(a) A shield; sheld of devis, a shield bearing a heraldic device; (b) in phrases: sheld and banere (target), sheld ne targe, sheld or bokelere; sheld and (ne) spere, sheldes and speres, spere and (ne)……

(a) A group of soldiers or an army in fighting formation; a tight battle formation or phalanx; right-half sheltroun, the right wing of an army; (b) fig. of (a); (c) fighting, a battle; (d) a group of……

(a) Blameless, innocent; upright; guileless, artless; (b) of the eyes:?innocent, not sinful; ?sound, healthy; -- used fig. …

Sincerely, honestly; without suspicion, guilelessly. …

(a) Pertaining or belonging to oneself; private, personal; selfish; singuler availe (biyete, profite, etc.), personal or selfish gain; singuler preiere, a prayer formulated by an individual or a……

(a) The act of sitting down; also, the fact of being seated or an instance of it; sitting place (stede), place of sitting, a place where one sits, a seat; kepen the same stondinges and sittinges, to……

(a) The outer covering of the human body, skin; skin of the smitinge, the skin at or near the location of a wound; maken skin, to cause skin to grow again; (b) a specific part or section of the skin……

(a) Of little size, physically small, diminutive; also fig. [quots. c1230, c1395]; also, by comparison with another of the same kind: smaller [quots. c1390, c1400 Apoc.(2)]; smal busshel, ?a bushel……

(a) Softness; the quality of softness; (b) soft of hed, anat. the coronal suture; (c) coll. fatty or fleshy parts of the body; (d) the softeste, the most pliant piece of cloth. …

(a) Anat. Firmness, hardness, density of texture; (b) ?stupidity. …

Anat. & physiol. (a) Sperm-producing or sperm-carrying; also, as noun: the seminal ejaculatory duct or ducts; spermatik matere, matere spermatik, semen; spermatik vessel(es, the seminal ejaculatory……

Anat. & physiol. (a) The male seminal fluid; passinge (shedinge) of sperme, ?sperme shedinge, emission of semen; (b) the spermatozoa; -- used as a sg.; also, the ovum; mannes (wommanes) sperme; (c)……

Anat. A vein between the ring finger and the little finger of the left hand. …

Anat. A vertebra; spondile of the bak (brest, ribbes, rigge, rigge-bon), any one of the thoracic vertebrae; spondiles of the haunche, the sacrum; also, the coccyx; haunche spondiles, the sacrum……

Anat. a lingual nerve supposed to control the tongue and so the power of speech, which if defective causes a stammer; 'undersized recurrent laryngeal nerve inside tongue...' [Norri]. …

(a) An upright supporting bar or timber, a stanchion; staunchoun nail; (b) a stand or case for an inkhorn; ?also, an inkhorn [1st quot.]; (c) anat. a partition in the body, septum. …

(a) An apparently luminous celestial body; a star, planet, comet; also fig.; also, a star or planet as used in divination or prophecy; (b) the star of Bethlehem heralding the birth of Jesus; (c) in……

Anat. The joint between the femur and the tibia of a quadruped. …

(a) The trunk of a living tree; the base of a tree; the part of a bush or tree receiving a graft; also, a tree [quot. a1382, 1st]; also, ?a branch [quot. a1382, 2nd]; crabbe (fige, vine) stok; comen……

Med. Of an ailment: involving the stomach; (b) anat. stomacale partie, a section of the abdomen spanning the stomach. …