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. …

leiden legges aliri, ?crossed their legs or thighs; ?made their legs lame, acted as if paralyzed. …

An uncanny creature. …

Lizard, newt. …

As a horde or gang. …

(a) A spider, esp. a venomous one; (b) atter-cop ei, the cocoon of a spider; atter-cop weft, spider web, cobweb; (c) ?some other arachnid. …

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

An iron hook, perh. used as a seaman's weapon. …

A tool resembling a mattock. …

(a) To bathe or foment; (b) to soak (wood) in hot water to make it pliable. …

To delude, deceive. …

A shelter for cattle, cow house; bire tening, fencing of a cow house; bire hous. …

blatten out tonge, stuck out the tongue. …

(a) To move suddenly or sharply; jerk, twist; flinch, wince, dodge; blenchen aside; blenchen low, duck; blenchen broues, raise (one's) eyebrows or eyelids; blenchen of slepe, wake up suddenly; (b) of……

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

A curved handle. …

The rim (of a barrel, formed by the joined ends of the staves). …

Full of clots, thrombotic. …