Kindly regard felt toward another for a benefit received or services rendered, gratitude; also, a grateful thought.

(a) An expression of gratitude, the acknowledgment of a favor, benefit, or service, thanks;—also pl.; (b) in pious ejaculations: god(e ~, thanks be to God; god (crist) have ~, may God (Christ) be thanked; in utterances of thanks: ~ be to, thanks be to (God, Bacchus, etc.); gret (muchel) ~, etc.; (c) Bibl. doinge of thank(es, thanksgiving.

(a) A reward, something that is given in return for good or evil done; (b) merit, thanks due or merited [cp. sense 3.].

In selected verb phrases: (a) connen ~, to feel or be grateful to (sb.); owe or offer (sb.) thanks [see also connen v. 6.(g)]; witen ~, be thankful for (sth.); (b) geten (piken) ~, to be thanked, obtain thanks or gratitude; obtain thanks or gratitude (for oneself); haven ~, be thanked, obtain thanks or gratitude; also iron. [quots. c1395 & a1425]; possess (someone's) gratitude; haven thankes, accept thanks; (c) taken in ~, taken (nimen) to ~, receiven to thankes, to look with favor on (sth.), accept gratefully; (d) ben on ~, to be pleasing or gratifying (to sb.).

In cpd.: ~ akeres, a customary rent of some sort.

(a) Good will, propitious regard, favorable disposition; (b) God's grace; (c) a quality that gains regard or favor, attractiveness.

Praise, commendation; praise due or merited [often difficult to distinguish from sense 1c.(b)].

(a) The faculty of thinking, thought, mind; the seat of thoughts, emotions, and spiritual activity; (b) that which one thinks; a thought, an individual act or product of thinking; (c) thought as distinguished from speech, words, action, or deeds; (d) the action of thinking.

(a) Gen. thankes used adverbially: here (his, oure, etc.) thankes, willingly, voluntarily; ?also with a play on stink n. or stench n. [quots. c1250 & c1300 vr.]; also, by its nature, of itself [quot. c1450]; (b) in other adverbial phrases: bi his thankes, his ~, willingly.