Glossarial Index. 



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Erode, adj. broad, 2/14. 



Brodye, adj. ready to lay (as hens), lit. 

 brood-y, I46/24. 



Broken-wynded, s. a being broken in 

 the wind (said of a horse), 85/i. 



Brome, j. the plant broom, 44/4. 



Brouse, s. small sprigs which the cattle 

 eat, 132/3 5 ^^'^ see ttotes to 88/3, 

 126/9. O- F- brotist, a sprig. 



Brouse, v. to browze, eat oflSi 131/3- 

 Derived from the sb. above. 



Broyse, imp. s. bruise, 59/i2 ; broysed, 

 //• 6/30. 



Brue, V. to brew, 146/ 15. 



Brumentes, s. pi. inventories, 152/5. 

 Roquefort gives : ' Brevememt [ob- 

 viously an error for Brevement], etat 

 de depense, memoire, agenda, bor- 

 dereau.' He also notes breumen, 

 used for brevement, briefly. Hence 

 brument is for brevement, i.e. short 

 list, abstract. 



Bruseid, //. bruised, 129/4. 



Bryckle, adj. brittle, 100/8. 



Bryne, s. brine, 44/8. 



Brynke, s. brink, brim, top, I48/3. 



Bryse, imp. s. bruise, 129/3. See Broyse. 



Buddes, s. pi. buds, shoots, 126/ii. 



Bukler, s. buckler, I42/3. 



Bulder-stones, s. pi. smooth large round 

 stones, 15/28. 



Bull, J. harrow-bull, 15/9. 3"<?^Harowe- 

 bulles. 



Bulleys, j. />/. bullaces, I36/4, 140/i. 



Bunnes, s. pi. dry stalks, 7O/9. "Bun, 

 a dry stalk ; " Wright. Cf. Gael. 

 bjtn, a root, stock, stump ; bunan, 

 stubble. 



Burges, pr. s. buds, burgeons, 135/8. 



Burthen, s. crop, 12/21. 



Bussheles, j. //. bushels, 12/8. 



Bussliell-pokes, s. pi. bags or sacks 

 holding a bushel, 14I/69. 



Bustardes, s. pi. bustards, I46/29. 



But, prep, except, 122/1 ; but and, 

 conj. if, 44/2. 



By, V. buy, 06/5 ; bye, I48/36. 



By and by, phr. exactly, distinctly, in 

 order one after the other, 126/ 15 ; 

 immediately, 42/8. See Wright's 

 Gloss. 



Byd, V. to bid, invite, 152/i8. 



Byer, s. buyer, 118/6. 



^ygg^' ^- bigg' the name of a kind of 

 barley, 13 27. Bigg occurs as the 

 name of a kind of barley a.d. 1474-5 > 

 see Rogers, Hist. Agric. vol. iiL Icel. 

 bygg, Dan. byg, barley. 



Byghte, s. (bight), bend, 132/6. 

 Byrdes, s. pi. birds, chickens, I46/30. 



Caluary, Calvary, 1 66/32. 



Cambrydge-shyre, 2/27. 



Camborell, s. the hock of an animal, 

 107/3. Usually cambrel or gambrd. 



Czjijpr. s. knows, 52/7 ; pr.pl. 147/26l 



CandeU-lyghte, s. candle-light, 149/5, 



Candelmas, s. the day of the purifica- 

 tion of the Virgin, Feb. 2, 134/22. 



Canker, cancer, a disease of horses, note 

 to 83/1 ; p. 141. 



Cannes, s. pi. cans, 141/68. 



Capitayne, s. captain, I67/28. 



Carte-ladder, s. a frame-work behind a 

 cart, 5/27. See carte-ladders, 5 30. 



Cart-sadel, s. the small saddle placed 

 on a horse in the shafts, 5/27. 



Caryage, s. traffic of carts, 128/i2. 



Caryen, s. carrion, 6/34, 58/io. 



Casses, s. pi. the name of a kind of 

 apple, 130/4. Roquefort gives casse, 

 as meaning an oak. Cf. Low Lat. 

 casnus, F. ckene, an oak. 



Caste, V. to swarm, as bees, 122/6 ; 

 caste, //. thrown over, as ploughed 

 earth, 33/4. 



Castynge, s. casting, 13/i6. See I3/13. 



Cattell, s. cattle, S7/2. 



Cayphas, Caiphas, I66/27. 



Chafed, pp. heated, over-ridden, 80/5. 



Chafynge, pyres, pt. growing warm, 88/2. 



Chall-bones, s. pi. jawbones, 86/3. 



Challes, s. pi. jaws, 75/3. Chall = 

 jowl ; see jowl in my Etym. Diet. 



Champyon, s. flat, open, said of 

 country, 66/15. (The same as cham- 

 paign.) See Tusser's Husbandry. 



Chapmannes, s. gen. merchants, pur- 

 chasers, 11 8/4. 



Chapyter, s. chapter, I4I/13 J P^' 

 chapyters, I4I/3. 



Charte, s. cart, 19/5. 



Cheape, adj. cheap ; better cheape, 

 cheaper (where cheap was orig. a 

 sb.), 5/13. 



Chekyns, s. pi. chickens, I46/89. 



Chepeth, pr. s. bargains for, I57/27. 



Cheryes, s. pi. cherries, 136/3, 140/i. 



Chesse, s. chess, prol. 15. 



Chesses, s. pi. rows, note to I25/4. A 

 chase is " a row " ; see Old Country 

 Words, ed. Britten, p. 59. 



Chowe, V. chew, 23/n ; chowynge, 

 pr.pt. l^lj. 



Chrisostome, St. Chrysostom, 15d/i6; 

 Crysostome, 166/30. 



