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ugsome II, 47, (Child #59 B) 15: exciting disgust or abhorrence. (Icel. uggr, fear.)
ull I ull, V, 267, 5: will.
umber I, 331, C (Child #38 C) 2: seems to be the same as thimber (I, 330, A (Child #38 A) 2): massive.
unbeen my barn's unbeen, IV, 143, A (Child #210 A) 4: not thoroughly closed in or made tight? (been, well-provided, warm, dry and snug. A bein cask, watertight, Jamieson.) a house is beind when thoroughly dried.
vnbethought him, umbethought him I, 214, A 17 (printed um-); II, 240, (Child #80 A) 5; V, 15, (Child #267 A) 16: bethought himself of.
unbigged IV, 143, A (Child #210 A) 4: unbuilt.
unco adj., A.S. uncúð (uncouth, III, 245, (Child #155 B) (Child #155 C) 11). unco man, IV, 235, (Child #222 B) 11: unknown, strange, unco land, ground, I, 182, (Child #15 A) 1, 3; 324, 4; IV, 410, (Child #253 A) 10, 11. unco squire, V, 26 f., (Child #268 A) 25, 36: stranger, unco woman, I, 78, 26: unfriendly, unco lair (lear), II, 118, (Child #65 C) (Child #65 D) 1; 119, 1; 174, 1; 178, 2; III, 385, (Child #173 A) (Child #173 B) 1; IV, 411, 1; 467, 1: extraordinary.
unco adv., I, 370, (Child #41 B) (Child #41 C) 5: unusually, very.
uncouth, vnkowth, vnkuth, vnketh I, 344, (Child #39 B) 25; III, 245, (Child #155 B) (Child #155 C) 11: (A.S. uncúð) unknown, strange. See unco.
vnder Grenwich, III, 358, (Child #168 app) 78: perhaps, below, further down the Thames.
vnder hand shott it vnder hand, III, 199, (Child #145 A) 29; 202, 33; shot under his hand, III, 204, (Child #145 C) 26: Dr. Furnivall and Mr. C.J. Longman suggest, putting the bow horizontally, in which case you shoot with the arrow under the left hand, instead of beside it, as in shooting with the bow vertical. Ascham speaks of an underhand shaft, but without denning it: "The underhande [shafte] must have a small breste, to go cleane awaye oute of the bowe; the forehande muste have a bigge breste, to bere the great myght of the bowe." Toxophilus, 1545, ed. Arber, p. 126. And again, as cited by Dr. W. Hand Browne, of Johns Hopkins University: "Men doubt yet, in looking at the mark, what way is best, above or beneth hys hand"; "a byg brested shafte for hym that shoteth under hande, bycause it will hobble." Upon which Dr. Browne remarks, "As he is here speaking only of taking aim, under-hand shooting would seem to be done when the archer raised his bow high, and looked at the mark under the arrow-hand."
under night I, 100, (Child #7 A) (Child #7 B) 1: in the night.
vndergoe II, 59, (Child #61 A) 33: undertake.
undertaking be your, IV, 152, (Child #212 B) (Child #212 C) (Child #212 D) 6; 153, D 7: will undertake, manage for you.
vnfaine III, 355, (Child #168 app) 14: not glad.
unfriends III, 470 b: enemies.
vngoodly III, 322 a: unhandsome.
vnhappie V, 82, (Child #273 app) 29: ill-conditioned, having bad tricks.
unhappy IV, 64 a: mischievous.
unhappy V, 86, (Child #273 app) 32: unlucky (as speaking inopportunely). (The on of horson occasioned the omission of un-.)
unkensome III, 495 B b 7: not to be known.
unkent IV, 435, (Child #263 A) 12: unknown.
vnketh, vnkouth, vnkuth III, 56, (Child #117 A) 6; 57, 18; 66, 209; 79, 6, 18; 82, 6, 18; 85, 6: uncouth, unknown, stranger.
vnmackley, II, 59, (Child #61 A) 30: misshapen. (Scott, makly, well proportioned, mackerly, Northumberland, shapely. Halliwell.)
vnneth, unneath III, 73, (Child #117 A) 358; 171, 17: with difficulty, scarcely.
vnready V, 81, (Child #273 app) 10: indirect, or, attended with difficulties.
unright, unrighte I, 294, (Child #31 A) 7; III, 339, (Child #167 A) 5; IV, 503, 5: wrong.
unruly IV, 383, (Child #246 A) 1: should probably be unseally, as in IV, 378, (Child #245 A) (Child #245 B) 1.
unseally IV, 378, (Child #245 A) (Child #245 B) 1: unlucky.
vnsett III, 358, (Child #168 app) 71: surrounded, invested. (A.S. ymbsettan.)
unshemly V, 215, 14: unseemly.
unthought, unthocht, onthought lang haud, keep, I, 478, (Child #53 M) 13; 482, C b 16, 20; II, 139, (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 3; III, 492, (Child #188 C) (Child #188 D) 5; IV, 260, (Child #226 D) 10: keep from thinking long, wearying, from ennui. See think lang.
vnthrift V, 81, (Child #273 app) 16: spendthrift.
until, untill I, 221, D (Child #20 D) 3, 4; III, 488, (Child #188 A) 35, 36: unto, to.
unto IV, 170, (Child #214 G) (Child #214 H) 11; 467, 11; V, 262, 19: into, in.
vnto the same I, 284, (Child #30 A) 12: after the same fashion.
vntyll gates shut them vntyll, III, 25, (Child #116 A) 52: to, against.
vnwieldie V, 82, (Child #273 app) 29: unmanageable.
vowsed, uowsed V, 79, (Child #273 app) 14: used, practised.
vp chaunce III, 57, (Child #117 A) 18; 66, 209: on, for, the chance.
up stark IV, 378, (Child #245 A) (Child #245 B) 5; 380, 11: (came, blew) up strong, as still common, with the like ellipsis, V, 51, (Child #271 A) 68; 56, 45.
upgive V, 193, (Child #305 A) 59: avow, acknowledge, own up.
vpon, vppon I, 271, (Child #29 A) 2; 433, 15, 16: on. stay upon.
wait upon III, 450 b: for.
upper hand II, 245, (Child #81 A) (Child #81 B) 29: upper tier, above.
upricht I, 473, (Child #53 H) 3: right out.
upstart II, 54, (Child #60 A) 56: sprang up.
us I us gar, V, 267, 12: shall, will. See B, sign of future.
used V, 85, (Child #273 app) 23: frequented, used him in her company, IV, 98, F (Child #204 F) 6: accustomed him to.
vtter III, 361, b, c 52: outer.
utuer IV, 506, 59. See beame.
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