Society for Pure English Part 11

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.