(a) The act of charging someone with an offence or misconduct; (b) law formal accusation, indictment; (c) self-accusation, confession. …

(a) A doer, a maker; (b) actour of curing, that which brings about a cure; (c) a guardian, a steward; (d) law one who brings suit at law, the plaintiff. …

Math. The act of adding numbers together; the arithmetical process of addition. …

Law The transfer of one's title to property or rights; alienation or sale (of property); surrender or loss (of a right); also, alteration (of a will) [quot. 1458]. …

(a) Law Formal declaration in court, presentation of evidence; maken allegacioun, declare; (b) an argument or reason proffered as evidence or proof. …

(a) Visible form, figure; (b) sight. …

(a) One who makes or creates a person or thing, one who founds an institution, one who brings about an action or a condition; creator, maker, originator, founder; perpetrator; first auctour, God; (b)……

(a) A deed of friendship, benevolent act, a favor, a kindness; (b) an act of piety, a good deed. …

(a) False accusation, slander; (b) law a false challenge, legal objection raised in bad faith. …

(a) State of affairs, circumstances, situation; predicament; hard cas; the fortunes (of a person), lot, destiny; (b) senden cas, yeven cas, to grant fortune, rule destiny; grant (a certain kind of)……

(a) Something offered as security, such as a pledge, a bond, a pawn, or bail; finden, laien, yeven caucioun, give a pledge, furnish security; caucioun marchant, ?security in goods; (b) law an……

(a) A false or malicious accusation or charge; also, any charge; wrong chalenge, an accusation of having done wrong; (b) wrong chalenge, wrongdoing, injury inflicted upon others. …

Law (a) A secret understanding or agreement between persons to circumvent the law or to achieve a purpose by unfair or fraudulent means; collusion; (b) a fraudulent act, a subterfuge. …

(a) A situation or state; circumstances of life or existence; condicioun of poverte, prosperite; childes condicioun, childhood; (b) status or station in a society; free condicioun, high condicioun,……

Eccl. A solemn agreement to enter into matrimony, marriage vow or contract; contract of matrimonie (weddinge); also, a breach of this vow [quot.: 1395]. …

(a) Whatever one owes another in goods, money, tribute, rent, dues, or the like; a debt; paien (quiten, yelden) dette, to pay a debt; borwen dette, incur a debt; axen dette, demand payment of a debt……

(a) Execution or completion (of an act); attainment or consummation (of a desire, an aim); fulfillment or realization (of a wish, a prayer, a dream); (b) comen to effect, achieve or attain to; produce……

(a) Innate ability or intelligence, talent; skill, ingenuity, cleverness; also, a skill or craft; (b) deceitfulness, trickery; evil intention or design; a trick, a snare, a machination; fals engin……

(a) Purpose, intention, or design; aim or object; final entencioun, ultimate purpose or goal; (b) of entencioun, on purpose, intentionally; of on entencioun, with fixed purpose; unanimously. …

The state of believing or practicing what is false or heretical; false opinion or belief; a false opinion, a heresy; fallen in(to) errour. …

Inspection, investigation; consideration, deliberation, critical appraisal; first examination, primary concern. …

(a) Exception to a rule or general condition; also, an instance of it; (b) a reservation or exemption (provided in a treaty or statute); without(en excepcioun, without reservation, unreservedly……

Shape, form, appearance: (a) visible or tangible shape or form; general appearance; bodili figure, figure of this world; of the face: expression; (b) of a living being: bodily form, appearance (often……

(a) Ending, end, conclusion, finish; termination, completion; bringen to fine, bring to an end, complete; (b) terminus; the bottom (of a well); (c) the latter part; the part near the end or close; the……

(a) The physical shape of something, contour, outline; the figure or shape (of a person), body; also fig.; (b) forme and shape, shape or forme, forme and shafte, etc. …

(a) The quality of deceitfulness, dishonesty, treachery; (b) a dishonest purpose, fraudulent intention; (c) ?a dishonest or deceitful person, a fraud; ?a dishonest act. …

(a) Physical substance, matter; material; mater subget, the matter or substance of which a thing consists; bodilich (ertheli) mater, corporeality; ?also, element [quots.: a1393 & c1400]; (b) prime……

(a) The process of moving from place to place; an instance of the act of moving; movement of heavenly bodies, waters, bodily humors, etc.; ?ability to move [2nd quot.]; (b) agitation, violent motion……

(a) A song, melody; also, tune, the setting of a song; kinges note [see king 1b. (h)]; (b) music; vocal or instrumental music, singing or playing; (c) the song of a bird, bird song; the characteristic……

(a) A binding pledge; commitment to fulfill a promise or meet the conditions of an agreement; also, something which restrains or confines someone [quot.: c1475]; maken obligacioun, to make a verbal or……

(a) An individual, a person; -- also with reference to Christ; coll. persons, people; (b) a persoun, per person; persoun or persounes, no persoun ne persounes; a persoun of eighte-tene, eighteen……

(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is……

(a) Ownership, possession; the fact of holding, occupying, or owning; having; bok of the possessioun, a written record of a purchase; haven possessioun, to have ownership or occupancy; taken……

(a) A commandment regulating human conduct, precept; esp. a divine command or injunction; one of the Ten Commandments; a precept as distinguished from a counsel [cp. counseil 5. (e)]; a rule of……

(a) A preconceived opinion, bias; withouten prejudice, without bias, impartially; (b) an expressed disfavor toward someone; disparagement, detraction; (c) despite, contempt; in prejudice of, in……

(a) The fact or state of being present; the fact of being together with someone or something; manere of presence, condition, present state; (b) with possessive pron. or of-phrase denoting the person……

(a) A sequence, succession, right order; progression; (b) bi (in) proces, in order, in turn; (c) a sequence of events, course of action, activity; an action, event; proceden bi proces, to continue on……

(a) An order forbidding or prohibiting certain actions; a forbidding; also, the condemnation of a practice [quot.: ?a1475]; (b) the action of restraining blood from a wound; also, the action of……

(a) Protection, shelter, defense; keeping, guardianship; (b) the protection or maintenance which a lord or a patron provides a servant or retainer; patronage, sponsorship; -- also pl.; (c) law putten……

(a) Avowal, declaration; an avowal, allegation; maken (a, this) protestacioun, to avow, declare, acknowledge; (b) a condition, reservation; under protestacioun, upon the condition, with the……

(a) Incitement, urging; (b) prayer for forgiveness, supplication; (c) med. & surg. the inducing of a bodily function; stimulation of the hemorrhoidal veins; (d) law an appeal, esp. to a higher court……

(a) Cleansing; also, the scouring or refinement of metal; also, the purification of the philosopher's stone; (b) a disposal site, a garbage dump; (c) maken a purgacioun of, to dispose of (filth)……

(a) Theol. Salvation, redemption; maken redempcioun, to effect redemption (of sb.); (b) moral reformation; (c) liberation from captivity or hell; also fig.; (d) deliverance from captivity or restraint……

(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……

(a) Answering, an answer, a verbal response, rejoinder; an argument, a protest; an argumentative statement in a debate; maken (a) replicacioun, to answer, argue; (b) law an answer to a suit; a reply……

Law: (a) The return of an estate to the grantor or his heir upon the expiration of the grant; interesse (right, etc.) of reversioun; (b) an estate created by reversion, a reversionary interest; also……

(a) Coll. & pl. Offspring, issue, descendants; heirs; ?also, followers [last quot.]; also, law the issue of villeins viewed as a property right; (b) a consequence; a corollary; also, something that……

(a) A moral or spiritual state or condition; stat of dampnacioun (grace, right, etc.); stat of penaunce (teres), a state of repentance; (b) a mental state, frame of mind; (c) the physical state or……

(a) Obedience, humility, submissiveness; also, self-abasement [quot. c1449]; (b) chiefly law submitting to the authority of another in providing a ruling; also, an agreement to abide by the ruling of……

(a) The action of prompting or urging; incitement; also, a proposal, suggestion; also [quot. c1390], a reason, motive; -- with prob. allusion to the phrase fals suggestioun in sense 2.(a); maken……

(a) The main point, focus, etc. of a document; the intent of a law or legal agreement; also, the tone of a letter [quot. c1400(?a1300)]; also in fig. contexts; (b) law the true and essential meaning……

Law Settlement of differences by mutual consent, compromise; also, a negotiated agreement. …

(a) Disobedience to God's law, sin; wickedness, sinfulness; a breach of divine precepts, a sin; also, Adam's sin, the Fall; also, a straying [quots. a1475(?a1430); cp. sense (d)]; (b) disobedience to……

(a) A movement from one place to another; the transplanting of a sapling; a transmigration of a soul; (b) the transfer of a bishop to a different see; also, the relocation of a see; (c) the……

(a) The act of using or employing something; the fact of being used or employed; use, employment; also, the right to the use (of sth.) [last quot.]; the capacity for use (of reason) [quot. ?a1475]……

(a) Worthiness in terms of the chivalric virtues, nobility of character or breeding; also, spiritual worth [quot. ?a1475]; also, courtliness, refinement [quot. a1500(?a1400)]; of valour (b) bravery,……

(a) Physical suffering or affliction; also, a disturbance in a part of the body [1st quot.] (b) the act of inflicting trouble on others; trouble, tribulation; ?also, weariness [quot. a1500(?a1450)];……

(a) Vitality, energy, strength; also, vital essence (b) physical strength; energy in an activity; also, military force; martial prowess; energy or zeal in battle;—also pl.; (c) determination,……