(a) Giving aid; (b) mil. auxiliary (i.e. lightly armed, or allied with the main body of an army); -- also as noun. …

(a) Assistance, help, support; (b) a helper; (c) mil. an auxilliary, a mercenary; (d) law aide prier [OF phrase, lit. 'ask for help'], an appeal for help from a party interested in the matter in……

(a) Benefit, advantage, profit; ben avail, to be useful or effective; ben litel avail, to be of little value; (b) of persons: worthiness. …

(a) An uncastrated male swine (either wild or domesticated); (b) bores brain, brain of a boar used medicinally; bor(es grece, fat of a boar; bores herte, a bold or fierce heart; bor(es tusk, one of……

Mil. A device with sharp iron spikes set on the ground to cripple the feet of an advancing enemy; similar device used against trespassers, etc.; fig. a spiritual trap or pitfall. …

Mil. A commander of subordinate rank. …

(a) One who cries out; (b) one who makes a public complaint, accuser, agitator. …

The cutting edge of a tool or instrument. …

A token, sign, symbol; also (in pl.), the insignia of authority or rank. …

(a) Trust or faith (in someone or something); (b) confidence based on trust, assurance. …

Mil. A type of cannon or mortar. …

(a) Inventive talent, ingenuity, cleverness, skill; also, skill in magic or occult science; bi (mid, thurgh, with) gin, ingeniously, cleverly, skillfully; by magic; (b) queint of gin, of queint gin……

(a) A stone-mason, builder; (b) mil. one who operates siege engines; (c) as surname. …

(a) One who, or that which, gives help, an ally, assistant, supporter, collaborator; (b) surg. pl.: the humerus bone; (c) mil. pl.: auxiliary troops. …

(a) An instrumental musician, singer, or story-teller; also fig.; minstral of mouth, ?a singer; godes minstral, the poor, lunatics, and lepers; kinges (lordes) minstral, a minstrel retained by a king……

(a) An edible bivalve mollusc, mussel; muscle bed, portion of sea bottom on which mussels grow; muscle man, ?one who gathers or sells mussels; (b) mil. muscle, muscle shelle, a kind of siege engine……

Mil. An engagement between small bodies of soldiers, a skirmish; a battle; an encounter between besieging and besieged forces; also, the manner of fighting characteristic of a skirmish. …

(a) An agricultural implement used for mowing or pruning, a scythe; also fig.; (b) the curved blade of a scythe; (c) sithe ale, a drinking celebration held for mowers as compensation for mowing some……

(a) A thrusting weapon, spear; a horseman's spear, lance; a javelin, dart; also fig.; (b) spere and (or) sheld, knif (sword) or spere, sheld (sword) and spere, etc.; -- often used coll.; (c) spere of……

(a) One who spies on the activities of another; one sent out to make secret observations in a foreign land, a scout or spy; also, a forerunner or messenger [quot. 1449]; (b) mil. one sent into enemy……