(a) A lascivious person, fornicator, adulterer; also, a lover or mistress, a pimp or bawd; also, one who sins sexually against nature; (b) a self-indulgent person; esp. a glutton; (c) Luxuria as one……
(a) A kind of local court with power to investigate, try lesser offenses, levy fines, and sometimes legislate for its district; a court leet; also, a session of such a court; lete general, gret lete……
Naut. (a) A spar holding out and down the windward tack of a square sail while going into the wind; wenden (turnen) lof, to change course; also fig.; lof shete, a line attached to the lof [cp. quot……
(a) A loophole or embrasure in a wall, for the protection of archers, gunners, etc.; also, the covering structure built about or over the loophole; (b) an opening for ventilation, a louver; loup bord……
(a) A wild duck or drake (Anas platyrhynchos, i.e. A. boschas); wild drake [quot.: Arth.& M., Merlin]; (b) a domestic duck or drake; drake [quot.: 1381, a1500]; (c) in terms for a flock of ducks; (d)……
(a) The boundary of a country; border district; pl. borderlands, frontiers; the surrounding areas of a town or castle; putten out of marches, to drive (a people) out of their land; (b) a coastal part……
(a) The boundary or limit of a field, mountain, forest, etc.; a border between countries or regions; the shore or bank of a sea or river; mark wei [OE mearc-weg], a road that serves as a boundary……
(a) The chief officer of a kingdom, steward; (b) one of the high officers of the royal court; marshal of (on) engelond; countesse marshal, the wife of the earl marshal; erl marshal, q.v.; (c) an……
(a) Spot, mark; blemish; (b) pl. the strands or cords of a net; also, the openings between the strands or cords of a net; (c) gise of maskel, ?lozenge shaped.
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(a) A mason, worker or builder in stone; one who dresses, lays, or carves stone; (b) chef (maister) masoun, a chief mason, mason charged with supervising and overseeing other masons; fre (maister)……
(a) Sin, sinfulness; guilt, culpability for sin; evil, wickedness; withouten mis, sinless, innocent; withouten mis of this man, he being sinless, innocent as he was; (b) a sin, an evil deed; criminal……
