GLOSSARY. 



Bought, 20, sb., the bend or loop of the line. 

 Bozard, 15, sb., the buzzard. 

 Bracked, 15, /./., barked, stained with bark. 

 Branded, 6, adj., brindled, streaked, Cf. 

 brandling (Halliwell). 



Creuis, creauis, 44, sb.pl., crayfish. 

 Cull, 12, sb., the miUer's thumb, or bullhead 

 {Cotiiis gobio). 



Delay, 13, v., to soften. 

 Dobchicke, 46, sb., the dabchick. 



Efts, 26, sb.pl. , probably the slack water under 

 the tail-end of islands, &c, (Professor Skeat 

 says, " I suspect eft to be the A.S. ir/t, aft.") 



Fenne pult, 32, sb., the burbot or eel-pout 



{Loia vulgaris). 

 Flaggie, 31, adj., flabby, insipid. 

 Flirtes, 26, v., springs up. 

 Frettes, 34, sb.pl., trimmings of salt fish. 

 Furmantie, 8, sb., frumenty or frumety, i.e. 



husked wheat boiled. 



Gagin, 21, sb., the gudgeon {Gobio fluviatilis). 



Galbony, 37, sb., galban or galbanum. 



Gauld, 10, /./., galled, i.e., with gall removed. 



Gobbet, 25, sb., a morsel. 



Goldes, 17, sb.pl., marigolds {Calendula offici- 

 nalis, L.). 



Googing, 10; gogin, 10 ; googine, 10, sb., the 

 gudgeon (Gobio Jliiviatilis). 



Gore, 26, sb., a spear, A.S,, gdr. (Professor 

 Skeat suggests that the "gore rodde " or 

 spear-shaft-rod, was probably of ash, seeing 

 that the A.S. czsc means either ash or spear.) 



Grayled, 4, probably an error for brayled (ringed), 

 used in the 1496 edition of the "Treatyse." 

 The first quarto has braysed. 



Gredyeirne, 26, gredyerne, gredierne, sb., 

 gridiron. 



Gubbins, 34, sb.pl., trimmings of salt fish. 



Half e-a-mile- way, 17, = ten minutes. 

 Hove, I, v., to hover. 



luneba, 4, sb., the river lamprey {Petromyzon 

 Jliiviatilis). This is probably the proper form 

 of the word printed Inncba in the 1496 edition 

 of the "Treatyse," but corrected to luneba in 

 the subsequent quarto edition from the same 

 press, 



Lenten pease, 36, lit. spring peas. 

 Lets, 3, sb.pl., impediments. 

 Littid, 15, p.p., dyed, Icel. lita, to dye, 

 Lowper, 15, sb., leaper, 



Mayers, 31 and 34, probably a printer's error for 



wayers, weirs. 

 Moorish, 19, adj., colour of peat. 



Neppe, 12, sb., cat-mint' (TV^f /a cataria, L.). 



Ofle, 36, sb., offal. 



Opopauicis, 37, sb., opopanax, (Mascall's printer 



has mistaken n for u.) 

 Organic, 37, sb.,ma.r]or am {Organum vulgar e,L.). 



Plunket, 17, sb., a kind of blue colour obtained 



from woad. 

 Pouliot, 37, sb., penny-royal {Mentha pulegium). 



Pouliot is used by the French writer from ^^•hom 



