Word origins

• bratchetA little brat.
• bucket listA list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later.
• buffeA piece of armor covering either the entire face, or the lower face together with a visor that covered the upper face, typically made of multiple lames that could be opened by being lowered (a falling buffe) or raised.
• buisineA medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.
• burgonetA light helmet worn by infantrymen, bearing a crest and hinged cheekpieces, but typically without a visor.
• cackerelThe mendole, Spicara maena; a small Mediterranean fish considered poisonous in ancient times.
• cap-a-pieFrom head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements.
• cenobiteA new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
• chalantNot nonchalant; careful, attentive, or concerned.
• chamfronProtective armor for a horse's head, especially the face and ears.
• champertousHaving the quality of champerty; being an instance of champerty.
• chance-medleyThe killing of another in self-defence upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter.
• chapelryThe district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.
• charpieStraight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth, used for surgical dressings.
• chevageA capitation tax; an equal tax or tribute per person.
• cheverelKid, as used to make leather.
• chiefageA tribute by the chief; a kind of poll tax.
• chievanceAn unlawful bargain; trade in which money is extorted as discount.
• chiminageA toll paid for passage through a forest.
• chirurgerySynonym of surgery.
• cicatriseTo heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
• clicketTo be in oestrus; to copulate.
• cogitativeOf, pertaining to, inclined to or capable of cogitation.
• coistrilAn inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries; a coistrel.
• cominalIn common; communal; unanimous.
• companeTo associate with.
• compilateTo put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
• compotatorOne who drinks (alcoholic beverages) with another; a fellow drinker.
• confrereA colleague or fellow, especially a professional one.
• contumeliousRudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.
• coparcenaryJoint inheritance or ownership of property.
• coparcenerAny of several people who share an inheritance; coheir
• corbecrooked
• cotehardieA mid to late 14th century unisex garment tailored to fit the torso and arms, usually with a row of buttons down the front as well as down each fitted sleeve from the elbow to the wrist. Women's coathardies trailed on the floor, but those for men could be cut very short.
• counterfesanceforgery; counterfeiting
• CouzenA surname from Middle English
• coverchiefA covering for the head.
• covertureConcealing cover, disguise, veil; (also figurative).
• covetiseCovetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
• covinFraud, deception.
• cowlstaffA staff used to carry a cowl or other burden, especially held by two people on their shoulders.
• CowserA surname from Old French.
• crareA slow unwieldy trading vessel.
• crastinThe day after, the morrow.
• creeshTo grease.
• crenelThe space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
• crenelateTo furnish with crenelles.
• crinedHaving hair or a mane of a specified tincture, different from that of the body.
• cry havocTo shout out 'Havoc!'; that is, to give an army the order to plunder.
• culvertageThe degradation of a vassal to the position of a serf.
• cuneatorThe superintendent of the engravers of dies for making coins.
• cushionetA small cushion or pad, of various uses.
• custrelA knight's attendant or man-at-arms; a knave.
• damnifyTo damage physically; to injure.
• debonairityThe quality of being debonair; debonair character, graciousness.
• debruisedSurmounted by an ordinary (or something else).
• decree arbitralAn award made by an arbiter.
• decreetThe final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
• deforciantOne who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.
• defraudmentPrivation by fraud; defrauding
• dejectMake sad or dispirited.
• De La WarrA surname from French.
• demipointeThe ball of the foot, the padded front part of the sole behind the tip of the toes; hence, a ballet position executed with the dancer up on the balls of one or both feet, the heels raised up off the floor.
• descendenceThe act of descending; descent.
• descrierA person who descries.
• descriveTo describe.
• desparpleTo scatter, to disparkle.
• devouressA female devourer.
• difformirregular in form; not uniform; anomalous or dissimilar
• digestabledigestible
• disadventureSynonym of misadventure, bad luck, an instance of bad luck, a mistake.
• discounselTo advise (someone) against doing something.
• discovertAn uncovered place or part.
• discoverturediscovery
• dishevelTo throw into disorder; upheave.
• dismailTo remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).
• disparkleTo scatter around.
• disparpleTo scatter, disperse.
• dispendTo spend or expend.
• displeasanceDispleasure, dissatisfaction.
• displeasantUnpleasant, disagreeable.
• dispraiseTo notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
• disserveTo treat poorly; to do a disservice to
• disturnTo turn aside.
• dittanyA labiate plant of species Origanum dictamnus, formerly renowned for its medicinal properties; dittany of Crete.
• dittayAn indictment; a charge.
• donzelA young squire or the attendant to a knight; a page
• double-In the metric system, multiplies the attached unit by two.
• dowagedower; dowry.
• dowlefeathery or woolly down; filament of a feather
• DowthwaiteA surname from Old Norse.
• DurendalIn the Matter of France, the legendary sword of the paladin Roland, said to be indestructible.
• DuresmDurham.
• egestionThe act or result of egesting
• emblementAn annual crop produced by cultivation, treated as personal property.
• emoveTo stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion.
• emplasterA plaster.
• enarmedHaving horns, hoofs, etc. of a different colour from the body.
• enchargeTo give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
• enfelonedRendered fierce or frantic.