Of persons: noble. …

Verbal cpds.: (a) after- bending, the second bending, a bending back (of a bow); prob., the shaping process which gives the ends a curvature the reverse of that at the center; after- berende, bearing……

Of every or any kind; of all kinds; in (on) al-kin wise (maner), in every or any way. …

Almighty, omnipotent; -- (a) of God; god almihti and god-almighti (cpd.); (b) of a member of the Trinity; (c) of a divine attribute; (d) of a non-Christian god or object of worship; (e) of Samson……

A bucket; also, a liquid measure. …

(a) A small flask [of glass or metal]; (b) a small flask of consecrated water or oil [commonly carried by pilgrims returning from a shrine]; ampulla. …

Only-begotten. …

(a) A ship's anchor; casten, laien, senden out anker; drauen up, halen, highen, pullen up, taken up, weien (up) anker; riden at, bi, on anker; (b) a weight; (c) a fastening device, a mooring. …

A musical composition based upon a scriptural text, sung in the Church Offices before each psalm and often repeated after the psalm, or after each verse of the psalm [see Karl Young, The Drama of the……

One of the Twelve Apostles of Christ; apostles twelve; also, a missionary or evangelist of the early Church, such as St. Paul; apostle of Engelonde; apostle of hethen men; apostolene prince. …

(a) A weapon for discharging quarrels, stones, etc., consisting of a bow set crosswise on a shaft; a crossbow, an arbalest; (b) a missile shot from a crossbow; arblast shute. …

(a) An archbishop of the Roman (or Greek) Church; (b) the see of an archbishop. …

The chief administrative officer of an archbishop or bishop, who presided over the ecclesiastical court of the diocese, had powers of visitation, inducted candidates into benefices, imposed penance……

(a) A chest or box; a large box or bin for storing meal or grain; a coffer for money or valuables, treasure chest; a coffin; (b) ark keper, a treasurer; ark maker, ark wright, a maker of chests or……

Contrite. …

(a) Draw, pull (sth., sb.); aten in, inhale; aten ut, draw out, extract; (b) withdraw, escape. …

(a) An ecclesiastical vestment (usually of white linen) reaching to the ankles, an alb; also, the Greek poderis, the Hebrew ephod; (b) aube girdel, girdle used to gather the alb at the waist. …

One of the celestial servants of God, an angel. …

(a) The altar of a church; also, the altar placed before the shrine or image of a saint; (b) heigh auter, chef auter, the high altar, the altar on which the Eucharist is offered; sacrement of the……

A type of Flemish ship. …

(a) A beet; the red beet Beta vulgaris or white beet (Beta cicla); ?also, the wild beet (Beta maritima); bete stok, beet root; blak bete, the red beet; (b) beet leaves used as medicine or food. …

Betony Betonica officinalis. …

(a) To fix or keep one's eyes (on sth.), look (at), gaze (upon); (b) to look (in a certain direction), biholden after, look for or after (sth.); (c) to take a look; look, look on, look around. …

(a) To know or realize (sth.), be aware of; (b) to recognize (sb.); biknoue(n, known, acquainted. …

One of several water plants used medicinally; watercress, water parsnip, ?brooklime. …

A drinking bowl or cup; goblet, tankard; bolle cuppe, bolle pece; also, a bowl for mixing wine; the content of a drinking vessel. …

(a) The box tree (Buxus sempervirens) or its wood; box tre; box table, a tablet of boxwood (for inscriptions); (b) rendering L sambucus 'elder' erroneously. …

A jar (for salves, cosmetics, spices, etc.), usually cylindrical. …

(a) A native of the British Isles, a Celt; Britones se, the Britons' (or Bretons') Sea = Brittish se, the English channel; (b) a Breton; (c) a Breton apple. …

The chalice used in celebration of the mass; the cup used at the Last Supper. …

Battle, fight, war. …

(a) A candle, a taper; wax candel [see also wax n.(1), sense 2a.(a)]; (b) a medicinated candle; (c) a candelabrum; (d) fig. a star; candel of jelousie, the sun. …

(a) A cancer, carcinoma; also, an ulcerated non-malignant tumor, a spreading ulcer; (b) ulceration of a wound, gangrene in a wound or ulcer; (c) a sore in the mouth, ?canker sores; ?also, an abscess……

(a) Ecclesiastical law, canon law; also, an authoritative statement or writing of the Church; (b) a rule or principle; also, a rule or set of rules in written form, an authoritative statement. …

(a) as title: The Song of Songs, the Song of Solomon (Canticum Canticorum); (b) pl. eccl. sacred songs from the Scriptures, freq. used in the Divine Office, canticles. …

A clergyman living under a rule of canons, a canon. …

(a) A short division of a book, a chapter; one of the twenty-two sections of Ps. 118 (119); (b) a short passage (usually Biblical or patristic) read in divine worship, a lesson; (c) ?an epitome. …

(a) A castle; also, a fortress similar to a medieval castle; (b) a fortified place, a stronghold. …

(a) Cabbage, kale, colwort, rape, mustard, or some other plant of the genus Brassica; also, any cultivated leafy vegetable, garden greens, pot-herbs; (b) wilde caul, wild mustard, charlock. …

A subordinate monastic establishment. …

(a) Soft limestone, chalk, or a piece of it; chalk ston; also, lime; line and chalk, string and chalk (as used by carpenters); chalk line; (b) chalk hil; chalk lond; chalk pit, a chalk or lime quarry……

Chervil Anthriscus cerefolium, used as a pot-herb and in medicaments. …

(a) Strife, contention, fighting; (b) quarreling, bickering, caviling; a quarrel, dispute, or disturbance. …

(a) A trunk, chest, casket, box, etc., (for storing or safekeeping); a strongbox (for valuables, documents, money); the Ark (of the Covenant); (b) common chest, public chest or treasury; (c) chest……

A city, town; for place names see Smith PNElem. 1.84: …

(a) A chip, splinter, shaving (of wood); also, kindling, trash (usu. pl.); (b) peg; (c) share-beam (of a plow). …

(a) A monastic cloister; monastery, convent; fig. the womb of the Virgin; (b) claustre man, a monk. …

(a) A member of the clergy (as distinguished from the laity), an ecclesiastic, cleric; clerk possessioner, a member of one of the endowed orders; (b) one of the secular clergy (as distinguished from……

(a) A precipitous face of rock, a cliff; a steep mountain; (b) a slope, declivity; a hill; (c) a large rock. …

(a) One who prepares and cooks food in a household, a cook; (b) one who prepares and sells cooked articles of food; cokes craft, the occupation of such a person. …

Cabbage, kale, colewort, rape, mustard, or some other plant of the genus Brassica; also, any cultivated leafy vegetable, garden greens, pot-herbs. …

(a) The summit or peak (of a hill or mountain); also, the height of a mountain pass; (b) the top (of a tower), the ridge (of a house); (c) cop of hevene, the top of the firmament [but cp. cope n……

(a) Copper, the ore or the metal; also, bronze; coper of Corynthe, see quot. 1439; (b) used attrib.: coper croune, coper peni. etc. …

(a) A tub, vat, or bucket; (b) covel staf, covel tre, a pole for carrying a two-handled tub or vat. …

(a) A confession of faith, a creed; esp., the Apostles' Creed; commune crede, the Apostles' Creed; crede of Attanasi, the Athanasian Creed; crede of the chirche, messe crede, the longer form of the……

(a) A mixture of oil and balsam consecrated for use by the church, chrism; (b) a sacramental anointing; esp., baptism and confirmation; (c) a convert to Christianity. …

Of hair, wool, etc.: curly. …

(a) The transparent form of crystallized quartz, rock crystal; (b) some material resembling crystal; (c) fig. the clear part of the eye [see cristalline]; (d) in comparisons: bright as cristal, cler……

A medicinal plant; prob., the south European fleawort (Plantago psyllium). …

(a) Of persons: Christian; Cristen soule, Christian soul; also, a Christian; (b) Cristen man, a Christian. …

Saffron. …

(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

(a) The cross of Christ; exaltacioun of the holi crouche, a festival, Sept. 14; (b) fig. the burden of a Christian. …

A vault or crypt. …

(a) A measure of length [orig., the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger]; usu., eighteen inches; ?also, a pace; (b) with uninflected pl.; (c) commune cubit, eighteen inches; cubit……

A spoon; cuculer ful, a spoonful. …

(a) The colter of a plow; also, a plowshare; (b) a knife; (c) ?a sharp stake or peg. …

(a) A dove; also fig.; (b) as a term of endearment; (c) an image of a dove. …

(a) A drinking vessel; a bowl, goblet, cup, etc.; also, a receptacle for fruit or confections; (b) stonding cuppe, a cup with a foot or base; trussing cuppe, ?a cup or chalice for traveling; (c) a……

(a) The consignment of a person to an evil fate; malediction; also, an instance of this; -- said either of God, Christ, etc., or of a person invoking divine vengeance or punishment; (b) the……

(a) Eccl. A deacon; (b) one who reads the Gospel in divine worship; (c) as surname. …

A dolphin; also, a fabulous fish of the Nile; ?also, a porpoise or a seal [quot.PParv.]. …

(a) To prepare (sth.), get ready for use; dig (a grave), tune (one's voice), polish (arrows, instruments), repair (equipment); (b) to ornament (sth.), adorn; dye (a cloth) [quot.St.Anne]; (c) to……

To extirpate (sin), efface (a law, a name). …

(a) One of the personal followers of Jesus; esp., one of the Twelve Apostles or one of the Seventy (seventy-two) sent out to spread His teaching; a disciple; (b) a personal follower of one of the……

(a) A dish, plate, or bowl for serving food or drink; also, food served or collected in a dish; cp. almes(se-dish; (b) a distinct variety of served food; (c) an heraldic representation of a dish. …

(a) A dragon; drake(n heved, dragon's head; drake(s liche, a dragon's body or form; [fir drake, see fir 1b]; (b) Satan. …

(a) To pull, tug, draw; pull in harness; (b) to pull (sb. or sth.), drag, tug at; pull up (a drawbridge); (c) to draw or withdraw (a part of the body); (d) to pull (a vehicle), tow (a ship), turn……

Vinegar. …

As noun: a native of Egypt, an Egyptian. …

Egypt; Egipte lond, land of the Egyptians, land of Egypt. …

A plant of some kind. …

The European elk (Alces alces). …

(a) The wych elm (Ulmus montana), native to Britain, and the (so-called) common elm (u. campestris), which is Eurasian and apparently introduced; also in surnames; (b) elm wood. …

A letter, or a literary work composed in the form of a letter (sometimes in verse). …

(a) Deceit, deception, treachery, fraud, wrong-doing, or an instance thereof; also allegor.; (b) a wicked deed. …

A machine or utensil for separating grain from chaff, such as a winnowing fan, a basket, or a shovel. …

High bodily temperature, fever; a disease of which fever is a symptom; an attack of fever, a paroxysm of ague; (the) feveres, (malarial) chills and fever, ague. …

Feverfew (Chrysanthemum parthenium). …

(a) Capable of understanding (what is said); apt or effective (language); (b) capable or able (person); (c) ?suitable or proper for a certain purpose. …

The plant five-leaf, cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans). …

(a) Instrument used for threshing grain, a flail; (b) cap of a fleil, fleil cap, one of the bands of wood or leather (fastened about the end of the flail staff or the end of the swingle) through which……

An abnormal flowing from bodily organs, a flux; innethes flewsa, ?diarrhea, ?dysentery. …

Forming adjs. (used also as advs., and occas. as nouns) on cardinal numerals and on indefinite numerals, and having such meanings as 'consisting of or comprising x parts, units, specimens, etc.'……

(a) A receptacle for the water used in baptizing, a baptismal font; (b) font halwing [OE fant-hālgung], act or ceremony of blessing, or reconsecrating, a font. …

(a) To overcome (someone), to defeat; (b) to come before; ?anticipate; ?excel. …

To place in the forefront (of one's mind), to put first. …

(a) A farming tool with two or more prongs used for digging or for handling hay, dung, etc.; bot forke, muk forke, pik forke, q.v.; (b) a pronged utensil of metal usually used for stoking fires; fir……

(a) To lead (someone) out or away; (b) to carry on (a conversation); (c) to carry out (a plan). …

One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc. …