(a) A weapon for discharging quarrels, stones, etc., consisting of a bow set crosswise on a shaft; a crossbow, an arbalest; (b) a missile shot from a crossbow; arblast shute. …

Fulfillment, satisfaction, reparation; maken (don) asseth, give satisfaction: (a) fulfillment of a wish, expectation or requirement; (b) fulfilling of a need; (c) satisfactory answer to a question or……

(a) In many pr.ppls. taken from OF, e.g. abound-a(u)nt, appar-a(u)nt, ard-a(u)nt, arrog-a(u)nt, charge-a(u)nt, ramp-aunt, -and, etc.; (b) in a number of nouns (orig. ppls.) adopted from OF, as……

(a) Benefit, advantage, profit; ben avail, to be useful or effective; ben litel avail, to be of little value; (b) of persons: worthiness. …

A service owed by the tenant to his feudal superior [orig. consisting of work performed by the tenant with his draft animals]. …

(a) The part of a suit of armor protecting the arm; (b) an arm guard or wrist guard used by archers; (c) a bracelet, an armlet. …

(a) A light body armor, consisting of a front and a back half, worn by foot soldiers (later also by others); pair (of) briganders; (b) briganders maker; briganders nail. …

Naut. One of two small pieces of timber, perforated to receive the tack of a sail [see quot. 1625 below and quot. 1769 in OD under chesstree]. …

Hunt. Of hounds: (a) to follow a scent; (b) to follow the wrong scent. …

The name of a portable siege tower used by Richard I. …

(a) A course of action, method, way; a means of attaining an end; (b) bi mene of, with menes of; bi no (manere of) mene; bi al menes; bi god menes, with great skill; menes and weies; weies and menes……

(a) A pickax, a tool used for breaking up and digging up ground, breaking up walls, quarrying, etc. (often identified with other tools, such as a mattock, spade, hoe, etc.); also fig.; ?also, a tool……

Hunt. (a) The parts of a deer, usually placed on the animal's hide, which are given to the hounds as a reward for the chase; (b) the ceremony of giving the hounds their reward; (c) the collection of……

(a) The rest, remaining part or quantity; the residual portion of an estate; a remaining or reserved portion; also fig.; (b) the remaining part of a story, question, text, law, etc.; a remaining……

(a) Shame, disgrace, dishonor; with gret repreve, shamefully; (b) ben (lien) in repreve, to be in disgrace, be despised or rejected; don repreve, cause disgrace; don repreve to, cause disgrace to (sb……

(a) The rear of an army, rear guard; also, the rear of a horse; (b) fig.; (c) a weapon of some kind, perhaps a cudgel or club; (d) error for red water, i.e., the Red Sea. …

The state of possessing wealth, prosperity, affluence. …

(a) A rawhide shoe or boot; (b) as a derogatory nickname for a Scot. …

(a) To record (a deed, title, etc.) in an official roll or register; also in fig. context; (b) to list (a person's name) on a roster or muster roll; record (sb.) as (sth.), acknowledge; rollen with……

(a) A spherical body or form; a globular lump; (b) the rounded end of a bone; (c) an eye socket; (d) ?a round nut or seed. …