pine' and in _peaky_.

PELTING = paltry, also PELT = a skin, lost.

PILL = to plunder.

PINK = ornamental slashing of dress.

POKE = pocket.

POLL = to cut the hair.

QUARRY (as used in sport).

QUEAN = a woman.

RACK (of clouds).

RAZE (to the ground). The meaning being the very opposite of
_raise_, the word _raze_ is intolerable.

REDE = counsel, n.b. change of meaning.

RHEUM: survives in rheumatic, &c.

SCALD = scurvy (_adj._).

SLEAVE = a skein of silk, 'The ravelled sleave of care',
usually misinterpreted, the equivocal alternative making
excellent sense.

SOUSE _(verb):_ of a bird of prey swooping.

SPEED: as in 'St. Francis be thy speed' = help, aid.

STALE = bait or decoy (well lost).

TARRE: to 'tarre a dog on' = incite.

TICKLE = unstable.

TIRE = to dress (the hair, &c.).

VAIL = to let fall.

WREAK.

Besides the above may be noted

WONT (_sub._): lost in _won't_ = will not.

FAIR: Though we still speak of 'a fair complexion' the
word has lost much of its old use: and the verb TO FARE has
suffered; we still say 'Farewell', but scarcely 'he fares
ill'; also TO FARE FORTH is obsolete.

BOLT = to sift, has gone out, also BOLT in the sense of a
missile weapon; but the weapon may have gone first; we still
preserve it in 'a bolt from the blue', a thunder-bolt, and 'a
fool's bolt is soon shot', and we shoot the bolt of a door.

BARM: this being the name of an object which would be familiar
only to brewers and bakers, probably suffered from the
discontinuance of family brewing and baking. It would no
longer be familiar, and may possibly have felt the blurring
effect of the ill-defined BALM, which word also seems rarely
used. In the South of England few persons now know what barm
is.

ARCH: _adj._, probably obsolescent.

There are also examples of words with the affix a-, or initials
simulating that affix, thus:

ABY: lost in _abide_, with which it was confused.

ABODE = bode (? whether ever in common use).

ACCITE: lost in _excite_.

ASSAY: quite a common word, lost in _say_ (?)

ATONE: lost in _tone_.

and thus _attempt_, _attaint_, _attest_, _avail_, all suffered from
_tempt_, _taint_, _test_, _veil_, whereas _attend_ seems to have
destroyed _tend_.

_Table of homophones that may see