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DOLE = portion, and dole = sorrow: probably active mutual destruction; we still retain 'to dole out'.
DOUT.
DUN (_adj._): now only in combination as dun-coloured.
EAR = to plough.
FAIN and FEIGN: prob. mutual loss due to undefined sense of FAIN. n.b. FANE also obsolete.
FEAT (_adj._) and FEATLY: well lost.
FERE.
FIT = section of a poem.
FLAW: now confined to a flaw in metal, &c.
FLEET (_verb_) and FLEETING, as in the sun-dial motto, 'Time like this shade doth fleet and fade.'
FOIL: common verb, obsolete.
GEST: lost in _jest_.
GIRD = to scoff: an old well-established word.
GOUT = a drop of liquor.
GUST = taste (well lost).
HALE = haul (well lost).
HIGHT = named.
h.o.a.r: only kept in combination, h.o.a.r-frost, h.o.a.r hairs.
HOSE: lost, though hosier remains, but specialized in _garden-hose, &c._
HUE: not now used of colour.
IMBRUED (with blood): prob. lost in _brewed_.
JADE: almost confined to _jaded_(?).
KEEL = cool.
LIST: as in 'as you list'.
MAIL: now only in combination, coat of mail, &c.
MARRY!
MATED = confused in mind (well lost).
MEED: lost in _mead_ = meadow (also obs.) _and mead=metheglin_.
METE and METELY = fitting, also METE in 'mete it out', both lost in _meet_ and _meat_.
MERE (_subs._).
MOUSE (_verb_): to bite and tear.
MOW = a grimace.
MUSE = to wonder: lost in _amuse_ and _Muse_.
NEAT = ox.
OUNCE = pard.
PALL = to fail.
PEAK: survives only in 'peak and pine' and in _peaky_.
PELTING = paltry, also PELT = a skin, lost.
PILL = to plunder.
PINK = ornamental slas.h.i.+ng of dress.
POKE = pocket.
POLL = to cut the hair.
QUARRY (as used in sport).
QUEAN = a woman.
RACK (of clouds).
RAZE (to the ground). The meaning being the very opposite of _raise_, the word _raze_ is intolerable.
REDE = counsel, n.b. change of meaning.
RHEUM: survives in rheumatic, &c.
SCALD = scurvy (_adj._).
SLEAVE = a skein of silk, 'The ravelled sleave of care', usually misinterpreted, the equivocal alternative making excellent sense.
