(a) To earn (wages, a reward, etc.); to obtain (that which one has earned); -- also refl.; (b) to merit (spiritual blessings, heavenly bliss, etc.); to be deserving of (death, the tortures of hell)……

To profit (sb.), benefit. …

Slip away (?as in a flash), escape. …

(a) Acknowledge, profess; (b) confess (sins). …

(a) To be anxious or grieved; -- intr. & refl.; (b) ben angred, be anxious or grieved; be in agony. …

(a) To rid (sb. of danger, an enemy), rescue, save; (b) to free (sb.), liberate (a city). …

(a) To intend or plan (to do sth.); -- intr. or refl.; (b) seek or plan (sth.). …

Slip away or escape from (sb.). …

(a) To make an effort, strive to obtain; to earn or merit; (b) ppl. endowed. …

(a) To bait (an animal) with an attacking or herding dog; specif., to bait (a tied or confined bear, bull, or badger) in sport; (b) of a dog: to set on (an animal or person); perh. [quot.: a1375] to……

(a) To inquire, ask; (b) to grant (a request); baithen bon; (c) to consent, agree. …

(a) To summon (troops) by proclamation; assemble (a fighting force); bannen out; (b) to assemble (a fleet) for an attack; (c) to gather (arms), make ready; to man or make ready (a castle). …

Intrans. to bathe (in blood), bask, wallow; also refl.; basken aboute. …

To inflame; become inflamed, fester; fig. inflame with hate or rage. …

(a) To beat (sb.), whip; (b) to thresh (grain); (c) to beat (a path); ppl. bered, trodden. …

(a) To dwell or live (in a place, among people), reside; inhabit (the Earth); ben bigged, have lodging; (b) biggen bour, to establish (head)quarters; refl. establish oneself (in a location); (c) to……

him (etc.) birth: (a) with respect to circumstances, destiny, etc.: he is constrained or compelled (to do or suffer sth.), he must; biren nede(s, he must of necessity (do sth.); biren dien, he must……

To confine or enclose (as in a nunnery); lock up (as in a chest). …

To buffet (sb.), pummel, flog, beat; also without obj., of waves: to dash, rage. …

(a) To turn pale (as with fear); bleiken in blodi ble, blush; (b) to make (sb.) turn pale. …

(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……

(a) To mix or blend (two things or one thing with another); blenden samme, blenden togeder; blenden among, blenden with; (b) to intersperse; suffuse; (c) to penetrate (sth.); immerse (in sth.); engulf……

Of the ram: to copulate with (the ewe), tup; blismed, tupped, pregnant. …

(a) To shine; (b) to lose color, turn pale [cp. bloknen]. …

To make inarticulate sounds; blubber, sob, 'carry on'. …

(a) To come into flower, bloom, flower; (b) fig. to flourish, increase, abound, grow. …

(a) To walk without seeing, go blindly; (b) to proceed ignorantly, act blindly or irrationally; refl. delude oneself, be out of one's senses; ppl. blundering, rash, clumsy, thoughtless; of things……

To anoint. …

(a) To swell, become distended; also, specif., swell from infection, poison, beating, etc.; (b) bolned, swollen (from infection, beating, etc.); also, corpulent; (c) bolned hering, bloated herring……

To rush. …

(a) To be consumed by fire; burn, burn down; brennen awai; of fire: burn; brennen up, flame up; brenning, on fire, fiery; (b) to destroy (sth.) with fire; put to the torch, reduce to ashes; brennen up……

(a) To be broken, fall apart, break, shatter; bresten atwo, bresten atwinne, bresten in peces, bresten in sunder; (b) to break (sth.), shatter, crush; break (one's arm); ppl. brosten, of grain or……

(a) To commit (sth.) to writing, write down; breved in boke, recorded or recounted in writing; (b) to give a (written) account (of sth., sb.); (c) to extol (sb.). …

(a) To mash; (b) to cut to pieces, dismember; (c) to shatter; demolish. …

(a) To make preparations, get ready, prepare (to do sth.); (b) to prepare (sth.), get (sb.) ready, arrange; make (sth.); busken debat, quarrel, make strife; busken him, make (sth.) for himself, get……

(a) To go, move, travel, depart; (b) refl. to betake oneself, go; (c) to carry (sth.), bring, convey, send; cairen at, pull at (a cart), draw; (d) fig. to proceed (with a story); of apples: develop……

(a) To cry out, call, shout; (b) to cry out (sth.), say (sth.) loudly; (c) callen after, to call for (sb.), summon; callen on (upon), call to (sb.), address, invoke, summon, call on (sb. for payment)……

To card (flax). …

(a) To throw (sth.) to a distance, fling, hurl; pour or sprinkle (water); (b) sift (sand); (c) scatter (seed), sow; (d) throw at (sb.). …

To humor or cheer up (a baby). …

(a) To rattle or clatter, chatter; (b) to speak, talk. …

To cluster. …

To give birth to (sth.), create. …

(a) To cut off (sth.); clippen out; (b) to cut off (the hair, the beard); clippen awei; (c) to shear (wool, a fleece); clippen awei; (d) fig. to remove (sin); cut off (a straggler); clippen awei,……

(a) To climb (steps, etc.); cliven up and doun; (b) fig. to climb (to perfection); cliven into (up) the hil of perfeccioun. …

To claw or beat. …

To clip or shave off the hair of the head. …

To pay the penalty for (sth.), suffer for. …

(a) To swarm, crawl; ben crauling, be crawling (with worms); (b) fig. to drag oneself, walk slowly. …

To hook (sb.), catch. …

To stuff (sth.). …

To crawl like a snake or worm; ppl. cropen, crawled, having crawled, that has (have) crawled; icropen in drit, crawling in filth. …

To make the sign of the cross on or over (sth.); cross (sb., oneself). …

To void excrement. …

To quiet down, rest. …

To strike; dabben on the hed, strike on the head, defeat (an enemy). …

To have dealings with (sb.), be concerned with (sth.). …

(a) To be stunned, bewildered, befuddled, or dumfounded; -- intr. or refl.; (b) dased, stunned, dazed, dizzy; (c) dasand, stupefying. …

To dawn, grow light; dauen clere, dauen light, dauen (to) dai; (a) with subj. it; (b) with subj. dai. …

(a) To shed dew or rain; also fig.; (b) of dawn or daylight: to come with refreshing dew, bring relief. …

(a) Of a person, animal, soul, body, part of body: to cease living, die; liven or dien, liven and dien; (b) refl. …

(a) To hide (sth.), conceal, keep secret; (b) to hide oneself. …

To beat (sb.), scourge; also, overcome in fighting, defeat; intr. deal blows; of storms: beat upon (sb.). …

(a) To beat (sb.) with blows, strike with a weapon or missile; (b) to deal blows in combat. …

(a) To fall suddenly or headlong, plunge; dompen in the dep, dompen into hell, dompen to the devel; (b) to dive, plunge; (c) to drop (sb. into hell). …

To smell (sth.). …

(a) To pull or draw (sth.); (b) to transport (sth.); (c) to dredge (oysters); -- OF text & inflection. …

(a) To pull, tug, draw; pull in harness; (b) to pull (sb. or sth.), drag, tug at; pull up (a drawbridge); (c) to draw or withdraw (a part of the body); (d) to pull (a vehicle), tow (a ship), turn……

To mumble, mutter. …

To perform or do (sth.); commit (sins); do (penance); drien wille, do (someone's) will; drien lif, lead (a certain kind of) life; drien wirdes, try (one's) luck. …

(a) To fall in drops, drip; dripen of, drip from (sth.); ppl. driping, dripping, misty; (b) dripen on, to drop or dab (a liquid or salve) on (sth.); (c) dripen mid, to moisten or daub (sth.) with……

To defecate; inf. as n. defecation or excrement. …

To be overcome; ppl. droukning, dejected, downcast. …

(a) To drown (sb.), kill by drowning; -- also refl.; (b) to be drowned, die by drowning; (c) ppl. drouned, drowned; ben drouned, to be drowned, drown. …

(a) To sag, slump, droop; fig. weak, failing; droupen doun; (b) to sink or fall down; of the sun: to set. …

(a) Of dust: to rise into the air, be scattered about; (b) to reduce (sth.) to dust. …

(a) To urge (someone) on; (b) to tempt or entice (someone), to incite (to evil) or lure (awai from good); (c) to stimulate, encourage, exhort (someone); eggen to gōd; (d) refl. to bestir oneself. …

To fire (bricks). …

To mold (bricks); ?to work (clay). …

To cry out. …

(a) To incite, taunt, or provoke (someone); (b) to urge on or admonish (someone); (c) to tend or lead (to a certain end); to hasten (to an end); (d) to drive (into exile). …

(a) Of a person: to stagger, totter; (b) of the limbs, etc.: to be unsteady, tremble, quiver; (c) of the tongue: to stammer. …

(a) To make firm, stable, or stationary; to place or fix (in position), to plant firmly (in the ground); (b) to establish securely; pass. be established; refl. establish oneself (in a place), stay……

(a) To scour or cleanse (something); clear (a path), clean out (a ditch, etc.); clear or do away (filth, pain); (b) ?to put in good shape, make ready; groom (a horse), furbish (a weapon). …

(a) To hide (something), conceal; to cover (something), bury, submerge; (b) to keep (something) secret, withhold knowledge. …

To hide, lurk. …

(a) To marshal or deploy (troops); fitten on frounte, to line up (troops); fitten in, to join (others); (b) to be fitting or proper (for somebody); fitting, proper, befitting, right. [Cp. the……

(a) To flutter or wave; (b) to falter; (c) to flatter. …

Of the heart: to beat feebly, to flutter. …

(a) To strip the skin from (a person, a part of someone's body); also, to tear the skin to shreds (by blows, scourging, etc.); to strip (the skin from the flesh); flen of, to flay off (the skin); flen……

Of the mouth: to speak flatteringly or deceptively. …

(a) To dash, run, rush; flingen to armes, to spring to arms; flingen forth, flingen on, flingen out; fig. to travel swiftly (over the sea); (b) comen flingen, comen flinging, to come running, come……

(a) To convey (something), move, take, transport; to remove (something); fig. to transfer (power from one people to another), to deliver (someone from death or wretchedness); (b) to drive or thrust……

(a) To splinter (something), split into small parts; (b) flosen umbe, ?to envelope; ?to droop about (someone). …

(a) Of a stream: to run, flow; also fig.; (b) of water or other liquid: to run; of blood, humors, pus: to move (within the body), run (to a part of the body). …

To forbid or prohibit (something); refl. to desist, cease from (doing something). …

To break in pieces, burst; to be shattered or crushed. …

To lose or forfeit (something) through misconduct; ppl. forgart, lost, condemned. …

(a) To hide or conceal (something), shelter or protect (someone); (b) to keep secret (a fact, plan, purpose); (c) ?to conceal one's knowledge, be silent. …

To overlook or omit. …