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xxu GLOSSARY.<br />

IXketh (it), pleaseth,<br />

lAst, to wish.<br />

Lasty, Tigorous.<br />

M.<br />

Mote, meeting, assembly.<br />

N.<br />

Noisome, annoying.<br />

Noyance, mischief.<br />

Fight, built {i.e. pegged? of, Lat.<br />

Pago, &o.)<br />

Fhimp, a mass.<br />

Froper, one's own.<br />

E.<br />

Maid, a hostile inroad.<br />

Uamn, prowl after booty.<br />

Sieve, plunder, ravish, bereave.<br />

SaJce, cause.<br />

S.<br />

Scan, to measure, count by measuring.<br />

Scathe, to harm.<br />

e.—I have used the verb to<br />

Shrive in what I supposed to be<br />

its broad meaning, viz. " to care<br />

for, or tend," the dying or dead.<br />

Its Saxon representative Scrifan<br />

seems to justiiy this view ;<br />

but I<br />

find that our English dictionaries<br />

limit the word to Hearing Con-<br />

fession.<br />

Sith, inasmuch as,<br />

Sithence, ever since.<br />

Slcirl, to cry shrilly.<br />

Spank, to stretch and stride, as a<br />

horse.<br />

Spell, to analyze.<br />

Syne (time ?), Long syne, long ago.<br />

T.<br />

Teem, to empty out, to pour abun-<br />

dantly; Seteem, to bring forth<br />

abundantly,<br />

Ti/re, woman's headdress (also, the<br />

iron hoop of a wheel.<br />

Trow (I), trust, (I) make sure.<br />

Troth, faith.<br />

Tryst, to meet in rendezvous.<br />

Venison, any wild game.<br />

W.<br />

Whilom, once upon a time, &c.<br />

WU, Wit, Weet (I), know.<br />

Ween, I opine.<br />

Welkin, clouds.<br />

Wend, go, proceed.<br />

Wight, living, vigorous ; A Wight, a<br />

living thing.

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