(a) To force or constrain (sth.), compel (sb. to do sth.); (b) to violate (a woman). …

To form an alliance, join, associate: (a) to ally (oneself with, to sb.), join as an ally, form an alliance; get together, join; -- refl. or intr.; (b) ben allied, be allied or associated; associated……

(a) To equip oneself with weapons and armor, to arm oneself; don armen, leten armen, to cause (sb.) to arm himself, to have (oneself) armed; (b) refl. to put on one's battle gear, arm oneself; to……

One of the celestial servants of God, an angel. …

(a) A plant of the genus Geum; prob., the wood avens Geum urbanum; (b) med.; (c) cook. …

(a) Cook. Decorated with strips of metal foil; (b) Her. divided equally by horizontal stripes of two alternating colors; also as noun: blazon so constituted. …

To permeate (sth.) with liquid, perfuse: (a) cook. to soak (bread); to baste (a fowl); (b) med. to apply a moist compress to (a wound); (c) in tanning leather: to soak (a hide) in a solution of alum……

To make white; whitewash (a building), blaunchen whit. …

(a) White; -- frequent in surnames; (b) blaunk almaundes, blanched almonds; blaunk alum [see alum]; blaunk fever [see fever]; blaunk plum, q.v.; blaunk poudre, ?finely powdered white sugar and ginger……

(a) To burn (sth.), burn up; singe, scorch; (b) cook. to broil (sth.), grill. …

(a) Cook. A broth or sauce for meats, fish, etc.; in brouet, served in such a broth or sauce; (b) a stew or fricassee; (c) a stew with strips of bread soaked in wine [cp. broues]. …

To polish (metal, armor, weapons), burnish; burned, polished, shining, radiant. …

(a) A net for the hair, a kind of headdress; (b) comeli under calle, beautiful in one's headdress; uncomeli under calle; maken (sb.) a houve aboven a calle, to make a fool of (sb.); (c) ?a hood, ?a……

Cook. A kind of sauce. …

Burdensome, troublesome; oppressive (taxes); exacting (task); pressing (need). …

(a) To load (a ship, a vehicle, a pack animal with, of sth.); stock (a ship with provisions); (b) to load (goods, etc., as on a vehicle). …

(a) To strike (sb.) with a sharp weapon, slash; choppen of cut off with a blow; (b) to hack or strike (at, to sb.); cut (through sth.); (c) to hit (at sth.); choppen adoun, fig. strike (sb.) down. …

A basket; a hamper. …

Cook. A delicacy of one kind or another; a filling for a pie, etc. [see quots.]. …

(a) Couch, bed; in couche, in bed; (b) a small portable bed, pallet; small mattress; (c) a bed of litter for an animal; a resting place for cattle; (d) a thing on which something else rests, rest……