GLOSSARY 



283 



AUERILLE, Avrille, April, 30 



AUNTELERE, AUNTILLER, AUN- 



CULER, antler, 130, 140 

 Auntred, ventured, 28 

 Avaunt, auaunt, a hunting 



cry, " Forward," 182 

 Avauntellay, relay of hounds 

 Avayl, avail, profit, 13, 31 

 Avenaund, approachable 

 Avenery, oats 



AviSED, aware of, warned, in- 

 formed, advised, cautious 

 Avoy, a hunting cry, probably 

 from " Away," App. 



Bace, for Luce, a pike 

 Baffers, barkers, 120 

 Bake, back 

 Balista, balesta, cross-bow, 



haronsblast, 27 

 Balowe, bellow, roaring of a 



stag 

 Bandrike, baldric, belt to 



which horn was fastened, 128, 



140 

 Barateur, quarreller 

 Barbouris, barbers 

 Bareyn, barren, 35 

 Basco, Basque, Biscay, 106 

 Batyd, bruised, sore, 98 

 Batyng, bating 

 Baudes, baubles, trifles, 83 

 Beam, the main part of the 



stag's antlers, 142 

 Beendyng, bending 

 Beerners, berners, attend- 

 ant on hounds, 148, 165 

 Beestale, bestaile, beasts, 



cattle, 36, 61 

 Beestis, beasts, App. 

 Bellen, belowyn, belerve, 



BELOWEN, bellow or roar, 160 

 Beluez, velvet, 26 

 Beme, beam; also trumpet 

 Benes, beans, 26 

 BERCEL,a mark to shoot at, App. 

 Bercelet,berslettis, barce- 



LETTE, a shooting-dog used 

 by archers, 122 

 Beries, burrows, earth of fox 



and badger, 67, 68 

 Beryed, buried 

 Berying, bearing, breaking, 136 

 Bestis of the Chace, beasts 

 of the chase, usually fallow 

 deer, roe-deer, fox, martin, 3 

 Bestis of Vénerie, beasts of 

 venery, usually the hart, hare, 

 boar, and wolf", 3 



Bevy, a number of roe-deer 

 together, App. 



Bevygrease, the fat of the roe- 

 deer, App. 



Bewellis,ba\vaylles, bawel- 

 lis, bowels 



Billetings, the excrements of 

 the fox, App. 



Bisses, bises, bisches, red- 

 deer hinds 



BiSSHUNTERS, fur-hunters, 74 



Bitte, bitten, taken, 17, 186 



Blenches, marks, tricks, de- 

 ceits, 159 



Bocherie, butchery, 1 16 



Bokeying, the rut of the roe- 

 deer, 41 



BOLN, BOLK, BOLNE, bellow or 

 bark, 39, 162 



BOOCHERS HOUNDIS, butchers' 

 dogs, 118 



Boole, bull, 118 



Boones, bones, stag's foot 



BOONYS, bones, 131 



Boordcloth, table-cloth, 164 



BOORDES, boards 



Booris, boars, 143 



Boost, boast 



Botches, booches, sores, 63 



Botirflies, butterflies, 66 



Bounte, bounty, goodness, 79 



Bouyes, boughs, Àpp. 



Bowis, bowes, boughs, 137, 153 



I Brach, BRACHE, a scenting- 



hound; later on it meant bitches 



