(a) To flog (sb.), beat, whip; (b) to punish (sb.). …

(a) To break (an object) into parts; dash to pieces; destroy the wholeness of (an object); shatter (a weapon) in combat; crush (the human body, etc.); breken atwo, breken asonder, breken in peces……

(a) To divide (sth. into parts); (b) to cut (sb.) up; britnen into quarters, to quarter; (c) hunt. to cut up (a deer, etc.); britnen out, cut out. …

Of persons or of things viewed as agents: to come upon, encounter, or meet (someone or something) by chance or in the course of events (usually with the notion of perceiving or recognizing the person……

(a) Hunt. The area of a forest or park marked out for the hunt; (b) an attack, onslaught; (c) the time of sunset; set of the sonne, sonne set [cp. OE sunn-set]. …

(a) To make (sb.) sit, seat (sb.); also, with partitive construction: setten of..over heigh setle, fig. seat (someone's offspring) upon (his) high throne, make to rule; setten adoun (doun, up), make……

(a) To separate and clean (the fibers of raw wool, flax, etc.) by drawing a comb or other instrument through them, card; (b) tesen upon, to use (a fuller's perch) in order to raise the nap on (cloth)……

(a) To hang down loosely, hang low so as to be dragged along the ground; also, of a horse: trail (its guts); trailen doun (adoun); trailen abouten, of a dragon's tail: ?hang looped around (a ball)……

(a) To be mindful, be aware; waren of, be knowledgeable concerning (sth.), be skilled in; ware him his fal is nexte his honde, let him be mindful his fall is at hand (b) to be mindful of (sth.),……