(a) One owing a duty of service to a master or lord; a laborer for hire; a male or female domestic servant, household servant; servaunt man, servaunt womman; (b) servaunt familier (domestical,……
(a) The feeling of having offended against propriety or decency; the feeling of having done something disgraceful; an instance of such feeling; embarrassment or revulsion caused by awareness of one's……
(a) To feel shame, be ashamed; blush, show physical signs of shame; also fig.; shamen for, be ashamed in the presence of (sb.); ppl.shamed, ashamed, filled with shame; (b) to be ashamed of (sb. or……
(a) The leg of a human or an animal; under shankes, below the legs; with (the) long shankes, with the shankes long, an epithet for Edward I; werpen shank over shench, to throw one leg over the other……
(a) A wood or forest; a grove; a thicket; at a shau side, at the edge of a forest; shau of (the) wod, a wodes shau; under (the) shau, beneath the foliage of a wood, in the shade; in thickets; also……
(a) To cut or penetrate with a weapon or sharp instrument; of a weapon: cut; inflict (a wound); also [quot.: a1400], of a plowshare: ?cut into the ground; ?error for steren v.; sheren thurgh, pierce……
(a) To send forth light, be bright; also fig.; -- also refl.; shinen in; (b) of plants, precious stones, etc.: to shine with intrinsic radiance; also fig.; (c) ppl.shining(e, effulgent, brilliant……
(a) Bright, shining; sparkling; -- often used in alliterative verse with reduced meaning; shir liked, ?shiny; (b) of a face, flesh, etc.: fair, white; also, as noun: white, fair flesh; (c) of colors……
(a) Of little length; smiten forth limes short, to cut the legs off short; shivered short, broken off short; (b) short iswired; short nosed; short pastroned; short ribbe, an asternal rib; short shapen……
(a) To make (sth.) shorter in extent by cutting, cauterizing, etc.; also fig.; ?mow (a field) [quot.: c1460]; shorten wei (passage), decrease the length of (a journey); also, bring about (someone's)……
(a) Confession to a priest, auricular confession; also person.; shrift in (o, of, with) mouth; shrift wind, oral confession; soth (sothfast, verrei) shrift; haven shrift on herte, to intend to……
The spiritual and rational element in man, the Christian soul, understood: (a) to animate and control the body; (b) to have an eternal destiny as a moral agent; also person.; cure of soule(s……
