The Germans, the German nation; also, the Teutons. …

(a) A weapon for discharging quarrels, stones, etc., consisting of a bow set crosswise on a shaft; a crossbow, an arbalest; (b) a missile shot from a crossbow; arblast shute. …

Fulfillment, satisfaction, reparation; maken (don) asseth, give satisfaction: (a) fulfillment of a wish, expectation or requirement; (b) fulfilling of a need; (c) satisfactory answer to a question or……

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

Things owned; possessions, property, wealth; -- coll. or pl. …

A service owed by the tenant to his feudal superior [orig. consisting of work performed by the tenant with his draft animals]. …

An increase; specif., what is given to boot (in a bargain). …

(a) The feudal tenure or status of a bonde or bond(eman (q.v.), bondage; holden lond in bondage; (b) a service required of a customary tenant; (c) the class of bondmen and serfs, the unfree. …

(a) The part of a suit of armor protecting the arm; (b) an arm guard or wrist guard used by archers; (c) a bracelet, an armlet. …

(a) A light body armor, consisting of a front and a back half, worn by foot soldiers (later also by others); pair (of) briganders; (b) briganders maker; briganders nail. …

(a) The driver of a cart or coach; a carter, coachman; also fig.; (b) carter stable, a stable for cart horses; lavedies carter, ladies' coachman; (c) as personal name. …

Naut. One of two small pieces of timber, perforated to receive the tack of a sail [see quot. 1625 below and quot. 1769 in OD under chesstree]. …

Fellow citizen. …

Cornwall. …

(a) An accountant; esp., an official who oversees the collecting and auditing of taxes for a shire, a kingdom, etc.; (b) one who calculates, an arithmetician; (c) a pleader in court, a lawyer; (d) as……

A cloth for covering a bed; bedspread, coverlet. …

Alch. A crucible. …

(a) A room or building for making butter and cheese; also, a room for keeping food, a pantry; (b) a dairy farm or a dairy building on a farm; also, a dairy herd. …

Deterioration, decline in value or capacity to produce income; in decai, of land: no longer productive; fallen into decai, gon in decai, to decline in value or productiveness. …

don dever [AF faire dever], (a) to do (one's) duty (as a Christian, priest, lord, knight, tenant, official, etc.); (b) to do one's best, do all one can; also, make an effort. …

A dormouse. …

Law A surveyor or assessor. …

Law Survey, appraisal, or valuation of land or other property for purposes of taxation; (b) assessed value; (c) tax levied on such valuation; also, income from taxes. …

(a) An estate in land or tenements held in heritable or perpetual tenure to a feudal superior or the crown; fe ferme, knight(es fe, lai fe; (b) a piece of land, or land and tenements, held by such……

(a) A group of ships; esp. a fleet of warships, a navy; ?a naval expedition; (b) a troop of armed men, an army; (c) ?a set (of fishing nets). …

A manorial service: transportation (of produce, etc.) on foot, on one's back (instead of conveyance by a draught or pack animal). …

One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc. …

(a) An English system of collective surety within a hundred, or some other territorial division, by which a certain number of freemen or villagers (?orig. ten) combined to give security for each other……

Liable to the payment of taxes to the English crown; as noun: geld. …

(a) Fetters, shackles; esp., leg bonds; also fig.; (b) chains or fastenings used on a ship. …

(a) A dish of chopped entrails, herbs, etc., boiled in an animal's maw, haggis; (b) hagis of Alemaine, a dish of eggs, parsley, spices, etc., enclosed in batter; (c) hagis maker, a maker of haggis. …

(a) Law A legal claim or right; also fig.; haven interesse in (of), to have a claim upon (sth.), have rights in (sth.); (b) the right to claim compensation for damage; ?also, damage, injury; (c) the……

(a) A room or building for processing and storing meats, a larder; (b) the department of the royal household in charge of the larder; (c) provision of meats. …

(a) The load of a ship, cargo; (b) a measure for hides, 200 hides; (c) a measure for wool; prob. 20 sacks; (d) a measure for herrings and other fish, bacon, beer, wine, small cut or shaped stones……

A person or animal afflicted with leprosy. …

In names only: a gate that can be leaped, a very low gate. …

The name of a portable siege tower used by Richard I. …

(a) A course of action, method, way; a means of attaining an end; (b) bi mene of, with menes of; bi no (manere of) mene; bi al menes; bi god menes, with great skill; menes and weies; weies and menes……

Insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency. …

(a) Metallic ore; metal; ?also, ore of any kind; metal or; (b) a vein or deposit of ore; (c) or of bras, copper ore; or gold (led, silver); gold (silver) or; (d) or ston, iron ore. …

A maker of pattens; also, as surname. …

(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) One who plasters the walls of buildings, a plasterer; plasterer craft, a plasterers' guild; (b) as surname. …

A cloth for covering or carrying bread. …

(a) The spike of a candlestick, pricket; (b) a candle used with a pricket, a kind of candle. …

Hunt. (a) The parts of a deer, usually placed on the animal's hide, which are given to the hounds as a reward for the chase; (b) the ceremony of giving the hounds their reward; (c) the collection of……

A hunting call on a horn calling back or summoning together the hounds, a recheat; also, the calling together of the hounds; also fig. …

A hunting call on a horn calling back or summoning together the hounds, a recheat. …

Sovereignty, kingship. …

(a) The rest, remaining part or quantity; the residual portion of an estate; a remaining or reserved portion; also fig.; (b) the remaining part of a story, question, text, law, etc.; a remaining……

A rent granted to a person other than the owner of the income property, without right of distress for nonpayment. …

(a) Shame, disgrace, dishonor; with gret repreve, shamefully; (b) ben (lien) in repreve, to be in disgrace, be despised or rejected; don repreve, cause disgrace; don repreve to, cause disgrace to (sb……

(a) The rear of an army, rear guard; also, the rear of a horse; (b) fig.; (c) a weapon of some kind, perhaps a cudgel or club; (d) error for red water, i.e., the Red Sea. …

The state of possessing wealth, prosperity, affluence. …

(a) A rawhide shoe or boot; (b) as a derogatory nickname for a Scot. …

(a) A spherical body or form; a globular lump; (b) the rounded end of a bone; (c) an eye socket. …

In cpd.: rutei time, rutting season. …

Rutting of male deer; rutson tide (time). York MGame 21: The hertes þat bene in greet hilles, whane it commeþ to Rut some [vr. Rutsonn] tyme [vr. ruttson; F temps du ruyt], þei come adoun in to grete……

Sardonyx; a sardonyx. …

A model, an exemplar, a guide. …

(a) A typical representative of a class; writen saumples of, to give examples of (sth.); (b) an instance serving as illustration of a method; (c) a small quantity of a substance by which the quality……

(a) A divine plan; a divine archetype or pattern; (b) an earthly copy of a divine archetype; also, an earthly representation [1st quot.]. …

A custom levied on goods displayed for sale within the precincts of London. …

A city official charged originally with the collection of scauage, later with the inspection and maintenance of the streets. …

A custom levied on goods shown for sale within London. …

A sentinel, guard; also, the guard, watch; kepen (maken) scoute-wacche, to keep guard or watch. …

A screen used for protection against fire or drafts. …

A menial domestic servant, scullion. …

A wild pigeon, ?stock dove (Columba oenas). …

A soap-like substance obtained from boiling spermaceti with potash. …

Mus. (a) A wind instrument containing a double reed, shawm; also, a pipe or flute; (b) ?one who plays this instrument. …

Arch. (a) Beveled stone used to form the slope of a gable coping, the offset of a buttress, etc.; a piece of such stone, a skew; skeu scapeled; (b) in cpds. & combs.: skeu assheler, squared, hewed……

The summer or winter solstice; solsticioun of somer (winter). …

(a) An officer of an ecclesiastical court responsible for citing persons to appear, an apparitor; also, an officer of an archdeacon; (b) an officer of a secular court responsible for citing persons to……

A dream book, a book which explains the significance of dreams; also, the interpretation of dreams. …

(a) = sours n. 3.; (b) a perch for a hawk; (c) = sours n. 2.(a). …

A deputy sheriff. …

(a) One who is superior to or has power over another; an immediate master, a lord; also fig.; pl. masters; also, one's betters; ben soverain over, to be lord over (sb., oneself); (b) a husband; lord……

A piece of armor protecting the shoulder. …

Underbrush; also, kindling or firewood made from underbrush [1st quot.]; cler speies, an area in a forest clear of underbrush. …

(a) One who dispenses money, provisions, etc.; a household steward; a butler; one who distributes alms, an almoner; also fig.; (b) in surnames; (c) as place name. …

(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……

(a) The principle of life; sprit of lif, vital sprit; (b) the human soul, esp. at the point of death; yelden sprit, to die; (c) an immaterial being; an angel, a demon; also, an apparition, a ghost……

(a) A servant in the scullery, dishwasher; also, an officer in charge of the scullery in a noble household; sergeaunt squiler, the officer in charge of the scullery in a king's household; (b) prive……

(a) A woven basket; ?also, a bucket; (b) a hollow stem or cane. …

A stalemate in chess; also fig. [2nd quot.]. …

(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) A heated room for a hot-air or steam bath; -- also pl.; a bathhouse; also, a hypocaust [quot. a1387]; steu hous; (b) a hot-air or steam bath; also, a herbal decoction used in a steam bath or for……

A measure of quantity for eels, usu. 25; stik ele, ?eels of small size. …

?A hunting or tracking dog. …

(a) Law A domestic animal found wandering away from its home or enclosure and subject to impoundment and, if unredeemed, to forfeiture, an estray; -- also coll.; also, the right to impound an estray……

A toll or tax paid for leave to beach a boat. …

(a) A foreigner, an alien; straunger alien; enemi (marchaundise, ravinour, alien comere) straunger; marchaunt straunger [see also marchaunt n. 1.(c)]; (b) an unknown or unfamiliar person, a stranger……

A witch; also, a hag; -- used as a term of abuse. …

The action of measuring flour or wine by means of a strickle or measuring vessel. …

A deputy to a bailiff; also, an assistant to a sheriff. …

Suppression, restraint. …

(a) The undergoing of hardship, affliction, punishment, etc.; suffering; (b) a state of affliction, hardship, or suffering; pl. trials, tribulations. …

(a) That which suffices, all that is necessary, enough; an adequate supply of something, sufficient resources; soverain sufficience, abundance; to (unto) sufficience, sufficiently; (b) contentment……