术语汇编

这份术语汇编收集了在我看来不易理解的词（包括词形、含义与现代用法不同的词）。这份列表的内容源于外来的规范，显然不可能是系统性的。

an　if

bent　open place covered with grass

bid　offered

chase　hunting ground

clomb　old past tense of climb

corse　corpse

croft　small plot of land

drouth　dryness

entreat　treat

envermined　full of noxious creatures.这个词似乎没有其他记录。

fell　hide

flittermouse　bat

forhungered starved

frith　wood，woodland

frore　very cold

glamoury　magic，enchantment

haggard　（of hills）wild

haply　perhaps

hem and hedge　enclose and fence off

howe　burial mound，barrow

inane　empty

lave　wash

leeches　physicians

let　hinder：their going let ‘hinder their passing’

like　please（in doth it like thee？）

limber　supple

march　borderland

neb　beak，bill

nesh　soft，tender

opes　opens

parlous　dangerous

pled　old past tense of plead

quook　old past tense of quake

rede　counsel

rove　past tense of rive ‘rend，tear apart，cleave’

ruel-bone　ivory

runagate　deserter，renegade

scullion　kitchen drudge

shores　supports

sigaldry　sorcery

slot　track of an animal

spoor　the same as slot

sprite　spirit

sylphine　of the nature of a sylph（a spirit inhabiting the air）.这个形容词没有记录。

swath　（space left after passage of a mower）track，trace

tarn　a small mountain lake

thews　bodily strength

thrall　a slave，one who is in bondage（thraldom）

trammelled　hampered，impeded

unkempt　uncombed

viol　a stringed instrument played with a bow

weft　woven fabric

weird　fate

weregild　（Old English）the price set upon a man in accordance with his rank

whin　gorse

wolfhame　wolfskin

woof　woven fabric

would　wished