(a) The act of bowing; also fig.; (b) obeying, obedience; (c) bending, twisting, leaning; also, bending (sth.); (d) turning; bouing fro(m, turning away from (sth.); fig. turning one's attention (from……

(a) A lye solution used in bucking (i.e. cleaning and bleaching) cloth, etc.; often used fig.; (b) the process of bucking [in comb. only]; bouking fat, a tub used in bucking; bouking stok, bouking……

Playing at bowls. …

(a) Jesting, joking, frivolity; (b) sport, entertainment; (c) in bourding, in jest, jokingly; taken in bourding, take (sth.) as a joke. …

(a) Jousting, tilting; (b) butting. …

Med. Cupping. …

The act of fastening, bracing, or mounting (sth.). …

(a) Ostentation, boasting; (b) sounding, blowing (of trumpets). …

Of man or beast: crying, roaring, etc. …

Crushing. …

Killing by crushing the brain. …

Vomiting; application of a vomitive. …

(a) Braking (of flax); (b) tanning (of hides); (c) ?the craft of forging iron into bars [cp. brake-man]. …

Vomiting. …

(a) Destruction by burning; (b) cauterization; branding iren; (c) fervency. …

(a) Contention, brawling, noisy behavior; (b) clash, impact. …

Subdivision. …

Shaking, brandishing. …

The act of broadening, spreading, or flattening out. …

Hatching, incubation; gestation; propagation; bredinge time, period of incubation. …

(a) Shortcutting, termination; (b) violation (of the Scriptures). …

(a) Braiding; (b) wattling; wattle; (c) delivering blows; ?assaulting; (d) with breiding, in haste, instantly. …

(a) The act or fact of the breaking, crushing, or tearing (of an object); also, a fragment, a tear (in cloth); (b) fracturing or fracture (of a bone or limb); (c) theol. Christ's breaking of bread. …

The process of cleaning a ship's bottom with burning broom or reeds; also, material so used [first quot.]. …

(a) The process of combustion; (b) destruction or devastation by fire; incendiarism. …

(a) Breaking; bresting doun, breaking down, overthrowing; (b) a wound, a bruise; (c) bursting open. …

A parapet, or the like. …

(a) Respiration, breathing; exhalation; brethinge ese, breathing in comfort, respite; (b) inhaled or exhaled air, breath. …

(a) The making of beverages (esp. of ale), or an instance of it; (b) breuing gavel, breuing silver, a tax for the right to brew; breuing led, breuing vessel, a vessel used in brewing; (c) a hostile……

Grease. …

(a) Harnessing; (b) guidance. …

Of swine: the state of being in heat or in rut; brimming love; brimming time, rutting season. …

(a) Act of bringing or carrying; bringing on erthe, burial; bringing in, bringing to righteousness, salvation; bringing to outrance, destruction, ruin; (b) bringing forth, childbearing, begetting……

(a) Fracturing (of bones); fragment (of a jar); ?drilling [quot.: 1417]; (b) fragmentation or pulverizing; (c) bruising; a bruise; (d) oppression, affliction; suffering, hardship; (e) the press of……

(a) Splitting, chopping (of wood); (b) wounding, slaying. …

Slaying. …

Chiding; a rebuke. …

(a) Tapping of a cask; (b) broching ax, a tool for splitting stone, a chisel. …

Enlargement, extension. …

Sitting on eggs, hatching. …

Burning, heat. …

Retaining (of food, etc.), ability to keep (sth.) in the stomach. …

?A complaint. …

A breaking off, interruption. …

Embroidering; embroidery. …

Embroidering; embroidery. …

(a) Feeding on the leaves and twigs of felled trees; (b) the right to feed animals in this manner. …

Rubbing with a brush. …

Swelling, ulceration. …

(a) The giving or receiving of slaps or blows; (b) fig. affliction. …

The rut, or rutting period, of the deer. …

(a) The action of sifting flour from meal; bulting oute, fig. sifting (truth) from error; (b) pl. bran as separated by sifting. …

A blow. …

?A fit of anger. …

The buzzing (of bees), a buzz. …

(a) Growing, budding, sprouting; (b) a shoot or sprout; fruit. …

(a) Of plants: growing, budding, sprouting; burjouning time, time of burjouning, the time of new growth, spring; vertu of burjouning, the natural force producing buds or shoots; (b) of persons and……

The last stage in the manufacture of cloth: mending of defects, such as broken threads, knots. …

Polishing. …

(a) Preparation, making ready; (b) hastening; maken busking, to make haste. …

(a) Planting of shrubs or trees (for supporting the grapevines); (b) gathering of firewood. …

(a) Butting, bumping, knocking; (b) oppression, subjection. …

Excited or noisy activity. …

Boundary. …

(a) Catching, getting, taking; cacching of harm, receiving injury; (b) chasing, driving away. …

?A fastening. …

Cackling; chattering. …

Alch. The process of calcination. …

The process of computing or reckoning; the art or science of reckoning: (a) math.; (b) astrol. and divination. …

Naut. Calking (of a ship). …

Calculation, reckoning. …

Outcry, shouting; the cries used in driving oxen; the cackling of hens. …

Giving birth to a calf (or a fawn); the time for giving birth; calving time. …

Arched. …

(a) To play a kind of ball game [see quots.]; camping bal (crok, pightel), a ball (curved stick, field) used for this sport; (b) to fight with (sth.), contend, strive. …

A football match. …

A fight, a battle. …

(a) The act of crossing out a written word; (b) some way of shearing or trimming cloth. …

Cp. caned ppl. Sourness. …

(a) The canonization of a saint; (b) official acceptance by the Church. …

A sharing of booty. …

(a) A covering, a cap on a flail, etc.; (b) ?a surname. …

The process of hanging wild figs on cultivated fig-trees. …

The carding or combing of wool, etc. …

Playing at cards. …

(a) The act of carrying; carting, hauling; (b) carrying away, robbery; (c) bringing in of hay, harvest; (d) a game; (e) hawk. flying off with the prey after it has been taken. …

Anxiety, solicitude. …

Trouble, anxiety. …

(a) A round dance accompanied by singing (= carole); (b) dancing and/or singing in a carole. …

(a) Talking, speech, conversation; (b) foolish talk. …

(a) Transporting in carts, hauling; (b) carts, a train of carts. …

(a) The setting up of a military camp; (b) a military camp. …

(a) The throwing of a stone, spear, etc.; throwing a stone (bar, axeltree) as a sport; hurling missiles with a siege engine; casting shot, a missile; ston casting, the sport of throwing or putting the……

Med. The applying of cataplasms, poulticing. …

(a) Bringing into being; (b) promotion; (c) inducing. …

Cauterization. …

Cauterization. …

Storing. …