(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on……
(a) To give notice of some existing circumstance or a past or coincident event, make something known
(b) to inform (sb., sb. of sth.), notify, advise;
(c) to announce (sth. to sb.), proclaim,……