Referring to an unspecified, or as yet unspecified, member of a class or representative of a type; -- (a) as the first unit in a noun phrase [the usual construction]; (b) before an adj. modifying a……

(a) To choke, strangle, or suffocate (sb.); (b) to obstruct (sth.). …

Eel spear, fish spear. …

A fish of the perch family; perch, bass. …

The process of cleaning a ship's bottom with burning broom or reeds; also, material so used [first quot.]. …

(a) A bulbil or clove, esp. of garlic; (b) as surname. …

(a) Drive or chase; spur (a horse); incite (to action); (b) put to flight, rout (an enemy); discomfit. …

(a) To go to get (something), go and seek (something); fetten fer(re, to get at a distance; gon (and) fetten; (b) to bring (something to someone, to a place); fetten hom, bring home; fetten over……

(a) The kidney of a person or an animal; (b) pl. the region of the kidneys, the loins; (c) pl. the kidneys as the seat of emotions. …

(a) ?A thicket growing in a boggy place; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.77]. …

(a) Strange, uncouth; (b) of an emperor: stern, awful. …

An outbuilding; a shed, lean-to. …

A splinter, chip. …

?A ray of light, a glimmer; sen a stime, to see anything, see at all. …

Straightway, immediately, directly. …

(a) To lie stretched out, be extended; refl. to extend over a given area; (b) to stretch out (one's limbs) in a recumbent position; ppl. streked, prostrate, prone; (c) to fall prostrate; (d) to lay……

Used to introduce a clause having a finite verb and expressing a comparison or contrast: (a) in constructions with a comp. adj., adj. as noun, or adv. in the comp. degree: than; (b) in constructions……

(a) Aware (of sth., an event, a fact, etc.), mindful; also, with clause introduced by that: aware (that sth. is so) [quot. c1425]; war of him (hem), aware of his (their) presence; nought war of……

(a) A wave of water, esp. in the sea; ?also, a current; gon in wawes, to become tempestuous (b) pl. the sea, seen as a collection of individual waves; (c) used metonymically: the sea; water; wau of……