To buffet (sb.), pummel, flog, beat; also without obj., of waves: to dash, rage. …

To think, reflect, meditate, ponder; bithinken right, wel, think hard or carefully; -- usually refl.; -- (a) alone; (b) with of, on, to, upon phrase. …

(a) To look after (sth., sb.), take care of; guard, protect, preserve; biwiten faste, cherish; biwiten from, protect from (an enemy), defend against; (b) to have charge of (sth.), govern; (c) ppl. biw……

(a) To furnish (a garment) with buttons; provide (sth.) with knobs or studs; (b) to button (a garment); (c) to put forth buds. …

(a) To joust; bourden at, tilt at (the quintain), charge (a boar) with a spear; (b) to butt with horns; clash (together). …

Of birds: to incubate eggs, hatch out and rear young, breed; breden brod, bring forth a brood. …

To move quickly or suddenly: (a) to hurry, hasten, rush; dash, dart, jump; -- intr. or refl.; (b) breiden up, to jump or start up (as from anger or fear). …

(a) To break (an object) into parts; dash to pieces; destroy the wholeness of (an object); shatter (a weapon) in combat; crush (the human body, etc.); breken atwo, breken asonder, breken in peces……

(a) To be consumed by fire; burn, burn down; brennen awai; of fire: burn; brennen up, flame up; brenning, on fire, fiery; (b) to destroy (sth.) with fire; put to the torch, reduce to ashes; brennen up……

To bristle; bresed, shaggy (eyebrows). …

(a) To divide (sth. into parts); (b) to cut (sb.) up; britnen into quarters, to quarter; (c) hunt. to cut up (a deer, etc.); britnen out, cut out. …

(a) To talk, chat, converse, discourse; carpen toward, address (sb.); (b) tell (sth.), say; ask (a question); as I have herd carpen, as I have heard tell; as men do carpen, as people say; to carpen……

(a) To move or proceed (to or from a place or in a certain direction); charen ayen, return, turn back, retreat; charen from, leave or desert (sb.); charen hider, come back, return; charen thethen, go……

(a) To engage in bargaining (either as buyer or seller), dicker; (b) chepen chaffare, to bid for or buy merchandise; (c) to sell or deliver (sth.); chepen to sale, chepen (to) sellen, offer to sell……

(a) To masticate or chew (sth.); cheuen cud, chew resin or gum; (b) to eat or consume (sth.); cheuen cud upon, feast upon (sth.); lat hem chewe as þei chese, let them eat (subsist) as they chose! …

(a) To achieve, accomplish, or execute (sth.); attain (one's purpose); (b) to attain to or achieve (a certain state or position); (c) to acquire or obtain (sth.); also, inherit (an estate). …

(a) To crack or split; burst open; chinen fro, split away from; chined, chapped (lips); chining, gaping; (b) of the heart: to break; chinen herte, break the heart, deprive of life. …

(a) To laugh out loud; deride, jeer; (b) to choke with laughter. …

(a) To creak; crackle; (b) to chirp, twitter; (c) to smack or chirrup. …

(a) chokken thurgh, thrust through, pierce; (b) chokken togeder, cram or crowd together; (c) chokken on, ?thrust out (the chin). …