U

• • Umbered

  • stained, dark, as with umber

  • Unaneled

  • without extreme unction

  • Unavoided

  • unavoidable

  • Unbarbed

  • untrimmed

  • Unbated

  • unblunted

  • Unbolt

  • to disclose

  • Unbolted

  • unsifted, unrefined

  • Unbreathed

  • unpractised

  • Uncape

  • to throw off the hounds

  • Uncharged

  • undefended, applied to the gates of a city

  • Unclew

  • to unravel, undo

  • Uncoined

  • unalloyed, unfeigned

  • Undergo

  • to undertake

  • Undertaker

  • one who takes up another's quarrel

  • Under-wrought

  • undermined

  • Uneath

  • hardly

  • Unexpressive

  • inexpressible

  • Unfair

  • to deprive of beauty

  • Unhappily

  • censoriously

  • Unhappy

  • mischievous

  • Unhatched

  • undisclosed

  • Unhouseled

  • without receiving the sacrament

  • Unimproved

  • unreproved

  • Union

  • a pearl

  • Unjust

  • dishonest

  • Unkind

  • unnatural

  • Unlived

  • bereft of life

  • Unmanned

  • untamed, applied to a hawk

  • Unowed

  • unowned

  • Unpregnant

  • stupid

  • Unproper

  • common to all

  • Unquestionable

  • not inquisitive

  • Unready

  • undressed

  • Unrespective

  • inconsiderate

  • Unsisting

  • unresting

  • Unstanched

  • incontinent

  • Untempering

  • unsoftening

  • Untented

  • unsearchable

  • Untraded

  • unused, uncommon

  • Untrimmed

  • spoiled of grace or ornament

  • Untrue

  • untruth

  • Unvalued

  • invaluable

  • Upspring Reel

  • a boisterous dance

  • Urchin

  • the hedge-hog

  • Usance

  • usury

  • Use

  • interest

  • Utis

  • riotous merriment, which accompanied the eighth
    day of a festival

  • Utter

  • to expel, put forth

  • Utterance

  • extremity

V

• Vade

  to fade

• Vail

  to lower

• Vailing

  lowering

• Vainness

  vanity

• Valanced

  adorned with a valence or fringe; applied
  to the beard

• Validity

  value

• Vantage

  advantage

• Vantbrace

  armour for the front of the arm

• Varlet

  a servant, valet

• Vast

  properly a waste-place, metaphorically, the dead
  of night
  A gulf

• Vastidity

  immensity

• Vastly

  like a waste

• Vasty

  vast, waste

• Vaunt

  the van, that which precedes

• Vaunt-couriers

  forerunners

• Vaward

  the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army
  Hence, metaphorically, the first of anything

• Vegetives

  herbs

• Velure

  velvet

• Velvet-guards

  literally, velvet trimmings; applied
  metaphorically to the citizens who wore them

• Venew

  a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to
  repartee and sallies of wit

• Veney

  a bout at fencing

• Venge

  to avenge

• Ventages

  holes in a flute or flageolet

• Verbal

  wordy

• Very

  true, real

• Via

  int. off with you!

• Vice

  to screw

• Vice

  the buffoon in the old morality plays

• Vie

  to challenge; a term at cards
  To play as for a wager

• Viewless

  invisible

• Villain

  a lowborn man

• Vinewed

  mouldy

• Viol-de-gamboys

  a bass viol

• Virginalling

  playing as on the virginals, a kind of a
  spinet

• Virtue

  the essential excellence
  valour

• Virtuous

  excellent
  Endowed with virtues

• Vizament

  advisement

• Voluble

  fickle

• Voluntary

  volunteer

• Votarist

  votary, one who has taken a vow

• Vulgar

  the common people

• Vulgar

  common

• Vulgarly

  publicly