GLOSSARY 



OF OBSOLETE ENGLISH TERMS AND WORDS 

 OCCURRING IN THE ANCIENT TEXTS 

 OF "THE MASTER OF GAME" AND IN 

 APPENDIX. 



Abai, abay, being at bay, 29, ï 1 8 



ACHARNETH, ACHARNE, to set 



on, to eat flesh, 59, 60, 62 

 ACHAUF, heat, 38, 98 



ACQUILLER, ENQUILLER, to 



rouse animals of the chase 



with hounds, App. 

 AFERAUNT, the haunch, 38 

 Affeted, fashioned, trained, 27, 



141 

 AFORCE, fiarforce,by force, App. 

 Aiguillounce, thorny 

 Akelid, cooled, 186 

 Akire, Akkerne, acorns, 144 

 Alauntis, alauntz, alond, 



allans or allauntes, a large 



hound, 3, 1 16-8 

 Alvelue, covered with fleece, 



fat or woolly substance, App. 

 ANALED, for avaled, hanging 



down, 1 14 

 Anceps, haussepied, a snare 



which caught the game by the 



foot and lifted it into the air, 



61 

 Anches, rosemary 

 APEL,French hunting-note,App. 

 Aperyng, stoned, the rough- 

 ness of antlers, 143 

 Apparaille, dressed venison 

 Arbitten, bitten, devoured 



Arblast, cross-bow, 27 



Areche, reach, 60 



ARERE, arrière, behind, back 



there, 182, App. 

 Areyn, spider, 137 

 Areyn, rain, 157 

 Arracher, to tear out ; a term 



used for skinning certain 



animals, App. 

 Asaute, saute, in heat, 64, 66 

 Ascriethe, ascrie, to rate, 



shout at, to scold, 63, 74, 170 

 Assaien, try or test, 88 

 Assaye, essay, to try; taking 



assay, to see by a cut the 



thickness of the fat, App. 

 Assise, note on hunting-horn 



blown at death of stag which 



has been hunted by stag- 

 hounds, App. 

 Asterte, escape 

 Astifled, inflammation in the 



stifle-joint, 103 

 Astried, rated, shouted at, 170 

 Athrest, thrust or push, 106 

 Atte fulle, when the stag's 



antlers show a certain number 



of tines, App. 

 Attire, the stag's antlers, App. 

 Aualed, availed, hanging 



down, 106, 1 14 



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