Penance, atonement. …

A capacity for doing something, proficiency in an art or profession, ability, power. …

(a) A piece of equipment; a tool, an instrument, a weapon, a piece of armor, etc.; -- usually pl.; (b) abillementes of werre, military equipment. …

The depths (of the sea or the earth), abyss; also, the bottomless pit, hell. …

To taste or eat (sth.). …

Busy, occupied. …

(a) The depths of the earth or the sea; (b) the primordial chaos, amorphous matter; (c) hell. …

(a) To kill by biting; kill; (b) of the wind: to tear (sth.) to pieces, destroy. …

?To pay a bit, pay (sb.) in part. …

(a) Humbleness, lowliness; an abject position; (b) one who is utterly degraded, the lowest (of the lowly). …

Outcast, rejected; wretched; expelled (from a place, an office, society); abject to regnen, deposed. …

To cast out, expel. …

With extreme humility, abjectly. …

Solemn renunciation of heresy or idolatry. …

(a) To renounce or recant (a heresy) under oath; ben abjured, be subjected to solemn recantation; (b) to give up or renounce (sth.); surrender (a right) under oath; swear to leave (a place). …

Med. and surg. (a) Removal, amputation; ablacioun of blod, bloodletting; also, removal (of the cause of a disease); (b) loss of function (in a part of the body). …

The weaning (of a child). …

Only in the phrase gon a-blakeberied, go astray, go to perdition (lit., go picking blackberries). …

To darken; fig. to sully. …

To accuse or blame (sb.). …

Removal of soil from the roots of vines. …

To expose the roots of (vines). …

To blow upon (sb.), blast. …

Taken away. …

(a) The ablative (case) of Latin; a noun or adjective in the ablative case; (b) in a pun (with ref. to L ablātiō a taking away & ablāt-um taken away, stolen): carried off, stolen; ablatif cas, the……

(a) Of persons: capable of doing something, expert in an art or science, qualified to practice a trade or profession, skilful, competent; able maister, able werkman; of a woman: old enough to marry……

In words taken from OF (& L): (a) derived from verbs, with 'passive' meaning: accept-able, agre-able, am-able, blam-able, chaunge-able, forfet-able, fortun-able, honor-able, etc.; (b) derived from……

Functional capability, ability to function normally. …

Overcome with awe or fear. …

To enable (sb. to do sth.), give (sb.) power or resources (sufficient for a task). …

(a) To deprive (sb.) of the power of vision, to blind; also, to dazzle or confuse (sb., the sight), to blind temporarily (as with strong light, violent motion, etc.); (b) to blind (sb.) mentally or……

A capacity for doing something; proneness to sin [quot.Cloud]. …

A productive suffix in adverbs, almost always formed on adjectives in -able. Closely bound as the two suffixes are, some examples of the adjective may well be back formations from the adverb, or the……

To turn pale, lose color, fade. …

(a) To become physically blind, to lose one's sight; (b) to become spiritually blind, to be misled or deceived. …

Act of preparing oneself; making oneself fit or worthy. …

(a) With blood, in blood, bloodily; (b) covered or flowing with blood, bloody. …

Carried away (with joy), reckless (for joy). …

(a) To blow (sth. upon or into sb.); (b) to breathe (a soul into a body); ablouen gost (soul), to endow with life, create a soul; (c) to puff up or inflate (sb.) as with pride; (d) to blow into or……

Alch. and pharm. The process by which oil or other substances, after being reduced to liquid form, are cleansed of impurities. [An emulsion is formed with hot water; this is allowed to separate, and……

Having its impurities dissolved or washed away. …

Cleansing. …

(a) A negative assertion, a denial; (b) self-denial, renunciation. …

?A great-great grandson or grandnephew. …

The game of blind-man's buff [see first quot.]; pleien abobbed; fig. to fool or delude a helpless person. …

(a) To play abobbed with (sb.); (b) fig. to bewilder or mystify (sb.). …

(a) The act of waiting, delay; abod of, waiting for, awaiting; (b) non abod, no delay, no hesitation; withouten (buten) abod, without delay, immediately; no leng abod, no longer delay. …

Do away with (sth.). …

?Boastful; ?puffed up, inflated. …

The aorta. …

(a) At or upon the side of a ship; (b) alongside another ship; (c) onto or aboard a ship; (d) fallen abord with, to become associated with (sb.), agree with. …

To come alongside (a ship); ?to enter or board (a ship). …

The act of coming alongside a ship (or ships), an encounter of ships. …

Enraged; ?bristling with rage, ?bursting with rage. …

Abortion, stillbirth. …

Abortion. …

(a) Born prematurely or dead; (b) as noun: a child born prematurely or dead, a stillbirth; also fig.; (c) one who is born deformed, a monster. …

To address (sb.) in a boastfully defiant manner. …

To bend, bow, incline; also fig.; abouen in sundre, bend so as to break. …

(a) Existing in great quantity, overflowing; (b) possessing in quantity, rich (in gold, etc.); -- with of; (c) full (of mercy, blossoms, etc.); -- with of or with; (d) bountiful, generous. …

Ample, sufficient. …

(a) A great number of things, a great quantity; plenty, a sufficiency; also, an excess; -- often with in or of; (b) aboundaunce of water, an overflow, a flood. …

(a) Present or existing in great number or quantity, many, much, abounding; also, overabundant, excessive; of shot: thick, fast; of waters: overflowing; (b) of fruitfulness, gifts, grace, mercy……

(a) In abundance, copiously; generously, liberally; sufficiently, more than sufficiently, profusely; (b) to a great extent or degree; greatly, much; to aboundauntli, excessively. …

(a) To exist or be present in great number or quantity, be plentiful; to be sufficient (for a purpose); also, to be excessive; of water: to overflow; abounden to, come to (sb.) abundantly; (b) of……

(a) To set bounds to (sth.), limit, enclose; (b) to have boundaries, be bounded. …

Abundance, excess. …

(a) In abundance, copiously, liberally; (b) fully, completely. …

On all sides, round about. …

(a) To surround (sb.); (b) to rotate about an axis, revolve around a center; (c) to try to do (sth.). …

(a) So as to be on all sides, so as to encircle or surround; putten aboute to, to place around (sth.), ?to pierce with (sth.); (b) so as to wrap or cover; (c) on the circumference or outer edge, on……

(a) Nearby, neighboring, surrounding; the countre aboute, the neighborhood; (b) placed or set in various parts of something; (c) all, entire; al the world aboute, the entire world, the whole earth……

(a) Around the circumference or perimeter of, encircling, enclosing, passing around; -- after verbs denoting position, motion, rotation (around an axis or a center), revolution; (b) enveloping……

Unless. …

(a) In vb., ppl., adj.: aboute- beren, to carry (sth.) hither and thither; aboute- brennen, envelop (sth.) in flames; aboute- clothed, covered by clothing, enveloped, wrapped about; aboute- comen……

(a) In all directions, around; (b) bringen aboutes, to bring (sth.) about. …

(a) On every side of, in all directions from; (b) near (noon); (c) concerned with, busy with. …

(a) To stand nearby, be present; (b) to exist or happen at the same time as (sth.), accompany. …

To encompass (sth.), stretch around. …

Busy or diligent in (doing sth.), ready or trying (to do sth.); ben about-ward. …

(a) To go hither and thither, wander; (b) to surround (sb.); (c) to be busy, take pains, dash about; (d) of a circumstance: to accompany or be attendant on (a decision). …

Only in phrase aboutien ut, lean out (at a battlement). …

(a) above- comen, to come upon, fall upon, attack; above- bringen, above- leden, bring upon, visit upon; above- growen, grow on the land; (b) higher on the written page; earlier in a document……

At or from the top; above, from above. …