(a) The sin of detracting from someone's good name behind his back because of envy; defamation, slander; (b) an act of such detraction; a slanderous statement. …

(a) The action or process of baking; (b) the product of baking; baked goods. …

Hurling shot from a catapult. …

Plowing. …

Bathing. …

Banishment, exile. …

(a) Summoning; (b) cursing, imprecation, vituperation; a curse; (c) outlawing. …

Baptism. …

The trimming of cloth by shaving or cutting away unwanted portions. …

(a) Discussion of or agreement on the terms of a purchase; bargaining, dickering; lither bargaining, an unfair business transaction; (b) something requested in return (for a service). …

Tanning. …

(a) Barring or locking (of a door); (b) debarring, exclusion; (c) ?the installation of protective bars (on a window); ?protective bars themselves [quot. may merge these meanings]; (d) ornamenting with……

Exchange (of commodities). …

(a) The laying of a foundation; (b) a foundation; (c) the base (of a pillar). …

Basting, sewing. …

(a) Combat, fighting; an assault; (b) a body of troops in battle array. …

(a) Dressing (of stone); (b) forging (of tools); (c) pounding, drubbing. …

To hunt birds (at night) by knocking them from the roost with a 'bat' or pole and netting them; etc. …

(a) Bathing, a bath; (b) a curative bath or ablution, fomentation; (c) bathing fat, a bathtub; bathing place, a Roman bath, a hot spring. …

(a) A parapet or battlement; (b) cook. a notched design or edge. …

Beating (of wings). …

Talking, chattering. …

Barking, a bark. …

(a) Application of an ointment or lotion, an ointment so applied, fomentation; (b) smearing; (c) application (?effusion) of happiness. …

(a) Furnishings or equipment for a bed; bedclothes; anything used in preparing a bed; (b) a bed; also, lodgings. …

(a) The act of offering money for something, bargaining; (b) a votive offering; also, the act of offering; (c) a command, an order; at beding, by order (of sb.), at the disposal (of sb.); (d) a……

?Doings, effort. …

(a) The practice of begging, mendicancy; in (on) begging, as a beggar, a-begging; religioun of begging, one of the mendicant orders; (b) a beggar's way of life, destitution, poverty. …

(a) Conduct, behavior (with regard to right or wrong); also pl.; (b) deportment, manners; behaving outward. …

A stretching out (?before a fire). …

Existence; esp., inanimate existence; haven being, exist; also, receive one's being, come into existence; yeven being, create. …

(a) Mute signaling; nodding, beckoning, etc.; (b) a signal of any kind; esp., a sign of command, an order, a summons. …

The use of mute signals, beckoning; also, a mute signal. …

Encouragement; comfort. …

A swelling. …

Bellowing, roaring; belling time, mating season. …

Beautification, ornamentation. …

A bellowing, a roaring; the bellow of the male deer in the mating season; belwing time, the mating season. …

Arch. The process of filling the spaces between the timbers of a building; also, the masonry or other structures or materials filling such spaces. …

The emission of rays of light. …

?A banked turn-out or side track. …

The act of drawing a bow; also, the act of bending a bow to attach the string. …

Providing a garment with decorative stripes or borders. …

A row of benches. …

Beardlike growth on plants. …

Beating, whipping. …

(a) The action of carrying; also, carrying off, pilfering; bering awei, removal; (b) a carrier, vehicle; (c) sending, bringing. …

(a) The barking of a dog or a fox; (b) harsh speech, opprobrious words, scoffing. …

Salvation. …

A flogging, scourging, beating; also, punishment of any kind. …

A reward. …

(a) Moral improvement, betterment; (b) an improvement (on landed property); (c) compensation paid to the buyer by the seller of wool found to be inferior or defective. …

Cp. befilen. Corruption or slander. …

Eschewing, avoidance. …

Tippling, imbibing. …

(a) The act of embracing or mating; an embrace; (b) enveloping. …

Enclosing or seclusion in a convent. …

Occurence, event [cp. bicomen 5]. …

(a) Requesting, pleading, wishing; a request, plea, entreaty, wish; (b) advice, suggestion. …

(a) Staying, dwelling (in a place); a sojourn or stay; remaining (in a condition); (b) duration; (c) hope; (d) endurance, patience. …

(a) Happening or occurrence (of events), or an instance of it; (b) recurrence, relapse. …

(a) Living or staying (in a place), residence; (b) a dwelling, abode; homestead, home. …

Deception, fraud, betrayal, or an instance of it. …

(a) The process of coming into existence; the Creation (of the world, etc.); the first biginning; (b) the process of being born, birth; (c) origin; source; taken biginning, originate, arise; -- with……

Decapitation. …

(a) The act of looking, gazing, spying, or seeing; (b) visual appearance or 'looks'. …

(a) The act of promising; a promise or pledge; fals bihoting; (b) a promise of success, a claim; (c) a commandment; a command (as of God in creating the world). …

(a) The act of purchasing; biinge and sellinge, buying and selling, engaging in trade; biinge place, a market; (b) a purchase. …

Cp. kennen. Knowledge, understanding. …

(a) Fighting, warfare; a skirmish or battle; (b) bikering takel, fighting gear, i.e. missiles, arrows. …

(a) Knowledge, understanding; (b) confession. …

Knowledge, understanding. …

(a) The action or process of constructing (houses, etc.), construction; pl. works; ben in bilding, be under construction; (b) founding (of a city). …

(a) Remaining, staying, dwelling; (b) perseverance, steadfastness; (c) remainder, remnants. …

Believing. …

Lying with a woman, sexual encounter. …

Mutilation, maiming. …

The beak or prow (of a ship). …

Ulceration, festering, swelling. …

Victuals. …

(a) Jabbing, scratching; (b) digging, grubbing; (c) pecking. …

?Credit recorded for work done. …

(a) Lamentation, mourning; (b) a complaint or accusation. …

Meaning, significance. …

The act of (a) bandaging (a wound, etc.), binding (a book); binding lond, ?land held subject to binding grain for the lord; (b) framing or building (a ship), mounting (a gun), etc. …

The act of taking away; deprivation, loss. …

Deception, cheating. …

Stripping; fig. deprivation. …

Bequeathing, bequest. …

Child-bearing, birth. …

Covering the frame with boards. …

Regretting, pitying, or an instance of it. …

(a) Interment, burial, entombment; funeral; Cristen biriing; biriing dai; biriing messe, funeral service, requiem; beren, bringen to biriing; (b) funeral rites. …

(a) Serving (of drinks); (b) meting out (of justice). …

Contemplation. …

(a) Entreaty, supplication, prayer, intercession, or an instance of it; (b) law a petition or plea. …

The act of besieging, a siege. …

Circumspection, prudence. …