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APPENDIX<br />

something; the absence or deficiency of something.<br />

Earliest attestation c1380 (OED)<br />

Example [^The list in two columns continues.^] Ringwormes 23 Sight 13<br />

Sleepe wanting 24 ermes to come downe 6 (...). Langham,<br />

Garden.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization Warning<br />

Base<br />

Warn (v)<br />

Definition OED Warning n. 1 The action of warn. 2. a. Previous intimation<br />

or threat of impending evil or danger. Phrase, to give warning<br />

(to), to warn. Also Sc. to make warning.<br />

Earliest attestation OE (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Therefore God and nature have reared vp the head of man onely<br />

for the eyes, for it is the hyest member of man: and as a beholder<br />

or watchman standeth in a highe Towre to geue warning of the<br />

Enemies, so doth the Eye of man geue warning vnto the common<br />

Wittes, for the defence of all other members of the body. Vicary,<br />

Anatomie.<br />

Tokens 3<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Washing<br />

Wash (v)<br />

OED Washing n. 1. a. The action or an act of cleansing by water,<br />

or of laving or bathing with water or other liquid. Also fig. with<br />

reference to spiritual or moral purification.<br />

?c1225 (?a1200) (OED)<br />

Also our authors do commend the washing of the eies with the<br />

vrin of a childe, and sometimes to drop the same into the eies.<br />

Bailey, Preseruation.<br />

2 (one of them a verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Wasting<br />

Base<br />

Waste (v)<br />

Definition OED Wasting n. 4. a. Gradual decay of life or organic tissue;<br />

gradual loss of strength and vitality; consumption, atrophy.<br />

Earliest attestation a1300 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

Sixthly, 3. Aph. 10. & 13. he proposes two kinds of Tabes or<br />

Consumptions, the one being a wasting of the body, occasioned<br />

by any internal cause, the other happening through some Ulcer<br />

in the Lungs. Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 13<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Watching<br />

Watch (v)<br />

OED Watching n. a. The action of watch in various senses. lit.<br />

and fig.<br />

476

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