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The Boke named The Governour: Glossary

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Sir Thomas Elyot


GLOSSARY

[Thanks are due for the alphabetizing of the Glossary to Arthur B. Watson, Esq., B.A., Secretary to the Academic Registrar of the University of London.]

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

    A

  • abbreviate, abbreviation, abridgment
  • abbreviate, to make shorter, stop
  • abettours, instigators, supporters
  • abhorreth, makes one shudder
  • abiecte, thrown down, depressed
  • abiected, abjected, lit. threw away, humiliated, rejected
  • abraide at, upbraid, object
  • abstracte, drawn away
  • abusifly, abusively
  • accommodate, refer
  • accompted, accounted
  • accorde, bring into concord
  • achieuances, achievements
  • achieued, obtained
  • acquyted, requited
  • adhorreth, gives a shock or shudder to
  • admaruailynge, marvelling
  • adminiculation, prop, support
  • aduaile, avail, profit, advantage
  • aduaunt, make boastful
  • aduaunted, boasted
  • aduenture, experience
  • aduertised, warned, informed
  • adumbration, shading
  • aduocatrice, advocate
  • aduoutry, auoutry, adultery
  • advertisements, observation, precepts, instructions
  • affabilitie, "easy to be spoken to" (Elyot)
  • affectes, objects
  • affects, affections
  • affirmaunce, confirmation
  • afore, before
  • after, according to
  • aggregate, congregate, gather together
  • agreue, to show its seriousness
  • aigre, eager
  • alay, may = alloy, or may be the technical term allay, the letting go of the hounds in deer-hunting
  • allective, allectyue, enticement, allurement
  • alicuiate, alleviated
  • alloured, allured
  • als, as
  • ampliating, extending
  • amytie, amity
  • annecteth, connect
  • Anniball, for Hannibal
  • anone, anon, immediately, in a short time
  • anoyeng, injuring
  • appaireth, impairs
  • appairing, impairing, spoiling
  • appaysed, appeased
  • appertayneth, belongs
  • applicate, apply
  • apprehendeth, seizes
  • approbate, approved
  • appropred, proper, appropriate to
  • araye, array
  • arbitrement, decision, judgment
  • Aresse, arras
  • arise, for arras
  • armure, armour
  • armure, taking up arms, war
  • artificial form, a form developed by the study of an art
  • artificial science, technical knowledge which results from study of the arts concerned
  • asprely, fiercely
  • assayed, attempted, put forth
  • assayeth, essays, attempts
  • assentation, flattery
  • assention, ascension
  • assertayned, made certain, assured
  • astate, estate
  • astraied, astounded
  • aswage, assuage
  • Atheniensis, Athenians
  • attaintes, in the sense of a second trial, in which the jury were summoned for giving a wrong verdict. See Mr. Croft's note on the subject
  • attemptates, attempts
  • auaunted, boasted
  • auctorite, authority
  • aught, ought
  • auncetours, ancestors
  • auncient, ancient, of mature age
  • auncientie, antiquity
  • auowed, avowed, vowed
  • autentike, authoritative
  • autours, authors
  • avaunced, advanced
  • awaite, watch, guard
  • awayteth, watches, is on the look out
  • ayer, air

    B

  • bankette, banquet
  • banyssed, banished
  • baratour, deceiver, cheat
  • batable, debatable
  • batry, battery
  • baudes, bawds
  • bayne, Fr. bain, a bath
  • bedynge, bidding
  • beest, beast
  • begoune, begun
  • berne, barn
  • bienge, buying
  • bill, written document
  • bereft, bereft
  • blake, black
  • blenchars, apparently means white objects
  • bobbed, hit, struck
  • bordell, brothel
  • bore, boar
  • bothe, the bothe, the two
  • braste, burst
  • brasteth, bursteth
  • breade, breadth
  • brenning, burning
  • bride, said of either the man or the woman at the time of marriage in Elyot's time
  • brokle, easily broken, fragile
  • bucolikes, for the Bucolics of Virgil
  • burgine, sprout out
  • buten, booty
  • by cause, because

    C

  • CCC, three hundred
  • can, in sense of "to be able," and also "to know;" can skill = " has acquired skill"
  • capital, chief
  • capon, fowl
  • cormorantes, for gluttons
  • cautele, caution
  • certayne (chap. xiv.) seems to suggest "a certainty," or is the word a misprint for circle?
  • certayne, a certain number
  • certes, forsooth
  • cessynge, ceasing
  • chafed, heated
  • champaine, having fields
  • chase, chose
  • chaufed, heated
  • chasing, chesinge, choosing
  • circumstance, indirectness, circumlocution (Croft)
  • Cirus, for Cyrus
  • civilite, polish
  • claisshe, closh, game with a ball or bowl, often prohibited in 15th and 16th century (Oxford Dictionary)
  • clarify, make clear
  • cloughtes, clouts
  • coarcted, confined, restrained
  • coarted, coarcted, constrained, compelled
  • cokneyes. Croft gives a long note in his glossary on this word, which means "pampered pets," "minions "
  • colere, choler
  • colours of rhetorike, ornaments or embellishments of style
  • colver, a dove
  • commodious, profitable, convenient, serviceable
  • commoditie, convenience, pleasure
  • commodity, advantage, profit
  • compacte, composed of
  • comprehend, include, express
  • comprobate, agree with
  • compromittinge, compromising
  • conceipt, conception, idea
  • concinnitie, fitness, suitability
  • condign, worthy, adequate
  • condisciple, fellow-disciple
  • condutis, conduits, passages
  • conferee, bring together
  • conglutinate, glued together
  • congruent, fitness
  • congruent, suitable, fitting
  • congruite, agreement, concordance (grammatical term. See Croft's Gouernour, Glossary)
  • coniecte, gather, conjecture
  • confected, threw together, guessed, conjectured
  • conjuration, conspiracy
  • conceyved, preserved
  • consolidate, confirmed, established, made strong
  • constance, constanoy
  • constraigne, constrain
  • constrayned, forced
  • contexte, weaving together, composition
  • contrayes, countries
  • conueiaunce, trick, deceit
  • conuersant, prevalent
  • conuersation, intimacy, intercourse
  • copia, Latin copia, lit. "abundance." The term copia is used for variety in rendering any phrase or expression, as in Erasmus's De Copia Verborum
  • corporal, bodily
  • correction, punishment
  • costes, coasts
  • couaite, covet
  • couch, lay or place together
  • coueitise, covetousness
  • couenable convenient
  • counnynge, cunning
  • counnynges, knowledge, skill
  • counterfaicted, counterfeited
  • counterfaite, imitate
  • counterpoint, counterpane
  • crafty, skilful
  • cromme, crumb
  • cruciate, afflicted, tormented
  • cure, care, work

    D

  • daliaunce, talk, chat
  • damosell, damsel
  • daunsis. For bargenettes, pauions, turgions, and roundes, names of dances, see Croft's Glossary
  • deambulations, walkings about
  • decerpt, plucked
  • decessyng, deceasing, dying
  • decking, distinction of apparel
  • declaration, exposition
  • declared, made clear
  • decoction, digestion
  • defalcate, cut off, as with a scythe
  • defautes, defaults
  • dole, deaf
  • defende, forbid
  • dele, part. Cf. "a great deal"
  • delectable, delightful
  • delectation, delight
  • delicate, dainty nice, fastidious
  • deliuer, nimble, agile. Literally, to be at liberty, free
  • deliured, delivered
  • delue, delve, dig
  • demulced, stroked
  • denomination, name
  • densed, thickened, strengthened
  • depend, hang
  • depopulat, depopulated
  • deprehend, gather, understand
  • derogate, disregarded
  • descriued, written about
  • descrive, describe
  • despyte, slight, contempt
  • detraction, slander
  • dificile, difficult
  • digne, worthy
  • digress, step apart
  • Dionish, for Dionysius
  • disceie, deceit
  • disceipte, deceit
  • disceyued, deceived
  • discipline, learning
  • disciplines, kinds of learning, sciences
  • discommodities, discommoditis, inconveniences
  • discourage, absence of courage
  • discrepant, different
  • disfurnisshed, dispossessed of, stript of
  • dispendinge, expending
  • disportes, sports
  • disseasest, makes ill at ease
  • distemperature, inclemency, unwholesomeness
  • divulgate, promulgated, published
  • doctrine, teaching
  • documents, matter of teaching
  • dolour, grief, pain
  • domage, damage
  • dome, dumb
  • domisticall, domestic, in our own country
  • dought, doubt
  • doulce, Lat. dulcis, sweet
  • dradde, dreaded
  • dragges, dregs
  • drane, drone
  • dredefully, with awe
  • dure, endure, last
  • dyse, dice

    E

  • edifie, build
  • eftsones, again
  • egrely, eagerly
  • eien, eves
  • elect, chosen
  • election, choice
  • elevate, elevated
  • embrace, to take in hand (Fr. bras, English brace; so literally, "take into one's arms
  • embraided, upbraided
  • embrawder, embroider
  • emote, an ant
  • encombrances, heaping together, trouble, worry
  • endamage, to damage, injure
  • enforms, inform
  • engine, instrument, means
  • engynne, instrument
  • enoynte, anoint
  • enoynted, enointed
  • ensue, follow
  • ensueth, followeth
  • enterpreted, undertaken, undertook
  • entrelased, interlaced
  • enuiranynge, environing, surrounding
  • enuy, ennui
  • enuyroned, environed, surrounded
  • er, ere, before
  • ernest, earnest, guarantee
  • erogate, to spend
  • erogating, spending
  • erste, earlier, first
  • esbaied, abashed, amazed, appalled
  • esbatements, amusements, diversions
  • eschue, eschew
  • euangelicall, in the sense of those who preach the gospel
  • exchewed, exchued, eschewed
  • exchuynge, eschewing
  • excogitate, thought out
  • exploite, perform, dispatch, accomplish
  • exploiture, accomplishment, achievement
  • exployted, accomplished
  • exploytinge, delivering
  • expouned, expounded
  • expulsed, expelled
  • exquisitely, sought out with much study and diligence
  • extincte, make extinct, put out

    F

  • fastidious, loathsome
  • facile, easy, ready, fluent
  • faict, feat, act
  • falowe, kind of deer
  • familiar, household
  • fantises, phantasies, fancies
  • fardelles, pack, bundle
  • fatigate, wearied
  • fauconer, falconer
  • fautours, favourers, supporters
  • feate, fact, accomplishment
  • fecis, grounds, dregs of liquor
  • fele, feel
  • Ferrare, for Ferrara
  • feyre, farther, far
  • fiers, fierce
  • figure, appearance, form, condition
  • figures, drawings, plans
  • fleame, phlegm
  • floured, flourished
  • foles, fools
  • foured, faltered
  • forbare, forbore, avoided
  • forboden, forbidden
  • forceth, matters, signifies
  • forse, reck, care. Mr. Croft shows how this comes to mean also "to matter, signify
  • foules, birds
  • fraunches, franchise, freedom
  • frere, friar
  • fro, from
  • fucate, painted, coloured, pretended
  • fuller, i.e. the one who cleanses and thickens cloth
  • fume, smoke, vapour
  • furniture, equipment

    G

  • Gaddy, for Engedi
  • galyarde, gallant, gay
  • garnerde, granary
  • gate, got
  • geauntes, giants
  • Gene, for Genoa
  • gentilles, gentiles
  • gesseron, coat of mail
  • gestes, deeds, exploits
  • glosses, explanations, interpretations; orig. between the lines or in the margin of a text of an author
  • graue, engrave
  • grauen, engraven
  • gravitie, seriousness
  • grefes, grevious defects
  • grutch, complain, murmur
  • grutchinge, grudging

    H

  • hache, battle-axe (Cf. hatchet)
  • hakneyman, a man who keeps hackney-horses for hire
  • handsell, money paid on striking a bargain, earnest-money
  • harborowe, harbour, to get at the retreat or harbour of a hunted animal (Croft)
  • hauiour, behaviour
  • haulte, high, haughty
  • haunted, inhabited, frequented, being familiar with, pursued
  • haviour, having, property
  • haye, lit. a fence or hedge; then, that which is enclosed, an enclosure for catching prey (Croft)
  • heare, hair
  • heedes, heads
  • here, hair
  • hette, made hot
  • heuyn, heaven
  • hiare, hire
  • hierarches, ecclesiastical rulers
  • Hieroboaz, for Jeroboam
  • Hierusalem, Jerusalem
  • Hietro, for Jethro
  • historiall, for historical
  • history, story, account
  • hit, it
  • hobies, hawks
  • hoeues, hoofs
  • holle, whole
  • holpen, helped
  • honest, noble
  • honestie, nobility
  • Horestes, for Orestes
  • humecteth, moistens
  • hyght, was called
  • hynge, hung

    I

  • iapes, jests, trifling
  • ieoparded, put in jeopardy
  • illecebrous, alluring, attractive
  • illected, enticed
  • imbosed, risen into bosses
  • impassible, lit. not liable to suffering
  • impeched, hindered
  • impechementes, hindrances, obstacles
  • importable, insupportable
  • impugn, attack
  • incende, inflame
  • incensed, inflamed
  • incitation, instigation
  • incomprehensibly, beyond comprehension
  • incongrueni, unsuitable
  • incontinent, forthwith
  • incontinently, immediately
  • indictynge, saying, ordaining
  • indifferent, impartial
  • indigent, in defect
  • infarced, stuffed, filled, inforced themselves, made an effort
  • inforsinge, enforcing
  • inluded, infused
  • ingendred, born, implanted
  • ingenerate, inborn
  • ingourgitatious, gluttonous, devouring, guzzling
  • inhabile, enable
  • innocentes, lit. not harming; i.e., those who were not enemies
  • inquietation, loss of quiet or security
  • insignement, notification, intimation, showing
  • insolubles, an argument leading to an impossible conclusion
  • instinction, inspiration, natural impulse
  • intentifly, intensity
  • intentifly, intentively, intently
  • intimation, information
  • irous, irritable, angry

    J

  • Josue, Joshua
  • Jues, Jews
  • jurates, jurors

    K

  • kendled, kindled
  • kenned, known
  • keruinge, carving, sculpture
  • knotte, the form of a flower-bed in a garden

    L

  • L.M. li., 50,000 pounds
  • ladde, led
  • lasse, less
  • laudable, praiseworthy, favourable
  • lauded, praised
  • layser, leisure
  • leage, league
  • leasings, lie, deceit
  • leasinges, deceit, lying
  • leasour, leisure
  • leaue, omit
  • lechour, debauchee
  • leme, gleam
  • lepries, leprosy
  • lese, lose
  • let, hinder
  • let swere, caused to swear an oath
  • lette, hindrance
  • leude, unlearned
  • leuigate, lightened
  • liberdes, lybarde, leopard
  • listed, liked
  • lite, light
  • litenesse, lightness
  • longing, belonging
  • lothelynes, loathsomeness
  • lyam, leash
  • lyke, As shulde lyke hym, - i.e. as he should like it - lit. as it should like (to) him
  • lymitour, friar only allowed tobeg within the limits of a specified district
  • lyte, light

    M

  • Machabeis, Maccabees
  • maculate, stain
  • maintenners, defenders, protectors
  • maistries, mastery
  • maligned at, slandered, defamed
  • maner, manner; maner huntinge, manner of hunting
  • manifesting, make clear
  • mansuetude, gentleness, mildness
  • mantion, mansion, dwelling
  • marks of the target in archery, butts, rovers, pricks
  • mast, the fruit of the oak, beech, etc.; acorns or nuts serving as food for animals
  • maynure, main oeuvre; lit. the hand at work; with the maynure, caught in the deed
  • meane, middle
  • membres, limbs
  • menacis, menaces
  • menes, means
  • meyualously, marvellously
  • messager, messenger
  • metely, moderately
  • meued, moved, roused
  • Micol, for Michal
  • middes, midst
  • millaine, for Milan
  • minisshed, diminished
  • mitigate, soften, appease
  • mo, more
  • mockage, derision
  • moderatrice, feminine form of moderator
  • molested, harassed
  • molles, moles
  • more, the more part, the greater part
  • Morisco, Morocco
  • mortifieth, deadens
  • mortred, mortared
  • mote. As in "Ward-mote." Literally moot is "a meeting." As Elyot uses the word, it seems to be "the pleading in a difficult case." Cf. a moot point " (Croft)
  • moughte, might
  • mountenance, the mounting up, amount
  • mumpsimus, for sumpsimus. Croft tells the original story of an ignorant priest who for thirty years had read sumpsimus in his Missal as Munpsimus, and who refused to accept the right word. The term came therefore to signify "stubborn, invincible ignorance"
  • mutabilite, changeableness
  • mututilate, mutilated
  • mynchen, a man

    N

  • nat, not
  • ne, nor
  • nedes, of necessity
  • nerre, nearer
  • nete, neat
  • neuewes, nephews
  • none, noon
  • norisery, nursery
  • nother, a nother, another
  • nourise, nurse; Fr. nourrice
  • noyfull, harmful
  • numbles, certain parts of stags or swine (Croft)

    O

  • obfuscate, obscured, darkened
  • obsessed, besieged, occupied, possessed
  • occupied, followed, pursued
  • odible, hateful
  • offices, duties
  • Offices of Tulli, Cicero's De Officiis
  • one, own
  • onelas, unless
  • onely, only
  • ones, once
  • onlas, unless
  • optaine, obtain
  • or, ere, before
  • Oratius, for Horatius
  • ordinance (of war), originally, arrangement in rows or ranks, provision, equipment, stores
  • orels, or else
  • othe, oath
  • other, used for plural, "others"
  • ouche, jewel. Apparently broach and ouch are equivalents (Croft).
  • ouer commen, overcome
  • owed, owned
  • Oza, for Uzza

    P

  • parayle, likeness, similarity
  • pasis, paces
  • paynefulness, laboriousness, readiness to take pains
  • Paynims, heathen
  • peace, piece
  • peasible, peaceable
  • peere, equal
  • perisshed, caused to perish
  • perler, parlour
  • Perse, for Persia
  • perse, pierce
  • Perses, for Perseus
  • persing, piercing
  • personage, body, person
  • peruse, examine
  • petied, pitied
  • petites, little, young; ie. children
  • Pharo, for Pharaoh
  • pike-thank, flatterer
  • perries, whirlwind
  • placabilitie, anger restrained or controlled
  • Plini, for Pliny
  • policie, the use of deceit to accomplish a practical end
  • policie, power of devise
  • Pompei, for Pompey
  • pondered, weighed, considered
  • ponderous, having weight, heavy
  • Pontane, for Pontanus
  • poreblynde, purblind
  • porpheri, porphyry
  • poses, rheums, catarrhs
  • poure, poor
  • poyses , weights
  • praty, pretty
  • prease, press, crowd
  • preordinate, preordained
  • prepence, thinks beforehand, anticipates
  • prepensed, forethought
  • preuely, privily
  • preuented, anticipated, antedated
  • pristinate, pristine, original
  • procurement, instigation
  • profe, proof
  • propise, proper, suited, fit, propitious
  • provecte, carried forward, advanced
  • prowes, prowess
  • Ptolomee, for Ptolemy
  • puissant, powerful
  • pitltrie, poultry
  • puyssaunce, puissance, physical prowess
  • pye, a magpie
  • pynnes, a game, nine-pins

    R

  • radde, read
  • radicate, rooted radycate, root
  • ratified, confirmed, thought
  • rauine (i.e. ravine), rapine
  • rauissed, carried away
  • rebecke, violin with three strings
  • reboyleth, re-boils, stirs up again. resists
  • refrained, bad a curb applied
  • Regalities (i.e. the ceremonial side of royalty), the insignia or regalia of the king
  • relenteth, become soft or fluid (Croft)
  • remembreth, calls to remembrance, relate
  • reminant, remnant, remainder
  • remitte, submit
  • remording, biting, causing remorse
  • renne, run
  • renome, renownu
  • rentyng, rending
  • repugne, oppose
  • repugne agayne, resist
  • repugnyng, resisting
  • resceyued, received
  • reserued, except
  • respect, looking over, consideration
  • ribawdry, ribaldry
  • Roboaz, for Rehoboam
  • rode, roadstead, harbour
  • romayne, Roman
  • rosiall, rosy
  • roume, room
  • routes, assemblages, multitudes
  • royle, horse, stud. Croft shows that a Flemish horse is meant by the term
  • rusticall, boorish
  • rusticitie, boorishness

    S

  • sadde, serious
  • sapience, wisdom
  • sauage, wild; in beestes sauage
  • sauerynge, savouring, smacking
  • saulfe, safe
  • savoureth, gives a savour or relish
  • science, knowledge
  • Scithes, for Scythians
  • seelynge, blindfolding
  • seeue, sieve
  • sely, simple
  • semblable, like, simiIar
  • semblably, similarly. So too, semblable wise, likewise
  • semblaunt, appearing; "making semblaunt," giving the appearance
  • semblaunt, appearance, front, countenance
  • sengle, simple
  • sengles, singles
  • sens, since
  • sentence, judgment, opinion
  • sententious, i.e. in the form of judgments, expressing decisive opinions (sententia)
  • sepulture, burial, tomb
  • sequele, consequence
  • severetie, seriousness, gravity of demeanour
  • shailes, Croft gives this as equal to "tatters or rags"
  • shalme, a flute
  • shamfastnes, modesty
  • shone, shoon, shoes
  • similitude, likeness, portraiture
  • simulachre, likeness
  • skoser, a horse dealer (see Croft's edition of the Gouernour, Glossary)
  • slee, slay
  • sleight, skill.
  • socour, succour
  • solace, satisfaction, pleasure
  • solutions, judgments
  • Sonne, sun
  • sopheme, sophism
  • souketh, sucketh
  • soune, sowne, sound
  • sourded, raised up
  • sowernes, sourness
  • sowne, swoon, sound
  • spice, species, kind
  • spradde, spread
  • sprent, be-sprent, be-sprinkled
  • squynces, quinsy
  • stalles, for hives
  • stare, a starling
  • stereth, stir
  • sterres, stars
  • stiche, ie. stitch
  • strawed, strewn
  • subverted, ovewrturned
  • suertie, safety
  • sufficient, efficient
  • suffised, satisfied
  • Suisses, for Swiss
  • superstition, a standing still in amazement, wonder, dread
  • surmounte, surpass
  • surplusage, excess
  • sussitate, raise. We only use resuscitate
  • susters, sister's

    T

  • table, Fr. tableau, picture
  • tache, stain, spot
  • tariar, one who tarries
  • tedious, annoying
  • tempre himself, restrain himself
  • tenese, tennis
  • tergate, target
  • testars, a canopy at the head of the bed
  • than, then
  • that forth, thenceforth
  • the, thee
  • thens, thence
  • Therence, for Terence
  • threttist, threatenest
  • tiller-bowe, cross-bow
  • tisike, phthisis, consumption
  • to, too
  • towker, tucker, fuller of cloth (Croft, Glossary)
  • traicte, treat
  • trauvayle, work; Fr. travaille'r
  • trayned, drawn
  • trille, roll, twirl
  • trues, truce
  • trumpe, trumpet
  • trusses, used now in "trusses of hay
  • turmentes, equipment for war (Croft)
  • tyranny, sometim*es used for "rulership, government," not necessarily cruel or hard

    U

  • uncourtaisely, uncourteously
  • undeclared, unexpounded
  • uneth, scarcely
  • unfayned, unfeigned
  • uungyued, unchained
  • unhabile, unskilful, incapable
  • unlefull, unlawful
  • unneth, scarcely
  • unpuruaied, unpurveyed, unprovided with food
  • unwetinge, ignorant
  • ure, Croft traces this word to oeuvre, and gives its meaning as "operation, action, practice"

    V

  • vacaunt, vacant, free
  • vauntynge, vaulting
  • vendicate, establish a claim
  • ventilate, fanned, winnowed, threshed out
  • very, true, real. Cf. "My very son Esau"
  • vestures, clothes, garments
  • visage, appearance, a face
  • vitaile, vitayle, victuals
  • volupte, voluptuousness
  • vouched, called to witness Lat. vocare. Cf. vouchsafe *
  • vulgare, adj. common
  • vulgare, common people
  • vulgarely, commonly

    W

  • waikenes, weakness
  • waiker, weaker
  • warke, work
  • ways, worse
  • waxed, became
  • wayver, a weaver
  • weale, well-being
  • wench, maid
  • wene, think, be of opinion
  • wake, week
  • wilie, wily
  • willyng hym, making him willing
  • wist, known
  • wolde, sometimes where we use should
  • woode, mad
  • wortes, herbs, pot-herbs
  • wraste, wrest

    X

  • X thousand, ten thousand

    Y

  • yarde, yard. rod
  • Ye, yea
  • yocke, yoke
  • yoman for the monthe, probably misprint for mouth. Yeoman for the mouth, a butler (see Whitney's Dictionary)
  • yorning, Croft shows that this word means "the cry of animals"
  • yvory, ivory

    Z

  • Zelatours, zealous supporters
 

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