Daily; also, continual, constant. …

The father of one's wife or husband, father-in-law. …

The plant five-leaf or cinquefoil [cp. five-lef]. …

(a) The earliest ripe fruit of field or orchard, or the first young of a domestic animal, as an offering of thanks to the deity; fig. any product or accomplishment so offered; (b) a customary gift or……

(a) Law The right of jurisdiction over cases involving the harboring of fugitives or outlaws, the right to collect fines in such cases [orig. prob., the offence of entertaining an outlaw]; (b) in……

?Unseemly movements, flirting. …

Extralegal justice, lynch law; ?the laws of Fool-town. [See Skeat's note in parallel-text ed.] …

As adv. with as: (a) as much as, as far as; (b) even as, just as. …

Because of feebleness or weakness. …

(a) Farther away, farther forward, beyond; (b) later (in time), afterward, hereafter, thereafter; (c) further on (in a story), at a later point; further (in a book, a process, etc.). …

?A ludicrous image with great jaws and teeth; ?a clown or jester; ?a decorated horse used in pageants. …

?A decorated horse used in pageants or the like. …

A fortunate day; also, good fortune. …

(a) Good fortune; advantageously, fortunately; as interj.: Good luck!; (b) to goder hele, fortunately; (c) with dative: fortunately for (sb.); to goder hele, to goder hele to, fortunately for (sb.)……

(a) A good man, righteous man; excellent or worthy man; valiant man; god man and treue; god man of armes; (b) as item of address. …

(a) Quickly, speedily; a god spede; (b) as interj.; (c) as surname. …

(a) A good woman, a virtuous wife; (b) the mistress of a household; a female citizen; (c) as surname. …

(a) A good disposition, goodness, piety, virtue; men of god wil, good men; (b) benevolence, kindness; friendliness; generosity; (c) don god wil, to act virtuously. …

Law A process issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, directing the sheriff to compel the attendance of reluctant jurymen. …

Law A writ requiring the appearance of a person in court. …

(a) A Christian festival, a day consecrated to religious observances, a day of rest; any holy day, including Sunday; (b) any Hebrew holy day, including Saturday; (c) fig. a day sacred to Cupid, a……

Risk everything, shoot the works; -- used fig. …

(a) The greeting of Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; (b) the prayer Ave Maria. …

Out of couples!; -- a hunting cry on uncoupling hounds in the field. …

(a) As noun: til ille hail, to perdition; with ille hail, with a curse on you!; (b) as adj.: misfortunate, unlucky, ill-fated; (c) as adv.: misfortunately, unluckily, disastrously; (d) as interj.: bad……

(a) Malevolence, hostility, ill will; il wil of, ill will towards (sb.); (b) ?as adj. = il-willed. …

(a) As far as, as much as; but in as muche as, only to the extent that, only so far as; (b) correlated with in) so muche in the main clause: according as, in proportion as. …

Added to names of relationship to indicate that, for contracting a marriage, the person designated has in canon law that same relationship or degree of affinity; brother in laue, doughter in laue,……

In the first place, firstly. …

In the beginning; -- first words of a formula used by begging friars [cp. John 1.1]. …

Certainly, indeed. …

?Bestir yourself; ?clothe yourself, prepare yourself. …

Naut. Some kind of rope in the rigging of a ship. …

Tit for tat; pleien lille for lalle, ?to sport (with sb.). …

A little bit, only a little; small things [quot.: a1121]; a small matter, a trifle [quot.: a1300]. …

A little bit; a litwhat, somewhat. …

?Each of two, the one and the other, both. …

My lady: (a) used as a respectful form of address, usually to a woman of the upper classes; (b) used as part of a title; (c) in the name of a dish; ?in the title of a dance tune. …

Far-fetched stories, tall stories. …

The Great Charter of 1215. …

?Cord for tying bundles. …

Chief officer, an officer charged with carrying out legal arrests, searches, etc. …

Misfortune. …

Ill-fated, unfortunate. …

(a) Deceit, trickery; also a treacherous scheme; (b) law withouten fraude or (other) malengin, without fraud or deception. …

A bad day, a lost battle. …

Evil days, two days in each month which the folk regard as unlucky. …

Of many a kind, of all sorts. …

(a) Many a, many an; -- preceding a sg. noun; (b) mani on is (was) the betinge (bismare), there is (was) many a beating (reproach). …

At the coming of our Lord. …

State of being under age, minority. …

(a) An Old English code of laws, Mercian Law; (b) the area governed under this code in late OE and early ME times. …

(a) My friend; -- used as an address to human beings and as a phrase to control hounds; (b) the name of a sweet milk and egg dish. …

Law Legal proceedings brought by a rightful heir upon the death of his ancestor against one wrongfully possessing his inheritance. …

(a) Near (night, day, the end, death); (b) almost to (a place); (c) neigh at at honde, near at hand; close by (sb.). …

Close before (sth.), at. …

Comparable, similar; neigh-goinge to, similar to (sth.). …

(a) Of approximately (a certain quantity, quality, or age), of about; (b) neigh of allie, close of kin; neigh of..allie (blod, kinde), of (someone's) close kin; (c) in the presence of (sb.). …

Nearly, almost. …

(a) Near to (sb. or sth.) in space, close to; to the vicinity of, almost to; also fig.; comp. neigher to, nearer to; ful neigh to, near (sb., hell); to neigh to, too close to (sth.); neigh to..sighte……

Law A writ instructing the sheriff to provide a jury at the court of Westminster unless the judges of assize previously come to the county of jurisdiction; also, an action tried under such a writ. …

(a) No one, nobody; (b) in proverbs and sayings; (c) no-mannes-lond-lond, a piece of unowned land; esp. one outside London used for executions; (d) no creature; (e) in place name. …

Law The sheriff's reply to a writ directing him to arrest a defendant, indicating that the defendant is not to be found within the sheriff's jurisdiction. …

(a) The northern part of Britain, esp. the region beyond the Humber [see also contre 7. (a)]; (b) the northern regions of the world; (c) fig. hell. …

Unless. …

According to one's wishes, without difficulty; gon oliver curraunt, to go or run smoothly. …

A resin from the storax tree (Styrax officinalis). …

(a) Passionately; with sexual love or desire; also, in a friendly or courteous manner [quots.: c1400]; (b) loven paramour(es, to be passionately in love; love (sb.) fervently or passionately, have……

(a) Perhaps, perchance, possibly; (b) by any chance; if..par cas, if the case or chance were; except par cas, except by any chance; (c) by chance, as it happens or happened; accidentally; as fate……

(a) Together; in a group; (b) for the sake of company or fellowship. …

In an impetuous rush, pell-mell. …

Peter's pence, an annual tax of a penny levied on each household and paid to the papal see at Rome. …

Hotter, extra hot. …

Manifestly, in a manner apparent to all. …

For and against. …

Law A person empowered to represent a minor in legal proceedings. …

A writ requiring the defendant to state why he prevents the plaintiff from presenting a disputed benefice, the advowson of which he has purchased. …

A release or discharge from debt; a receipt. …

?Pun on quitales, pl. of quitale n.: payments of debt, acquittals. …

Law The official report by a sheriff that he has in custody a defendant who has surrendered himself so as to discharge his bailsmen. …

As far as, right to. …

?Completely. …

A pleasant thing; of retauthing to reden, to read of something pleasant. …

(a) The legendary Round Table of King Arthur; (b) coll. the knights of the Round Table; (c) knight (brother, felaue, renke) of the round table; brotherhede (route) of the round table, the knights of……

The Holy of Holies, the inner chamber of the tabernacle or the temple. …

(a) Without fail, without doubt; certainly, assuredly; (b) with diminished force, as rime tag: indeed, actually; (c) as noun, in phrase: with sauns faile, certainly; (d) as surname. …

Eccl. During the vacancy of an episcopal see. …

(a) The day before the Crucifixion of Christ; (b) eccl. Maundy Thursday, the celebration of Holy Thursday. …

(a) The day before the Crucifixion of Christ; (b) eccl. Maundy Thursday, the celebration of Holy Thursday. …

The first words of a Latin proverb, variously expressed, e.g., 'Si dedero, decus accipiam flatumque favoris, ' etc., implying the universal necessity of bribery or improper insistence on remuneration……

?A quick or sudden blow, snap. …

(a) An undetermined or unspecified thing, some thing; (b) an unspecified act or deed; aginnen (don, hoten) som-thing, to undertake (do, enjoin) some deed; (c) an unspecified event or occurrence; (d)……

Law An endorsement meaning 'it arrives too late, ' written by a sheriff on a writ to explain his failure to execute it. …

Certainly not, in no way, to the contrary; law as a formula for categorical denial of a complaint: absolutely not, not so; seien (ouen) thwert nai. …

Law As a formula for categorical denial of a complaint: absolutely not, not so; seien thwert-out nai. …

= thwert-out nai phr. …

However often it happens. …

(a) Upside down, inverted; also, crosswise, transverse; ?also, overthrown, ruined [glossing L eversus, subversus]; (b) contradictory, illogical, absurd. …

(a) Upside down, inverted; in the opposite of the normal position; also in fig. context; turnen up-so-doun; moven up-so-doun, to turn over (earth); turned up-so-doun, turned upside down; also, of the……