(a) Bread as a staple food; any food baked from dough or paste, such as leavened or unleavened bread, rolls, biscuit, cake, and pastry; (b) bred and water (milk), the diet of fasting or penance; (c) c……
(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.
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(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) To strike (sb. or sth.), hit, beat; also fig.; (b) in phrases: ismiten adoun (doun), to knock or strike (sth.) down; also fig.; also fell (a tree); -- used in fig. context; ismiten awei, of water……
Eccl. (a) One who suffers torture and execution for the Christian faith, a martyr; -- also used of Abel as a type of Christ; bok of martires, a martyrology; (b) a Christian witness; (c) in title.
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(a) To take (sth.), pick up (sth.); draw (a weapon), take up, take out; grab (sth.), grasp, seize; pick (a fruit); also fig.; also, use (sth.); (b) to take away (sth.); bear (sth.), carry off; take……
(a) A bag, sack, or pouch, usually of cloth or leather; also, a container for receiving offerings made to an idol [quot.: Jos.Arim.]; also fig.; red purs, a bag of wisdom, one's store of good ideas……
(a) To push, shove, thrust; strike a blow, smite; putten with fet, trample, kick; putten with fet and hondes, thrust with feet and hands; putten ayen, push against (sb.); stumble against (sb.); putten……
(a) A reel on which yarn was wound after being spun; with rel and rokke, with reel and distaff, with firm endeavor; rel maker; (b) eccl. a wheel-shaped chandelier, corona, rowel-light.
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(a) The act of sitting; also, a sitting, session; longsom setes, protracted sittings; knouen mi sete, to know when I sit; (b) an occasion for eating, a meal, feast; bridales sete, a wedding feast; (c)……
(a) Of little size, physically small, diminutive; also fig. [quots. c1230, c1395]; also, by comparison with another of the same kind: smaller [quots. c1390, c1400 Apoc.(2)]; smal busshel, ?a bushel……
(a) A long garment; a robe; -- also coll. [quot. a1398]; stoles of bataille, war garments, armor; first stole, the best robe; (b) fig. and in fig. contexts; (c) the robe of a Jewish priest or high……
