(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) To ask for (sth.), ask (sb.) for (sth.), beg, pray, request; be asking; (b) craven after (for, upon), to ask for (sth.); craven at (of, on, unto), ask (sb.), beg, importune; (c) to beg, be a……

(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.……

(a) To drip; of a liquid: to fall in drops, drip; (b) drepen with, to moisten or smear (sb.) with (sth.); (c) to droop, sink down; be faint-hearted, languish; dreping mone, ?a waning moon; (d) to lie……

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) To acquire (sth.), earn, buy, win, receive, find; ivel geten, ill-gotten; fals geten, got by falsehood; (b) refl. …

(a) Of persons, creatures: joyful, merry, gay; cheerful, jolly; full of joyous or festive spirits, rejoicing; glad in (on) herte, glad of chere; glad and blithe, glad and joli, glad and light, glad……

(a) To gladden (persons or creatures); make joyful, fill with joy or bliss; also, cheer (sb.), encourage, comfort; ben gladed of, be cheered by (sth.); (b) in pious asserverations and exclamations……

(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) Made of glass; (b) yeven a glasen houve, to delude (sb.); glasen glose, a deluding or sophistical interpretation; (c) glasen wright, a glazier. …

(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]. …