Indefinite third-person pronoun, sg., pl., or coll.: (a) one, someone, a person; they, people, unspecified persons; mankind, people in general; (b) in neg. constructions: not anyone, no one; (c) with callen, clepen, feinen, hoten, monen, seien, tellen, writen, etc.: as ~ moneth, as I've heard said; as ~ seieth, as the saying goes, in the words of the proverb; ~ seieth me, I am told, rumor has it; ~ calleth me, my name is; ~ called us, what calleth ~ the, etc.; ~ feineth, it is supposed; ~ hem hoteth, they are known as; that (the which) ~ clepeth, which is called (a proper name), which is known by (a certain name); etc.; (d) as ~ lovede tho, as was their pleasure then; do as thou woldest ~ dide bi the; for wo that ~ do me; go ~ to the same, let (each) one do the same; him ~..birevede, they robbed him (of his goods), he was robbed (of his goods); if ~ liveth so, when people behave thus; in erthe ~ hine sette, they buried him, he was buried; ~ bigan to werken, people started to build; ~ laboureth and renneth, men scurry about; that ~ preie, to whom one prays, to whom people pray; etc.; (e) in proverbs.