This Glossary, designed as a practical aid to the reading of Chaucer, is intended to be serviceable with any
of the widely read editions. Its primary aim is to explain the meanings of words and phrases used by Chaucer in
ways which are unfamiliar in modern English. Words used as they are today are not included, but many now in common
use do appear, as they had different connotations in Chaucer's time. This concise working tool will be valuable
to all Middle English scholars.