(a) A bear; (b) blak ber, a bear with black fur; whit ber, white bear, polar bear; wild ber, untamed bear; (c) ber baiting, the sport of setting dogs upon a bear chained to a stake; ber binder, bear……

(a) A black pigment or dye; esp., black ink; (b) black color; (c) a black person; (d) blacche of souteres, a company of cobblers; (e) blacche man, ?a maker or seller of black ink or dye; blacche pot……

(a) A headdress, a hat; esp., a small head covering worn under the hood; (b) a priest's close-fitting cap, the coif covering the tonsure; also, any kind of head covering for ecclesiastics; (c) a……

One who tends cows, a cowherd. …

Strength, force, power; also, moral strength, a virtue. …

(a) Dregs, lees; sediment, scum; -- usually pl.; (b) the refuse of grapes after the juice has been pressed out; drastes of honi, wax; (c) dirt, refuse; also, garbage (?or mast) fed to hogs; (d) fig.……

An island. …

(a) A companion in arms; man, fellow; (b) a person of low birth; a base fellow, rascal, scoundrel; ?a bastard; (c) as adj.: base, lowborn; (d) in place name [see Smith PNElem. 1.191]. …

(a) A gateway; a gate of a city, castle, house, etc.; also, a doorway; flod gate, a floodgate; (b) the movable barrier which closes off a gateway; one of the valves of a double gate; ?a portcullis……

(a) Glass as substance, material, or a manufactured commodity; bright (brotel, clene, cler, grei, pur, slider) as glas, etc.; also, glemen (shinen) as glas; (b) a piece or splinter of glass. …

(a) Any of various small, flying insects; esp. the European gnat (Culex pipiens); (b) as a symbol of something small or inconsequential; clensen (sen) the gnat and swolwen the flie (camel), to strain……

(a) The burial place of a corpse; esp. a hole or pit dug for the body; hertes grave, secret place of the heart, depths of the heart; grave brekere; grave makere; (b) a monument, tomb, mausoleum; (c)……

A writing or engraving instrument, a stylus. …

(a) A low place, a hollow; a cave, pit, hole in the ground [see also ston greve]; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.207-8]. …

(a) The handle of a weapon, tool, surgical instrument, etc.; hilt of a sword, knife, dagger, etc.; helve of an ax; the upper part of the breastbone (manubrium sterni); also, staff of a flag [quot……

(a) Hailstones falling or fallen in a storm; hail reighnesse, hail shour [OE hagol-scūr], hail storm; storm of hail, tempest of hail; as (so) thik as hail, as closely massed as falling hailstones; (b)……

(a) The European hazel bush or tree (Corylus avellana); flour (chattes) of hasel, catkins of the hazel; rednesse of hasel, ?the red stigmas of the female catkins of the hazel; (b) the wood of a hazel……

(a) A fastening for a door, gate, chest, etc.; a hasp; up bi the hasp, unfastened, unlatched; barre and hasp, stapel and hasp; (b) a fastening for a garment or a helmet; ?a buckle, ?a lace; (c) a hank……

(a) Clothes, garments, clothing; -- pl. or coll.; (b) a garment [see also barm hater]; (c) torn garment(s, rags; (d) in surnames; hater mongere, a seller of clothing. …

(a) A hawk or falcon; esp., any of the falcons used in hawking; (b) haukes and houndes, hound(es and hauk(es, hawks and hounds; -- as a symbol of wealth and cultivated leisure; (c) beren hauk, to……