A necessarie Catalogue, of the most hardest olde English words, how they may be truly vnderstood after our vsuall speaking, as well in all other old Copies, as in this booke.
Angells inwit, heauenly knowledge.
Arraied, furnished, skilled, or beautified.
Attercop, a spider.
Arerir, lifted vp.
A spiracle, a loftie sentence or a quickning concept.
Arbalastes, crosse-bowes.
Anon, speedely or shortly after.
A seeth, that is an attonement.
Ayen, againe.
A swap, a blow or stroke on any part of the body.
dusset, signifieth the same, & also a cuffe.
Benimmeth, witholde or keepe.
Botraces, venemous frogs.
Bounching, bending or swelling.
Blenching, mixing, & sometime dazeling.
Beshine, to giue light vnto, or illuminate.
Beshined, lightned, or beautified.
Burgening, when the young twigge appeareth.
Buffing, stuttering or stammering, sometime it signifieth bosting.
Bloonesse, pale or wan.
Bolisme, immoderate appetite.
Botchy, swelling vp or cockeling.
Behoteth, promiseth.
Breechmen, Mariners or saylers.
Boistous, grose, or stubberne.
Bedes, petitions.
Cleeretie, brightness.
Couenable, needfull.
Couth, that is know or knew.
Curtels, nerues and small rimnes in the bodie.
Clight, closed or fastened togethers.
Cleping, promising.
Descried, reuealed.
Doome distributiue, perticular iudgement.
Dole, sorow.
Deeming, to suppose.
Drastes, refuse or lees of wine, or of humor.
Dennes, caues or hollow places.
distingweth, diuideth.
Deale, to bestow or part.
Dread, to be in feare.
Decorate, to beautifie.
Defieng, to digest.
Dunch, deafe or hard of hearing.
Dulcet, sweet, pleasant or daintie.
Dunder, thunder or tempest.
Exciteth, stirreth or inlardgeth.
Encheson, forfait.
Ensinement, perseuerance.
Eleingnesse, waiward and solitary.
Eald, olde.
Fundement, foundation or beginning: it is taken for the longation, which is termed the fart hoale, or arse gut, it may be called the venticle for the stomacke.
Feat, neat or clenly.
Feruor, feruent or earnest.
Gendrid, begotten.
Gastnes, apparitions.
Grolleng, wallowing of the stomack.
Gostes, spirits.
Gropeng, feeling.
Griesely, fearefull to beholde.
Goushes, streames.
Grees, degrees, qualities or parts.
Gnaureng, forgetfulnesse.
Gabbing, prating, or unseemly speaking.
Highted, beautified, or to make handsome.
Houen, to aduance or set vp.
Hearingles, deafe.
Hirelings, seruants.
Hiew, shape or seemlinesse.
Horie, mouldie or fenoed
Hele, to couer or ouercast.
Hem, them.
Intelligence, vnderstanding.
Inwit, conceit of minde.
Infundid, confounded.
Innermore, before written.
Kit, cut off.
Leden, guide.
Lore, skill.
Leeches, surgeons.
Lendes, the flankes and thigh.
Melling, conioyning.
Malshragges, Caterpillers Palmers & Cankers.
Menace, to threten.
Misticke, secret.
Much, is taken for quantitie.
Meede, reward.
Nemped, disclosed.
Neneeuen [?], Temperance.
Nenet, will not.
Nesh, softe.
Obstacle, stubborne or wilfull.
Onid, mixed and ioyned.
Out take, except.
Pampination, pulling leaues, that grow too thicke.
Partner, pertaker, sometime for a companion.
Quitted, to discharge.
Ruthe, pitie or compassion.
Ripe men, haruesters & learned men.
Rocke, shake.
Rabbish, foole hardie, or malepart, & snatching.
Reefes, waues of the sea.
Renleth, mixed together.
Reling, moldering or ready to fall a sunder.
Stretch able, vpright.
Siker, safe.
Spirituelte, puritie or well meaning.
Shapes, differences of bodies.
Stempnes, subtections.
Stable, stedfast.
Sturdie, stoute, strong or valiant.
Stithe, ascend or clime.
Stammering, doubtfull.
Stalking, slow [?] going.
Speedfull, ready.
Squitter, menstruall, or matter corrupt [Cf. OED: diahrrea].
sternes, fiercenesse, or stubborne.
Savation, saluation, or preseruation.
Spended, consumed.
Smacke, taste.
Seechecth, seeketh.
shaad, shadow.
Sikerly, warely or safelye.
Signeth, expresseth.
Tharldome, Bondage.
Thyted, cut, as with a knife.
Tourmentes, Engines.
Trow, suppose or deeme.
Thirleth, pearceth, entermixeth or setteleth.
Vncunning, wanting skill.
Vnweuid, vnperfect worke.
Violaceus, fretting.
Vores, sorowes of land.
Vindimation, gathering ripe grapes.
Vnneth, scarcely.
Welthful, fruitfull.
Wittie, discreete:
Wreche, reuenge.
Wosen, the strot boll, or entraunce to the stomacke.
Woodnes, madnesse.
Weene, to thinke.
Wappeng, quaking.
Woos, vapour.
Woo, griefe of minde.
Welkin, the bright aire aboue the cloudes.
Compiled by David Scott Wilson-Okamura