(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). …

(a) To surround or encircle (sth.); (b) to close in upon (an enemy); surround; besiege. …

(a) To shatter (sth.), smash; break up, fracture; brisen in two, etc.; brisen doun, knock (sb.) down; (b) to go to pieces; also fig. [last quot.]. …

To recover from illness, fainting, suffering, threatened defeat, etc.; be delivered (from sin); be restored (to health, life, etc.); revive; also coveren ayen; -- (a) simply; (b) refl.; (c) with of……

(a) To bend (sth.), curl, curve, twist; (b) to bend, genuflect; (c) med. to afflict (part of the body) with spasms. …

(a) To create (a knight); confer knighthood on (sb.); give the accolade to (sb.); also, beat (sb.) [1st quot.]; neudubbed, of a knight: newly created; (b) dubben (to) knight, to make (sb.) a knight……

(a) To decorate with needlework or with ornaments, esp. precious stones, sewn on; to embroider; (b) to sew on (an ornament). …

(a) To fill (something) with light, illumine; (b) to decorate (with paintings or miniatures). …

(a) To color or tinge (something); to lend a fair complexion or color to (someone's face); to brighten, make radiant; (b) to ornament (a description) with 'colors' of rhetoric. …

(a) To winnow (grain); also fig.; (b) to separate (the hulls) from the meal of grain ground in a mortar; fannen awei, fannen out; also, to process (grain) in this way. …

(a) To cut or wear away (sth.) with a file, rasp, or other abrading instrument; to rub or polish (sth.) ; (b) to use a file; (c) of a file: to abrade. …

(a) To render (something) materially foul, unclean, or impure; to dirty, soil, pollute; (b) fig. to pollute or defile (the mouth, the air) with false or evil words; (c) to void excrement, defecate. …

(a) To cut (someone) off from escape or retreat, to surround (someone); (b) to bar (someone) from entering or approaching, to shut out; (c) law to exclude (someone) from an inheritance; (d) prevent……

(a) To make (something) dirty, to soil, to pollute; (b) to be or become filthy; (c) to void excrement. …

(a) To murmur, mutter, grumble; groinen ayenes (into), complain against (sb.); (b) of a sow: to grunt; -- also of a wild boar; (c) of a dog: to growl, snarl; (d) of a bull: to bellow. …

(a) To play a harp; (b) to play (notes, a tune, song, etc.) on a harp; of a harp: to play (sth.); (c) to play the harp for (sb.). …

(a) To pillage (a place), plunder (a house, town, country, etc.); rob (sb.); also, plunder (in a place), go pillaging; herien and brennen, pillage and burn, ravage; herien up, ravage (a country); (b)……

(a) To shout, whoop, call out; houpen after, call loudly for (sb.); houpen to, call out to (sb.); (b) to shout (a summons); summon (hawks) by shouting or whooping. …

(a) To injure (sb., a part of the body), wound, hurt; afflict (sb.) with disease [quot.: WB(1), Pecock]; of hunger: to pain (sb.); ben hurt, be wounded or injured; -- also intr.; (b) to receive an……

(a) To invite (sb.); (b) to call (sb.) into the presence of another, summon; order (sb.) to appear; also, order (sb. to come to a specific place); (c) law to cite (sb.) to appear before a court or……