(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……
Strife, discord, enmity; a dispute, cause for dispute; a legal dispute or action; o sake, ?in accusation; withouten sake, without cause for dispute, without legal cause.
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(a) That which one tells, the oral or written relation of an event or a series of events purporting to be true, a personal narrative, an account; bi his tale, according to him; bi olde tales……
