A suffix forming numerous collective or abstract nouns denoting states, attitudes, or activities, most of them directly borrowed from French, some formed from Latin words in -antia- on the French……

A suffix in a small number of nouns borrowed from L/ML or OF/AF, where it represents the feminine agentive suffix: e.g., administratrice, benefactrice, executrice, genitrice, matris, mediatrice,……

(a) Silken cloth, silk; silken clothing; also, a silken garment; also fig.; [some quots. difficult to distinguish from those in sense 2.]; (b) silk grene, blak (purple, red, etc.) silk; grene raie……

(a) A demon, devil; shucke pleie-fere, a devilish companion; (b) Satan, the Devil; hellen shucke, the Devil of Hell; (c) a monster, giant; (d) as a term of abuse for a person; (e) in place names [see……

Strife, discord, enmity; a dispute, cause for dispute; a legal dispute or action; o sake, ?in accusation; withouten sake, without cause for dispute, without legal cause. …

(a) Outward appearance, shape, form; taken semblaunce, to assume (a certain) appearance, assume the appearance (of a certain person); (b) mere appearance, show, appearance without reality; fals……

(a) The office of sheriff; office of shir-reve-wik; (b) the district under the jurisdiction of a sheriff. …

Together. …

(a) What is known, knowledge; information; -- also pl.; ?also, self-knowledge [quot.: a1475]; (b) accurate knowledge, certain knowledge; (c) experiential or empathic knowledge; (d) the knowledge in……

Mosaic; after musicke, in mosaic style. …

A maggot, grub; worm. …

Disrespect. …

(a) Amount, quantity; size, extent; value; (b) length of time, duration; mountaunce of a mile, the amount of time needed to travel a mile; mountaunce of a ave maria, time needed to say an Ave Maria……

Misfortune. …

In phrases: in memoraunce, stated as a matter of record, recorded (cp. remembren v., 3.(b)); in memoraunce of, in remembrance of or as a memorial to (Christ); maken memoraunce, to mention (sth.). …

(a) The boundary or limit of a field, mountain, forest, etc.; a border between countries or regions; the shore or bank of a sea or river; mark wei [OE mearc-weg], a road that serves as a boundary……

Of the Roman territory of Marmarica in North Africa; lioun Marmorik, an African lion. …

(a) The middle of a town, valley, etc.; (b) space between two persons. …

Surg. A morbid smallness or shrinking. …

(a) Brine used for pickling; (b) mere-sauce lenge, ?ling in pickling brine. …