APPENDIX 



ACQUILLEZ, Fr., to take, to hold at bay, to gather. 

 " Et s'il voit que les chiens heussent acueili le change " 

 (G. de F., p. 156) — "if he sees that the hounds have 

 taken the change." It also denotes : " owning to the 

 scent " (Senechal, p. 8 ; Roy Modus, xxix. v). 



Twici says : " Les chevereaus ne sunt mie enchacez 

 ne aquyllees," which Dryden translates, " the roebuck 

 is not chased nor hunted up," from enqulller or aquiller^ 

 O. Fr. a form of accuellir, to push, put in motion, excite. 

 "The word in English which is nearest to it is 'to 

 imprime,' which was afterwards used for the unhar- 

 bouring of the hart " (Twici, p. 26). 



In the old English translation of Twici (Vesp. B. 

 XII.) aquylees is construed " gadered," which is certainly 

 one sense, but not the one here required (Twici, p. 53). 



The " Master of Game " translates ils accueillent in 

 G. de. F., p. 112, by " they run to them " (p. 1 1 1. See 

 also Godefroy). 



AFFETED, Mid. Eng., afaiten ; O. Fr. afaitier, 

 to trim, to fashion. A well-affaited or affeted head, 

 a well-fashioned or good-shaped head. In speaking of 

 stags' antlers, means regularly tinèd and well grown. 



Affeted also meant trained or tamed, reclaimed, made 

 gentle, thoroughly manned. Affaiter is still in use in 

 M. Fr., as a term of falconry. 



We find this word employed in this sense in the 

 Vision of Piers Plowman (1362) : "And go affayte the 



