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Treague, a truce, cessation of arms; agreement. Treen, of a tree, wooden. Trenchand, Trenchant, cutting, sharp.

Trentals, a course of 30 masses for the dead. Troad, path, footing. Trow, believe, imagine, conceive.

Truss, a term in falconry, when the hawk raises his prey aloft, and then descends with it to the ground. Turnament,

Turneyment,

Turney, a sort of single combat on horseback, commonly with lances. Turribant, a turban. Tway, two; in Tway, in two. His Twaine, his couple. Twight, twit, upbraid. Twitin, to blame, to upbraid.

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Venger, revenger. Ventayle, the fore part of the helmet, to give vent or air to the face by lifting up. Vetchie, of pease straw. Venteth into the wind, snuffs the wind.

Vere the maine shete, turn, shift.

Vetchy bed, (Shep. Cal.) bed of pease straw. Vilde, vile.

Virelays, a kind of songs. Visnomie, physiognomy, visage, aspect. Umbriere, the visor of the helmet.

Uncouth, unusual, strange, harsh; odd, deformed.

Underfong, to attempt by unfair and indirect

means, to entrap.

Undertime, the morning

about 9 o'clock. Undight, not dight, disordered; loosened, untied. Uneath, difficult, scarcely, with difficulty. Sometimes it signifies almost. Unheale, to uncover, to bewray, to expose to

view.

Unherst, took them from the herse or temporary monument where they were usually hanged, B. v. C. 3. St. 37. Unkempt, unadorned, or void of grace or ele

gance.

Unkend, not known, un

kent. Unlich, unlike.

Unnethes. See Uneath. Unprovided, sometimes unforeseen. Unpurvaide, unprovided, not furnished. Unrest, disquiet, uneasi

ness.

Unsoot, unsweet.

Unwares, unexpectedly,uncautiously, unwarily.

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Wae, woe. Wage, a pledge; likewise reward, wages. Wagmares, quagmires. Waift, a stray. War, worse. War-hable,able or powerful in war. Ware, wary, cautious. Ware, did wear Wareless, stupified. Warre, worse. Warre-old, old in war or strife.

Warray, to make war upon, to harass with

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Wayment, to bewail, laWayne, Waine, chariot.

Unweeting, unknowing, Weal-away, Wele-away,

una wares, ignorant.

alas.

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wit.

Weetless, unknowing. Wefte, wafted. Wefte, waved, avoided, put

off. Wefte, (noun) a stray; whatever wanders and is lost.

Weld, did well, spring, flow. To Weld, to move, to wield, to govern. Wele, weal, welfare. Welke, to set, decrease, wither; to grow faint. Welkin, the sky, firmaWelter, to wallow. [ment. Wend, to go. Wend, for Weened, imagine. Went, way, journey, Upton. Going, course, Hugbes.

West, to set in the west. Wex, to increase, to grow. Whally, full of whales. Whatso, whatsoever. Whelky, from whilk or welk, a pearl fish-thus, whelky pearles, Virg. Gnat, St. 14. C. 1. Whenso, whensoever. Whilome, Whylome, formerly, some while ago.

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Wield,

Weld, manage,

handle, govern, direct, turn, sway, &c. Wight, creature, person. Wightly, quickly. Wimble, shifting to and fro. Wimble and Wight, quick and deliver, Wimpled, folded over like a vail. Wise, guise, appearance. Wis, to know. Wist, thought, knew. Wite, blame, reproach. Withbault, withholden, withdrew.

Woe begonne, far gone in

woe, overwhelmed. Wonne, is used in two sen

ses; in the first, for to overcome, gain the victory, from to win. In the second place, for to dwell, to inhabit, from the German wonen. Won, to use, to be wont. Wont, custom, manner, Woo, to court, or win by courting.

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Ybent, bent, inclined, addicted.

Tblent, blinded, or con-
founded.
rbrent, burnt.
Telad, clad, clothed.
Teleped, called, named.
Ydlesse, idleness.
Ydrad, Ydred, dreaded,
feared.

Yearne, earn, get, procure.
Yede, Yeed, Yeade, to go.
Yeoman, sometimes signi-
fies servant.
Yerks, yerks, jerks, lashes.
Yewen, given,

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Ysame, collected, toge

ther.

Yshend, to spoil, to disgrace. Yvie todde, a thick bush.

Twis, Iwis, truly, indeed; to my own knowledge. Sometimes used expletively, sometimes ironically.

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