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

Prefix of verbs and action nouns adopted from OF, e.g. es-cāpen, es-chaunǧen, es-pleiten, es-soinen. It is not formative in ME. as- and a-, the AF variants of this prefix, occur alongside the CF……

(a) To enact (a law); ordain (that sth. be so); -- also with grammatical subject hit; also, institute (a sacrament); also, issue instructions (to do sth.); (b) to impose (a condition); prescribe (a……

(a) State or condition; (b) stature, build, bodily form; (c) of God, the soul, immortal life, etc.: nature, essential character. …

(a) Haughty, reserved; (b) as noun: something external to the body, a foreign substance. …

(a) To reduce (a person) to extreme hunger or to death by starvation; to starve (b) to cause (a horse) to fast, whet appetite by withholding food. …

Smelling, odorous. …

To trim or clip (something); esp., to trim (a fleece, removing the coarser parts). …

A fortified place, a fortress. …

Tread or trample upon. …

(a) A landowner and member of the gentry ranking immediately below the nobility; a freeman, a gentleman; franklein of toun, a free citizen, an owner of property in a town, a burgess; (b) as a personal……

(a) Spawn or the young of fish; small fish; -- constr. with sg. or pl. verb; (b) roe. …

A collector and/or seller of herbs, an herbalist. …

The guest master or mistress in a religious house; also fig. …

Shame, disgrace. …

(a) An island in the sea, a lake, or a river; (b) an area of high land rising above marsh or fens. …

(a) Security against possible loss; (b) a payment made to compensate for loss of revenue, indemnification. …

Derivational suffix usually in nouns from L or OF: accioun, contradiccioun, dominioun, temptacioun, etc.; also in ME formations, often diminutives: conjeccion, merlioun, oinion, carioun (var. of……

Armor for the leg. …

(a) Jaundice; the jaunis; haven the jaunis, to be jaundiced; (b) yelwe jaunis, yellow jaundice, jaundice; grene jaunis, green-sickness, chlorosis; blak jaunis, ?cancer of the liver. …