Carme =‘ carmen,’ ‘verse;’ oraison solue, ‘prose

42. 22-43.33. The less familial- words in this characteristically Rabe-

laisian avalanche of technical terms will be explained continuously to économisé space. Military terms, such as ravelin, which hâve become common to both languages, are omitted :

Escuroient, cleared out ; enduisoient, plastered with fresh earth ; moyncaux, sentry boxes on wheels ; taluoient, 1 made the talus,’ sloped ; enclavoieiit, app. inserted ; barbacanes, not ‘ barbicans,’ but ‘ loop-holes ; ’ asseroient, strengthened ; herses sarrazinesqzus, portcullises ( sarrazine is a kind of portcullis made on Eastem patterns) ; cataractes, doors not shutting, but

Notes.

moving up and down portcullis-fashion ; forissoient, put forth (Lat .foris)\ alecretz, large ironjerkins; bardes , complété suits of horse or man armour ; bavières, part of the visor ; armetz, visors ; brassalz = brassards ; tassettes, taslets, thigh pièces ; hoguines , Steel leg-guards ; lamines, corslets of scale-armour : caliges, military boots; soleretz, armour for the feet; phalarices, heavy javelins hurled by machinery ; micraines , explosive bullets ; cercles à feu, round fireworks ; Helepolides, complicated machinery for town-taking ; vouges, long pikes ; rançons , said to be instruments used in weaving ; hanicroches, a kind of gaff for pulling horsemen from their saddles ; volains, coopère’ hatchets ; fourchesfieres = ‘ fourches ferrées badelaires, broad sabres ; paffuz , low Lat. paffurta, double-edged swords ; verduns, weapons made at Verdun; mandousiancs , short swords ; allumelles, differently explained as ‘ swordblades,’ and ‘ furnaces ’ for tempering them ; raillons . arrows ; pâlie, ‘pallium,’ garaient; opistographes, parcnments written on both sides ; hersoit, lit. 1 harrowed ; ’ nattoit , lit. ‘ covered with nets,’ but in this and other cases it is clear that the word is used more for its sound than for its sense; barattoit, properly used of butter-making ; tabustoit (later tarabustoitl, worried; trépoil ^trépugnoit; timpoit, made it sound; tnquotoit, struck with a trique, or stick; clavoit, nailed ; bracquoit, bricquoit, rolled it ‘ à bric et à brac,’ here and there ; clabossoit puzzles the commentators, here = éclabousser? afestoit, repaired ; affustoit, got ready, as of artillery ; mitlonnoit, wrapped it up ; bimbelotoit, teased it ; vreloppoit, planed. Of chaluppoit the sense seems wholly uncertain.