(a) To ransom (sb.), redeem, set free; save or redeem (from death or sin); refl. save oneself; (b) to buy back (one's inheritance, one's land); also fig.; (c) in OT usage: to buy back or ransom (the……

To speak corruptly or barbarously. …

Of a dog: to bark; -- ppl. bauling as adj.: an epithet for a hound. …

(a) To put (sb.) to death by severing the head, decapitate, behead; (b) to remove the head (of an insect). …

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

(a) To commit (sth.) to writing, write down; breved in boke, recorded or recounted in writing; (b) to give a (written) account (of sth., sb.); (c) to extol (sb.). …

(a) To bubble, foam, effervesce; burblen out, burst out; -- intr. or refl.; (b) to welter or wallow (in blood, water); cp. burlen. …

To abut, be adjoining; butten ayenes, butten into, butten on, butten unto, butten upon, border on (sth.), be bounded by, abut upon; refl. extend (from one boundary to another); butting wal, a wall……

Alch. & med. (a) To reduce (sth.) to powder by heating; (b) to change the nature of (sth.) by heating in a certain way. …

(a) To annul or revoke (a charter, patent, etc.), mark (a document) void; also, to have the king revoke (one's patent); (b) to make (an agreement or obligation) null and void; to mark (a document) in……

(a) To recognize (sb.) officially as a saint, canonize; (b) to install (sb.) in an ecclesiastical office. …

(a) To put a cap on (sb.), provide with a cap or headdress; capped, wearing a cap; (b) capped, with the head covered (in a certain way); (c) capped, wearing a clergyman's cap, priestly. …

(a) To comb (wool, etc.) for spinning; (b) fig. to comb (wisdom), arrange, tidy up. …

Law To make (sth.) null and void, annul, quash; abolish (a guild). …

To instruct (sb.) in the Christian religion, catechize. …

To draw off (humors), be filled with (humors). …

(a) To cause, effect, or produce (sth.); (b) to bring about or induce (an event or situation); cause (an action); (c) to bring (sth.) into existence, produce; (d) cause causing [L causa causans]……

(a) To cauterize; (b) ppl. cauterizing (medicine). …

(a) To strike (sb.) with a sharp weapon, slash; choppen of cut off with a blow; (b) to hack or strike (at, to sb.); cut (through sth.); (c) to hit (at sth.); choppen adoun, fig. strike (sb.) down. …

To kick or throw (a ball); fig. to treat (sb.) as one pleases, kick or chase about. …