(a) Dissension, discord, contention; quarreling; hostility, enmity; withouten ~, peacefully; ?peaceful [next to last quot.]; (b) civil disorder; political dispute; religious conflict; also, an instance of such disorder or conflict; (c) the sin of being quarrelsome or contentious; (d) in selected verb phrases: ben at (in) ~, to quarrel; comen in-to ~, be disputed, be the subject of controversy; holden in ~, be hostile toward (sb.); maken ~, cause dissension, bring about conflict; quarrel (with sb.); reisen ~, initiate discord; taken ~, quarrel (with sb.); taken ~ ayenes, taken a ~ ayen, argue or contend with (sb.).

(a) A disagreement, quarrel, dispute; (b) a legal dispute; a suit; (c) a debate; argument, arguing; -- sometimes used with diminished force for discussion, conversation, or complaint; (d) ?a narrative.

(a) Armed conflict, war; fighting; (b) a battle; a war, siege; a fight, brawl; also, a hostile encounter; a singulere ~, a single combat; (c) a public presentation of games or contests; a contest; also, competition, rivalry; (d) maken ~, to initiate fighting; wage war; also, engage in competition [quot. c1440, 2nd]; striven a ~, fight in a combat; taken ~, fight (with sb. or a country).

(a) Resistance, opposition; objection; also, ?armed resistance [last quot]; holden no ~, to make no demur; maken ~, object, take exception, offer resistance; werken ~ to, oppose (sb.); (b) ther-of no ~, that is not disputed; withouten ~, without hesitation, unquestionably, no doubt; with no difficulty; -- sometimes used as a verse tag; withouten more ~, without further ado.

(a) Spiritual struggle; a spiritual battle, a conflict between flesh and spirit or between Christ and the devil; striven a ~, to fight a spiritual battle; (b) the struggle or travails of earthly life; also, the turmoil or bustle of daily life; mortal (transitorie, worldes) ~, worldli strifes; (c) man's struggle with death; strifes of deth, dethes ~; (d) suffering, affliction; hardship, difficulty, trouble; ?danger [quot. a1500(c1477)]; also, an adversity; a misadventure; a troubling incident; pl. troubles, travails; bringen in ~, to get (sb.) into trouble; don ~, inflict hardship or suffering on (sb.); maken (stiren) ~, cause trouble; (e) anguish, distress, agony; also, a feeling or fit of anguish; sorwes ~; maken ~ with, ?to cause (oneself) agony.

(a) The action of making an effort; effort, toil; ?also, an undertaking, endeavor [last quot.]; (b) an intensity, a force; bi (with) ~, by force; with effort, energetically, eagerly.

(a) Commotion, disturbance; (b) a state of mental agitation or confusion; ben (stonden) in ~, ?to be disturbed or agitated; (c) the clash or encounter between disparate or opposing elements; the contention among diverse elements or between faculties within man; (d) physiol. ?the agitation of air or gas in a bodily location.

In misc. senses: (a) reproach; ?slander [last quot.]; also, an insult or abuse; (b) sin; ?error [2nd quot.]; also, an offense to God, a transgression; (c) in cpd. baude ~, a procuress [perh. from association of 2nd element of baud(e-strote n. with strout n.]; (d) ?error for p.ppl. of shriven v.