Word origins

• ermineeOf a cross: made up of four ermine spots arranged in the shape of a cross.
• errancythe state of being in error; fallibility
• escarbuncleA carbuncle (gemstone).
• eschevinThe alderman or chief officer of a guild, in the Middle Ages.
• escriptA writing.
• espousementbetrothal; espousal.
• espriseto inflame with passion or romantic love.
• -essUsed to form female equivalents.
• estreThe indoor layout or plan of a castle.
• estreatA true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.
• estrepementA destructive kind of waste committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses.
• extoniousShocking; astounding.
• failancefault; failure; omission
• fainaigueTo achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.
• faineantAn irresponsible or lazy person.
• FairbrassA surname from Old French.
• farseA vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
• fattrelsThe ends of ribbons.
• favelflattery; cajolery; deceit
• feeblessFeebleness; weakness, infirmity.
• fee simpleThe private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.
• feoffmentThe grant of a feud or fee.
• flacketA barrel-shaped bottle, or a flagon.
• flagitiousGuilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
• flanchA flange (rim or projection).
• fleuronAn ornament or knob in the shape of a flower
• flotageThe state of floating.
• flotantRepresented as flying (fluttering) or floating mid-air or in water.
• foinA thrust.
• formedonA writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail.
• fourragèreA braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.
• FrancomA surname from Old French.
• fraudfeasorA person who commits fraud.
• fricationfriction
• frontletThe forehead.
• fructifyTo bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.
• fumageHearth tax.
• fungeA fungus.
• gainageThe horses, oxen, ploughs, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
• galantineA spiced, thickened sauce served with fish or poultry.
• galleassA type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normally equipped with sails.
• garboilDisorder; uproar.
• genitoryA testicle.
• genitureBirth; begetting.
• gibelotteA type of stew made from rabbit or fish, in white wine and broth, originating from France.
• gobonyCompony.
• GolyA surname.
• gonfanonA banner with three "tails", typically with the middle one longer than the others, and three loops at the top representing where it would have been attached to a pole.
• Gournay-en-BrayA commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
• graplinA grapnel (small anchor).
• grisonA small, carnivorous South American mammal, of the genus Galictis, somewhat resembling a weasel.
• guardantPositioned with the body viewed from the side, but with the head turned toward the viewer.
• guarishTo heal or cure.
• GuyhirnA village in Wisbech St Mary parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3903).
• habitancedwelling; abode; residence
• hardimentBravery, courage.
• haultLofty; haughty.
• hobblerOne who by tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light-horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.
• honoroushonorable, honourable.
• hostryA hostelry.
• hukeAn outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.
• HurrenA surname.
• ignealFiery; of or pertaining to fire.
• im-Expressing negation; not.
• imparlTo hold discourse; to parley.
• imparsoneeOnly used in parson imparsonee.
• impostumeAn abscess.
• incertaintyUncertainty.
• indictionA fiscal period of fifteen years, instituted by Constantine in 313 C.E. (but counting from 1st September 312), used throughout the Middle Ages as a way of dating events, documents etc.
• intemperatureintemperateness; severity, excess or inclemency
• intercommonTo share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table.
• intermellTo mix together, intermeddle, intermix.
• Isigny-sur-MerA commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.
• ivorineMade of ivory.
• JarlettA surname from Old French.
• jeofailAn oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight.
• jessantDescribing a charge which appears over, or covers, another charge as well as the field.
• juggleryWitchcraft, sorcery; magical trickery, legerdemain.
• kentledgeWeights (often scrap or pig iron) used as permanent ballast on ships.
• LamayA surname.
• languetA narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel.
• languetteA tongue-shaped implement.
• La RochelleA port city, the capital of Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, on the Bay of Biscay, formerly in Poitou-Charentes.
• lealtyloyalty, fealty
• liageUnion; alliance.
• liripoopA pendent part of the old clerical tippet.
• lungisA lingerer, lanky person, or dullard.
• maintainorOne who, not being an interested party, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.
• mal-evil
• mangonelA traction trebuchet (trebuchet operated by manpower).
• mendicitythe state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary
• merciablemerciful
• mesailThe visor of a helmet, especially when made in two parts.
• mesne lordA lord entitled to rent or feudal obligations from tenants but who himself owes rent or feudal obligations to another.
• -metryForming nouns relating to measures and measurement.
• mitrailleshot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon
• mollificationThe act of mollifying.
• monialA mullion.
• morkinAn animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
• nakerA small drum, of Arabic origin, and the forebear of the European kettledrum.