Words
Malory’s English
The 635 entries below are the glossary the editors printed at the end of the Caxton text, lifted verbatim. They appear in the reader too, where each word is marked the first time it turns up in a chapter.
One caution, and it matters. This is a dictionary: it records a sense a wordcan carry in this book, not a translation of every instance. Malory uses “wood” to mean mad and also to mean timber. Context decides, and the gloss is a hint rather than a ruling.
The words you will actually need
Counted across all 503 chapters of the reader.
- Letcaused to256 chapters
- Anonat once232 chapters
- Passingsurpassingly184 chapters
- Worshiphonour178 chapters
- Cheercountenance, entertainment94 chapters
- Wotknow92 chapters
- Wareaware78 chapters
- Hightcalled74 chapters
- Dolegift of alms68 chapters
- Harnessarmour68 chapters
- Heavysad68 chapters
- Sithenafterwards, since66 chapters
A
- Abashed
- abased, lowered · 21 chapters
- Abatefalse friend
- depress, calm · 4 chapters
- Abought
- paid for · 1 chapter
- Abraid
- started · 2 chapters
- Accompted
- counted · 1 chapter
- Accorded
- agreed · 21 chapters
- Accordment
- agreement · 1 chapter
- Acquitfalse friend
- repay · 6 chapters
- Adoubted
- afraid · 1 chapter
- Advision
- vision · 8 chapters
- Afeard
- afraid · 22 chapters
- Afterdeal
- disadvantage · 1 chapter
- Againsay
- retract
- Aknown
- known · 1 chapter
- Aligement
- alleviation · 1 chapter
- Allegeance
- alleviation · 1 chapter
- Almeries
- chests · 1 chapter
- Alther
- gen. pl., of all · 2 chapters
- Anealed
- anointed · 1 chapter
- Anguishly
- in pain · 1 chapter
- Anon
- at once · 232 chapters
- Apair
- weaken · 1 chapter
- Apparelled
- fitted up · 10 chapters
- Appeach
- impeach · 1 chapter
- Appealed
- challenged, accused · 11 chapters
- Appertices
- displays · 1 chapter
- Araged
- enraged; confused · 6 chapters
- Arase
- obliterate · 1 chapter
- Armyvestal
- martial · 1 chapter
- Arrayfalse friend
- plight, state of affairs · 20 chapters
- Arson
- saddle-bow · 3 chapters
- Askance
- casually · 1 chapter
- Assoiled
- absolved · 1 chapter
- Assotted
- infatuated · 4 chapters
- Assummon
- summon · 2 chapters
- Astonied
- amazed, stunned · 7 chapters
- Attaintfalse friend
- overcome · 1 chapter
- Aumbries
- chests
- Avail (at)false friend
- at an advantage · 24 chapters
- Avaled
- lowered · 1 chapter
- Avaunt
- boast · 3 chapters
- Aventred
- couched · 2 chapters
- Avised
- be advised, take thought · 4 chapters
- Avision
- vision · 3 chapters
- Avoidfalse friend
- quit · 17 chapters
- Avoided
- got clear off · 39 chapters
- Avowfalse friend
- vow · 15 chapters
- Await of (in)false friend
- in watch for · 1 chapter
- Awayward
- away · 1 chapter
- Awke
- sideways
B
- Bachelors
- probationers for knighthood · 2 chapters
- Bainfalse friend
- bath · 2 chapters
- Barbican
- gate-tower · 2 chapters
- Barget
- little ship · 3 chapters
- Bawdyfalse friend
- dirty · 3 chapters
- Be-closed
- enclosed
- Beams
- trumpets · 1 chapter
- Bedashed
- splashed · 1 chapter
- Behight
- promised · 2 chapters
- Beholden (beholding) to
- obliged to
- Behote
- promised · 2 chapters
- Benome
- deprived, taken away · 3 chapters
- Besants
- gold coins · 2 chapters
- Beseek
- beseech · 1 chapter
- Beseen
- appointed, arrayed · 17 chapters
- Beskift
- shove off · 1 chapter
- Bested
- beset
- Betaken
- entrusted · 1 chapter
- Betaught
- entrusted, recommended · 4 chapters
- Betid
- happened · 3 chapters
- Betook
- committed, entrusted · 13 chapters
- Bevered
- quivered · 1 chapter
- Boardfalse friend
- sb., deck · 12 chapters
- Bobaunce
- boasting, pride · 3 chapters
- Boishe
- bush, branch of a tree
- Boistous
- rough · 3 chapters
- Bole
- trunk of a tree · 1 chapter
- Bootfalse friend
- remedy · 6 chapters
- Borrow out
- redeem · 1 chapter
- Borrows
- pledges · 1 chapter
- Bote
- remedy · 5 chapters
- Boundfalse friend
- ready · 18 chapters
- Bourded
- jested · 1 chapter
- Bourder
- jester · 2 chapters
- Bracedfalse friend
- embraced · 1 chapter
- Brachet
- little hound · 11 chapters
- Braide
- quick movement · 1 chapter
- Brast
- burst, break · 36 chapters
- Breaths
- breathing holes · 2 chapters
- Brief
- shorten · 1 chapter
- Brim
- fierce, furious · 2 chapters
- Brised
- broke · 5 chapters
- Broached
- pierced · 2 chapters
- Broaches
- spits · 2 chapters
- Bur
- hand-guard of a spear · 1 chapter
- Burble
- bubble · 1 chapter
- Burbling
- bubbling
- Burgenetts
- buds, blossoms
- Bushment
- ambush · 4 chapters
- By and by
- immediately · 1 chapter
- Bywaryed
- expended, bestowed
C
- Canel bone
- collar bone · 1 chapter
- Cankered
- inveterate · 1 chapter
- Cantel
- slice, strip · 1 chapter
- Careful
- sorrowful, full of troubles · 3 chapters
- Cedle
- schedule, note · 1 chapter
- Cerefalse friend
- wax over, embalm; cerel · 1 chapter
- Certes
- certainly · 20 chapters
- Chafefalse friend
- heat, decompose; chafed, heated · 2 chapters
- Chaflet
- platform, scaffold · 1 chapter
- Champaign
- open country · 2 chapters
- Chariot (Fr charette)
- cart · 6 chapters
- Cheerfalse friend
- countenance, entertainment · 94 chapters
- Chierte
- dearness · 1 chapter
- Chrism
- anointing oil · 1 chapter
- Clatter
- talk confusedly · 1 chapter
- Cleight
- clutched · 1 chapter
- Cleped
- called · 3 chapters
- Clipping
- embracing · 3 chapters
- Cog
- small boat
- Cognisance
- badge, mark of distinction · 3 chapters
- Coif
- head-piece · 3 chapters
- Comfortfalse friend
- strengthen, help · 21 chapters
- Cominal
- common · 1 chapter
- Complished
- complete · 1 chapter
- Confalse friend
- know, be able; con thanlt, be grateful · 2 chapters
- Conserve
- preserve · 1 chapter
- Conversant
- abiding in · 2 chapters
- Cording
- agreement · 1 chapter
- Coronal
- circlet · 2 chapters
- Cost
- side · 7 chapters
- Costed
- kept up with · 1 chapter
- Couched
- lay · 3 chapters
- Couragefalse friend
- encourage · 23 chapters
- Courtelage
- courtyard · 3 chapters
- Covert
- sheltered · 2 chapters
- Covetise
- covetousness · 1 chapter
- Covin
- deceit · 1 chapter
- Cream
- oil · 1 chapter
- Credence
- faith · 1 chapter
- Croup
- crupper · 21 chapters
- Curteist
- most courteous · 1 chapter
D
- Daffish
- foolish · 1 chapter
- Danger (in)
- under obligation to, in the power of · 20 chapters
- Dawed
- v tr., revived, intr. dawned · 1 chapter
- Deadly
- mortal, human · 25 chapters
- Dealfalse friend
- part, portion · 23 chapters
- Debate
- quarrel, strife · 13 chapters
- Debonair
- courteous · 1 chapter
- Deceivable
- deceitful · 1 chapter
- Defaded
- faded · 1 chapter
- Default
- fault · 17 chapters
- Defendfalse friend
- forbid; defended; forbidden · 48 chapters
- Defoiled
- trodden down, fouled, deflowered · 4 chapters
- Degree (win the)false friend
- rank, superiority · 19 chapters
- Delibered
- determined · 1 chapter
- Deliverly
- adroitly · 1 chapter
- Departition
- departure · 3 chapters
- Dere
- harm · 2 chapters
- Descrive
- describe · 1 chapter
- Despoiled
- stripped · 4 chapters
- Detrenched
- cut to pieces · 1 chapter
- Devised
- looked carefully at · 21 chapters
- Devoirfalse friend
- duty, service · 4 chapters
- Did off
- doffed · 10 chapters
- Dight
- prepared · 3 chapters
- Dindled
- trembled · 1 chapter
- Disadventure
- misfortune · 1 chapter
- Discoverfalse friend
- reveal · 15 chapters
- Disherited
- disinherited · 4 chapters
- Disparpled
- scattered · 1 chapter
- Dispenses
- expenses · 1 chapter
- Disperplyd
- scattered · 1 chapter
- Dispoiled
- stripped · 2 chapters
- Distained
- sullied, dishonoured · 1 chapter
- Disworship
- shame · 9 chapters
- Dole
- gift of alms · 68 chapters
- Domineth
- dominates, rules · 2 chapters
- Don
- gift · 1 chapter
- Doted
- foolish · 1 chapter
- Doubted
- redoubtable · 5 chapters
- Draughts
- privities, secret interviews, recesses · 4 chapters
- Drenched
- drowned · 1 chapter
- Dressfalse friend
- make ready · 14 chapters
- Dressed up
- raised · 1 chapter
- Dretched
- troubled in sleep · 1 chapter
- Dretching
- being troubled in sleep · 1 chapter
- Dromounds
- war vessels · 1 chapter
- Durefalse friend
- endure, last; dured; during · 3 chapters
- Duresse
- bondage, hardship · 2 chapters
- Dwined
- dwindled · 1 chapter
E
- Eased
- entertained · 8 chapters
- Eftfalse friend
- after, again · 4 chapters
- Eftures
- passages
- Embattled
- ranged for battle · 1 chapter
- Embushed
- concealed in the woods
- Eme
- uncle · 4 chapters
- Empoison
- poison
- Emprised
- undertook
- Enchafefalse friend
- heat; enchafed, heated · 1 chapter
- Enchieve
- achieve · 12 chapters
- Endlong
- alongside of · 5 chapters
- Enewed
- painted · 1 chapter
- Enforce
- constrain · 4 chapters
- Engine
- device · 2 chapters
- Enow
- enough · 3 chapters
- Enquest
- enterprise
- Ensured
- assured · 2 chapters
- Entermete
- intermeddle · 2 chapters
- Errant
- wandering · 35 chapters
- Estates
- ranks · 9 chapters
- Even handfalse friend
- at an equality · 1 chapter
- Evenlong
- along · 1 chapter
- Everych
- each, every one · 32 chapters
F
- Faiter
- vagabond · 1 chapter
- Farefalse friend
- sb., ado, commotion · 15 chapters
- Faren
- pp., treated · 2 chapters
- Fautefalse friend
- lack; fauted, lacked · 1 chapter
- Fealty
- oath of fidelity · 9 chapters
- Fear
- frighten · 36 chapters
- Feute
- trace, track · 2 chapters
- Feuter
- set in rest, couch · 1 chapter
- Feutred
- set in socket · 17 chapters
- Fiaunce
- affiance, promise · 1 chapter
- Flang
- flung; rushed · 4 chapters
- Flatling
- prostrate · 3 chapters
- Fleet
- float · 1 chapter
- Flemed
- put to flight · 3 chapters
- Flittered
- fluttered · 1 chapter
- Foiled
- defeated, shamed · 1 chapter
- Foined
- thrust · 4 chapters
- Foining
- thrusting · 9 chapters
- Foins
- thrusts · 1 chapter
- Foot-hot
- hastily · 2 chapters
- For-bled
- spent with bleeding · 2 chapters
- For-fared
- worsted · 1 chapter
- Fordeal
- advantage · 1 chapter
- Fordo
- destroy; fordid · 3 chapters
- Forecast
- preconcerted plot · 3 chapters
- Forfendfalse friend
- forbid · 1 chapter
- Forfoughten
- weary with fighting · 2 chapters
- Forhewn
- hewn to pieces · 1 chapter
- Forjousted
- tired with jousting · 4 chapters
- Forthinketh
- repents · 8 chapters
- Fortuned
- happened · 7 chapters
- Forward
- vanguard · 9 chapters
- Forwowmded
- sorely wounded
- Freefalse friend
- noble · 6 chapters
- Froward
- away from · 5 chapters
G
- Gad
- wedge or spike of iron · 1 chapter
- Gainest
- readiest · 2 chapters
- Gar
- cause · 1 chapter
- Gart
- compelled · 4 chapters
- Gentily
- like a gentleman · 1 chapter
- Gerfalcon
- a fine hawk · 3 chapters
- Germane
- closely allied
- Gest
- deed, story
- Gisarm
- halberd, battle-axe · 1 chapter
- Glaive
- sword · 3 chapters
- Glasting
- barking · 1 chapter
- Glatisant
- barking, yelping · 2 chapters
- Gobbets
- lumps · 1 chapter
- Graithed
- made ready · 1 chapter
- Greefalse friend
- degree, superiority · 6 chapters
- Greed
- pp., pleased, content · 1 chapter
- Grescs
- steps
- Grimly
- ugly · 8 chapters
- Grovelling
- on his face · 19 chapters
- Guerdonless
- without reward · 1 chapter
- Guisefalse friend
- fashion · 4 chapters
H
- Habergeon
- hauberk with leggings attached · 1 chapter
- Hairfalse friend
- a hair-shirt · 11 chapters
- Hale and how
- a sailor's cry · 1 chapter
- Halp
- helped · 5 chapters
- Halsed
- embraced · 2 chapters
- Halsing
- embracing · 1 chapter
- Handfast
- betrothed · 1 chapter
- Handsel
- earnest-money · 1 chapter
- Hangers
- testicles · 1 chapter
- Harbingers
- messengers sent to prepare lodgings · 1 chapter
- Harnessfalse friend
- armour · 68 chapters
- Hart of greese
- fat deer · 1 chapter
- Hauberk
- coat of mail · 8 chapters
- Haut
- high, noble · 28 chapters
- Hauteyn
- haughty · 1 chapter
- Heavyfalse friend
- sad · 68 chapters
- Hete
- command · 1 chapter
- Hide
- skin · 8 chapters
- Hied
- hurried · 4 chapters
- Higher hand
- the uppermost · 1 chapter
- Hight
- called · 74 chapters
- Hilled
- covered, concealed · 3 chapters
- Holden
- held · 17 chapters
- Holp
- helped · 2 chapters
- Holts
- woods · 2 chapters
- Hough-bone
- back part of kneejoint
- Houselled
- to be given the Eucharist · 1 chapter
- Hoved
- hovered, waited about · 14 chapters
- Hurled
- dashed, staggered; hurling · 10 chapters
- Hurtle
- dash
I
- In like
- alike · 14 chapters
- Incontinent
- forthwith · 1 chapter
- Ind
- dark blue
- Infellowship
- join in fellowship
- Intermit
- interpose
J
- Japer
- jester · 4 chapters
- Japes
- jests · 4 chapters
- Jesseraunt
- a short cuirass · 1 chapter
K
- Kemps
- champions · 1 chapter
- Kindfalse friend
- nature · 13 chapters
- Kindly
- natural · 2 chapters
- Knights parters
- marshals · 2 chapters
- Knowledging
- acknowledgment, confession · 3 chapters
L
- Lain
- conceal · 23 chapters
- Langering
- sauntering · 1 chapter
- Lapped
- took in her lap · 3 chapters
- Largefalse friend
- generous · 27 chapters
- Largeness
- liberality · 1 chapter
- Laton
- latten, brass
- Laund
- waste plain · 5 chapters
- Layne
- conceal
- Lazar-cot
- leper-house
- Learn
- teach · 5 chapters
- Lears
- cheeks · 1 chapter
- Leaved
- leafy · 3 chapters
- Lecher
- fornicator · 1 chapter
- Leech
- physician · 7 chapters
- Leman
- lover · 1 chapter
- Letfalse friend
- caused to · 256 chapters
- Lewdest
- most ignorant · 1 chapter
- Licours
- lecherous · 1 chapter
- Lief
- dear · 4 chapters
- Liefer
- more gladly · 39 chapters
- Lievefalse friend
- believe · 1 chapter
- Limb-meal
- limb from limb · 1 chapter
- Listfalse friend
- desire, pleasure · 49 chapters
- Lithe
- joint · 1 chapter
- Long on (upon)false friend
- because of · 2 chapters
- Longing untofalse friend
- belonging to · 1 chapter
- Loos
- praise · 2 chapters
- Lotless
- without a share · 1 chapter
- Loveday
- day for. settling disputes
- Loving
- praising · 4 chapters
- Lunes
- leashes, strings · 1 chapter
- Lusk
- lubber · 1 chapter
- Lusts
- inclinations · 5 chapters
M
- Maims
- wounds · 1 chapter
- Makeless
- matchless · 3 chapters
- Makers
- authors, poets · 1 chapter
- Mal engine
- evil design · 1 chapter
- Mal-fortune
- ill-luck, mishap · 1 chapter
- Marches
- borders · 22 chapters
- Mas
- ease, discomfort
- Mass-penny
- offering at mass for the dead · 1 chapter
- Matche old
- machicolated, with holes for defence
- Maugre
- sb., despite · 22 chapters
- Measle
- disease · 1 chapter
- Medled
- mingled · 2 chapters
- Medley
- melee, general encounter · 8 chapters
- Meiny
- retinue · 3 chapters
- Micklefalse friend
- much · 9 chapters
- Minever
- ermine · 1 chapter
- Mischieved
- hurt · 9 chapters
- Mischievous
- painful · 4 chapters
- Miscorr fort
- discomfort
- Miscreature
- unbeliever · 1 chapter
- Missay
- revile; missaid · 2 chapters
- Mofalse friend
- more · 13 chapters
- More and less
- rich and poor · 1 chapter
- Motes
- notes on a horn · 1 chapter
- Mountenance
- amount of, extent · 3 chapters
N
- Nakedfalse friend
- unarmed · 36 chapters
- Namely
- especially · 10 chapters
- Ne
- nor · 19 chapters
- Near-hand
- nearly; near · 3 chapters
- Needly
- needs, on your own compulsion · 1 chapter
- Nesh
- soft, tender · 1 chapter
- Nigh-hand
- nearly · 1 chapter
- Nill
- will not · 4 chapters
- Nilt
- will not
- Nis
- ne is, is not · 9 chapters
- Nist
- ne wist, knew not · 6 chapters
- Noblesse
- nobleness · 13 chapters
- Nobley
- nobility, splendour · 2 chapters
- Noised
- reported · 7 chapters
- Nold
- would not · 1 chapter
- Noseling
- on his nose · 1 chapter
- Not for then
- nevertheless · 12 chapters
- Notoyrly
- notoriously · 1 chapter
- Noyous
- hurtful · 1 chapter
O
- Obeissance
- obedience · 6 chapters
- Orgule
- haughtiness · 1 chapter
- Orgulist
- haughtiest · 1 chapter
- Orgulite
- pride, arrogance
- Orgulous
- proud · 8 chapters
- Ouches
- jewels · 1 chapter
- Out-taken
- except · 1 chapter
- Outcept
- except · 1 chapter
- Outher
- or · 22 chapters
- Over-evening
- last night
- Over-led
- domineered over
- Overget
- overtake · 1 chapter
- Overhylled
- covered
- Overlong
- the length of · 2 chapters
- Overslip
- pass · 1 chapter
- Overthwart
- adj., cross · 14 chapters
- Overthwart and endlong
- by the breadth and length · 3 chapters
P
- Painture
- painting · 1 chapter
- Paitrelles
- breastplate of a horse · 1 chapter
- Paltocks
- short coats · 1 chapter
- Parage
- descent · 1 chapter
- Pareil
- like · 1 chapter
- Passingfalse friend
- surpassingly · 184 chapters
- Paynim
- pagan · 3 chapters
- Pensel
- pennon · 1 chapter
- Perclos
- partition
- Perdy
- par Dieu · 2 chapters
- Perigot
- falcon · 2 chapters
- Perish
- destroy · 6 chapters
- Peron
- tombstone · 4 chapters
- Pightfalse friend
- pitched · 7 chapters
- Pike
- steal away · 1 chapter
- Piked
- stole
- Pillers
- plunderers · 2 chapters
- Pilling
- plundering · 1 chapter
- Pleasaunce
- pleasure · 6 chapters
- Plenour
- complete · 1 chapter
- Plump
- sb., cluster · 1 chapter
- Pointling
- aiming · 1 chapter
- Pont
- bridge · 2 chapters
- Portfalse friend
- gate · 5 chapters
- Posseded
- possessed · 1 chapter
- Potestate
- governor · 1 chapter
- Precessours
- predecessors
- Pressfalse friend
- throng · 23 chapters
- Pretendeth
- belongs to · 1 chapter
- Pricker
- hard rider
- Pricking
- spurring · 1 chapter
- Primefalse friend
- A.M. · 7 chapters
- Prisefalse friend
- capture · 1 chapter
- Puissance
- power · 3 chapters
- Purfle
- trimming · 1 chapter
- Purfled
- embroidered · 1 chapter
- Purveyfalse friend
- provide · 14 chapters
Q
- Quarrels
- arrowheads · 8 chapters
- Questing
- barking · 7 chapters
- Quickfalse friend
- alive · 5 chapters
- Quitfalse friend
- repaid; acquitted, behaved · 20 chapters
R
- Raced (rased)
- tore · 12 chapters
- Rack (of bulls)
- herd · 2 chapters
- Raines
- a town in Brittany famous for its cloth · 1 chapter
- Ramping
- raging · 1 chapter
- Rangefalse friend
- rank, station · 5 chapters
- Ransacked
- searched · 2 chapters
- Rashed
- fell headlong · 10 chapters
- Rashing
- rushing · 2 chapters
- Rasing
- rushing · 3 chapters
- Raundon
- impetuosity · 4 chapters
- Rearfalse friend
- raise · 2 chapters
- Rechate
- note of recall · 1 chapter
- Recomforted
- comforted, cheered · 1 chapter
- Recounter
- rencontre, encounter · 6 chapters
- Recoverfalse friend
- rescue · 16 chapters
- Rede
- advise; sb., counsel · 7 chapters
- Redounded
- glanced back · 1 chapter
- Religion
- religious order · 5 chapters
- Reneye
- deny · 1 chapter
- Report
- refer · 9 chapters
- Retrayed
- drew back · 1 chapter
- Rightwise
- rightly · 1 chapter
- Rivage
- shore · 1 chapter
- Romed
- roared · 1 chapter
- Roted
- practised · 1 chapter
- Rove
- cleft · 7 chapters
- Rownsepyk
- a branch · 1 chapter
S
- Sacring
- consecrating · 4 chapters
- Sadfalse friend
- serious · 20 chapters
- Sadly
- heartily, earnestly · 4 chapters
- Salle
- room · 1 chapter
- Samite
- silk stuff with gold or silver · 9 chapters
- Sangreal
- Holy Grail · 57 chapters
- Sarps
- girdles · 1 chapter
- Scathes
- harms, hurts · 1 chapter
- Scripture
- writing · 2 chapters
- Searchfalse friend
- probe wounds · 10 chapters
- Selar
- canopy · 1 chapter
- Semblable
- like · 1 chapter
- Semblantfalse friend
- semblance · 6 chapters
- Sendal
- fine cloth · 4 chapters
- Sennight
- week · 1 chapter
- Servage
- slavery · 6 chapters
- Sewer
- officer who set on dishes and tasted them · 1 chapter
- Shaft-mon
- handbreadth
- Shaw
- thicket · 2 chapters
- Sheef
- thrust · 1 chapter
- Sheer-Thursday
- Thursday in Holy Week · 1 chapter
- Shend
- harm
- Shenship
- disgrace · 2 chapters
- Shent
- undone, blamed · 2 chapters
- Shour
- attack · 1 chapter
- Shrew
- rascal · 2 chapters
- Shrewdfalse friend
- knavish · 3 chapters
- Sib
- akin to · 1 chapter
- Sideling
- sideways · 1 chapter
- Siege
- seat · 30 chapters
- Signified
- likened · 4 chapters
- Siker
- sure · 3 chapters
- Sikerness
- assurance · 1 chapter
- Sithfalse friend
- since · 32 chapters
- Sithen
- afterwards, since · 66 chapters
- Skift
- changed · 1 chapter
- Slade
- valley · 3 chapters
- Slake
- glen · 2 chapters
- Soil (to go to)
- hunting term for taking the water · 3 chapters
- Sonds
- messages · 1 chapter
- Sort
- company · 1 chapter
- Sperd
- bolted · 1 chapter
- Spere
- ask, inquire · 3 chapters
- Spered
- asked · 3 chapters
- Sperhawk
- sparrowhawk · 1 chapter
- Sprent
- sprinkled · 1 chapter
- Stalefalse friend
- station · 2 chapters
- Starkfalse friend
- thoroughly · 7 chapters
- Steadfalse friend
- place · 5 chapters
- Stert
- started, rose quickly · 16 chapters
- Stevenfalse friend
- appointment; steven ser. appointment made · 3 chapters
- Stigh
- path · 1 chapter
- Stilly
- silently · 3 chapters
- Stintfalse friend
- fixed revenue · 20 chapters
- Stonied
- astonished; became confused · 5 chapters
- Stour
- battle · 4 chapters
- Strain
- race, descent · 2 chapters
- Straitfalse friend
- narrow · 6 chapters
- Straked
- blew a horn · 1 chapter
- Suefalse friend
- pursue · 1 chapter
- Suedfalse friend
- pursued · 2 chapters
- Surcingles
- saddle girths · 1 chapter
- Swang
- swung · 1 chapter
- Swevenfalse friend
- dream · 1 chapter
- Swough
- sound of wind · 1 chapter
T
- Talent
- desire · 1 chapter
- Tallages
- taxes
- Tallies
- taxes · 1 chapter
- Tamed
- crushed · 3 chapters
- Tatches
- qualities · 5 chapters
- Tene
- sorrow · 1 chapter
- Term
- period of time · 10 chapters
- Thilk
- that same · 1 chapter
- Tho
- then · 2 chapters
- Thrang
- pushed · 4 chapters
- Thrulled
- pushed · 1 chapter
- To-brast
- burst · 8 chapters
- To-fore
- before · 63 chapters
- To-morn
- to-morrow · 34 chapters
- To-rove
- broke up · 1 chapter
- To-shivered
- broken to pieces · 10 chapters
- Traced
- advanced and retreated · 8 chapters
- Trains
- devices, wiles · 1 chapter
- Trasing
- pressing forward · 1 chapter
- Travers (met at)
- came across
- Traverse
- slantwise · 2 chapters
- Traversed
- moved sideways · 7 chapters
- Tray
- grief · 1 chapter
- Treatise
- treaty · 1 chapter
- Trenchant
- cutting, sharp · 2 chapters
- Truagefalse friend
- tribute · 14 chapters
- Trussed
- packed · 2 chapters
U
- Ubblie
- wafer, Host · 1 chapter
- Umbecast
- cast about · 1 chapter
- Umberere
- the part of the helmet which shaded the eyes · 1 chapter
- Umbre
- shade · 2 chapters
- thoughtlessly · 1 chapter
- Uncouth
- strange · 1 chapter
- Underne
- - A.M. · 7 chapters
- Ungoodly
- rudely · 2 chapters
- Unhappyfalse friend
- unlucky · 24 chapters
- Unhilled
- uncovered · 2 chapters
- Unr the
- scarcely
- Unsicker
- unstable
- Unwimpled
- uncovered · 1 chapter
- Unwrast
- untwisted, unbound · 1 chapter
- Up-so-down
- upside down · 6 chapters
- Upright
- flat on the back · 7 chapters
- Ure
- usage · 1 chapter
- Utas
- octave of a festival · 1 chapter
- Utterance
- uttermost · 15 chapters
V
- Varlet
- servant · 12 chapters
- Ven ails
- breathing holes
- Venery
- hunting · 3 chapters
- Villain
- man of low birth · 4 chapters
- Visors
- the perforated parts of helmets · 1 chapter
- Voidedfalse friend
- slipped away from · 5 chapters
W
- Wagging
- shaking · 2 chapters
- Waited
- watched · 3 chapters
- Waits
- watches · 1 chapter
- Wallopfalse friend
- gallop · 7 chapters
- Wanhope
- despair · 2 chapters
- Wap
- ripple · 1 chapter
- Warefalse friend
- aware · 78 chapters
- Warison
- reward · 1 chapter
- Warnfalse friend
- forbid, refuse · 30 chapters
- Weeds
- garments · 1 chapter
- Weltered
- rolled about · 2 chapters
- Wendfalse friend
- thought
- Wer-wolf
- a man turned into a wolf by magic · 1 chapter
- Wide-where
- over wide space · 1 chapter
- Wieldfalse friend
- possess, have power over · 9 chapters
- Wield himselffalse friend
- come to himself · 2 chapters
- Wight
- brave, strong · 6 chapters
- Wightly
- swiftly · 2 chapters
- Wildsome
- desolate · 1 chapter
- Wimpled
- with the head covered · 1 chapter
- Wite
- v., blame · 7 chapters
- Wittiest
- cleverest · 1 chapter
- Wittily
- cleverly · 1 chapter
- Witting
- knowledge · 5 chapters
- Wold or nold
- would or would not · 2 chapters
- Wonderfalse friend
- adj., wondrous · 26 chapters
- Wonderly
- wonderfully · 26 chapters
- Woodfalse friend
- mad · 58 chapters
- Wood shawfalse friend
- thicket of the wood
- Woodness
- madness · 5 chapters
- Worshipfalse friend
- honour · 178 chapters
- Worshipped
- cause to be honoured · 8 chapters
- Worts
- roots · 1 chapter
- Wot
- know · 92 chapters
- Wrack
- destruction · 3 chapters
- Wroken
- wreaked · 1 chapter
- Wrothe
- twisted · 1 chapter
Y
- Y-wis
- certainly · 1 chapter
- Yede
- ran · 39 chapters
- Yelden
- yielded · 1 chapter
- Yerde
- stick, stem · 1 chapter
- Yode
- went · 7 chapters
- Yolden
- yielded · 6 chapters
Where this comes from
Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol. II (Project Gutenberg #1252) — the editors' glossary — Public domain.
Six entries in the printed glossary carry no definition at all and are omitted; two damaged lines were repaired and the repairs are recorded in the build. Sixteen high-frequency words were dropped from the reader’s marking — “saw”, “took”, “where”, “much” and the like — because their archaic sense is the minority use, and a confidently wrong gloss on hundreds of ordinary sentences is worse for a reader than no gloss at all.