Law (a) Property, including livestock, app. ownerless and hence subject to seizure and forfeiture, abandoned goods; weif and strai (b) a piece of such property, a stray domestic animal; weifs and……

Having the status of weif n., being without known or proven owner and so seized and forfeited; abandoned, stray. …

(a) To fail (to do sth.); decline (to do sth.); also, disobey a command (that one do sth.) (b) to eschew (joy, a vice, etc.); refuse (a gift, food, etc.); also, decline (an office); (c) to resist……

The Welsh stock or faction, Welshmen. …

= wer-geld n. …

(a) Large-scale military conflict between countries, peoples, rulers, etc. or between factions or forces within a single country, war, warfare;—also pl.; wer faringe, q.v.; open (pleine) wer, open……

(a) The use of a wharf for loading, unloading, or stowing goods; (b) the monetary payment for the use of a wharf, wharfage dues. …

A person given to petty argument, a quibbler. …

A disseminator of the doctrines of John Wyclif, a Wycliffite or Lollard. …

An adherent of Lollard teachings, a Wycliffite. …

(a) An apparatus for hoisting or hauling, a windlass, winch; windas rolle, some part of a windlass, ?a pulley; windas stok, a post for mounting a windlass, a windlass bitt; water windas, a windlass……

Arch. A piece of timber or stone prob. covering the joint between the gable edge and the roof and serving as protection from the wind, a bargeboard. …

Entangled (in brambles). …

(a) A support beam, girder; wiver tre; (b) a rod or rack on which to hang a towel. …

(a) A manorial or royal officer with authority over woodland, a forester, forest keeper; wode-ward wike, = wode-wardship n.; (b) as surname; (c) ?in place name. …

A wrecked ship, shipwreck; ship wrak; toward a wrak, on the verge of being wrecked; gon (ben igone) to wrak, of a ship: to suffer destruction on the water, be wrecked; also in fig. context. …

(a) Law That which washes ashore from the sea, esp. from a wrecked ship; also, the right to take that which washes up on a certain stretch of seashore; ?also, a wrecked ship, a shipwreck [quot……

Wood or bark of the aloe tree Aquilaria agallocha. …

(a) Tax; a tax, an exaction; also, a royal land tax; also, a sum paid in tax; dane yeld [see dane-geld n.] (b) a customary rent or payment; ?also, quittance or exemption from the obligation to pay……

(a) To relinquish (sb. or sth.) voluntarily, give up; also, surrender (an office, a token of office) willingly; also, forego (sth.), lay aside; yelden up (b) to entrust (oneself) to the care of God……