(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. …

(a) A black coloring matter or pigment; black ink; (b) a pigment used in glass painting; prob., ferric oxide [cp. Knowles in Antiq.50]. …

(a) A cart or wagon; often, a small vehicle carrying half as much as a cart; (b) carre bond, the tire of a cart wheel; carre chain, a cart chain; carre clout, an iron plate protecting the axle of a……

(a) A box, chest, casket, case; as a case, like a chest, as big as a chest; corporal case, corporas case, a case or container for a corporal cloth; (b) a quiver for arrows; a case for bows or bows and……

(a) Preservation under law, protection; (b) administration (of a statute). …

An unmarried woman, a maiden or maiden lady, esp. one of noble or good family; also, any young woman or girl. …

(a) State or condition; (b) stature, build, bodily form; (c) of God, the soul, immortal life, etc.: nature, essential character. …

A yoke. …

(a) A lizard; esp. the stellion; (b) ?a crocodile, ?a serpent; (c) a dagger, dirk; ?also, the point of a weapon, sharp point; (d) her. a representation of a lizard, (?) or of a salamander. …

A magical stone, ligure. …

The faculty of memory; celles of memori [see celle 6.]; hurting in the memori, impairment or loss of (one's) memory; in wills: being in god memori, in god minde and sauf memori, haven gode knouinge……

(a) Land on which animals graze, pastureland; a field, pasture; (b) commune pastur, pastur commune, shared pastureland; feint pastur, poor pasture; gentil pastur, excellent pasture; worthi to pastur……

(a) Wood tar; also, the residue of the distillation of wood tar; (b) blak pich, cedar gum; also, = pich navale; hard pich, solidified wood tar; pich liquide, fleting pich, neshe pich, pich molten……

(a) A gatekeeper, doorkeeper; also, one who guards the gate of a bridge; porter logge, a porter's lodge; (b) in titles: grom (sergeaunt, yeman) porter; (c) a keeper of the gates of heaven or hell……

(a) One who holds or owns something; a proprietor, an owner; occupier; also fig.; persoune possessour, a person who holds property; (b) a clergyman who holds the living of a church. …

(a) Eccl. One to whom the pope has granted the right to be appointed to a benefice as soon as a vacancy occurs; also, a religious to whom the pope has granted exemption from the duty of obedience to……

(a) A cloth, often of silk, dyed with Tyrian purple or a similar dye; purple fabric, esp. associated with royalty; (b) a garment made from purple cloth; raiment of royal purple; also fig.; usen purpur……

(a) A grape, cluster of grapes; also in proverb; (b) a raisin; gret raisin; raisin graines, raisin seeds; (c) raisin corauns, raisin of corauns, a Corinthian raisin, currant [see also corauns n.]; (d)……

(a) A kingdom, an empire, a realm; a country, nation, province; scotland regioun, regioun of moab, regioun of jeues; (b) eccles. a district in Rome; (c) heaven; the realm of hell or the underworld……

(a) A human or an animal kidney; -- usu. pl.; litel (smale) reines, the kidneys; reine guttes [see also gut n. 1a.(a)]; also, as translation term for L ilia groin; (b) pl. the loins, flanks; (c) pl.……

(a) The action of relating in words; narration, account, information, report; maken (bringen, yeven) relacioun; (b) a piece of information, a statement, narrative, an account, a report; also, an……

(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……

The act of renouncing a right, title, etc., abdication; also, a document expressing such a renunciation; also, repudiation, disavowal; maken renunciacioun. …

(a) Answering, an answer, a verbal response, rejoinder; an argument, a protest; an argumentative statement in a debate; maken (a) replicacioun, to answer, argue; (b) law an answer to a suit; a reply……

(a) The Resurrection of Christ; also, the resurrection of Antichrist [quot.: Chester Pl.Antichr.]; (b) the religious festival commemorating the Resurrection; resurreccioun gilde, a guild that……

(a) The withdrawal of blood; drawing back or retraction of the tongue; (b) the repudiation of one's earlier work with admission of error, recantation. …

Law: (a) The return of an estate to the grantor or his heir upon the expiration of the grant; interesse (right, etc.) of reversioun; (b) an estate created by reversion, a reversionary interest; also……

(a) The act of offering a life (animal or human) to a deity as an act of propitiation or homage, a ritual slaughter, often followed by immolation of the victim; the formal offering up of produce, a……

(a) The constellation Sagittarius, the Archer; also, the ninth sign of the zodiac; (b) ?a centaur; ?an archer. …

(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) The North Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar); also fig.; (b) samoun beli, ?the underside of a salmon; samoun lep, a fall in a river up which salmon leap; samoun pipe, a kind of large cask; samoun trout……

(a) Sardonyx; a sardonyx; -- also coll.; also, a sard; (b) in pl., mistransl. of F sarazineis; cp. ME Sarasineis adj. …

(a) A member of the Germanic tribe that invaded, conquered, and settled in England, a Saxon; (b) est (south) saxones, people from the kingdom of the East (South) Saxons; west Saxon, q.v. …

Discredit to religion resulting from the misbehavior of a religious person; also, the causing of such discredit. …

(a) A member of the order Scorpionida; a scorpion or a creature thought to be one; (b) a figure of a scorpion; (c) a snake similar to a scorpion; (d) a scorpion's sting. …

(a) A written document; a letter, bill, etc.; also, writing, something written; (b) bi (in) scrit, in writing; (c) laue of scrit, the Mosaic dispensation. …

(a) A unit of apothecary's weight of one twenty-fourth of an ounce; scrupul weght; (b) used to denote a small unit of ancient Hebrew weight, equal to one tenth of a shekel; (c) a moral misgiving, pang……

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

(a) A class of people or things, sort, kind; (b) a species, race; a ieu of sect, ?of Jewish extraction or adherence; (c) a bodily form, likeness; in oure sect, in our likeness, in human flesh; (d)……

(a) A ruler, king, suzerain, an overlord, emperor; (b) a person of high rank, authority, or dignity (primarily secular); a lord, often attendant on a higher power or authority; (c) a respectful term……

A holy or sacred place; a place dedicated to God; also, the dwelling place of God, heaven; also fig.; the seintuari of god. …

(a) One of the northern constellations, either Ursa Major or Ursa Minor; also, pl. the stars of one of these constellations; (b) a northerly direction, the north; also, the north wind [last quot.]……

(a) A spoken discourse, a particular speech or discussion; also, talk, speech; also, report, rumor; pl. sayings, words; maken (seien) a sermoun, to make a speech; (b) a long sermoun, a long discourse……

(a) One owing a duty of service to a master or lord; a laborer for hire; a male or female domestic servant, household servant; servaunt man, servaunt womman; (b) servaunt familier (domestical,……

(a) A seat, bench; a place for sitting; (b) a session held by officials for the purpose of conferring or conducting business, an assembly; kepen sessiouns, to attend meetings; (c) a judicial session……

(a) A vessel for holding liquid; ?a brewing vat [2nd quot.]; (b) a liquid measure; sester ful; (c) a dry measure; (d) sester peni, an annual tax imposed upon commercial brewers of beer. …

(a) A footstool; also fig.; also, the raised section of the floor on which the altar stands, a footpace [2nd quot.]; shamel of fet, fot shamel [OE fōt-sceamol]; bok shamel, a bookstand; (b) a bench……

(a) A symbol; in significacioun, as a symbol, symbolizing; (b) symbolic meaning; also, interpretation [quots.: Lydg.Pilgr.]; (c) symbolization, representation; a gret significacioun, an important……

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

(a) Pot marigold Calendula officinalis; -- also used as epithet [quots.: c1325]; ?also, heliotrope Heliotropium europæum or chicory Cichorium intybus [quot.: ?a1425]; (b) cloth dyed the color of……

(a) A group of people, animals, vices, etc.; a company, troop, band; a cohort; a god sort, a great many; in (a) sort, on a sort, of sort, in a group, together; in sort with, in common with, like; (b)……

(a) Sound; a sound; soun of ere, sound; ?also, hearing [quot. ?a1425 Orch.Syon]; (b) noise, loud noise; din, clamor; also, a noise, loud noise [sometimes difficult to distinguish (b) from (a)]……

(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 country of Spain; ?Castille [quot. c1450 Ponthus]; pl. the two parts of Spain in ancient Roman nomenclature; contre (kingdom, lond) of Spain; spaines erthe, Spain, Spanish soil; further……

(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) Spice or sugar added to food or drink to enhance the flavor; also fig.; cake of (with) spices, a spiced cake; cheuen (taken) spice, to chew a spice as a breath freshener; (b) a spiced dish or……

(a) A thorn; a thorn bush, bramble; also fig.; a thorn branch made into a crown [quot. ?a1439, 2nd]; also, a spine of a hedgehog; (b) the spinal column; spin bon; (c) in surname. …

(a) Life, the principle of life; vital breath, a vital breath; also, the principle of animation, soul; also, a giver of life [quot. a1425(a1400)]; spirit of lif (quiknesse); (b) a living, rational……

(a) Immateriality, purely intellectual nature; (b) piety; (c) the institution of the church; an ecclesiastical right or prerogative; (d) an ecclesiastical court; (e) pl. consecrated ground. …

(a) A matter of spiritual concern, spiritual doctrine, the body of Christian teaching; palais of spiritualte, a church; (b) piety, devotion; also, a spiritual way of life; (c) the spiritual nature of……

(a) The spleen of a human or an animal; also, the spleen as the seat of melancholy; of the splen, ?in ill humor; on the splen, ?in a melancholy way [last quot.]; lien on splen, ?to be out of humor……

(a) That which is forfeit to a conqueror, booty; -- also coll.; maken spoil of, to carry off (goods) as plunder; (b) pl. spoils, booty; trophies; treasures; also fig.; (c) the act of despoiling or……

(a) A piece of the elastic, absorbent, and porous spongin skeleton of various species of Porifera, a sponge; (b) the sponge as an instrument of the Passion, the sponge soaked with vinegar and gall……

(a) A place which one normally occupies: a place of business; an official seat, a see; a garrison; also, the men in a garrison; (b) a place in which something is fixed: an anchorage for ships; the……

(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 moral or spiritual state or condition; stat of dampnacioun (grace, right, etc.); stat of penaunce (teres), a state of repentance; (b) a mental state, frame of mind; (c) the physical state or……

(a) A long garment; a robe; -- also coll. [quot. a1398]; stoles of bataille, war garments, armor; first stole, the best robe; (b) fig. and in fig. contexts; (c) the robe of a Jewish priest or high……

(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 gum or resin from the storax tree (Styrax officinale), often used medicinally; storax calamita; tre of storax, the storax tree. …

(a) A narrative account, oral or written, of events that occurred or are believed to have occurred in the past, a story from history or accepted as history; a narrative drawn from the Bible or a……

A disease characterized by difficulty of urination, strangury. …

(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……

(a) Zealous and diligent effort, zeal; labor, industry, diligence; pl. efforts; bi studi, diligently, intentionally; with studi, diligently; don studi to, to put forth effort for (the senate); setten……

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

(a) Pl. The refuse or coarser parts of flax or hemp, hards; stupe of tou; (b) pl. hards of flax or hemp prepared and used as the raw material for cloth, tow; (c) surg. a small piece of cloth made from……

Eccl. (a) A member of the lowest clerical order, ranking immediately below the diaconate, a subdeacon; (b) the set of vestments worn by a subdeacon; (c) = soudeken n. (b). …

(a) One who is obedient to another or to the wishes of another; a servant; a lover; also fig.; also, something which may be put to the service of man; (b) one who is absolutely under the control of or……

(a) Deference, homage, respect; obedience, submission; also, humility; yeven stede to subjeccioun, to yield to another's point of view, comply; (b) servitude, bondage; subservience, subjugation……

(a) Obedience, humility, submissiveness; also, self-abasement [quot. c1449]; (b) chiefly law submitting to the authority of another in providing a ruling; also, an agreement to abide by the ruling of……

(a) A name or mark signed at the end of a document, usu. to attest to its authenticity; (b) an independent passage concluding a letter. …

Help, assistance, aid; succor, relief. …

Gram. A word that refers to a person or thing, a noun or an adjective used substantively. …

(a) A type or kind of thing; a thing; also, a material thing; up substaunce, above material things, spiritual, transcendent; (b) an entity possessing physical properties; -- used of the incarnate……

(a) The taking away of something, removal; also, theft; also, deprivation; (b) the withdrawal or removal of someone from a place; (c) med. the letting of blood; (d) arith. the finding of the……

(a) Physical destruction, demolition, ruination; also fig.; also, an instance of physical destruction; a ruined condition or state [quot. c1475 Chartier]; (b) the overturning of government, a code of……

(a) The fact or right of succeeding someone by inheritance in an office, a position, possession of property, etc.; bi successioun, by hereditary succession; (b) the transmission of an office, a right……

(a) One who comes next after and replaces another, through inheritance, election, or other legal or customary means, in an office, a position, possession of property, etc.; also, fig. a state or……

(a) A cloth commonly used to wipe sweat, tears, etc. from the face, a handkerchief; also fig.; (b) the cloth of St. Veronica, on which an image of Christ's face was believed to be imprinted. …

(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……

(a) The action of prompting or urging; incitement; also, a proposal, suggestion; also [quot. c1390], a reason, motive; -- with prob. allusion to the phrase fals suggestioun in sense 2.(a); maken……

(a) The mineral sulfur, brimstone; -- often used as a component of medicaments; also, fig. a name for the morning star [quot. c1475]; also, a variety of sulfur [quot. a1500(1471), 2nd; quot. may……

(a) An entreaty, earnest request, a plea; (b) a formal petition addressed to the king, an official, etc.; bulle of (bille bi wei of) supplicacioun; (c) a prayer [a few quots. may belong to (a)]. …

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) The act of suspecting; unverified conjecture of the existence of fault, guilt, wrongdoing, etc.; mistrust, distrust; also, unwarranted or malicious suspicion; ful of suspecioun; suspecioun of……

(a) Dangling of the feet; also, med. traction [1st quot.]; (b) execution by hanging. …

(a) That which is essential to sustain life; the necessities of life; also, the action of providing the necessities; also, a livelihood; aboven sustenaunce, in excess of what is necessary to sustain……

The constellation Taurus, the bull; the second sign of the zodiac. …

(a) The imposition of a tax, the action or fact of taxing; also, a tax; maken (haven) a taxacioun; (b) the assessment of amounts due in damages, penalty, etc.; also, a valuation. …

(a) Restraint, forbearance, moderation, temperateness;— also pl.; a habit or practice of proper restraint or moderation [quot. c1475(c1450)]; (b) temperance as one of the cardinal virtues; also person……