(a) The calendrical unit consisting of a cycle of seven successive named or numbered days and beginning or ending with a particularly specified day, the week of the Jewish or Christian calendar; (b) in adv. constructions: al) that ~, all) during that week; al) this ~, all) during the present or immediately preceding week; throughout the present week; during the coming week; al the (that) ~, throughout that week; also, constantly; alle the wekes, during all the weeks; ech ~, weekly; the laste (nexte) ~, this nexte ~, during the last (next) week; (c) a particular such week, esp. as defined by the liturgical calendar; the (thilke, this) ~, the (this) particular such week; also, during the (this) particular week; in combs.: ~ theophanie, the week of January 6 (Epiphany); criste-masse ~, the week in which Christmas falls; estern ~ [see estern n. 3.(p)]; imbre ~, the week in which ember days fall; lenten ~, a week in Lent; paske ~, the week beginning with Easter Sunday; passioun ~ [see passioun n. 3.(f)]; pente-coste (messe) ~, the week beginning with Pentecost; swiinge (swie) ~, in adv. usage: during Holy Week; whitsun ~ [see whitsun adj.]; (d) such a week as an assigned stint of service; ~ redestre, the reader for the week; ~ thein (theinestre), a religious engaged in or assigned to kitchen duty for the week; ~ theinung, a week-long stint of such duty; serven a (theire) ~, to serve during a (their) week of service.

(a) A period of seven days; the duration of seven days; (b) in adv. constructions: al) a ~, a hole ~, for a whole week; fif-tene (thre, fourti, etc.) wekes, for fifteen (three, forty, etc.) weeks; this sixtene ~, for the past sixteen weeks; olde…wekes two, old to the extent of two weeks, two weeks old; (c) approximately a week; a week or so; also, for approximately a week, for a week or so;—usu. in expressions denoting a vaguely specified period of time: a fourte-night or thre wekes, a four wekes or mo, after (within) a ~ or two, etc.; (d) a seven-day unit in expressions of rate or frequency; also, a week’s grace; a ~, bi the ~, ech (everi) ~, in the (a) ~, etc., per week; (e) in app. pleonastic gen. combination with dai n.: four (a six) wekes dai, a space of four (six) weeks [cp. weke-dai n. (c)]; six wekes dai, for six weeks; (f) ~ bi ~, from ~ to ~, week after week, continually; weekly, on a weekly basis; ~ ende, the conclusion of a week’s time; al the ~ time, for the space of a week; fourti wekes, nine months;—as a conventional approximation of the human gestation period; also, for nine months; (g) in expressions used to fix a date: bi that dai six (twenti) wekes, this dai fifti wekes, etc., within a certain number of weeks from the specified day; in four (two, etc.) wekes; within) the thrid ~; within these wekes six (two), within the past six (two) weeks; etc.

(a) The week of six working days; a workweek; ~ bene men, ?tenants obliged to contribute a week’s worth of boon work; werkes of the ~; (b) in adv. constructions: a hole ~, al a ~, two wekes, etc., for a whole week’s (two weeks’) work, etc.

In Bibl. uses: (a) a week reserved for a special event, specif. the week assigned to wedding festivity; ~ of daies; (b) a festival extending for a week or more; solempnite (solempne dai) of wekes, the Feast of Weeks; that other dai of the ~, ?the second day of a religious holiday; ?the day after the Sabbath falling within a festival; (c) a period of seven years, septenary; ~ of yeres.