(a) A wild plum (Prunus insititia), bullace; bolas fruit; bolas tre; (b) see quots. …

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. …

The transaction of business by a broker; brokerage. …

(a) A landowner and member of the gentry ranking immediately below the nobility; a freeman, a gentleman; franklein of toun, a free citizen, an owner of property in a town, a burgess; (b) as a personal……

The guest master or mistress in a religious house; also fig. …

(a) A portable bed carried by man or beasts, a litter; hors liter [see hors n. 8. (f)]; (b) a bed; also, bedding; also fig.; bed liter [see bed n. (1) 1c.]. …

(a) A dwelling house with the adjacent outbuildings and grounds; a messuage; also, the house on such an estate; (b) mes place. …

(a) The eighth day following a feast day counting the day itself, an octave; octave dai; (b) the period of eight days beginning with the feast day; (c) ? = (a) or (b); (d) a period of eight days……

A long knife or dagger. …

(a) A shed or lean-to added on to a building; a projection, sloping roof, or continuation of the eaves of a building over a window, gate, wall, etc., to provide protection against the weather; pentis……

(a) One of several plants belonging to the parsley family; esp. the common or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum); (b) wilde perseli, one of several uncultivated plants allied to common parsley……

A peppery sauce served with meat; peverade sauce. …

(a) A pickax, a tool used for breaking up and digging up ground, breaking up walls, quarrying, etc. (often identified with other tools, such as a mattock, spade, hoe, etc.); also fig.; ?also, a tool……

(a) A young chicken; a pullet; (b) in surnames. …

(a) A cushion, bolster, or pillow; a cushion for the arm or for sitting or kneeling on; also, a hassock or footstool; (b) quishin(es cloth, a case or cover for a cushion. …

(a) A retail merchant, retailer; (b) one who buys up goods before they come to market, a monopolist; (c) in surname. …

(a) That which is left over or left behind, remains, remnants, residue; -- often pl.; also, a legacy, charitable bequest; also, dregs; relef of brucus, what the bruchus leaves; (b) rabble, ruins; (c)……

(a) Deliverance, rescue; assistance, help; also, defense; also fig.; rescous of oure lei, defense of our faith; don rescous, to render aid; maken rescous, render aid, rescue something; also, prepare……

(a) Something awarded in recognition of merit, virtue, etc.; a reward, prize; (b) a payment for services, remuneration; a fee, bonus; also fig.; (c) what one deserves, just deserts; retribution……

(a) Ribbon, edging material, riban frenge; (b) a ribbon; an ornamental band or border, trimming; an ornament, a necklace; ?a bracelet, an anklet; (c) = filaterie n.(d). …

(a) A charger, steed; (b) a riding horse; (c) a pack horse, workhorse; (d) a kind of small horse; (e) in phrase: queue de rounci, nag's tail, a comic title for a dish; (f) as surname. …

(a) The color russet, grey or dull red, brown, etc., suitable for working clothes; (b) a serviceable woolen cloth, usu. of plain or subdued color & usu. worn by the poor or by workingmen (also by the……

(a) The officer of a church or religious house charged with looking after the buildings, church ornaments, vestments, etc., and with ringing of the bells for service; a sacristan; (b) in surnames and……

(a) Compensation, payment, esp. a salary or compensation periodically paid for regular service [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (b)]; also fig.; (b) a payment for a specific service or limited……

A large canvas sack, used esp. for packing wool or fleeces; also, a bale of wool, containing two sacks; also, the weight of a bale of wool. …

The color scarlet; also, scarlet dye; red scarlet. …

(a) A cloak, esp. a pilgrim's cloak or mantle; -- ult. of Slavic origin; (b) a ceremonial vestment; a cope, robe; (c) some other kind of garment. …

A short garment. …

A French gold coin, usu. worth half an English noble, or 3 s. 4 d. …

(a) Tenure of land as recompense for services or goods rendered to the king; the land held or governed under such an arrangement; graunt sergeauntie, land tenure on condition of personal service……

(a) A room or building used as a place of business by a victualer, craftsman, etc.; also fig.; boueres (corveiseres, etc.) shop; open shop, a shop open to the public; also fig.; spice shop; (b) shop……

A precious stone, green in color, esp. an emerald; also, emerald; smaragd ston. …

(a) Aid, assistance, help; support, encouragement; also, divine help, spiritual aid; (b) relief, alleviation of a state or condition, remedy; (c) sustenance. …

(a) A packhorse; -- also coll.; somer bai (hors); somer driven, forced to ride a packhorse; somer folwer, one who follows packhorses in a train; somer ledere, a driver of packhorses; somer sadel, a……

(a) A fool, simpleton; a madman; also, an innocent [quot. a1500]; sottes iferen, fellow fools; siti sot, q.v.; (b) a wretch, rascal, villain; (c) as a term of abuse; (d) in proverbs; (e) ?as surname. …

(a) An interval or a span of time elapsing between two specified points, events, etc.; (b) the amount or extent of time comprised by or contained within a specified period; -- often with gen. or of ph……

(a) The cosmos, composed of hollow concentric revolving spheres surrounding the earth; spere of the firmament; (b) the outermost sphere of the cosmos, the primum mobile, regulating the motion of the……

(a) A dealer in spices, an apothecary; spicer(es shoppe, an apothecary's shop; spicer wif, a female apothecary; (b) in surnames. …

(a) An aromatic substance; a spice; also fig. [quot. c1400]; coll. spices; also, spice plants; spiceri menginge, blending of aromatic spices; grounden (poudre of) spiceri, ground spices; (b) a spice……

An aromatic plant of the Valerianaceae family, esp. Nardostachys jatamansi, used as a perfume; a valerianaceous plant, prob. Valeriana officinalis, used usu. in herbal remedies and occ. in cooking……

A small ship capable of carrying 25 men, a pinnace. …

(a) The herb Spinacea oleraceo, spinach; also, ?a plant of the genus Cichorium [quots. ?a1450 & a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes]; pl. spinach leaves; (b) as surname. …

(a) A siege machine used for hurling stones and other heavy projectiles, a catapult; also, the missile thrown by such a catapult; also fig.; (b) as surname. …

(a) A squirrel, esp. the common Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris); -- also coll.; (b) the fur of the squirrel; (c) squirel tail, the tail of a squirrel; -- also coll.; squireles tail(es, the……

(a) A fee charged for the right to use a vending stall at a market or fair; also, the right to sell goods at a vending stall [1st quot.]; ?also, a vending stall [quot.: 1435]; (b) a platform or stage……

(a) An enclosed or partially enclosed place for keeping a domesticated animal, a stall; a stable; also in fig. context [quot.: ?a1425]; also in proverbs and prov. expressions; asse (oxe) stal; (b) a……

(a) A flag or banner displayed from a pole in battle; also, a pole used to display a military ensign; a figure displayed as a military ensign; standard berere, a standard bearer; standard of treues, a……

(a) A pond, pool; a reservoir; a lake; also in fig. context [quot.: c1400]; stank hed, a dam or similar structure for controlling the water in a pond; stank medwe, a meadow in which there is a pond……

(a) An official market established by royal authority for selling export goods; also, the town containing such a market; (b) staple sele, sele of the staple, the official seal of such a market; staple……

(a) The English silver penny; -- also coll.; also, the value of such a coin [quot. 1469, 2nd occurrence]; lushe-burgh sterling, a light coin imported from Luxembourg and used to counterfeit the……

(a) The human stomach; the primary organ of digestion; also, the stomach as the seat of hunger; stomak partie; stomak(es mouth, mouth of the stomak, the opening from the esophagus into the stomach……

A stock of needed supplies, provisions; -- also pl. …

(a) A stalk of grain; the yet stondinge in the stuble, unharvested grain, grain still standing; (b) coll. the ends of grain stalks left in the ground after reaping, stubble; harvested stubble or flax……

One who pursues knowledge, a scholar; one who pursues learning at a school or university, a student. …

(a) Provisions, stores; household goods; ?also, the act or process of provisioning a fortress [quot. 1438]; (b) material used as padding, stuffing; (c) cook. a mixture of ground meat or eggs, spices……

(a) The sturgeon (Acipenser sturio); -- also coll.; ?also, another fish or aquatic animal [quot. ?c1475]; (b) cook. a sturgeon used as food; maken a sturgeoun, to prepare a sturgeon for the table; (c)……

A monastic official ranking immediately below a prior, an assistant to the prior. …

(a) Any diocesan bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior; also fig. [quot. a1450]; (b) an assistant or a subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions for or in……

(a) The sweet crystalline substance sugar; -- freq. in combs. & phrases identifying place of origin: sugre babiloine (cipres, marrok, marrokes), sugre de cipres (marrok), sugre of alisaundre (cipres)……

A part or parts of the shrub sumac (Rhus coriaria), usu. used as an ingredient in medicaments. …

The service of providing carriage by pack animal; summage and cariage. …

A portable consecrated altar for use on a table or on an unconsecrated altar. …

Med. (a) A rectal suppository to induce defecation, eliminate abdominal gas, promote healing, etc.; (b) a vaginal suppository to reduce excessive menstrual flow or purge the uterus of unhealthy……

A scored wooden stick used for financial recordkeeping, a tally stick; the record kept on a tally stick; also fig. …

(a) One who tans hides to make leather, a tanner; tanneres craft, the trade of tanning; tanneres wos, tanning liquor; (b) in surnames; (c) in place names. …

(a) A heap, pile, stack; also, a heap of slain bodies, a stack of hay, a pile of money; corn tas; (b) a mass of persons, troop; at a tas, in close formation; in tas, in a melee, en masse. …

(a) An obligatory contribution levied on persons, possessions, property, etc. by a sovereign or government, impost; also, the rate at which a tax is levied [quot. 1455]; within the tax, on the tax……

(a) A lineal measure of length varying between 6 and 7½ feet;—also coll.; (b) a square unit of surface measure, prob. about 4½ square yards;—also coll.; (c) ?as surname. …

(a) One who holds real property from another by feudal obligation or payment of rent; (b) tenaunt bi (de) devis, a tenant by inheritance; tenaunt bi the courteisie, tenaunt thurgh laue of engelond, a……

Tongs, forceps. …

(a) Land or real property legally held under an obligation to a superior; a piece of land or a building so held; (b) the right to possess or use land, a building, etc., in exchange for the performance……

(a) A bursar for the land holdings of a monastery; terrer silver, ?a rent paid to a bursar; (b) as surname. …

(a) A crucible or similar vessel for trying such metals as silver or gold, a vessel for heating something to a high temperature; (b) a piece or fragment of some vessel-like object, such as a shell or……

(a) The high headboard of a bed upon which a canopy rests or from which it extends; the wooden supports or framework for a canopy; (b) the wooden or fabric canopy of a bed; (c) the frame of a canopy……

A specific quantity of furs, usu. a bundle of forty skins. …

(a) A structure for the interment of a corpse; a tomb, sepulcher; a mausoleum [a few quots. may belong to (c)]; tomb wonder, a miraculous tomb; (b) a grave; a burial mound; (c) a coffin or……

(a) A large barrel for wine, ale, or other liquid; a cask; also fig.; (b) fig. something to be partaken of; a source of vitality or enjoyment; (c) a wine cask of a definite capacity; a measure of……

(a) A barrel for liquids or solids, cask, tun; tonnel hop; tonnel tre, ?a barrel stave; (b) a net for catching partridges or other birds; (c) ?a chimney shaft; (d) a strainer or colander. …

(a) A large wax or tallow candle; (b) an inexpensive torch, perh. made by wrapping a reed with grease [some quots. may belong to (a)]; also, a pine torch [quot. 1446]; (c) fig. a sunbeam; (d) in cpds……

A malt-kiln. …

The plant Potentilla erecta, tormentil; also, the root or leaves of this plant used medicinally. …

(a) A turret; also in fig. context; (b) as surname. …

(a) An exercise in the medieval martial arts, engaged in by knights, usu. mounted, and used to demonstrate prowess or hone skills; (b) a test or demonstration of physical skill;—used of the Olympic……

The spring sowing or plowing; also, spring-sown grain. …

The hopper of a mill. …

Chiefly law A copy of a document, transcript; also [quot. 1472-5], ?an escheat; ?a written promise to pay. …

(a) Ornamental and protective covering for a horse;—usu. pl.; also, a bridle or other part of a harness [last quot.]; (b) personal effects, gear. …

(a) A beam; trave nail; trave tre; (b) an enclosure or a frame for restraining horses while they are being shod; (c) in surnames. …

(a) A set or course of thirty masses for the dead, sung on the same day or spread over several days, a trental; also, a poem describing a particular trental [quot. a1500 Trental]; also, a payment for……

(a) A siege weapon designed to cast stones, darts, etc., with a counterweighted or man-powered throwing arm; ?also, a version of such a weapon adapted for use on a ship; trepeget line (rop); (b) a……

(a) A support, usu. two-legged and employed in pairs, for boards or planks serving as a tabletop, a base, trestle;—also coll.; paire (of) trestel(es; (b) a bracing or supporting structure consisting……

A medicated tablet or pellet. …

Any of several trumpetlike horns in use in the Middle Ages [only quot. a1450(1408) provides sufficient detail to distinguish between a war trumpet and such smaller horns as may have been used for……

(a) The seat occupied by a sovereign, a throne; also, the center of court or government; (b) the throne as a symbol of sovereign power; (c) the ecclesiastical seat occupied by a pope or a bishop; (d)……

Eccl. A book containing tropes or sequences, a troper or sequencer. …

(a) The main stem of a tree considered apart from its roots and branches, trunk; (b) a lifeless human body, corpse, specif. a mutilated or dismembered body; (c) her. the representation of an animal's……

(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 bundle, parcel, burden; trussel corde, ?a bound parcel of goods; (b) a part of a ship's rigging, prob. a truss, rope, line, etc. used in hoisting a sail [cp. trusse n. 2. & trusser n.]; (c) a……

(a) An instrument of punishment, perh. a pillory or cucking stool; ?also, the right to erect and employ such an instrument [quot. 1394]; (b) a wheeled cart designed to tip backward to empty its load……

(a) Violent agitation, turbulence; (b) physiol. some kind of disordered bodily condition, ?a humoral disturbance; turbacioun of colour, ?the rush of blood to the face, flushing; ?blotchiness or……