(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. …

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

(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. …

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]. …

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) 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……

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) 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) 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; (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.]. …

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). …

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……

(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) 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 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 hunting or tracking dog. …

(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. …

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……

?A skin injury, perh. characterized by swelling and surface lesions. …

Overindulgence, excess; immoderate behavior; an instance of immoderate behavior; also, loquacity, talkativeness [quot. a1449 Lydg.Cock]; surfet of biinge, profligacy. …

(a) An additional name [cp. surname n. (a)]; also, an epithet; a family name or last name [quots. 1472-3 & prob. a1425]; (b) a distinguishing name; also, a pseudonym, nom de guerre [last quot.]. …

Presumption, pride, arrogance. …

(a) Hunt. The third tine of a hart's antlers, tray; (b) hawk. pl. the outermost of the three anterior claws of a hawk [cp. sussengeles n.pl.]. …

Hunt. The third tine of a hart's antlers, tray. …

(a) The heel of a person's foot; (b) the hind part of the foot or hoof of an animal; (c) the hind part of an animal's footprint. …

(a) One who perceives something by the sense of taste, a taster; (b) a domestic officer who tastes food to insure its wholesomeness or that it is not poisoned; also, an official who tastes ale to……

One who tests the quality of bread or ale, an assayer. …

(a) The ancestor of the modern game of court tennis, prob. a form of handball played in an enclosed space; also used derisively for warfare with cannonballs; pleien at (the) tenis; (b) tenis bal, a……

A locker or similar container for the storage of military gear; also, a casket or similar container. …

(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) The systematic infliction of physical pain or an instance of it; applied torture; also, punishment; (b) a cause of physical or mental suffering, an affliction, a hardship; also, a disaster, an……

(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……

One who takes part in a tournament; also as an epithet for a ruler. …

?A burrow; ?a clever stratagem. …

(a) A woman who betrays or kills the king; a servant who betrays her master or mistress; a wife who betrays her husband or a daughter her father; also, a false lover; (b) a treacherous and……

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

(a) One who works, a laborer; one who works for his or her living; (b) one who does injury, a tormenter; (c) travailour of child, a woman in childbirth, a woman in labor; (d) a treader of a path, a……

(a) Faithlessness to a sworn oath or sacred obligation; also, traitorousness; (b) guilefulness, duplicity, dishonesty; also, trickery; (c) hypocrisy, dissimulation, insincerity; (d) a specific sin……

(a) One who violates or fails to observe a law, an ordinance, a set of regulations, a code, etc.; one who commits an infraction, a criminal offender, transgressor; (b) one who does wrong, a……

(a) A pledge to cease hostilities for a lengthy or an indefinite period of time, usu. as a preliminary to further negotiation or the formal establishment of a peace; also, the peace established……

(a) One officially appointed to examine or adjudicate a cause or question, a judge; (b) an officer of the king's household responsible for inventory and expenses of the wine cellar, and perh. also for……

A hand tool with a flat or curved blade attached to a short handle, a trowel; also, an instrument or a tool of unspecified form and use [chiefly gloss. quots.]; trouel of (a) masoun. …

(a) A disreputable person, a good-for-nothing, an idler; a dishonest or an insincere person, a dissembler, liar, knave; (b) an entertainer, a jester, storyteller, etc.;—freq. used pejoratively [quots……

(a) A bunch or gathering of hairs, feathers, twigs, etc. attached at the base, a clump; tuft of roddes (twigges), a stand of young shoots, an osier bed; (b) an ornamental tassel or knob; a crest on a……

(a) Turks; also, members of one of the nomadic tribes of the Middle East allied with ancient Rome or Persia; contre of Turkeis; (b) with ref. to the third Crusade: members of the Muslim forces; with……

A turn, rotation, or revolution about an axis or center; welkenes turn, the turning of the heavens. …

The turnip plant Brassica rapa. …

A monetary unit based on the French silver tournois, usu. equivalent to one-fourth of the pound sterling; moneie of turoneis, pounde of turoneis; grot turoneis, a silver coin originally valued at 12……

An official in charge of inspecting cloth and collecting the fee charged for this inspection, an alnager. …

(a) Custom, habit; with inf.: the habitual inclination (to do sth.), the habit (of doing sth.); in ure, in or into conformity with customary behavior, good habits or customs, etc.; also, with inf.: in……

(a) The practice of lending money for interest or gain, usury; also fig. and in fig. context; (b) a usurious act or practice; also in fig. context; (c) the vice of usury personified. …

Astrol. ?The zodiacal sign opposite a planet’s domicile, a position conferring weakness or lessening of planetary influence; ?the position of a planet in a zodiacal sign conferring heightened……

(a) Worthiness in terms of the chivalric virtues, nobility of character or breeding; also, spiritual worth [quot. ?a1475]; also, courtliness, refinement [quot. a1500(?a1400)]; of valour (b) bravery,……

A piece of armor for the forearm;—also coll.; also fig.; vaum-brace(s and rere-brace(s, rere-brace and vaum-brace. …

Some sort of covering for the foot, prob. an understocking or perh. a slipper of some kind; also, the upper of a shoe or boot. …

The vanguard of an army. …

(a) A boaster, braggart; (b) as surname. …

(a) Retribution, punishment, revenge; the act of taking vengeance, the infliction of retributive injury; vengeaunce of god; dai of vengeaunce (b) an act of vengeance; a punitive wound, plague, etc.;……

(a) An avenger, a punisher; also, an instrument of punishment [1st quot.]; (b) ?one who is vindictive; ?a foe, rebel. …

?Some strong emotion, perh. anger; ?bloodshed. …

One or more kinds of resin or gum, or such held in solution and intended for use as a decorative or protective coating on wood or other material, varnish; ?also, varnish used as a vehicle or mordant……

(a) Prepared food; a dish, esp. an elaborate dish; also fig. (b) cook. in names of specific dishes, freq. consisting of ground poultry or fish or fruit boiled in almond milk or wine, thickened, and……

(a) A plant of the genus Vitis, a vine; vini lef, a vine leaf; vini yerd, a vineyard; also fig.; whit vini, the common or white bryony (Bryonia dioica) (b) ?a vineyard [quot. may belong to (a) or be……

(a) A circle, circuit; in the viroun of, around (sb.); (b) extent, distance; in adv. phrase: a gret viroun, for quite a distance. …

(a) A seller of food or food and drink; a trader in foodstuffs; also, fig. a provider of that which is necessary to sustain life [quot. c1475] (b) one who supplies or tries to supply an armed force……

A drink taken before retiring or the departure of guests, a parting drink; also, a repast taken before retiring, dessert [last quot.]. …

The native or common language of a nation, the vernacular. …

Hawk. A secondary wing feather. …