(a) To make firm, stable, or stationary; to place or fix (in position), to plant firmly (in the ground); (b) to establish securely; pass. be established; refl. establish oneself (in a place), stay; (c) solidify, congeal.

(a) To attach or tie (to something); (b) to tie (a rope or string).

To put or place (one thing on or against another): (a) put (one's hand on something); ~ hond, ~ fingers, to grasp or clutch; (b) land (a blow); cast (light on something); (c) to attack (someone or something); ?make contact; (d) bestow (wealth, courage on someone); inflict (suffering).

(a) To join (things together); pass. to interlock; (b) to join or unite (in marriage); ~ ayain, reunite (body and soul); to include (in a brotherhood); -- often pass.

(a) To confine (someone in a place); (b) to secure with fetters, to fetter or shackle; ~ in (with) bondes; also fig.

?To fortify (a place).

(a) To strengthen (the body, the mind); comfort (the heart); (b) to confirm (someone in faith, a virtue, a vice); -- often pass.

To pledge or promise solemnly; ~ treuthes, ~ faith, ~ seurte, ~ covenaunt, make a solemn agreement or promise; ~ pes, make peace by agreement; ~ with hond, confirm with a handshake.

(a) To set (one's heart or thoughts on something); ~ hope, to trust; ~ faith, have faith; refl. become attached (to a vice); (b) to fix or keep (something in mind); (c) to make up one's mind, decide.