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.
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(a) To drown (sb.), kill by drowning; -- also refl.; (b) to be drowned, die by drowning; (c) ppl.drouned, drowned; ben drouned, to be drowned, drown.
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(a) The edible egg of a domesticated fowl; (b) glair or whit of an egge, the white of an egg; oil of egges, an oil extracted from eggs; yolk or yelk of an eg; (c) fried egge; hard eg, an egg roasted……
(a) To urge (someone) on; (b) to tempt or entice (someone), to incite (to evil) or lure (awai from good); (c) to stimulate, encourage, exhort (someone); eggen to gōd; (d) refl. to bestir oneself.
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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……
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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Forming agent nouns from nouns and verbs, esp. also names of persons engaged in a trade or profession. (a) Inherited from OE: e.g. bōk-ere scribe [OE bōc-ere, from bōc document, charter], salt-ere……
(a) Voluntary abstinence from food and drink or from certain kinds of food, for spiritual or religious discipline; an act of such abstinence; (b) a period set aside for such abstinence; (c) faste(n……
