deep in the moult a hawk at a stage of advanced moulting, or shedding its feathers.
dree enduring, suffering.
"D'ye ken William Twyti?" "Do you recognize William Twyti?" spoken in a Northern English dialect.
emmets ants.
Erasmus Erasmus Desiderius (about 1466–1536), Dutch humanist, scholar, and theologian.
ewers pitchers with wide mouths.
falchion a medieval sword with a short, broad, slightly curved blade.
feudal system the economic, political, and social system in medieval Europe, in which land, worked by serfs who were bound to it, was held by vassals in exchange for military and other services given to overlords.
fewmets the droppings of the prey, used by the hunter to track it.
four long notes of the mort the song played on a hunting horn to announce the death of the prey.
fritillaries butterflies, usually having brownish wings with silver spots on the undersides.
from crupper to poll from the horse's rear to its head.
frumenty a English dish of hulled wheat boiled in milk, sweetened, and flavored with spice.
