(a) In the shape of a cross, i.e. with arms extended; (b) in a crossed position; (c) from one side to the other, across the length of something. …

In style, fashionably. …

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

(a) In words inherited from OE: an-biden, an-elen kindle; (b) in words not attested in OE with this prefix, but occurring in early ME up to c1225: an-belȝen, an-bursten; also an-ēlen kindle, an-hongen……

Examples: an-amelen, anclosen, an-egren, an-ointen, anjoinen, anvie. …

(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 suffix forming numerous collective or abstract nouns denoting states, attitudes, or activities, most of them directly borrowed from French, some formed from Latin words in -antia- on the French……

(a) In many pr.ppls. taken from OF, e.g. abound-a(u)nt, appar-a(u)nt, ard-a(u)nt, arrog-a(u)nt, charge-a(u)nt, ramp-aunt, -and, etc.; (b) in a number of nouns (orig. ppls.) adopted from OF, as……

(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. …

Cornish; the Corn-walish bor, the Cornish boar [said of King Arthur]; as noun: Cornishman. …

(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. …

To become or be alarmed, perturbed, abashed, upset, or frightened; -- (a) refl.; (b) intr. …

(a) To deprive (sb.) of seizin, as by forcible entry upon a freehold; esp., to dispossess (sb.) unlawfully (of land, goods, etc.); (b) refl. to surrender possession or dominion; (c) the disseised, the……

A dormouse. …

Med. Erysipelas, or similar eruption on the skin; also, a case of erysipelas. …

Hunt. Of hounds: (a) to follow a scent; (b) to follow the wrong scent. …

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. …

(a) A sort of stile that can be leaped, a very low gate; (b) in names. …

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……

(a) Miserable, wretched, unhappy; also, causing pain or distress, painful; as noun: the wretched, the needy, the suffering; (b) unfortunate, regrettable; calamitous, ruinous; dangerous; (c) evil……

Law ben nonsued, of a plaintiff or his suit: to receive an adverse judgment recording failure to prosecute or to produce sufficient evidence. …

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) To record (a deed, title, etc.) in an official roll or register; also in fig. context; (b) to list (a person's name) on a roster or muster roll; record (sb.) as (sth.), acknowledge; rollen with……

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

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.]. …

To cut (sth.). …

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. …

To write; describe (sth.); record (sth.) in writing. …

A screen used for protection against fire or drafts. …

A menial domestic servant, scullion. …

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

(a) To be divinely favored, blessed, or sanctified; ben seinted, become a saint in heaven; (b) to act like a saint; -- used iron. boast or show off. …

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) To urge (sb. to do sth.), invite, call upon; order (sb. to do sth.); -- also with that clause; ben somned, be called upon (to do sth.), be obliged; ben somned to, be invited to (a feast); (b) ?to……

(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) Of a person: outstanding in some respect, excellent; distinguished, renowned, worthy; ben soverain, to be preeminent; ben soverain to his plesaunce, be very pleasing to him; (b) of something, a……

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. …