(a) Of the actions of persons: in a wrong or mistaken manner; gon, faren amis, go astray, go wrong; leden, turnen amis, mislead; speden amis, fare badly; feren amis, be ill; sheten amis, miss the……
(a) Back or away from something; to the rear, back, backwards; drawen ayen, ten ayen, draw back, withdraw; holden ayen, hold back, check, restrain; putten ayen, set or thrust back or away; turnen……
As an alternative; as another choice or possibility; otherwise; -- often after or, and. Modifying (a) a predicate, (b) an adv. expression; (c) introducing a sentence.
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(a) With physical force, violently, roughly, strongly; (b) suddenly, quickly, sharply; (c) in anger, wrathfully, sternly, fiercely; (d) in such a way as to cause pain, cruelly; (e) with strong……
(a) Nearer in space or time; comen (approchen, drauen, gon, neighen) ner, to go or come nearer, approach nearer; ner and ner, nearer and nearer; no ner, no nearer; no the ner, any nearer; (b) more……
(a) Together, in company; samen ifere; al samen, all together; also, completely; both samen; (b) mutually, with each other; comen ner samen, to approach each other; kissen (loven, meten) samen, kiss……
Used contrastively: (a) however, yet, nevertheless; ?also, moreover [quots. c1275, 2nd, and perh. a1400]; also, in correl. construction with though conj.: though..though, although..still; (b)……
