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between steep banks. Con thank: know thanks to be owing; therefore, pay thanks. Coresed: cuirassed, harnessed. Dang: struck, forced. Dauties: darlings. Dee: as in Kemp Owyne; do. Dele: division, "never a dele," never a bit. Dereworthy: precious. Derne: secret. Devilkins: of the devil's kind. Dight: made ready; dightand: being made ready. Do gladly: make good cheer. Do him drink: make him drink. Donkir: moister. Dowie: dull, sorrowful. Dree: suffer, endure. Dule: sorrow. French - deuil. Eftsoons: again soon, soon after. Fause: false. Fay: faith. Fend of: defend from. Fere: companion. In fere: in companionship, together. Ferre and fremd bestad: one from afar and among strangers. Fet: fetched. Flattered: floated to and fro. Flyte: scold. Fone: foes. Force: no force: of no importance, no matter. Forthinketh: repenteth. Fosters of the fee: foresters in charge of the stock of deer. Fou: bushel. Freke: fighting-man. Frese: curl, bend. Fynly: substantial, heavy. First English - findig; Prov. Scot. - findy. Fytte: canto, song. First English - fitt (fem.) a song, poem. Gane: (as in Sir Patrick Spens) convenient, proper for. Garred me gang: made me go; Gang maiden: remain unmarried. Gest: deed, adventure. Gif: if. Glede: live-coal. Glent: passed suddenly, flashed. Goodman: the master of the "good" or little property of house and field. There is the same sense of "good" in the first use of "goodwife," or "goody." Gowk: cuckoo. Grain, cloth in: cloth of special quality with a fast purple dye. Graithit him: dressed himself. Gramercy: great thanks. French - grand merci. Gree: satisfaction. Gurly: gurgly. Halfendell: the half part. Halk: flat ground by a river. Halse bane: neck bone. Haud: hold. Hie: high. First English - heah. Hie: make haste. First English - higan. Hilt: covering. Ilke: same. Iwis: certainly. First English - gewis. For the prefix i-, answering to First English and German ge-, see Y-. This old adverb is often printed as if the prefix were the pronoun I and wis were a verb. Japes: trivial mockings. Jimp: slender. Kell: coif, woman's headdress. Kipples: rafters. Knowe: knoll, little hill. Lap: started, were rent. Launsgay: lancegay, a form of spear. Lease: leasing: falsehood. Leeful: "its leeful lane," "its lane," alone; a Scottish idiom joins to "lane" the genitive pronoun, "his lane," "their lane," etc. "Leeful," compassionate, the harp played of itself compassionately. Lemes: gleams. Lend: give. See Robin Hood - God lend. First English - laenan, to give, lend. Lend: dwell, come into contact. See Robin Hood - "when ye together lend." Icelandic - lenda, to land; lendir saman, come close together. Lere: learn, teach. First English - laeran. See Robin Hood - "this lesson shall we lere;" Lere: face. First English - hleor. See Robin Hood - "fell down by his lere." Let: hinder. Letting: hindrance. Lewte: loyalty. Lift: sky. Linde: lime-tree. Linn: torrent; also the pool under a torrent of water. Lithe: listen. Icelandic - alyoa, to listen. Liveray: what is 'livre,' or delivered, as a 'livree' of clothes, food, etc. Lodge: dwelling in a forest, as originally made of boughs and leaves. Lough: laughed. Lourdain: blockhead. Lown: loon, dull, base fellow. Makis: husbands. Male: bag. Manople: a large gauntlet protecting hand and fore-arm. March parti: border side. Masars: bowls or goblets. May: maid. Meany: meynie: body of retainers, or domestic following. Meet: narrow. First English - maete, little. Met: mete: measured. Mister: need. Mo: more. Mort: the note sounded at death of the deer. Mote I thee: May I thrive. First English - theon, to thrive. Mote: meeting for decision of cases in ecclesiastical or civil law, or for other public purposes, as ward-mote, etc. Strong men were said to oppress the weak by being "mighty to mote." Nicher: neigh. Numbles: liver, kidneys, etc. French - nombles. The word was often written in English umbles and humbles. The umbles, with skin, head, chine, and shoulders of the deer,