(a) Something offered as security, such as a pledge, a bond, a pawn, or bail; finden, laien, yeven caucioun, give a pledge, furnish security; caucioun marchant, ?security in goods; (b) law an……

(a) To cause, effect, or produce (sth.); (b) to bring about or induce (an event or situation); cause (an action); (c) to bring (sth.) into existence, produce; (d) cause causing [L causa causans]……

(a) A warning; (b) law an injunction or rule. …

Law The return of a sheriff who has arrested a person upon a capias. …

Law A writ of certiorari. …

(a) A false or malicious accusation or charge; also, any charge; wrong chalenge, an accusation of having done wrong; (b) wrong chalenge, wrongdoing, injury inflicted upon others. …

Law The practice of aiding a litigant for a share of the matter in dispute, champerty. …

(a) Burdensome (bags); (b) onerous, troublesome, distressing (matter); (c) heavy (expense); burdensome (tax). …

(a) The head or leader (of an organization); ruler, governor, administrator, commander, chief officer, chief; chef of clergie, high priest; chef of holi chirche; etc.; (b) the (chief) seat (of a……

(a) Principally, primarily, chiefly, especially; (b) first of all; promptly, quickly; (c) law as a fief, in chief. …

Law Sovereignty. …

(a) A sentence or clause, a brief statement, a short passage, a short text or quotation; in a clause, briefly, in short; (b) a written message or letter; a story; a long passage in an author's source……

(a) The clergy (as distinguished from the laity); also, a particular group of clerics; (b) the clergy of a country (as a political class); also, the prelates of the realm, the lords spiritual; (c) the……

(a) To obstruct a passageway; block entrance to (a place); closen up; closen from, bar or block (someone's) entry; shut or lock (a door); closen to; of a trap: to shut; (b) to close an opening or gap……

(a) An encircling structure or barrier, such as a wall, fence, hedge, or moat; (b) a cover (of a book). …

(a) Lying alongside, adjoining; (b) accompanying, concomitant; (c) subsidiary, subordinate, less important; (d) law collateral (security); added (provision). …

Law (a) A secret understanding or agreement between persons to circumvent the law or to achieve a purpose by unfair or fraudulent means; collusion; (b) a fraudulent act, a subterfuge. …

(a) To come about, arise; (b) to begin; begin (to snow); (c) law to become effective. …

(a) To distribute (sth.) in shares, deal out; communen to, give (sth.) to (sb.) as his share; communen with, share (sth.) with (others); (b) to have a share (in sth.), participate; enter into……

The sharing of possessions. …

(a) Found out, ascertained; (b) law the finding of an inquest; also, an inquest. …

Law One who makes charges or brings suit, a plaintiff. …

(a) A situation or state; circumstances of life or existence; condicioun of poverte, prosperite; childes condicioun, childhood; (b) status or station in a society; free condicioun, high condicioun,……

(a) Knowledge, understanding, information; (b) recognition; (c) ben of conissaunce, to be known or familiar to (sb.), be of (one's) acquaintance. …

Law Connected matters. …

Of a person: (a) to compel or force (sb. to do sth.), make (sb. do sth.); also, oblige, induce; (b) constreinen herte, constreinen wil, to exert pressure or compulsion on (someone's) heart or will……

(a) Dissension, discord, conflict, strife; quarreling, brawling; law disputing, controversy; areren, reisen contek, to cause dissension, etc.; driven, holden contek, carry on or engage in a……

Of persons: perseverance, continued application; constancy, patience; don, maken, usen continuaunce, to persevere, persist. …

Of persons: (a) to persevere, carry on, persist; continuen forth; continuen bi course; (b) to persevere (in an activity or attitude); persist or continue (in a state); remain (in possession); (c) to……

Eccl. A solemn agreement to enter into matrimony, marriage vow or contract; contract of matrimonie (weddinge); also, a breach of this vow [quot.: 1395]. …

Any geographic area or physiographic province, whatever its size: region, district, area, place; also, with implication of political organization: territory, country, land; contre and coste; of contre……

Law The act of finding a person guilty of an offense, conviction. …

Law (a) Tenure of manorial land by copy of court roll 'according to the custom of the manor and at the will of the lord'; (b) land so held. …

To incorporate or assimilate (sth.). …

Law Capable of being set right, i.e. punishable. …

To destroy the form or existence of (sth.); destroy (form, perfection); bring to destruction or ruin. …

(a) The territory ruled by a count; also, an English earldom; also fig.; (b) ?country, territory. …

Law A duplicate copy of a scroll containing official records, maintained as a check against the primary copy. …

The complex of courtly ideals; chivalry, chivalrous conduct; also, contextually, one of these ideals, as courtly love, benevolence, kindness, cheerfulness. …

An agreement between parties binding them to certain provisions; a compact (as of betrothal or marriage), a pact (as of peace); maken (a) covenaunt; binden to covenaunt; holden covenaunt, kepen……

(a) Running, moving along; shifting; curraunt goute, gout that progresses from joint to joint or from one part of the body to another; (b) as noun: a current (of water, air). …

Law One who harbors a known outlaw. …

(a) Law Sine die, i.e. without being liable to further hearings in court, without challenge; (b) without a hearing, unheeded; without effect. …

(a) Injury, harm, or loss (to a person, his well-being, or his reputation); also, an injury or loss; don damage, to inflict injury or loss; haven damage, be harmed or hurt; lacchen, taken damage……

To pass adverse judgment upon (sth., sb.); condemn or repudiate (a doctrine); object to or condemn (a practice); ban (a book); blame, censure or criticize (sb.). …

(a) Law Judicial condemnation, sentencing; a sentence; (b) theol. damnation; a curse. …

(a) To strike (sb., sth.) violently, as with a weapon; dash to pieces, shatter; dashen to peces, dashen a two; dashen doun, strike or knock (sb., sth.) down; dashen out, knock or dash out (teeth, the……

Law An objection strong enough to invalidate a claim. …

(a) Trickery, deceit, treachery; lying; (b) act of deceiving; a deception, stratagem, trick; a lie; (c) an ambush; (d) a fowler's snare or trap; some device to impede the passage of ships. …

(a) Of persons, animals, bodies, parts of bodies: dead, no longer alive; also fig.; ben ded, to be dead; (b) of trees, flowers, etc.: dead. …

(a) A dead man, a corpse; pl. dead men, corpses, the dead; dedes office, funeral service; (b) a ghost; (c) one who has died; the ded, the deceased; dedes wille, will or desire expressed by someone who……

Law One who kills with his own hand (as opposed to one who procures or contrives a killing). …

(a) An action, a deed; god dede, ivel dede, etc.; see also almes dede, est dede, man dede, mis dede; (b) a marvelous act, miracle; also, a feat of magic; (c) a favor, kindness, service; (d) ?an……

Law A writ commissioning a private person to administer an oath of office. …

(a) Lack, insufficiency, absence; short weight [quot.: a1400]; at defaut, incomplete (as to antlers), lacking; for defaut, for lack of something; in your defaut, in your absence, because of your……

(a) Disfigured; debilitated; (b) law null and void. …

(a) Law The defendant in a suit (as opposed to the plaintiff); (b) the challenged party in a trial by combat. …

(a) Defending; him (him self, me) defendaunt, defending himself (myself), in self-defense [cp. OF se defendant]; mi sonne defendaunt, my son defending himself; (b) law defending in a suit; partie……

(a) To fight in defense of (sth.), defend (sb.) by fighting; fight defensively; defenden from, defend against (sb.); (b) refl. to defend oneself; also, put up a fight; defenden ayen, defenden fro……

(a) The act of defending; defense against physical harm, protection; the defending, defense of yourself, self-defense; (b) a means of defense; a covering; a fortification. …

(a) A defender, protector; (b) one who rules while the monarch is under age, a regent; (c) a tutor; (d) a pleader in court, lawyer, counsel; (e) a protection, shield. …

(a) Act of defending oneself (or sb. else) by fighting, defense; comen to defens, to come to someone's defense; don defens, maken defens, stonden at defens, to defend oneself; also, to fight; for (in)……

Law Of rights to income or property: capable of being voided or annulled. …

Law A condition which, if fulfilled, nullifies a contract, an obligation, or a judgment against litigant; also, the document stating such a condition; in defesaunce of, for nullifying (an obligation)……

(a) Disfigured; changed in appearance; (b) overcome by hunger; (c) law null and void. …

(a) To ruin (sth.); (b) defeted, p.ppl., overcome with sorrow or hunger; (c) to cut up (a game animal), butcher, dress. …

(a) A delay, postponement; delai of time, postponement of the day of payment; fallen in delai, to be in arrears; feinen a delai, pretend a hindrance, find a pretext for delay; upon delai, lying in……

Law Plaintiff. …

(a) A question; (b) it is no demaunde, there is no question; that is no demaunde, this holde I no demaunde, there is no question about it, there is no doubt about that. …

(a) Law To pass judgment on (sb. or sth.); judge, adjudicate; (b) to render judgment, judge; -- with prep. phr.; (c) demen dom, to pass judgment, render a verdict, impose a sentence; also, sit in……

Law (a) The act of conducting a trial or of passing judgment; adjudication, arbitration; stonden to deming, to submit to arbitration; dai of deming, Judgment Day; (b) a judicial decision or verdict……

(a) Separately, individually; (b) law jointli and departingli, jointly and severally. …

(a) Departure, going away; (b) a turning away, abandoning, rejection; (c) law a change of plea, change of argument. …

(a) The state of being dependent; (b) law an action or fact growing out of a legal action, consequence, result. …

Law An action growing out of another action; the result or consequence of a judgment, will, quarrel, etc. …

(a) Dependent; dependaunt of, dependaunt fro, relying for existence on (sb. or sth.); (b) law of a legal act: appertaining; dependaunt of (to, upon), growing out of (another act), consequent upon……

(a) To hang down, grow down; (b) to overhang, be precipitous. …

Law accioun (pleint) of detenu, legal action or suit for the recovery of goods wrongfully withheld. …

(a) Law Capable of being decided (according to certain laws, before a certain court); determinable bi (at) commune laue; (b) definite. …

Usually law (a) Disposition or settlement of a suit or dispute; decision, verdict; doom, undoing; (b) power to adjudicate, jurisdiction. …

To predestine or predetermine (sth.), fix in advance. …

Law A plea or writ for (hearing and) adjudicating a matter in dispute; oyer and determiner. …

(a) Whatever one owes another in goods, money, tribute, rent, dues, or the like; a debt; paien (quiten, yelden) dette, to pay a debt; borwen dette, incur a debt; axen dette, demand payment of a debt……

Law Causing delay; excepcioun dilatorie, dilatorie plea, a formal objection or plea that tends to retard the progress of an action. …

(a) Law Relinquishment (of sovereignty, crown, office, etc.); (b) conveyance or transfer (of tithes or tenements) by lease; (c) action of freeing someone from a demand or obligation; also, the……

Law Inadmissible. …

(a) Law A formal denial of a feudal claim; (b) a renunciation of a claim to feudal tenure. …

Law (a) To make a formal denial of (a feudal claim or obligation), make a formal disclaimer; (b) to renounce feudal claim upon (sb. or sth.); (c) to remove oneself (from feudal jurisdiction) by formal……

Law A formal denial of a feudal claim. …

Interruption (of shining of light). …

Law Of the entail of an estate: broken. …

(a) To be interrupted, be discontinuous (in space or time); (b) ppl. discontinuing, discontinued, discontinuous, broken. …

(a) Mental distress, grief; perturbation; agitation; (b) a distressing experience or situation; an upsetting incident. …

Law Liable to be distrained, subject to distraint. …

(a) To take hold of (sth.); hold fast, retain; (b) to hold (sth.) back; detain (sb.); restrain, hold in check; (c) to arrest or confine (sb.); hem in. …

Law (a) The act of constraining a person to fulfill certain obligations (such as payment of rent) by seizing his property; also, the power or right of distraint; (b) pl. properties or goods thus……

(a) A circumstance that causes anxiety or hardship; danger, threat; putten in distresse, to expose (sb.) to danger or hardship; (b) a distressing situation or experience; misfortune, distress……

(a) To press upon or harass (sb.); also, attack (an enemy); (b) ?to take (sb.) prisoner; (c) to pillage (an estate). …

(a) Violation; (b) law distraint. …

(a) To write or compose (a letter, poem, etc.); (b) to say or declare; (c) to order or prescribe (sth.); (d) law to indict. …