(a) To test the quality of (materials), the effectiveness of (a weapon, a medicine), or the performance of (a horse); test, try out; also, to test the accuracy of (weights & measures) officially; (b)……

(a) A parcel of cleared land (as in a forest), a clearing; (b) a rent on such land. …

(a) To authenticate (a charter, agreement, etc.) with an official mark or seal; aselen up; aselen by, under, with; to put an official mark or seal on a document; (b) to affix a signet (to a letter)……

Fulfillment, satisfaction, reparation; maken (don) asseth, give satisfaction: (a) fulfillment of a wish, expectation or requirement; (b) fulfilling of a need; (c) satisfactory answer to a question or……

(a) To restrain (anger); (b) satisfy (sexual desire). …

Of persons: stupified, stunned; insensate, unconscious. …

To stun, stupefy, or daze (sb.); paralyze (feeling). …

Stock of provisions. …

(a) To store, stock (a place) with provisions; provide (a city with defenders); (b) provide (oneself) with supplies. …

To meditate (about sth.). …

A suffix forming numerous collective or abstract nouns denoting states, attitudes, or activities, most of them directly borrowed from French, some formed from Latin words in -antia- on the French……

(a) In many pr.ppls. taken from OF, e.g. abound-a(u)nt, appar-a(u)nt, ard-a(u)nt, arrog-a(u)nt, charge-a(u)nt, ramp-aunt, -and, etc.; (b) in a number of nouns (orig. ppls.) adopted from OF, as……

(a) The sister of one's father or mother, aunt; (b) aunte doughter, the daughter of one's aunt, cousin; aunte sone, the son of one's aunt, cousin. …

The foremost position or part of an army, the vanguard. …

A piece of chain mail protecting the neck and upper chest. …

Things owned; possessions, property, wealth; -- coll. or pl. …

(a) To empty (a place), clear (of people); to empty (sb.); fig. to rid (the heart of sadness); avoiden of; (b) med. to cleanse (the body of rotten humors, etc.); avoiden fro, avoiden of; to evacuate……

(a) A lying in wait, an ambush; leien (maken) await, to set an ambush; leien (sb.) in await, to put (sb.) in ambush; leien await for (upon), to set an ambush for (sb.); lien (sitten, stonden) in await……

(a) To lie in ambush for (sb.), waylay; lie in wait to get (sth.); lie in wait (to do sth.); awaiten upon, to lie in wait for; (b) to plot, conspire; secretly to plan or contrive (an injury, etc.). …

(a) One who lies in ambush; conspirator, plotter; (b) an attendant. …