ycleped

• “Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped a mole, was making himself a velvet purse.”

  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

• “Before the door of Saunders Jaup, a feuar of some importance, “who held his land free, and caredna a bodle for any one,” yawned that odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer.”

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “The last remarkable corruption is in the introduction of a curious piece of stage-machinery, ycleped a confidant, who, loving her mistress more than herself, like a good servant, accompanies her through wind and rain, and every other stage-horror, in a dark night, on a wild-goose chase, without any adequate or apparent object.”

  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810

• “In the light of this law, _were any one mad enough to grope_, he might come to the conclusion that the first man (or race of men) was anything but a grandee in mind, person, or estate; and that our seemingly puzzled but at last most wonder-working mother, ycleped”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “Scotland, all printed by Pynson, as well as that mysterious volume ycleped 'The Nigramansir,' said to be by John Skelton the poet-laureate who lived under five kings and died in 1529.”

  The Book-Hunter at Home

• “Also, this heading will comprise that great series of mysterious and 'racy' books ycleped 'Court Memoirs,' and the somewhat less exciting but -- to our book-hunter's mind at least -- more interesting works which border on the domain of history, such as the”

  The Book-Hunter at Home

• “You may actually get there thread made of flax, from the gouty, uneven, clumsy, shiny fabric, ycleped whited-brown, to the delicate commodity of Lisle, used for darning muslin.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number

• “Where fam'd St. Giles's ancient limits spread," the matutinal huckster may be seen administering to costermongers, hackney-coachmen, and "fair women without discretion," a fluid "all hot, all hot," ycleped by the initiated elder wine, which, we should think, might give the partakers a tolerable notion of the fermenting beverage extracted by Tartars from mare's milk not particularly fresh.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832

• “Now for the ground which; which, I mean, I walked upon: it is ycleped thy park.”

  Act I. Scene I. Love’s Labour’s Lost

• “Brave knight, with pipes on shield, ycleped Vernon”

  Rob Roy

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