Archaic Dictionary

Good morrow fellow scribes!
If you have read my story, The Magician's Gift, you will know that I have written it, to the best of my ability, in archaic English. If you are not familiar with archaic English (like me!), I have provided the definitions of the terms I used in the story. Get them below the fold.

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• Adit - passage leading to a mine
• An - if
• Anhungry - hungry
• Anon - soon
• Antre - cave
• Betook - (past tense) to go
• Brigand - one who ambushes and robs
• Bussed - kissed
• Clomb - (past tense) climb
• Comestibles - food
• Copse - small group of trees
• Cozen - deceive
• Cutpurse - thief
• Day-dawn - dawn
• Descried - caught sight of
• Designed - (past tense) conceive, plan
• Din - loud noise
• Discover - divulge
• Ere - before
• Eventide - evening
• Fain - be pleased/gladly
• Fell - move downward
• Finis - end, conclusion
• Foemen - foe, enemy
• Forefend - avert, keep away
• Haply - by chance
• Hent - grasp/seize
• Hereat - as a result of
• Hied - (past tense) go quickly
• Ken - range of knowledge
• Lachrymose - tearful, weeping
• Longsome - tediously long
• Mayhap - perhaps
• Mint - vast sum
• Mite - a little
• Morrow - the following day
• Naught - nothing
• Pray - polite request
• Prithee - please
• Repaired - (past tense) to go to
• Science - knowledge
• Scrip - pouch
• Seldseen - seldom seen
• Sojourn - temporarily stay
• Somewhat - moderate amount
• Sooth - truth
• Tasse - cup
• Thereabouts - near
• Thereof - of that just mentioned
• Thereupon - immediately after
• Thither - to/toward
• Twain - two
• Victual - food/provisions
• Vouchsafe - to give
• Weened - thought
• Whatso - whatever
• Wight - unfortunate person
• Wont - custom
• Yon - yonder/that