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A CHAUCER GLOSSARY COMPILED BY NORMAN DAVIS, DOUGLAS GRAY PATRICIA INGHAM, AND ANNE WALLACE-HADRILL OXFORD AT THE CLARENDONP RESS Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford ox26 cP Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Petaling Jaya Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associated companies in Berlin lbadan Oxford is a trade mark of Oxford University Press ©N orman Davis, Douglas Gray, Patricia Ingham Anne Wallace-Hadrill, 1979 First puhli�l1Rd 1979 Reprimed 1<)81, 1<)83, 1<)85, 1()88, 1989 All rights reserved. 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Davis, Norman, b. 1913 821'.1 PR1941 78-40245 ISBN o-19--8II171-1 Printed and bound in Great Britain bv Butler & Tamier Ltd, Fronw 011d London PREFACE THISG losisdsae rsyi agsnap e rda catiitdcot a hrlee adoifCn hga ucer, provifduilnrlgee ferr etnhcamenos s etd itciaofinnn sdr oofmo bru t remaionfmi ondgep srto porItntie ocness.ds eapreihnledyas vo intl hye earlwioerorkfm ansyc holWaehr asv.ue s etdh Tea tlock-Kennedy Concordance ast hper imgauriytd oCe h aucveorc'asb utlhOaexfor ryd , English Dictionary antdh Mei ddle English Dictionary ediatteA dn n Arb(oarfas ra sL )a st hees sesnotuiraoclfie nsfo rmaatbiouousnta ge anmde aniWnehg a.vc eo nsuSlkteeagdtl 'ossc soanrsyt aanntdth loys e ofo theedri tfrieoqnuse tnehtl layt;we ehs atv bee eanb tloeu siets h e 197e4d itoifTho e nTa les of Canterbury byR obeAr.Pt r aWteth .a ve triaeltdso to a akcec oouftn hmteu ltiotfsu tduedm ioessit,nls yc attered artiocfpl aerst,iw courlidanCsr h aucweorrT'kos.a lolup rr edecessors wea rmeu cihn debbtuewtde h, a veen deavaoluwrateyoads r raitv e opinainoddne sfi niotfoi uoornw sn . Thei niwtoiraoklfc ompilwaadtsii voinad sfoe ldl ows: AnnWea llace-HAa-dCGr,oi olslr n-RESPORT PatrIincgihaa m D-GoBTEHTE,tE ot heen d DougGlraasy RESTTEH-EDOM Thew howlaes e ditbeyNd o rmDaanv iwsh,oa lscoo mpitlheed prelimniontaaenrstdy h l ei osfnt a mes. INTRODUCTION THEp rimaairomyf t hGilso sissta ore yx pltahmieen a nionfg s woradnspd h raisnCe hsa ucweorr'wkshs i acrhue s eidnw ays unfamiilnmi oadre Ernng lainstdho ,r eftehret moa n umber (neceslsiamrioitftle yydp )ii cnaslt aIntac leisslo.l usCthraautes ceru'ssoe f m aneyx presnsointoe ncse susnafarmiilblyui ta r characotfhe irlsia sntgiuIcait gis en .t etnobd ees de rviwcietahb le anoyf t hwei derleyae dd itRieoandsae.rr aess sutmohe adv aet hanodno eft hceo mptleextotefCs h auscote hrta,ht ce ayrn e adily refteopr assamgeenst ioTnheeod n.lq yu otagtiivoaenrnse theroeffb orripeeh fr ases. TheG losdsoaernsyo g ti vace o mplaectceoo ufCn hta ucer's vocabubleacratyuh,sia east v aiilnta hbCelon ecor dance compiled byJ S..P .T atlaoncAdk. G .K enn(eTdhyCe a rneIgniset itute ofW ashin1g9t2or7ne,,p riGnltoeudc eMsatsesPr.e,,tS emri th, 196I3t)c .o vearltslh weo rgkesn eraaclcleyap stC ehda ucer's, antdh deo ubtafuslclrysi hboeprdot e mistd;o ensot tr eThae t Romaunt of the Rose beyoFnrda gmAe,on rTht e Equatorie of the Planetis. A considneurmabboelfwre o radrsoe m itbteecda use theayru es ebdyC hauvceermryu cahst heayrt eo dyaeyat;g reat mannyo wfa mildioaa rp pebaerc,a tuhseheya idn h iuss ae differraennogtfse e nosrte osop kai rnpt h raosfse pse icnitaelr est. Ins uccha stehcseu rrseenntas rebesr ineofltyi ucseudaw,li ltyh nomto rteh afinvr ee ferfoernt chseeas ko,efc omparison. Witheinnt rsieensas regesi vienan p proxoirmdaoetffrre e quenocriy m portsaofan rac set ,h ecsaebn ej udgneodot,fh is tordiecvaell oapnmaden an ttt;e immspa tdt eoa naltyhlseoe n ger entrbiyne usm besreinntsghe casat bn e e ffectdiivsetliyn guished -theirsse o metdiomueabsbt o tuhtae p propcrliaastsei fication ofi ndiveixdaumapll es. Text and arrangement Thsep elolfhi enagd wiopsrr dism atrhoiafltS yk easti'xs- volume edi(tOixofon1r 8d9,s4 e,c eodnidt 1i9o0en0x )c,te hpia tot r/ when usewdi tthhv ea loufme o dejri nsr eplbaycj oe rJd D.i fferent spelilnio ntghesed ri tions-R-oebsipnessceoicnaoe'lndsldi y t ion oft hWeo rks (195t7hC)ea,n te rbury Tales edibtyeM da nlayn d Rick(e1r9t4a 0nR)do, o etd'isto ifTro oiluns and Criseyde (1926)- INTRODUCTION viii are also entered if they seem likely to cause a reader difficulty. The letter y when it represents a vowel is given the same order as i, but when it represents a consonant it has its usual place. Words with initial k- which have variants with c- are listed under C. When a word is spelt in more than one way, whether in different parts of Skeat's edition or in different editions, the principal alternatives are given at the head, separated by/. Minor variants such as -ance/-aunce, -cion/-cioun, con-/coun-, oght/ought, ou/ow are sometimes ignored, but (except for the last) generally shown by parentheses enclosing the optional letter. The many words which contain a long vowel, ii, i, or o, com monly but not regularly written with a double letter, are printed with the second letter in parentheses and ordered according to the longer spelling; and occasional alternatives of the same kind in consonants are similarly treated. Optional endings -n and -e ( or consonant+-e) are marked off by (, and variable prefixes by ). Regular inflectional endings are not recorded unless they are the only forms of the word which occur, or are of some special inter est; the normal grammatical inflections are shown below, p. xv. Verbs are listed in the infinitive form if it occurs; if it does not, the forms that do appear are given, in order of present and past tenses and of person. Irregular or variant forms are usually collected, to aid identification, at the end of an entry. The form and the order of references to the texts are based, for convenience of comparison, on those of the Concordance. For The Canterbury Tales the system of reference to both the group letter and the teller of the tale is followed, but Doc is replaced by Phs. For Boece and the Astrolabe the numbering is adjusted to the editions used. The House of Fame is numbered continuously throughout, not by books. Since references to the Tales by group letter and line number, used by Skeat and many other books concerned with Chaucer, are given by Robinson beside his own numbering, they will present no difficulty to readers accustomed to either system. In Troilus and Criseyde, however, Root's text of Book III follows an order of its own from line 1324 to line 1414, and here both line-numbers are given, separated by/. The prose texts of the Tales offer no problems because they are num bered by sentences, but Boece and the Astrolabe are troublesome because the editions number only by lines, which differ greatly. For these texts references are given both to Skeat's and to Robin son's edition, separated by /; more than this would have been impracticably cumbrous. When a particular reference is to a word INTRODUCTION ix whiacphp eiansr osmb eun to atlo lft hmea jeodri tbieocnaosuf s e editcohroiioacflre e adiitin sgm ,a rkvear.d E mendaatrieo ns markeemdI. np assqaugoetwsei dt ehnitnr ,...,,i reesp,r etsheen ts t. headwoWrodr.df so uonndli nyC haucweorr'aksrsm e a rked Etymologies Eaceht ynmi osn ormgailvliyent n h foer mw hibcehsa tc counts fort hfoer mi nt htee xbtu',td ictfoiromnasar sreoy m'e tgiimveesn itfh dee rivoafpt airotnii cnuflleacirtos ib ovnisIot fuh sse.p elling ofa ne tymdoonen sod ti fffreormt hoaftt h weo rgdl osiistnse o dt repeaatnoednd lt,yh l ea ngaubabgree viigsai tviAenona n.s terisk markafs o rtmh eorerteiccoanlsltnyro urtce tceodrL,do endg. vowaerlmesa rkbeymd a creoxncsie,nOp ltNd o rwsoer wdhse re thues uaaclu atcec iesnu ts eIdnO. l Edn glwiosrhtd hsae c ute marakv so woerli gisnhaoblrultlty e ngtihneO nledEd n glish. Thsei gnm eatnhsaa c to mpoourdn edr iviafistr irsvetec orded + inM iddElneg l\iVsohri.dn bs o ltdy pree fetroo theenrt riine s thGilso ss'afrroyim;su' s ewdh etnh weo rgdl osesietdhh aesr affixneospt r esientn htee t ymoorin sd eribvyae c dh anogfe functi'ocnif;n. d' icuantceesrr tealianwt oirofodnrs;w hincoh convientcyimnoghl aoysge byte epnufo tr waarrmdea rk[?e ]d. ABBREVIATIONS absol. absolute(ly, i.e. without obl. oblique some usual construction occas. occasional(ly acc. accusative OED The Oxford English Die- adj. adjective tionary adv. adverb(ial opp. opposed to app. apparently orig. ori16nally art. article pa. past tense attrib. attributive part. partitive auxil. auxiliary pass. passive cf. compare perh. perhaps cl. clause pers. person(al coll. collective person. personified comp. comparative phr. (in) phrase(s condit. conditional pl. plural conj. conjunction poss. possessive cons. consonant p.p. past participle constr. construction ppl. adj. participial adjective dat. dative pr. present tense def. definite prec. preceding (word) demons. demonstrative predic. predicative deriv. derivative pref. prefix dial. dialect(al prep. prepos1t1on; (applied to em. emendation noun forms) prepositional emph. emphatic (case) esp. especially prob. probably exclam. exclamation pron. pronoun fem. feminine prov. proverb(ial fold. followed pr. p. present participle fig. figurative(ly qual. qualified fut. future refl. reflexive gen. genitive rel. relative, related her. heraldic rubr. rubric imit. imitative s-e. south-eastern imper. imperative sg. singular impers. impersonal sim. similarly ind., indic. indicative spec. specifically indef. indefinite sthg. something infin. infinitive str. strong infl. influenced subj. subjunctive infl. infin. inflected infinitive suff. suffix interj. interjection sup. superlative intr. intransitive tr. transitive introd. introducing transf. transferred iron. ironical ult. ultimately lit. literally uninfl. uninflected n. noun usu. usually neg. negative v. verb nom. nominative var. variant nth. northern dialect vbl. n. verbal noun num. numeral wk. weak obj. object xii ABBREVIATIONS LANGUAGAENSD D IALECTS A Anglian dialects of Old ML Medieval Latin English MLG Middle Low German AN Anglo-Norman Nb Northumbrian Arab Arabic Norw Norwegian CF Central (Old) French OA as A Dan Danish OE Old English Du Dutch OF Old French Fris Frisian 01 Old Icelandic Gmc Germanic Olr Old Irish Gr Greek ON Old Norse It Italian ONb Old Northumbrian L Latin ONF Northern dialects of Old LL Late Latin French LOE Late Old English Scand Scandinavian LWS Late West Saxon Sw Swedish MDu Middle Dutch w Welsh ME Middle English ws West Saxon ABBREVIATTIETDL ES Canterbury Tales: Mars The Complaint of Mars A.Pro! The General Prologue CompL A Complaint to his Lady A.Kn The Knight's Tale Anel Anelida and Arcite A.Mi! The Miller's Tale PF The Parlement of Foules A.Rv The Reeve's Tale Bo Boece, book shown by A.Co The Cook's Tale simple number, metre B.ML The Man of Law's Tale and prose by m and p B.Sh The Shipman's Tale with number and line B.Pri. The Prioress's Tale numbers B.T h The Tale of Sir Thopas TC Troilus and Criseyde, numbered by book and B.Mel The Tale of Melibeus line B.Mk The Monk's Tale B.NP The Nun's Priest's Tale Adam Chaucer's Words unto Adam C.Phs The Physician's Tale HF The House of Fame, C.Pard The Pardoner's Tale numbered consecutively D.WB The Wife of Bath's Tale throughout D.Fri The Friar's Tale LGW The Legend of Good D.Sum The Summoner's Tale Women. LGW G. desig E.Cl The Clerk's Tale nates the form of the E.Mch The Merchant's Tale Prologue in Cambridge F.Sq The Squire's Tale University Library MS. F.Fkl The Franklin's Tale G.SN The Second Nun's Tale Gg.4.27. G.CY The Canon's Yeoman's Rosem To Rosemounde Tale FormA The Fonner Age H.Mcp The Manciple's Tale Fort Fortune I.Pars The Parson's Tale Truth Truth Gent Gentilesse LSt Lack of Steadfasmess BD The Book of the Duchess Scog Chaucer's Envoy to Sco- Pity The Complaint unto Pity gan ABC Chaucer's ABC Ven The Complaint of Venus
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