(a) To give (sth., sth. to sb.), present as a gift, bestow; also, give away possessions [quot.: Bod.Hom., 2nd]; ~ on honde, give (sth. into someone's hand); (b) to grant (sth. to sb.), render; provide (sth., sth. for sb.); do (sb. an injury); ~ mid, entrust (sth.) to (sb.); ~ on honde, pledge (sth. to sb.); kinges honde solde, granted by the king personally; (c) to administer (a medicine), administer (medicine to sb.); give (sb. curative food or drink); -- also without obj.; (d) to give up (one's life); deliver up (sb.); ~ on honde, deliver up (sb. to sb.); ~ to deth.

(a) To sell, engage in selling; ~ and bien, bien and (or) ~, etc., buy and sell, engage in commerce; ~ forth, sell openly; yeven and ~, give and sell; -- used fig.; (b) to sell (sth.); -- also without obj.; offer (sth.) for sale; also fig.; (c) ~ awei, to sell off (sth.), dispose of; ~ contre, lease out a district (to a friar to beg in); ~ for, sell (sth.) for (money); also, barter (sth.) for (sth. else); also fig.; ~ to, sell (sth.) for (money); ~ to sale, offer (sth.) for sale; ~ up, sell off (wares); -- used fig.; (d) to sell (sth. to sb.); -- also without obj.; ~ o (of), sell an amount of (sth.); sell (sb.) some of (sth.); (e) for) to ~, for sale, to be sold.

To sell (oneself, sb., sb. to sb.), sell (sb.) into bondage or servitude; -- also without obj.; also fig.; ~ in-to (in-til), sell (sb.) into servitude in (a foreign land); ~ in (to) servage, ~ in-to a servaunt (thral), ~ unto bondage.

To betray (sb., Christ, a realm) for gain; betray (sb. to sb.) for gain; also fig.; ~ to deth, betray (sb.) to his death.

Fig. or in fig. context: (a) to receive remuneration for (spiritual gifts, ecclesiastical privileges or benefices, bestowing of sacraments, etc.); (b) to gain temporal or eternal reward for (good deeds); (c) to sell (sb., oneself, one's soul to the devil or into perdition); barter away (heaven, heavenly joy, God's gifts, etc.), sell; ~ for, exchange (heavenly joy) for (earthly praise); ~ in-to (under), sell (oneself, one's soul) into (the bondage of sin); bien and ~ peine, traffic in (one's own) eternal punishment; (d) ~ dom (laue, etc.), to receive payment for rendering a favorable judgment; ~ soth (treuth), receive payment for advancing a falsehood or furthering an unjust action at law; (e) to give up (freedom of action); of a woman: sell (herself, her maidenhood); ~ awei; bien and ~, bargain over the marriage of (a woman); (f) to exact retribution for (an evil deed, an injury, insult); (g) ~ lif (deth), ~ lif (deth) dere, to sell (one's) life dearly, go down fighting; ~ to, sell (oneself) to (an enemy) by hazarding one's life in combat; (h) ~ lif, to sell (someone's) life, kill (sb.); bien and ~ , destroy (an opposing force); ben bought and solde, have one's fate sealed; of one's life: be forfeit; i have thi thrift solde, I have destroyed you; she mai me yeven and ~, she may do with me as she pleases; (i) bought and solde, of heaven: repurchased, repossessed from the devil; (j) in proverbs.

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