(a) A dispute, an altercation; maken ~, taken a ~, to initiate a dispute; maken a ~ ayen(es, begin a quarrel with (sb. or sth.) -- also refl.; taken ~ ayen, dispute with (sb.); maintenen ~, persist in a dispute; (b) a verbal dispute, debate; (c) armed combat; also, trial by combat -- especially in phrase ~ of battaile; taken (undertaken) ~, taken ~ on honde, to undertake a battle; taken ~ in (in-to) honde, of a king: undertake to arbitrate a trial by combat; maken a ~ for, do battle for (a lady).

(a) A complaint, an occasion or grounds for dispute; ~ unto, a complaint regarding (sb.); withouten ~, blameless; maken quereles, to complain; maken ~ to, complain to (sb.); setten ~ ayen, make a complaint against (sb.); haven ~ to, have occasion to dispute with (sb.); piken ~, find an occasion for dispute; piken ~ to, pick a quarrel with(sb.); (b) a legal suit, an accusation; a claim; cacchen a ~ ayen, taken a ~ ayenes, to devise or make an accusation against (sb.); constreuen ~, give judgment in a suit; maken (neven) ~, institute a legal suit, make a plaint; haven ~ to, have a claim to (sth.); leven (relesen) ~, give up a claim; (c) in genitive constructions or with of- phrase: one's side or position in a dispute or combat, one's cause, suit, or claim; a subject of one's concern; treuthes ~, ~ of treuth, a just cause; (d) fals (unlaueful, unresounable) ~, a wrong or unlawful cause or dispute, ~ ayen right; juste (god, right, rightful, treu) ~, a just or righteous cause.

(a) A lament; (b) an illness, a physical complaint, malady; also fig.