Glossary. 
Dippings, 86/3, s. #7. dripping, grease, 
etc., collected by the cook. 
Discharge, 53/3, uv. relieve you of the 
trouble. 
Discuriesy, 9/19, s. incivility, rudeness. 
Dispaire, 57/53, v. injure, depreciate. 
Dissurie, 113/26, s. the strangury. 
Distaffe, 67/15, s. distaff. 
Docking the dell, 10/40, dissipation. 
See Grose’s Dict. s.v. Dock. 
Docks, 17/11, s. AZ. weeds. 
* Dockes, 27, 5. pl. ? 
Dole, 33/16, s. share. 
Doles, 48/6, s. f/. boundary marks, 
either a post or a mound of earth ; 
also, a balk or slip of unploughed 
ground. 
Dolt, 33/37, s. stupid, fool. 
Don, 106/21, Ap. done. 
Doo of, 33/39, v. zp. get rid of. 
Doong, 19/29, s. dung, manure. 
Doong Crone, 17/7, s. a crook or staff 
with hooked end for drawing 
dung. 
Doonged, 53/21, Af. dunged, manured. 
Doted, 2/8, v. Zz. 2. became foolish, was 
silly. Fr. dotter, radoter, to dote, 
rave.—Cotgrave. Cf. Piers Plow- 
man, ‘** Thou doted daffe.” 
Doughtful, 114/3, aa. doubtful. 
Douse, 10/7, s. strumpet, prostitute ; 
the same word as Doxy. Halliwell, 
s.v. Douce, quotes this passage, 
and renders douse by ‘‘ a pat in the 
face,” but s.v. Dowse he gives the 
correct meaning. 
Dout, 87/7, s. danger, risk, difficulty. 
Doues, 56/24, s. p/. doves, pigeons. 
Dowebake, 79/2, s. dough, underbaked 
bread. 
Drab, 77/5, s. sloven, loose woman. 
Dragons, 45/7, s. the herb Serpentine, 
Serpentarie, or Dragonwort. 
Dredge, 16/13, s. a mixture of oats and 
barley. ‘* Dragge, menglyd corne 
(drage or mestlyon), #22xtio.”— 
Prompt. Parv. See Notes. , 
Drest, 49/8, #/. treated. 
Dreue, 35/42, Driue, 33/42, v. follow 
you up, press you. 
Dreuils, 113/12, Driuell, 79/1, s. wasters, 
spendthrifts. 
Drift, 10/13, s. end, aim, design, 113/39, 
course, such drift to make =to drift 
along in such a manner. 
Drines, 53/20, s. dryness. 
Drinke corn, 18/24, s. barley. 
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Driping, 35/14, v. dripping on, keeping 
wet. ; 
Driue, 16/20, v. drive out of their hives 
for the purpose of taking the honey. 
Droie, 81/3, s. a drudge, servant. See 
note in Prompt. Parv. s.v. Deye. 
Drousie, 89/4, adj. the drowsy, the 
sleepy- 
Drout, 14/3, s. drought, dry weather. 
Drowseth, 62/13, v. gv. ¢. droops, gives 
way. 
Drudge, 7/1, s. slave, mean servant. 
Duck, 55/6, s. docks, dockweed. 
Dun, 82/2, A. finished, done for. 
Dy, 35/24, s. a die, as close as a dy= 
as close as possible. 
E. 
Earthes, 35/50, s. £/. a ploughing. A.S. 
earian. Lat. arare, to plough. In 
the Catholicon Anglicum we find 
“A dayserth or daysardawe, juger, 
jugerum.” See also Ray and 
Halliwell, s.v. Arders. 
Easeth, 94/9, uv. gr. ¢. indulges, pleases. 
Eaw, 67/24, s. ewe. 
Eb, 14/5, s. ebb. A.S. edda. 
Ech, 67/23, aaj. each. 
Edder, 33/13, 5. ‘‘ Such fence wood as 
is commonly put upon the top of 
Fences and binds or interweaves 
each other.” —T.R. 
Edish, 18/4, s. stubble after the corn is 
cut. Roughings. » Zdzsc is an old 
Saxon word signifying sometimes 
roushings, aftermathes. See Glos- 
saries, B 15, B 16, E. D. Soc. 
Edmond, St., 20/12, St. Edmund’s Day, 
20th November. 
Eie, 57/9, s. eye, attention. 
Eiebright, 44/5, s. common eyebright, 
Luphrasiaoficinalis, formerly much 
used as a remedy for diseases of 
the eye. 
Eies, 1183/4, s. pl. eyes: 
Eke, 66/6, adv. also, too, A.S. eac, ec. 
Elfe, 113/14, s. creature; 86/11, a 
servant. 
Elues, 22/3, s. 7. young cattle. 
Embraid, 112/7, v. zp. upbraid, abuse. 
Embrings, 12/6, s. f/. the Ember-days, 
being the Wednesday, Friday, and« 
Saturday after the first Sunday in 
Lent, the feast of Whitsuntide, the 
14th September, and the 13th 
December. 
