DRYFOOT, track by mere scent of foot.
Ducking, punishment for minor offences.
DUILL, grieve.
Dumps, melancholy, originally a mournful melody.
DURINDANA, Orlando’s sword.
Dwindle, shrink away, be overawed.
EAN, yean, bring forth young.
Easiness, readiness.
EBOLITION, ebullition.
Edge, sword.
EECH, eke.
Egregious, eminently excellent.
Eke, also, moreover.
E-La, highest note in the scale.
Eggs on the spit, important business on hand.
Elf-lock, tangled hair, supposed to be the work of elves.
Emmet, ant.
Engage, involve.
ENGHLE. See Ingle.
ENGHLE, cajole; fondle.
Engin(E), device, contrivance; agent; ingenuity, wit.
Enginer, engineer, deviser, plotter.
ENGINOUS, crafty, full of devices; witty, ingenious.
Engross, monopolise.
Ens, an existing thing, a substance.
Ensigns, tokens, wounds.
Ensure, assure.
Entertain, take into service.
Entreat, plead.
Entreaty, entertainment.
Entry, place where a deer has lately passed.
Envoy, denouement, conclusion.
Envy, spite, calumny, dislike, odium.
Ephemerides, calendars.
Equal, just, impartial.
Erection, elevation in esteem.
Eringo, candied root of the sea-holly, formerly
used as a sweetmeat and aphrodisiac.
Errant, arrant.
ESSENTIATE, become assimilated.
Estimation, esteem.
ESTRICH, ostrich.
Ethnic, heathen.
Euripus, flux and reflux.
Even, just equable.
Event, fate, issue.
Event(ed), issue(d).
Evert, overturn.
EXACUATE, sharpen.
EXAMPLESS, without example or parallel.
Excalibur, King Arthur’s sword.
Exemplify, make an example of.
Exempt, separate, exclude.
Exequies, obsequies.
Exhale, drag out.
Exhibition, allowance for keep, pocket-money.
Exorbitant, exceeding limits of propriety or
law,
inordinate.
EXORNATION, ornament.
Expect, wait.
Expiate, terminate.
Explicate, explain, unfold.
Extemporal, extempore, unpremeditated.
Extraction, essence.
Extraordinary, employed for a special or temporary purpose.