GAB.

Chaucer. Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4844.

G.

Forsoth what thingis I wryte to you, loo! bifore God for I lye not, or gabbe not (mentior).- Wic. Gal. i. 20.

Therfore God schal send to hem a worchyng of errores, that thei bileeue to leesyng or gabbyng, that all be demyd or dampned the whiche bileueden not to treuthe but consentiden to wickidnesse.-Id. 2 Thess. ii. 10.

GADDER, i. e. Gather, qv.

GALL. To claw on the Gall, Chaucer. To rub

or hit on a sore part.

For trewely ther n'is non of us all,
If any wight wol claw us on the gall,
That we n'il kike for that he saith us soth.

Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6522.

GALLEY, s. See the Quotation.

As to the inside, (of a house in China,) all the walls, instead of wainscot, were lined with hardened and painted tiles, like the little square tiles we call galley-tiles in England, all made of the finest china, and the figures exceeding fine, indeed, with extraordinary variety of colours mixed with gold.-Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

Symonye and Cyvylle Sholde on hire feet gange.

GARDBRACE.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 1219. See GUARD.

GARR, v. The Quotation explains the sense. This is the only instance that I have met with.

For this thing if I shal come, I shal moneste his werkes, whiche he doith, garring or chidinge in to us (garriens in nos).- Wic. 3 John, 10.

GARRET. Used by Piers Plouhman as by Berners and G. Douglas. See in Dictionary. A lodge A watch-tower. (for a sentinel) built on high. With gaie garetes and grete. GAST.

Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 425.

Counfoundid ben the wise men, fast (maad aferd, perterriti) and cast thei ben.- Wic. Jer. viii. 9.

Whan these thingis ben seide, thei schulen adde othere thingis, and schulen speke to the peple, Who is a ferdful man, and of gastful herte? (E. V. feerd, pavido.) Id. Deut. xx. 8. Forsothe youre gastines (L. V. feerdfulness, terror) is faln into us, and alle the dwellers of the foond ben abasshid. Id. Josh. ii. 9. and Job vi. 8. Amideo. He looks so ghastfully, Would I were past him.-Dryden. Rival Ladies, iv. 3. GAT.

GATE.

GATE. See GET.

GATHER.

GEO

The wrdis of the gederere (congregantis).

Wic. Job xxx. 1.

GAUD. See Quotation from Gower in v. Hang, infra.

Not half so gaudied, for their May-day mirth
All wreathed and ribanded, our youths and maids,
As these stern Aztecas in war attire.

Southey. Madoc, pt, i. § vii.

GAURE. See GARE.
GAVELKIND. Gavyl, in Wiclif, Deut. xxviii.
44, is a various reading of lend (fœnerare).
Gabeln, dividere, in Wachter.

GAWKY. See Gowk and AWKWARD.
GAY.

See

She clothide hir with the clothis of hir jolite, and clothide hirself gaze shon to hir feet. (L. V. sandalies, sandalia.) Wic. Judith x. 3, and also xvi. 11. GEAZON.

My wafres there were gesene.

GEM.

And he greithide two onychyn stonus boundun and closid with gold, and grauen with gemmary craft (L. V. bi crafte of worchere in emmys, arte gemmaria), with the names of

the sones of Yrael.- Wic. Ex. xxxix. 4.

GEMEL. Fr. Gemeau, a twin. Gimmal, a bit― is a bit having two rings or links. Forsothe instondyng the beryng, gemels apereden in the wombe. (L. V. twei children, Gemini.)

Wic. Gen. xxxviii. 27. Thi two tetus as two junge capretis, iemews of the she capret. Id. Song of Solomon, vii. 4.

To avoid the tedious repetition of these words" is equal to "--I will set, as I do often in work use a pair of parallels, gemowe lines of one length, thus, because no two things can be more equal.-R. Record. Whetstone of Wit, 1557. GENDER.

And it shal be, whan eny man shal prophesie ouere, his fader and moder that gendriden hym, shuln saye to hym, thou shalt not lyue, for thou hast spoken lesyng in the name of the Lord; and his fadir and modir, gendrers of hym (genitores), shuln to gidre ficche hym (configent) whan he hath prophecied.- Wic. Zech. xiii. 3.

The seneues of his stones of gendrure ben foldid togidere (testiculorum).-Id. Job xl. 12.

GENERATE.

And he (Phynees) stikide thurs both togidre the man, that is, and the womman, in the genytale places (L. V. of gendryng, locis genitalibus).- Wic. Num. xxv. 8. GENET.

When Syr John Ferrand saw the geneture, he said to a squyer of his, Galop forth thy genet, and assay to spede with yonder geneture.-Berners' Froissart, v. ii. p. 179. GENITAL, GENITIVE, &c. See GENERATE. GENIUS.

But it be thei of evill life

Whom Genius cursed man and wife-
That wrongly werke again Nature;
None soche I love.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 4771.
GENT. Chaucer, for rhyme sake, writes Gende.
This herber was all full of floures gende (gent).

Chaucer. Com. of Black King, v. 127.
For he that wol han pris of his genterie,
For he was boren of a gentil hous,
And had his elders noble and vertuous-
And n'ill himselven do no gentil dedes,
Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie that ded is,
He n'is not gentil, be he duk or erl;
For vilains sinful dedes make a cherl.

Id. Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6734. Princes and peers reduced to plain gentlemanship, and gentles reduced to a level with their own lackeys, are excesses of which they will repent hereafter. Cowper to Lady Hesketh, July 7, 1790.

GENTILE.

These xii sent Jesus forth after he had geuen to them commaundement, saying: Go not to the wayes that lead to the Gentyls, and into the cities of the Samaritanes enter ye not. Bib. 1549. Mat. x.

GEOLOGY. From yn, the earth, and λoyoç, a discourse. A discourse on, the knowledge of, the earth; its structure and component parts, their nature and mutations.

GEOMETRY.

Ac Astronomye is an hard thynge
And yvel for to knowe;
Geometry and Geomesie

GET.

With gile thow hem gete,

Ageyn alle reson.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12747. In the werke forsothe of it (Wisdom) a litil thou shal trauailen, and soone thou shalt ete of the getingus of it. (L. V. generaciouns, de generationibus.)

Wic. Ecclus. vi. 20.

But the Master-misses of the present age go, lack-a-day, so gingerly about it, as if they were afraid to fill their mouths with the paint upon their mistress's cheeks. Foote. The Knights, A. ii. GINNING, 8. See KIND, Piers Plouhman. GIRD.

Whi cursith this dogge, that schal die, my lord, the Kyng? Y schal go and I schal girde off his heed (ampu tabo).- Wic. 2 Kings xvi. 19.

And (Dauid) stood upon the Philistee, and took his

GLI

swerde, and drew it out of his sheeth; and he slew; hym, and girde off his heed. (L. V. kittide awei, præscidit.) Id. 1 Kings xvii. 51. But in the field through girt with many a wound. Lidgate. Thebes. GIST, s. or GIT. Fr. Giste, from gésir, to lie. Giste d'un lièvre: the form of a hare. Met. that (A common on which a case, an argument, rests. term in law.) See AGIST.

GITERN.

And Dauid seide to the princes of dekenes, that thei schulden ordeyne of her britheren syngeris in orguns of musikis, that is in giternes (E. V. sawtrees, nablis), and harpis, and symbalis.- Wic. 1 Par. xv. 16.

Harp and gittern (cithara et lyra) (ben) in youre festes. Id. Is. v. 12. GIVE.

And also he bi-gileth the gyvere.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 4611. Some things which pass the fire are softest at first, and by time grow hard, as the crumb of bread; some are harder when they come from the fire, and afterwards give again, as the crust of bread, &c.-Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 295. Tim. What, dost thou weepe? Come neerer, then. I loue thee Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st Flinty mankinde, whose eyes do never giue But thorough lust and laughter.

Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, act iv. sc. 3. Their language (the French), as I found upon the first giving of the weather, fell asunder and dissolved. Addison. Tatier, No. 154. GLAD. Gladly, in Persones Tale and Thisbe, Mr. Tyrwhitt thinks may mean, commonly.

For lo! I shape Jerusalem ful out glading (exultationem), and his puple iose. And I shal ful out laden (exultabo) in Jerusalem, and iozen in my puple.- Wic. Is. lxv. 19. Thou azen came to the gladere (hym that is glad, lætanti) and to the doende ritt wisnesse.-Id. lb. lxiv. 5.

And Philistien dredden, seiynge, God is comen into the tentis: and inwardly thei weiliden, seiynge, Woo to us! forsothe ther was not so mych gladynge sisterday, ne before isterday. (L.V. ful wiyng, exultatio.)-Id. 1 Kings iv. 8. That he make gladsum (L. V. make glad, exhilararet) the face in oile.-Id. 3. ciii. 15.

Let us now touche the vice of flaterie, which ne cometh not gladly, but for drede, or for covetise. Chaucer. Persones Tale. And this was gladly in the eventide, Or wonder erly, lest men it espide.-Id. Thisbe, v. 770. GLARE.

A lion now he stalkes with fierie glare.

Milton. Par. L. b. iv. v. 402.

GLASS, v. Also, to view as in a glass or mirror. That he may glasse therin his garments light.

Fairefar. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xiv. st. 77. GLAZE. See GLASS.

GLEDE. A. S. Gled-a, perhaps from Glid-an, to glide. A bird, so called from its motion.

And the glede and the kite.-Wic. Deut. xiv 13.
Like unto ravenous gledes and kites.-Hol. Arm. p. 7.
GLENT or GLINT, v. To slip. See GLANCE.
GLENT, s. and adj. A slip; slippery. Dyce.
But for all that he is like to have a glent.
Skelton. Magnyfycence, v. 1687.
Go softly, she said, the stones be full glint.
Id.
GLIDE.
And we glode fast o'er a pellucid plain
Of waters, azure with the noon-tide day.
Shelley. The Revolt of Islam, C. i.

GLISTEN, v.

Garland of Love, v. 572.

GLITTER.

GNI

GLOMERATE, v.

GLOSE.

GLUT.

This oure sone is ouerthewert, and rebel; he dispisith to heere our monestyngis, ethir heestis, he gyueth tent to Wic. Deut. xxi. 20. glotonyes. (E. V. glotryes, comessationibus.) Who kepith the lawe a wis sone is, who forsothe glotones fedith, schendith his fader.-Id. Prov. xxviii. 7. GNARE, i. e. Snare.

Thou art gnarid by the wordis of thi mouth (L. V. boundun, illaqueatus es), and taken with thi proper wordis. Wie. Prov. vi. 2, et aliter.

Thou hast delyuered my body fro perdicioun, fro the gnare of a wicke tunge, and fro the lippes of men werkende lesyng. (L.V. snare, laqueo.)-Id. Ecclus. li. 3, et aliter. GNARR, v.

The gnarring porter (Charon) durst not whine for doubt
(i. e. fear),
Still were the furies.
Fairefax.

Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. iv. st. 8.

GNASH.
Gnastyng (L. V. fnesting, hinnitus) therof is herd fro
Dan.- Wic. Jer. viii. 16.

Loke thou do not spare
Maugre Age, although that he frete or gnaste.
Chaucer. Remedie of Love, v. 123.

GNAST, i. e. Snast.

As deuoureth the tunge of fyr, stobil, and the hete of flaumme brenneth out, so the root of hem as a gnast shal be. (L. V. deed sparcle, favilla.)

GNAW.

Wic. Is. v. 24; also, i. 31, xxix. 5.

And thur; nede and hunger (thei weren) barein; that gnowen (L. V. gnawiden, rodebant) in wildernesse, waxende foul with wrecchidnesse and sorewe.- Wic. Job xxx. 3.

GOD.

After all the struggles of a reluctant philosophy, the necessary resort is to a Deity. The marks of design are too strong to be got over. Design must have had a designer. That designer must have been a person. That person is God.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. xxiii.

GOETY, s. Gr. yoŋrea, witchcraft. Fr. Goetie. Cot.

Porphyry and some others did distinguish these two sorts (of Magic) so as to condemn the grosser, which they called Magic, or Goety.-Halywell. Metampronaa (1682), p. 54. GOLD. GOLD-HEWEN, i. e. hued, coloured. Chaucer, The Knightes Tale, v. 2502.

Goldsmithry. See the Quotation from Chaucer in v. Devise, supra.

Forsothe it byfelle, by eche citee of men of Jerusalem, for to be seen fourty days horsmen rennyng about by the eyre (per aera) hauynge golden stoolis, and schaftis, as cumpanyes of kniztis armed.- Wic. 2 Mac. v. 2.

For whi as dreed-(see Bugge) in placis where cucummeris, that ben bitter herbis, waxen, kepith no thing; so ben the treenen Goddis, and sylveren, and goldid of hem. (L.V. of gold, inaurati.)-Id. Baruch, vi. 69.

And he translatide al Jerusalem, and alle the princis, and alle the stronge men of the oost in to caitiftee, and eche crafti man, and goldsmyzt. (E. V. enclosere, clusorem.) Id. 4 Kings xxiv. 14; also v. 16. The gold-less age, where gold disturbs no dreams. Byron. The Island.

GOLET, Chaucer, i. e. Gullet.
GOMME, i. e. Gum, qv.
GONG.

And (Hieu) castide out of the Temple of Baal his ymage and brent it, and drof it al to dust; and distroied the hous of Baal, and made gongis for it.

Wie. Prol. p. 17. In 4 Kings x. 27, priuys, latrinas. GONNE, i. e. Gan, qv. And see GIN. GOOD. To shoot at goodness, Chaucer, infra, i. e. at advantage. Tyrwhitt. Good-bye, i. e. Good, or rather-God be with you. Similar to the Fr.

To whom he (Joseph) goodliche, Come ner, he seide, to me. (L. V. mekeli, clementer.)-Wic. Deut. xlv. 4.

So euery good tree makith good fruytis: sothely an yuel tree makith yuel fruytis. A good tree may not make yuel fruytis, nether an yuel tree make good fruytes. (In Lewis's edition, gode fruytis.) Id. Bible. Mat. vii. 17 (both versions good). Right as an hunter can abide The beste till he seeth his tide To shote, at godenesse, to the dere, Whan that him nedeth go no nere.

GORGE.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 1453.

GNIDING, s. A. S. Gnid-an, fucare, to rub. A Jerusalem.-Wic rubbing.

There maist thou see-
Nailing the speres and helmes bokeling,
Gniding of sheldes.

GO.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2506.

(Mede) graunteth to goon
With a good wille

To London.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 1192.
His wiif walked hym with,

With a long gode.-Id. Creed, v. 862.
Lerneth to suffren, or, so mote I gon,
Ye shul it lerne, whether ye wol or non.

Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11089. The packer allows the clothier to say what he pleases; and the broker has his countenance ready to laugh with the merchant, though the abuse is to fall on himself, be47

GOSSIP.

A woman may in no lesse sinne assemble with hire godsib, than with hire own fleshly broder. Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

GOST. See GHOST.

GRE

canals or pipes under ground, to carry off by drops. See SKIN.

GOZZARD. See GOOSE.

GRACE. A title of honour of dukes, archbishops, and formerly of monarchs. See MAJESTY, infra.

Thou sente Joram to Kyng Dauid that he salute hym, thankynge to gidre (congratulans), and he doo gracis (Ľ. V. thankyngis, gratias ageret) for thi that he hath ouercomen Adadezer.- Wic. 2 Kings viii. 10.

Iote and gladnesse shal be founde in it, gracedoing (L.V. doyng of thankys, gratiarum actio) and vois of preising. Id. Is. li. 3.

So full of sorowe am I, sothe to sayne, That certainly no more harde grace May sit on me, for why? there is no space. Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, i. 713. GRADE. GRADIENT, s. Common on railways, to denote a proportional ascent or descent. GRAFF.

(I was) the coventyes gardyner

For to graffen impes.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 27116. GRAIN.

Nethir in thi vyner thou schalt gadere reysyns and greynes falling down (L. V. cornes,grana), but thou schalt leue to be gaderid of pore men and pilgryms. Wic. Lev. xix. 10. How oft, when purple evening tinged the west, We watched the emmet to her grainy nest. Rogers. Pleasures of Memory, p. 1. GRAITH, or GREITH, is the usual rendering of the Lat. parare, præparure in Wic. Bible, E. V.

Love is the graithe gate

That goth into hevene.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 871. He in goodnesse of gost

Graythliche hem warned

To wayven hir wikkednesse

And werkes of synne.-ld. Crede, v. 1054.

His bed shal ben graythed.-Id. Ib. v. 1460.

The sixthe day forsothe greithe thei (L. V. make redi, parent) that thei bryngen yn, and dowble be there that thei weren wont to gedere bi eche daies.- Wic. Ex. xvi. 5. And there is putte to hem grete greithinge of meet (L. V. makyng redi, præparatio), and thei eten and drunken. Id. 4 Kings vi. 23.

GRAND.

And gyue he to thee blissyngis of Abraham, and to thi seed aftir thee, that thow haue the loond of thi pilgrimage, the whiche he hath bihoot to thi graunsire. (L.V.grauntsir, avo.)- Wic. Gen. xxviii. 4.

GRAPPLE. Berners writes Graped.

They had graped their ships together with hokes of yron. Berners' Froissart, v. í. p. 435.

GRASP.

And thou shalt graasp in mydday; as is woned a blynd man to graasp in derknissis. (L. V. grope, palpare; so also Job v. 14, xii. 25.)- Wic. Deut. xxviii. 29.

We all know she (Queen Elizabeth) never was a greedy grasper, nor straight-handed keeper.

Ellesmere. Speech in Campbell's Life.

GRATIOSITY. See GRACE.

GRAVE, v.

Where he were a parisshen
Right there he sholde be grauen.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 6709. Thei spille hore blode, as watir in the umgong (qv.) (in circuitu) of Jerusalem: and none was for to grave (sepelire). Wic. Ed. Pref. p. 4. Ps. lxxviii. 3.

GRAVE. See PAY, infra. They (the Cochin Chinese) discovered us all hard at work, on the outside of the ship's bottom and side, washing and graving, and stopping, as every seaman knows how. Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. Our carpenter being prepared to grave the outside of the ship.-Id. Ib.

GRAVEL.

As a graveli steezing up in the feet of an old man, so a tungy womman to a quyete man. (L. V. a stiyngeful of grauel, arenosces ascensus.)—Wic. Ecc. xxv. 27.

GRAVID, &c. See GRAVE.

GREASE. Chaucer. See in v. Farthing. And he piste into his wombe so strongly that the pomel folwide the yren in the wounde, and that with most fat grees it was streyned. (L. V. thickest fatnesse, pinguissimo adipe.) Wic. Judg. iii. 22.

In his owen grese I made him frie,
For anger, and for veray jalousie.

Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6069.
The

GREAT, s. In Piers Plouhman is Size.
Grete in Chaucer, the sum, the substance.

GREE, v.

Chaucer. Cuckow and Nightingale, v. 135.

The gree yit, hath he geten.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12270. This braunche of holynesse Withouten helpe went up gree by gree.

Lyfe of our Ladye, a. 3, c. 2. For al his grete wound, the Kynge of Aragon toke the excusations in gre.-Berners' Froissart, v. ii. p. 207. GREED, v.

And thanne gan Gloton greete,

And gret doel to make.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3245. GREEN, adj. And further, tender, young, met. childishly young.

For she whitnesse had of Honestee,

And grene of conscience, and of gode fame
The swote savour, Lilie was hire name.

Chaucer. Seconde Nonnes Tale, v. 15558.

GRIN, v.

And manye of hem shul offenden and fallen, and ben tobrosid, and grened (L. V. boundun, irretientur), and ben takun.- Wic. Is. viii. 15.

And the platis of seluer cast aweij in the temple, he wente awey, and goyinge awey, he hangid hym with a grane or a gnare. (L.V. snare, laqueo.)-Id. Mat. xxvii. 5. GRIND.

And idel shuln ben the wymmen grindende in a litil noumbre, and seende bi holes shul waxe derc: and closen the dores in the stretes in the vois of hir grindende. (L.V. grindere, molantis.)- Wic. Eccles. xii. 3.

And the puple wenten abowt, gederynge it (manna), and breke in a gryndstoon (L. V. a queerne stoon, mola) or powned in a morter.-Id. Num. xi. 8.

GRISE, v. GRISFUL, adj. GRISEFULLY. GRISENESS. See AGRISE.

Forsothe tho olde dwelleris of thin holi lond, the whiche thou grisedist (L. V. wlatidist, i. e. loathedest, exhorruisti); for hateful werkis thei diden to thee.- Wic. Wis. xii. 3. Unknowen bestes. . . or bringende forth smel of smoke, or puttende out grisful sperkes fro ezen. (L. V. hidouse, horrendas.)-Id. Ib. xi. 19.

And whil thei wenen them to lurken in derk synnes, bi the derc veil of forzeting, thei ben scatered, dredende gris

GUI

And so thanne thilke zazabazar cam, and sette the groundis (L. V. foundementis, fundamenta) of the temple of God in Jerusalem.- Wic. Esd. v. 16.

And his rit hond takun, he lifte hym up, and anoon the groundis (bases) and plauntis, or solis of hym (the lame man) ben saddid to gidere; and he lipping stood, and wandride. (Mar. note, Groundis, that is, thies and leggis on whiche the birthen of the bodi restith.)-Id. Deeds iii. 7. GROW. Applied to any change of size, state, or condition. To become greater or less. If I do grow great, I'll grow less. GRUB.

Shakespeare. Henry IV. Pt. 1. act v. sc. 4.

O good Lady (quod I than) se now how senen yere passed and more haue I graffed and groubed a vine with al the waies that I coude, I sought to a fede me of the grape but fruite haue I non founde.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i. GRUDGE.

I haue herd forsothe youre grucchyng (murmur). What forsoth ben we, that ze grucchen (mussitastis) azens us? Wie. Ex. xvi. 7.

His hed he shal moue, and flappe for ioye with the hond: and many thingus grucchendeli whistrende. (L. V. speke priuyli, multa susurrans.)-Id. Ecclus. xii. 19.

GRY, S.

A gry is the one-tenth of a line, a line one-tenth of an inch, an inch, &c. Locke. Human Understanding, b. iv. c. 10, § 10, n. GRY, adj. See Tooke, 8vo. p. 554, note, in v. Grim. The hearing this doth force the tyrant gry (i. e. grim). Godfrey of Bulloigne. By R. C. p. 61, c. 2, s. 23. GUARISH.

And anoone as he had seen it and worshiped it (the ymage of Jhesu), he was all quarished and hoole.

GUBERNANCE.

in v. Clamour, supra.

GUESS.

The Golden Legend, fo. 17, c. 4. See Quotation from Chaucer

And than up (upon) gesee I shryve me.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3316. And so in birds, in dreams, and all viary omens, they are only the ghessive interpretations of dim-eyd man, full of doubt, full of deceit.-Feltham. Resolves, 36, pt. 1.

GUEST.

For the hope of the unpitous is as smoke that of the wind is held abrod, and as the mind (memoria) of a geste (hospitis) of o dai passende biside. (L. V. herberid man.) Wic. Wisd. v. 15.

I have too gistes within, that this same nyght
Soped in the halle.-Chaucer. Par. and Tap. v. 550.
No wonder is though that she (Grisildis) be astoned
To see so gret a gest come in that place;
She never was to non swiche gestes woned;
For which she loked with ful palè face.

Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8214.
GUIDE, v. Written Gye, gie, by our older writers,
and not uncommon in Fairefax.
Gyle was for-goer,
And gyed hem alle.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 1257.
Grace-Gyour of all clerkes.-Id. v. 13814.
The King awak'd, and saw before his eies
A man whose presence seemed graue and old,
A writhen staffe his steps vnstable guies,
Which seru'd his feeble members to vphold.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. x. st. 9.

GUILE. Dryden renders Reus voti, guilty of my vow; i. e. his prayer being granted, he was demned to pay it," to use his own expression. ix. 270.

Æn.

Tarne awei fro gilte, and dresse thou the hondis, and fro alle gilte (L. V. synne, a delicto) clense thi herte. Wic. Ecclus. xxxviii. 10.

Who gilteth in his sist that made him shal falle in to the hondis of the leche (delinquit).-Id. Ib. v. 15.

A the worste presumpcioun, wherof art thou maad to hile drie malice and the gilefulnesse therof? (L. V. treccherie, dolositate. To hile the drie (the earth) with, &c.)-Id. Ib. xxxvii. 3.

Thi brothir com gilyngliche (L. V. prudentli, fraudulenter), and took thi blissing.-Id. Gen. xxvii. 35.

To a fole gilesum (L. V. fals, ad fallacem) I shall sende hym (Assur).-Id. Is. x. 6.

Such false apostlis ben trecherous, or gylous (subdoli) workmen, transfiguringe hem into Apostlis. Id. 2 Cor. xi. 13. Swete and rist the Lord: for that lawe he shal ține to the gifteris in the weie. (L. V. men trespassynge, delinquentibus.)-Id. Ps. xxiv. 8; also lxxiv. 5.

Flor. But as th' unthought-on accident is guiltie
To what we wildely do, so we professe
Ourselues to be the slanes of chance, and flyes
Of euery winde that blowes.

Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, act iv. sc. 3.
Gods of the liquid realms, on which I row,
If giv'n by you, the laurel bind my brow,
Assist to make me guilty of my vow (reus voti).

Dryden. Eneid, b. v. v. 307.

GUILER, Chaucer, i. e. Aguiler. See AIGLET.
GULLET.

HAM

Wic. 1 Mac. vi. 43.

HAN, i. e. haven.

HANCE.

HAR

See HAVE.

HAFT.

To whom Jacob answerde; Thou knowist that Esan my brother is an heeri man (E. V. ful of heer, pilosus), and I am smethe.- Wic. Gen. xxvii. 11.

And thow schalt make elleuen heeren sarges (saga sili

cina), to couer the roof of the tabernacle.

Id. Ex. xxvi. 7.
A bende of gold and silke full freshe and gaie
With her in tresse ybroudered full wele,
Right smothly kept, and shinyng every dele.
Chaucer. Court of Love, v. 811.

HALDEN, i. e. Holden. See HOLD.
HALE.

Her takill redie tho thei maden,
And haleth sayle, and forth thei fare.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. 7, fo. 1762.
And myghty tyranntes from her ryal see
He hath ahalyd and y put a doun.
Lyfe of our Ladye, d. 6. c. 1.
HALF.

Thou forsothe, God, shalt bringe them doun in to the pit of deth. Men of blodis, and treccherous shal not haluen ther dates. (L. V. have half, dimidiabunt.)

HALLOW. Bisshopes

To halwe mennes auteres.

Wic. Ps. liv. 24.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10700. Thow shalt anoynt it (the auter) into the halwyng (in sanctificationem): seuen daies thow shalt clense the auter and halowe, and it shal be holy of halowis (sanctum sanctorum); eche that towchith shal be halowid (sanctificabitur).- Wic. Er. xxix. 36.

And hethene men schulen wite, that I am the Lord, Halewere (sanctificator) of Israel, whanne myn halewyng schal be in the myddis of hem with outen end. Id. Ez. xxxvii. 28. And the smoke of encensis of the preiers of halewis (L. V. hooli men, sanctorum) stizede up of the aungelis hond bifore God.-Id. Apoc. viii. 4.

HALO, v.

His grey hairs Curl'd, lifelike, to the fire

That haloed round his saintly brow.

Southey. Thalaba, b. ix. § 27. HALPE, i. e. Helped. See HELP. HALSE.

Handy dandy. Florio explains the It. Bazzicchiare, -To shake between two hands, to play handy dandy. Thanne wowede (wooed) Wrong Wisdom ful yerne,

To maken pees with his pens

Handy dandy payed.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2232.
Let fall some of the handfuls of purpose for her (Ruth).
Ruth ii. 16.

Bring in handfuls, lilies bring,
Bring me all the flow'ry spring.

Lloyd. Tears of Parnassus.

HAND-SOME. Ready for the hand. Whatsoever came next to their hands, and lay handsome to them, they rifled.-Holland Livius, p. 571. HANG.

And whanne he hadde cast forth the siluer in the temple, he passide forth, and zede, and hongide himself (E. V. hangide, suspendit laqueo) with a snare. Wic. Mat. xxvii. 6.

The Pardoner had here as yelwe as waxe,
Ful smoth it heng, as doth a strike of flax.

Chaucer. Prologue, v. 678.

Whether ye knowen not your silf, for Crist Iesu is in jou? but in happe (forte) e ben reprevable. Wic. 2 Cor. xiii. 5. Your hede was wont to be happed.-Skelton, i. 291. Dyce. HARAS. Fr. Haras. A race; horses, &c. kept only for breed. Cotgrave. And thus a stud. Of harlottes to vse such an harres.-Skelton, i. 128. HARBINGER. To harbenge, v

The Innes of Sergeants, fro the reuerence and eminence of the personages therein harbinged, I will gine the prioritie. Stowe. Chronicle. Universities, ch. x.

HARBOUR.

Grayus, my herborgere (L. V. oost, hospes), greetith you wel, and al the chirche.-Wic. Rom. xvi. 23.

And he ladde hym into the hows of herbergrye (L. V. ynne, hospitium), and unsadelynge, dischargide the camelis. Id. Gen. xxiv. 32.

A shrewde lijf (vita nequam) of herberewing (hospitandi) fro hous in to hous: and wher he shal ben herberewid, he shal not feithfulli don, ne openen the mouth. Id. Ecclus. xxix. 31. Hospitalite, that is, herboringe of pore men (hospitalitas). Id. Rom. xii. 13. HARD.

(Thei sholde) hardie hem that bihynde ben. Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10497. And the Lord hardide the herte of Pharao (L. V. made hard, induravit), and he pursuede the sones of Yrael. Wic. Ex. xiv. 8.

Kutte ye about therfore the utter more part of your herte; and your nolle (cervicem) furthermore harde ze not (induretis).-Id. Deut. x. 16.

The whiche thingis ful doon hardiliche (L. V. hardili, turbid me.-Id. Gen. xxxiv. 30.

She (May) taketh him by the hond, and hard him (Damian) twist. Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9879. Sirs, speke hardely what ye thinke in this matter. Berners Froissart, v. i. p. 312. HARLOT. The Lat. Emissarii is rendered harlotis, ether messengers, in Wiclif, Bible. See RENNERS, in v. to Run.

HARM.

No thing harmeth more the chirche of God, than that unworthi men be taken to the gouernailis of soulis. Wic. Bible. Prol. 32. How long foolis schulen coueyte tho thingis that ben harmful to hem silf (L. V. nozesum, noria), and unprudent men schulen hate cunnyng.-Id. Prov. i. 22.

HAROW. From Ha-Raoul, Ha-Raow. A call upon or in the name of Rollo-which imposed a duty, upon those who heard it, to aid the party calling. See Du Cange and Cotgrave.

H