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GLOSSARY<br />
This glossary contains words (including forms and meanings of words differing from modern usage)<br />
that seemed to me liable to give difficulty. The content of such a list as this cannot of course be<br />
systematic, deriving from some external standard.<br />
an<br />
if, 45, 52, 80, 82, etc.<br />
bent open place covered with grass, 144<br />
bid offered, 241<br />
chase hunting ground, 181<br />
clomb old past tense of climb, 202<br />
corse corpse, 193<br />
croft small plot of land, 122<br />
drouth dryness, 125<br />
entreat treat, 60, 65; [modern sense] 61, 83<br />
envermined<br />
full of noxious creatures, 186. This word seems not to be otherwise recorded.<br />
fell<br />
hide, 72, 101, 146, 153–4, 185–8, etc.<br />
flittermouse bat, 210<br />
forhungered starved, 173<br />
frith wood, woodland, 143<br />
frore very cold, 113<br />
glamoury magic, enchantment, 125<br />
haggard (of hills) wild, 177<br />
haply perhaps, 45, 96, 118<br />
hem and hedge enclose and fence off, 101<br />
howe burial mound, barrow, 234<br />
inane empty, 190<br />
lave wash, 55<br />
leeches physicians, 173, 176<br />
let<br />
hinder, 124: their going let ‘hinder their passing’
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