(a) An administrative division of certain counties, all within the Danelaw, corresponding to the hundred; (b) in names of specific wapentakes. …

(a) The act of providing protection, guarding; also, defense; also, fig. a guard, restraint (b) sauf warding, safekeeping, care; (c) management (of a game preserve); (d) a fortification; a……

Law (a) A customary rent, required of individual and corporate tenants or assessed on units of land by a feudal superior or the crown, in some instances conceived as a payment in commutation of guard……

(a) A criminal, felon; wari tre, q.v.; (b) a villain, miscreant; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.247-8]. …

(a) A wound, an ulcer, or a sore; (b) ?a parasitic worm or maggot of some kind [cp. warbote n.]. …

(a) Of the sun, a fire: radiating a considerable degree of heat (b) of weather, wind: characterized by pleasantly warm temperatures, mild, balmy; ?also, hot, scorching [last quot.]; (c) of a day,……

(a) The act or process of cleansing or laundering; wash betel, a stick or bat used to agitate laundry in washing; shep wash [OE scēap-wæsce], a place for washing sheep;—used fig. in phrase: wenden to……

Used predicatively of persons: (a) well-met; pleasing as a visitor, companion, or resident, welcome;—used to characterize someone whom one is glad to see or receive [occas. difficult to distinguish……

(a) To speak words of greeting, welcome, etc. to (sb.), hail, greet; acknowledge the arrival of (sb.) with words of greeting; also, invite the presence of (the Holy Spirit) with a hymn; welcomen with……

(a) To reign; with gen.: take control (of a land); ppl. weldinge, ruling; also, dominating, mighty [quot. a1400, 2nd]; omnipotent [quot. a1150(OE)]; al-welding, q.v.; (b) to dwell, reside. …

(a) A turning, turn; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.253; some exx. could also be construed as p.ppl. of wenden v.]. …

(a) A band assembled for military purposes, a troop, an army, a legion;—also coll.; wered strengthe, military might; wered wite, ?a fee paid in lieu of military service; ?a fine imposed for failure to……

(a) West, western; wester wind, a wind blowing from the west; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.256; some exx. could also be construed as comp. of western(e adj.]. …

A consonant cluster used initially in well over 200 headwords, the great majority of which are derived from OE hw-, including some of the most common pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions in……

(a) A wooden or stone structure constructed along or projecting out into a river or other body of water, where ships tie up and load or unload, a quay, pier (b) in surnames, place names, and names of……

(a) Eager, keen; eager to go (to a place); also, active; also, bold; (b) in surnames. …

(a) A solid disk or rigid circular ring connected to a hub by spokes and attached to an axle of a vehicle or movable structure to facilitate its locomotion, a wheel; also fig. and in fig. context……

(a) As rel. adv. introducing nonlocative adj. clauses: by means of which, with which (b) as subordinating conj. introducing nonlocative noun inf. phrases functioning as direct obj.: that by means of……

(a) The plant wheat or any plant of the genus Triticum, esp. T. aestivum or T. sativum; also, a wheat crop; wheat considered as seed (b) the grain of the wheat plant, harvested wheat; grain……

(a) Made of wheat or wheat products, wheaten (b) pertaining to the wheat plant, of wheat; (c) wheten ere, her. a stylized ear of wheat used as a heraldic device; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.……