(a) Relieve (sb.); (b) reduce (sth.). …

(a) A lying in wait, an ambush; leien (maken) await, to set an ambush; leien (sb.) in await, to put (sb.) in ambush; leien await for (upon), to set an ambush for (sb.); lien (sitten, stonden) in await……

(a) To lie in ambush for (sb.), waylay; lie in wait to get (sth.); lie in wait (to do sth.); awaiten upon, to lie in wait for; (b) to plot, conspire; secretly to plan or contrive (an injury, etc.). …

Any pathological swelling, eruption or lesion, such as a boil, a tumor, a (running) sore, an ulcer, a tubercle, a bubo. …

A predicament, plight, difficulty; ben, bringen, fallen in brike. …

(a) Any of several cutting tools used by stone masons, sculptors, carpenters or metal workers; chisel, punch, etc.; (b) a pointed blade, such as a scalpel; (c) fig. a means of destruction and……

To kick or throw (a ball); fig. to treat (sb.) as one pleases, kick or chase about. …

Restricted in quantity or amount; scarce. …

The washing and cleansing with boiling water of an animal's carcass; scalding. …

To drive or chase (something). …

A number of ME words derived from OF are spelled with both initial sc- and s(c)h- before a, e.g., scaffold/ s(c)haffold n., scalden/schald(e(n v., scandle/schaundle n. These spellings represent……

(a) To burn (sb.) with hot liquid; burn (a bodily part) with burning coal; sear (sth. in fire); of the sun, fire, hot or molten metal, hot water, etc.: scorch or burn (sb., sth., an animal); scalden……

To rough-hew (stone); square (a block of stone); also, ppl. scapeld as adj. …

Contempt, scorn; to scar, to the shame (of sb.); don to scar, to heap scorn on (sb.). …

(a) Insufficient or barely sufficient in amount, number, or effect; small in amount, few in number, rare; of hair: sparse; of a text: lacking needed explanation; (b) limited in area, narrow, cramped……

(a) Insufficiency, want; dearth, lack; scarcity of food; (b) scarsete of, insufficiency of (sth.); a dearth of (sth., people); (c) smallness of amount, fewness of number; rarity; sparseness of hair……

(a) An implement for drawing or taking up liquids, prob. usu. provided with a handle; a scoop; also fig.; (b) a scoop for use on a boat, usu. for bailing water; (c) a scoop used in the brewing……

(a) A feeling or attitude of contempt, scorn; in (o, with) scorn, disdainfully; haven scorn, to scorn (to do sth.); haven scorn of, feel contempt for (sb. or sth.); leten (tellen) scorn of, regard……

(a) To be contemptuous; hold (sb. or sth.) in disdain, despise; ppl. scorninge as adj.: ?disdainful, scornful; (b) to bring (sth.) into contempt. …

(a) To remove (an outer layer, skin, etc.) with a scraping instrument; scrapen awei (of); scrapen oute of, remove (sth.) from (a place); (b) to make erasures; erase (writing, written material) with a……