(a) A commercial agent, factor, broker, purveyor; also, one who serves as an agent in sordid business; (b) in names; (c) one who buys and sells public offices. …

A tax paid annually to a superior, as by a villein to his lord; head-tax. [See Homans, E.Villagers 229; Cust.Rent in OSSLH 2 p.2.] …

One who is jointly invested with an estate in trust. …

An officer of the Crown, elected by the county or borough, charged with the supervision of pleas of the Crown, of the administration of criminal justice, etc.; a coroner; also, an officer of the royal……

Hawk. A beater stationed on the opposite bank of a river or on the far side of a body of water. …

To determine (sth.), decide (a question, dispute, legal case). …

(a) An activity that offers amusement, pleasure, or relaxation; entertainment, merry-making, fun, recreation; maken disport, to entertain (sb.); taken disport, amuse oneself, have fun; (b) a pastime……

(a) To write or compose (a book, poem, letter, etc.);--with or without obj.; (b) to write (in a certain language, manner, or style); (c) to compose (a song, a Psalm); (d) of oral composition or……

Law (a) To confirm or approve (a charter, bill, agreement, etc.), [orig. by writing on the back of the document];--also fig.; (b) to approve a reply to (a petition), to grant (a petition) under seal……

Furtherance or promotion (of a purpose or undertaking). …

Law Survey, appraisal, or valuation of land or other property for purposes of taxation; (b) assessed value; (c) tax levied on such valuation; also, income from taxes. …

(a) A feudal estate in land or tenements held in unlimited tenure, subject only to a fixed annual rent; also, the land or tenements constituting such an estate; (b) the kind of tenure by which such an……

The closed season in which it is not lawful to hunt male deer; bi fermisounes, in fermisoun time, during the closed season on male deer; flourished of fermisoun, fattened in the closed season. …

(a) A group of ships; esp. a fleet of warships, a navy; ?a naval expedition; (b) a troop of armed men, an army; (c) ?a set (of fishing nets). …

(a) Scum or grease floating on a liquid; (b) law the legal right to flotsam. …

(a) A flowering plant of the genus Iris, the fleur-de-lis; often as fig. for Virgin Mary; (b) the fleur-de-lis (esp. the root) used in medicine. …

A manorial service: transportation (of produce, etc.) on foot, on one's back (instead of conveyance by a draught or pack animal). …

(a) A landowner and member of the gentry ranking immediately below the nobility; a freeman, a gentleman; franklein of toun, a free citizen, an owner of property in a town, a burgess; (b) as a personal……

One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc. …

(a) An English system of collective surety within a hundred, or some other territorial division, by which a certain number of freemen or villagers (?orig. ten) combined to give security for each other……