the faem), II, 25 G 14; 27, 22: flitted, floated (O. Eng. floteren, Germ. flattern).
flattering (toung), II, 144, 8: fluttering, waggling. flattering tongue that flutters, II, 154, 21.
flaugh, flaw, pret. of fly, I, 286, 56; 397, E 8; II, 314, 9.
flaw, tell me without a flaw, V, 41, 28: lie.
flay, frighten. See fley.
flay (A. S. fléon), fly. pret. flaw, flaugh.
fleachy, II, 470, 53: infested with fleas.
flear, fleer, I, 454, 11; IV, 392, 7; 410, 26: floor.
flee, v., V, 304 b, 4: flay. pret. fleed.
flee, not a, IV, 53, 12: not a whit (fly, for a small thing). I count him lighter than a flee, etc., III, 480, 23; 482, 19; 488, 26 (flea); 490, 15. left him not a flee, IV, 53, 12.
fleechin, I, 424, d 11; II, 32, Q 2: wheedling, cajoling.
fleed, pret., V, 304 b, 4: flayed.
fleed, flied, V, 257, 7, 17: frightened. See fleg.
fleed, IV, 348, 14; 349, 9: flood.
fleer, I, 69, 39; 298, 4; 452, 14: floor. See flear.
fleet, flute.
fleg, fley, flay (A. S. flégan, Old Eng. fleyen), V, 253 b, No 203, 3: frighten.
flesse, V, 283, 18: flesh.
flex, V, 283, 11, 21: flax.
fley, flay, III, 457, A 2; 474, 36: frighten. pret. fleed, flied. See fleg.
flight, I, 21, note *: dispute and scold.
flink, care a flink, V, 259, 3: care a whit.
flirry, I, 424, d 10: blossom.
flo, flon(e) (A. S. flá, flán), I, 327, 10; III, 13, 5, 15: arrow.
flotterd. See flattered.
flourishd, I, 398, 13: adorned.
flow, IV, 79, 14: moss with a spring in it, morass.
flower, I, 352, 3, 4: get flowers for, or deck with flowers.
flutters, II, 154, 21: waggles,
flyte, flight, III, 414 b: dispute, debate, scold (here Percy’s word, replacing flout and mock).
forward, V, 283, 4: compact.
focht, pret. of fecht, ficht, fight, IV, 167, C 10. p. p. feughten, foughten.
fode. See feed.
folde, pret., III, 76, 407: folded.
folle, foal.
folye, I, 327, 17: a very unlikely word (unless we may understand it to have the meaning of Old Fr. foler, errer çà et là). Another text has balye (Fr. baillie), which gives a good sense, under thine own control, in thine own custody. (folye, in 17, may be caught from 18.)
fone, II, 196 b, 2, 8: foes.
fond, fond to see him sleep, II, 269, 26: doted, was foolishly happy? (But probably corrupt: cf. fondly seen thee sleep, 271, 30.)
food, III, 287, 61: man. See feed.
ffooder, II, 46, 41: (cf. Ger. fuder, cart-load, the largest or one of the largest measures for corn, liquids, and other things), here, tun, as is clear from auger, 41.
foonshief, V, 206 a, 8: foundation, bottom sheaf of a stack.
foor, V, 99, C 4: fared, went.
foote, goe two foote, III, 188, 6: corrupt for fold; cf. 267, 9.
for, ffor. ye (yes), for God, nay, for God, III, 61, 105, 107; 69, 259, 267, 269, 271; 76, 413, 414: by.
for, II, 124, 38: before.
for, IV, 21, 6; 438, 9; V, 16 f., 2, 5, 29: where.
for when but would be expected, II, 58, 11, 13; 59, 22 (see II, 57 b). for and, V, 76, 25; 144, 9.
for no, I, 183, 25; II, 256, K 3: phrase of refusal, obscurely elliptical, after the manner of why, no; or corruptly for fye, no (cf. II, 158, 2).
forbears, I, 206, 2; II, 63, 19: forefathers.
forbode, forbott, ouer Goddes, III, 29, 162; 123, 18; V, 199 a, 64: God forbid, against God’s prohibition; so A. S. ofer cinges bebod, against the king’s order; ofer dryhtnes word, against the word of the Lord, etc. Elliptically, God’s forbod, as III, 37, 79; 180, 16. III, 113, 72: see ffend.
forbye, forebye, I, 402, 1; II, 154, 8, 9; IV, 224, 17; 433, 16: near by. I, 86, 33; II, 70, 22: apart, aside. IV, 203, 2: further.
forbye, forebye, forby, I, 305, 1; IV, 203, 2; V, 17, 32; 213 a, 1: besides.
force, no, III, 57, 13; 67, 227: no matter.
forces. for (thro, V, 306, 8) a’ her father’s forces, V, 166, 11: in spite of all her father could do?
fordoo, destroy.
fore, first fore love, II, 191, 22, 25, 28, 29: earlier.
forebye. See forbye.
fforefend, III, 340, 26; 407, 5: avert, forbid.
forehammer, I, 21 b, 12; III, 474, 34: sledge-hammer, the large hammer, which strikes before the smaller.
foremost man, 1, 146, 12; IV, 412, 19: apparently the bridegroom’s “best man.”
forenent, fornent, I, 221 f., E 7, 17; 504, 7; IV, 77, 3; 288, F 2; 451 a, 3, 5: over against, in the face of.
foresteed, V, 237, 28: protection, protector.
foret, I, 244, 10: forth.
forfaulted, V, 194, 68, 73: forfeited.
forfouchald, IV, 4 b, 28: very much tired. (Scottish wauchle, forwauchld, forfaughlit.)