A clergyman living under a rule of canons, a canon. …

(a) A cart, a wagon; also fig.; dong cart, [see dong n.(1), 5.]; fare cart, [see fare n. (1), 8.(b)]; iren-bounden cart, shod cart, a cart with wheels which are bound or reinforced with iron bands……

(a) A trunk, chest, casket, box, etc., (for storing or safekeeping); a strongbox (for valuables, documents, money); the Ark (of the Covenant); (b) common chest, public chest or treasury; (c) chest……

A consecrated building: (a) for Christian worship and the performance of religious rites; (b) as affording rights of sanctuary to fugitives; taken the chirche; (c) as used for the performance of……

(a) To climb (steps, etc.); cliven up and doun; (b) fig. to climb (to perfection); cliven into (up) the hil of perfeccioun. …

(a) Silence; (b) as interj.: Be silent! Mum's the word! …

A corner, nook. …

In place names only [see Smith PNElem. 2.7]: a circle, bend. …

(a) Any tool, implement, or utensil consisting of, or having as an important part, a curved piece of metal or hook, such as a grappling iron, a pot hook, a reaping hook or sickle, ?a hoe, ?a fork, a……

(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

A pot or crock. …

A valley, dell, glen; valley bottom; dale and doun, hil and dale; bi (over) dale and doun, over hill and dale, everywhere. …

(a) A dam; also, the bank (of a stream); (b) dam bord, a sluice gate. …

(a) An excavated trench; a ditch for fencing an enclosure, marking a boundary, draining water, etc.; (b) fig. & prov. expressions: as water of dich, freely, unstintingly; commune as water in a dich……

(a) A dragnet; (b) a harrow or drag; (c) a barge or raft; (d) a grappling hook. …

(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or……

(a) A man; warrior; ?also, creature, person; (b) retainer, vassal; nobleman; godes dreng, servant of God; heigh dreng, a high-ranking vassal; (c) king, chief. …

(a) Great, large, tall; of blows: hard, heavy; of a warrior: strong, valorous; driest del, greater part; (b) lasting, long; of a way or path: long, tedious; dri fro, distant from. …

To perform or do (sth.); commit (sins); do (penance); drien wille, do (someone's) will; drien lif, lead (a certain kind of) life; drien wirdes, try (one's) luck. …

Island; meadow land or habitable land among marshes; -- common in all parts of England (a) in place names; (b) in surnames derived from place names. [See EPNSoc. 1, pt.2, 24 under eg. Only a few……