A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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?onie, == yawn, _q. v._
?o?elinge, _sb._ == chattering, gabbling. O. and N. 40. Probably the same as the later 'gaggle,' which is used of a confused noise of people talking, in the Poem on the Deposition of Richard II. p. 18, and of geese, in Churchyard's Pleasant Conceit penned in Verse (1593), cited in the pref. to Nash's Pierce Penniless. (Shaksp. Soc.'s ed.), p. xviii.
?raihand. See Thraying
?uling. See Yelling
?ulle. See Yell
?ulpe. See Yelp
?ulping. See Yelping
ADDENDA.
Baru, add AS. bearh
Bert, _v. n._ == crepitum ventris edere. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 211
Bidde, _v. n._ == need, ought. HD. 1733. Another form of 'bud.' Dan. bor.
Compare Chaucer's 'bode.' Rom. Rose, 790
Birde, _sb._ For HD. 2760, read Wright's L. P. pp. 25, 30
Birde, _vb. pret._ == it behoved. HD. 2760. ON. byrjar. Dan. bor
Brol ? Rel. Ant. ii. 192
By, _v. a._ == to defame. Manuel des Pecches, 1355. ON. bia, maculare
Ferblet. Possibly 'suffused with blood,' 'sanguine.' Cf. 'forbled,' in the Anturs of Arthur at Tarne Wathelan, st. 51
Graueth. Probably for 'graveth,' or 'geraveth,' from AS. reaf, clothing
