(a) Giving aid; (b) mil. auxiliary (i.e. lightly armed, or allied with the main body of an army); -- also as noun. …

(a) Assistance, help, support; (b) a helper; (c) mil. an auxilliary, a mercenary; (d) law aide prier [OF phrase, lit. 'ask for help'], an appeal for help from a party interested in the matter in……

(a) Benefit, advantage, profit; ben avail, to be useful or effective; ben litel avail, to be of little value; (b) of persons: worthiness. …

(a) An uncastrated male swine (either wild or domesticated); (b) bores brain, brain of a boar used medicinally; bor(es grece, fat of a boar; bores herte, a bold or fierce heart; bor(es tusk, one of……

Mil. A device with sharp iron spikes set on the ground to cripple the feet of an advancing enemy; similar device used against trespassers, etc.; fig. a spiritual trap or pitfall. …

Mil. A commander of subordinate rank. …

(a) One who cries out; (b) one who makes a public complaint, accuser, agitator. …

The cutting edge of a tool or instrument. …

A token, sign, symbol; also (in pl.), the insignia of authority or rank. …

(a) Trust or faith (in someone or something); (b) confidence based on trust, assurance. …

Mil. A type of cannon or mortar. …

(a) Inventive talent, ingenuity, cleverness, skill; also, skill in magic or occult science; bi (mid, thurgh, with) gin, ingeniously, cleverly, skillfully; by magic; (b) queint of gin, of queint gin……

(a) A stone-mason, builder; (b) mil. one who operates siege engines; (c) as surname. …

(a) One who, or that which, gives help, an ally, assistant, supporter, collaborator; (b) surg. pl.: the humerus bone; (c) mil. pl.: auxiliary troops. …

(a) An instrumental musician, singer, or story-teller; also fig.; minstral of mouth, ?a singer; godes minstral, the poor, lunatics, and lepers; kinges (lordes) minstral, a minstrel retained by a king……

(a) An edible bivalve mollusc, mussel; muscle bed, portion of sea bottom on which mussels grow; muscle man, ?one who gathers or sells mussels; (b) mil. muscle, muscle shelle, a kind of siege engine……

Mil. An engagement between small bodies of soldiers, a skirmish; a battle; an encounter between besieging and besieged forces; also, the manner of fighting characteristic of a skirmish. …

(a) An agricultural implement used for mowing or pruning, a scythe; also fig.; (b) the curved blade of a scythe; (c) sithe ale, a drinking celebration held for mowers as compensation for mowing some……

(a) A thrusting weapon, spear; a horseman's spear, lance; a javelin, dart; also fig.; (b) spere and (or) sheld, knif (sword) or spere, sheld (sword) and spere, etc.; -- often used coll.; (c) spere of……

(a) One who spies on the activities of another; one sent out to make secret observations in a foreign land, a scout or spy; also, a forerunner or messenger [quot. 1449]; (b) mil. one sent into enemy……

Mil. Roaming auxiliary troops not in the main body of an army. …

(a) An outer coat or overgarment of varying style, freq. of rich material, worn by men, an overtunic; also fig. [quot. a1475]; -- also coll. [quot. a1387]; nethere surcot, a tunic worn under the……

(a) A three-sided, rectilinear geometrical figure, a triangle; also fig.; in adv. comb.: triangle wise, in the form of a triangle, triangularly; (b) a triangular shape; also, an object of triangular……

Mil. (a) A Roman standard-bearer or commander of a troop of foot soldiers functioning as reserves for the first two ranks; also, ?the troop or rank of such soldiers [last quot.]; (b) pl. Roman foot……

(a) A wrapped bundle containing clothing, laundry, etc., a parcel, traveler's pack; also, ?a bolt of cloth, cloth wound and fastened together in a roll [quots. c1436]; in trusse, ?on the bolt; (b) a……

(a) A male sheep, ram; also, a ram's skin [quot. c1450]; tup hed; tup horn; (b) mil. a battering ram; (c) in surnames and place name. …

Mil. A siege engine of some kind, prob. a movable shelter [cp. vinet n.(2), vine-yerd n. (c)]. …

Mil. A movable shelter used in a siege [see 2nd quot.]. …

(a) A vineyard; also, a pictorial representation of a vineyard [quot. a1398]; vine-yerd of plesire, ?a vineyard designed for recreational or aesthetic purposes; vine-yerd silver, a customary rent paid……

Mil. A commander of twenty soldiers. …

Mil. An officer who acts as deputy to the emperor’s legate [cp.Vegetius(1) 85/18-23]. …

(a) An instrument or a tool, usu. of metal or wood, thick at one end and tapering to a narrow edge at the other, used to force apart two surfaces, split rock or wood, tighten a structure, etc., a……

(a) An edible marine gastropod of the family Buccinidae, a whelk; also, ?a periwinkle or other marine snail; ?a cockle, mussel, or other shellfish; welk bot, a boat used in fishing for whelks or……

(a) A male sheep, ram; a castrated ram; ?also, an adult sheep; also, the flesh of a sheep or ram, mutton (b) a ram used as a sacrifice in religious ritual; (c) the ram which bore the Golden Fleece;……

An organ of flight, usu. paired: (a) a wing of a creature whose sole or primary means of locomotion is flight (a bird, an insect, a bat, etc.);—occas. with sg. for pl.; also in fig. context; also, fig……

(a) The common European wolf (Canis lupus); also, the wolf as an animal of venery [quots. c1425 & c1475]; a route of wolfes, a wolf pack (b) in cpds. and combs.: wolf bicche, bicche of the wolf, she……