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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Thomas Tusser

Goef, 55/4, _s._ the stack or rick. Goeler, 46/4, _adj._ "The Goeler is the yellower, which are the best setts, old roots (of hops) being red."--T.R. A.S. _geolewe_. Gofe, 56/20, _s._ rick, stack. In Addit. MS. 1295, a Lat. Eng. Vocab. written in Norfolk in the 15th century, occur "_Gelimo_, to golue, _Ingelimum_, golfe." Palsgrave gives "a _goulfe_ of corne." Gofe ladder, 17/1, _s._ a ladder for hay ricks. Gole, 115/3, _s._ goal, prize. Goom, 33/59, _s._ gum. Goordes, 41/5, _s. pl._ gourds. Lat. _cucurbita_. Gossep, 94/7, _s._ gossips, companions. Got, 114/16, _pp._ caught. Gotten, 10/4, _pp._ earned, acquired. Gould, 3/3, _s._ gold, money. Goue, 57/10, _pp._ laid up in the barn in the straw. Another form of _Goaf_. "_Goulfe_ of corne, so moche as may lye betwene two postes."--Palsgrave. Dan. _gulve_ = to lay corn sheaves on the floor, from Dan. _gulv_, a floor. Gouing, 57/23, _v._ laying up in the barn in the straw. See Goue. Graffing, 46/10, _s._ grafting. O. Fr. _grafe_, from Lat. _graphium_, a pencil, from the resemblance of the graft to a pointed pencil. Grassebeefe, 12/4, _s._ beef of an ox fattened upon grass. Grate, 10/29, _s._ prison (grating). Greaseth, 68/2, _v. pr. t._ bribes, enriches. Great, 57/8, by great = task or piece-work, in contradistinction to _day_-work. Greedie gainfull, 2/13, _adj._ greedy for gain. Greefe, 89/8, _s._ trouble, worry. Gregorie, 46/2. St. Gregory's Day, 12th March. Grinstone, 17/8, _s._ grindstone. Gromel, 45/9, _s._ the plant Gromwell. _Lithospermum arvense_, Linn. Grosest, 19/18, _adj._ heaviest, thickest, Fr. _gros_. Grosse, 18/18, _adj._ coarse. Grossum caput, 95/1, a blockhead, stupid. Grotes, 33/46, _s. pl._ money (groats). L. Ger. grot = a large piece (of money), so called because before this coin was issued by Edward III., the English had no larger silver coin than the penny. Gruch, 57/19; Grutch, 86/2, _v._ grudge. O. Fr. _grouchier_, to grumble. Grutching, 10/8, _s._ grumbling. Guise, 89/12, *Guyse, 5, _s._ habit, custom. Gunstone, 10/19, _s._ a ball of stone, used in heavy artillery before the introduction of iron shot.--Nares' Gloss. Gutted, 46/4, _pp._ taken off from the old roots. *Gutting, 27, _v._ cutting up, making ruts in. H. Haberden, 23/12, _s._ "that kind of cod which is usually salted."--Nares. ? Aberdeen haddocks. Hacking, 53/15, _v._ hewing down, cutting of trees. Had I wist, 77/8, lit. "had I known:" foole had I wist = foolish and useless regrets. *Haft, 60, _v. imp._ "Act like a miser, be a niggard. The sentence then reads 'Be not niggardly towards God of the goods He sends you.' _Haft_, to grasp (an extension of the verb _to have_), and hence to save, be a niggard, is preserved in _hafter_, a miser, saver; which see in my Notes to P. Plowman, l. 197, p. 117. See nine examples of this word in Skelton, ed. Dyce, ii. 108."--Note by Rev. W. W. Skeat. The word, however, seems to bear even a stronger meaning, for Cooper, in his "Thesaurus," 1584, has "_Cauilla_, a mocke, a scoffe, an haftyng question, a cauill." The words "haft not to godward" thus may mean "do not grumble at, find fault with, or question the justice of what God sends you." Haie, 63/24, _s._ hay. A.S. _haga_. Haier, 57/51, _s._ cloth made of goats' hair. Haile, 15/34, _adj._ sound, strong. A.S. _hæl_. Hailoft, 89/6, _s._ hay-lofts. Haithorne, 34/28, _s._ hawthorn. A.S. _hagaþorn_ from _haga_ = hedge, haw. Ger. _hagedorn_. Hallomas, 23/1, _s._ the Feast of All Saints. Hallowmas, _i.e._ All Saints' Day, Nov. 1, was, in Tusser's time, ten days nearer the winter solstice than now. Hallontide, 21/1. All Saints' Day, 1st November. Handsome, 48/18, _adj._ useful, ready, _handy_. A.S. _hand, hond_, the hand. Prompt. Parv. gives "handsum, _manualis_." Handsomly, 21/24, _adv._ neatly, trimly. Hardhead, 71/4, _adj._ hardy, brave. Hardlie, 10/50, _adv._ with difficulty. Harlots, 74/4, _s. pl._ tramps, vagrants, or disreputable characters of either sex. "An harlott, _balator, rusticus_."--Cathol. Anglicum. Harmes, 16/15, _s._ in harm's way, in danger. Harolds Booke, 114/11, _s. pl._ the Books of the College of Heralds. Hart, 19/13, _s._ strength, fertility. Harted, 48/17, _pp._ provided with a good heart, or, as we should now say, a good bottom; strengthened. *Harthe, 65, _s._ hearth. Hartilie, 10/55, _adj._ hearty. Hartstong, 45/10, _s._ the Heartstongue, _Ceterach officinarum_, so called from the shape of the frond. Hastings, 18/32, _s. pl._ an early variety of peas, "soone ripe, soone rotten."--D. Rogers' Naaman. Hauke, 56/44, _s._ hawking, falconry. Haunt, 67/14, _v._ follow, pursue, be accustomed. O. Fr. _hanter_, to pursue. Haunting, 16/31, _adj._ frequenting, in the habit of coming. Hauocke, 77/3, _s._ havoc, waste. Hawe, 36/13, _s._ the berries of the hawthorn, hips. Hawme, 55/14, _s._ haulm, straw. "Haulm, straw left in an esh or gratten; stubble, thatch. Sax. hælme, _culmus, calamus_. Icel. halmur, _palea_."--Bish. Kennett's MS. Ray gives "haulm or helm, stubble gathered after the corn is inned." Hazard, 23/11, _s._ danger. Heale, 19/37, _v._ to recover, be cured. Healthsom, 11/8, _adj._ healthy, invigorating. *Heare, 41, _s._ hair. Hearesaie, 2/10, _s._ hearsay, report. Hearie, 49/7, _adj._ hairy, full of hairs. A.S. _hær._ O. Icel. _här_, hair. Heate, 76/2, _pp._ heated, hot. Heawers, 47/8, _s. pl._ woodcutters. A.S. _heawan_, to cut. Hed, 89/9, _s._ head, mind. Hedlonds, 52/17, _s. pl._ headlands. Hew, 113/1, _s._ colour, "changed hew" = have changed, become unfavourable. Hew prowler, 35/25. "Hugh Prowler is our Author's name for a night-walker."--T.R. Hid, 2/11, _s._ care, heed. A.S. _hédan_. Hier, 23/9, _s._ business, duty. Hight, 114/3, _v. pt. t._ was called, named. O. Eng. _higt, higte_. A.S. _hâtte_ from _hatan_, to call, name. Hilback, 10/40, _s._ cover back, _i.e._ clothes, extravagance in dress. Kennett, MS. Lansdowne 1033.--Halliwell. A.S. _hilan, helan_, to cover. Hindring, 88/3, _v._ injuring, damaging. Hir, 35/51, _poss. pr._ their. A.S. _heor_. Hobbard de Hoy, 60/3, _s._ a lad approaching manhood. "Hober-de-hoy, half a man and half a boy."--Ray's Gloss. Hogscote, 17/21, _s._ a pen or sty for hogs. Holds, 33/40, _v. pr. t._ equals, gains equal. Holiokes, 43/15, _s. pl._ hollyhocks. A.S. _holihoc_. Homelie, 1/2, _adj._ plain, homely, unpretending. Hone, 46/9, _s._ "a common rubber or whetstone."--T.R. Honie, 106/4, _adj._ sweet. Horehound, 45/11, _s._ horehound. A.S. _hara-hune_, or possibly a corruption of Lat. _urinaria_, the plant being considered a sovereign remedy in cases of strangury and dysuria. Horselock, 17/21, _s._ shackles for horses' feet. Horseteeme, 17/10, _s._ team of horses. Hostis, 10/8, _s. pl._ entertainers. Housholdry, 9/11, _s._ furniture and articles for domestic use. Houell, 52/8, _s._ barn, outhouse. Houen, 49/4, _pp._ swelled. A.S. _hebban, hefan_ (pp. _hofen_), to heave, raise. O. H. Ger. _hevan_. Hower, 107/4, _s._ hour. Howse, 57/32, _v. imp._ house. Hoy, 57/13, _v. imp._ drag, frighten, drive away by crying, "hoy, hoy!" Hull, 36/23, _s._ holly. Huluer, 48/10, _s._ holly. O. Icel. _hulfr_. Hurtilberies, 34/13, _s. pl._ the hurtle-berry or whortleberry, bilberry. Hutch, 10/47, _s._ money chest or box. A.S. hwæca = chest, an unauthorised (? invented) form, due to Somner. O. Fr. _houche_. I. *Iayle, 88, _s._ a gaol, prison. Ictus sapit, 2/8. Lat. Prov. See Note E15. Indian eie, 43/16, _s._ the Pink, so called from the eye-shaped marking of the corolla. Inholder, 97/1, _s._ innkeeper. Inned, 23/19, _pp._ saved, housed. Intreating, 88/5, _s._ treatment. Inuest, 11/8, _v._ surround. Ise, 112/2, _s._ ice. Isop, 42/9, _s._ hyssop. A name assigned in the Authorised Version of the Bible to the caper. Ist, 5/3, is it. Iuie, 50/6, *Iuye, 42, _s._ ivy. A.S. _ifig_. J. Jack, 17/20, _s._ a horse or wooden frame upon which wood is sawn. Jack, 85/10, _s._ a drinking vessel containing half a pint according to Grose, and quarter of a pint according to Pegge, and Peacock's Gloss. of Manley and Corringham. Jade, 17/3, _s._ an ill-tempered horse. Janting, 87/3, _v._ driving. Cotgrave gives another form of the word in English. "_lancer un cheval_. To stirre a horse in the stable till hee sweat withall; or (as our) to iaunt; an old word." "Jaunt" is found in Romeo and Juliet, ii. 5, 26, "What a _jaunt_ have I had!" and in line 53 of the same scene: "To catch my death with _jaunting_ up and down." Cf. also Richard II. v. 5, 94. Jarring, 88/3, _s._ quarrelling, scolding. Jerke, 64*/9, _s._ stroke, blow. See Yerke. Jet, 114/38, _v._ strut about, walk proudly. Fr. _jetter_. "Along the streetes as he doth _jetting_ passe, His outside showes him for an inward asse." --Rowland's Knave of Hearts, 1613. Jettie, 68/1, _v._ walk or strut about. Jobbing, 37/12, _v._ pecking. "As an ass with a galled back was feeding in a meadow, a raven pitched upon him, and their sate _jobbing_ of the sore."--L'Estrange's Esop. John Baptist, 12/4. The feast of St. John the Baptist, 24th June. Jornie, 57/38, _v. pr. t._ go on a journey, start. Just, 57/10, _adv._ neatly, trimly. K. Karle hempe, 15/24, _s._ the male hemp. See Glossary of Manley and Corringham (E. D. Soc. No. VI.), by E. Peacock. Keies, 89/3, _s. pl._. keys, locks. Kell, 57/51, _s._ hop-kiln. Kerue, 114/32, _v._ (carve), set out, arrange. Kest, 11/3, _v. imp._ cast, turn. Kiffe, 10/30, _s._ kith, kindred, relations. Kinde, 46/20, _s._ nature, natural way. A.S. _cynd_. Kirnels, 36/13, _s. pl._ pips, seeds. A.S. _cyrnel_. Knacker, 58/5, _s._ a cart, collar and harness maker, chiefly employed by farmers. Knackes, 86/7, _s. pl._ knickknacks, trifles. Knap, 85/11, _v. imp._ rap, knock. Knauerie, 9/13, _s._ roguery, craft, deceit. Knede, 74/5, _v. imp._ knead. A.S. _cnedan_. O. H. Ger. _chnetan_. Kniueles, 98/1, _adj._ having no knives. "When knives were not laid for the guests, as at the present period, they would use their daggers to carve with, which were harmless as to any other purpose."--Mavor. Knot, 22/22, _s._ flower-beds laid out in fanciful shapes. See Bacon's Essay Of Gardens, ed. W. A. Wright, p. 189: "As for the making of _knots_, or figures, with divers coloured earths, that they may lie under the windowes of the house, on that side, which the garden stands, they be but toyes." Compare also Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1, 249: "Thy curious-_knotted_ garden;" and Milton's Paradise Lost, iv. 242: "Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious _knots_, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse." And Shakspere, Richard II. iii. 4, 46. Knotted, 42/13, _adj._ jointed. "The _knotted_ rush-ringes, and gilte Rosemaree."--Spenser, Shep. Cal. November. L. Lackey, 87/3, servant, messenger. Lag, 20/15, _v. pr. t._ pilfer, steal. Lagged, 36/25, _pp._ caught. Laggoose, 85/4, _s._ laggard, lazy. Laie, 4/1, 9/32, _v._ plan, intend, purpose. Laie, 35/46, Lay, 35/48, _s._ untilled land, grass land, lea. Laier, 63/4, _s._ soil, ground. Laier, 20/27, _s._ beds, litter. Lammas, 50/36, _s._ Lammas Day, the 1st August. A.S. _hlâfmaesse_. O. Eng. _loafmas_, the bread-feast or feast of first fruits. Lamming, 35/21, _s._ lambing. Lams, 51/1, _s._ lambs. Langdebiefe, 39/16, _s._ Wild bugloss. See Mr. Britten's note, E205. Larkes foot, 43/18, _s._ Larkspur, or Larksclaw. _Delphinium_, Linn. Lash, 63/20, _s._ dirt, mud; leaue in the lash = leave in the lurch, or, perhaps, in the snare, trap. See next word.