Instigation to, or connivance in, an offense or crime. …

A capacity for doing something, proficiency in an art or profession, ability, power. …

The game of blind-man's buff [see first quot.]; pleien abobbed; fig. to fool or delude a helpless person. …

(a) Something done, an act, a deed; accioun of penitence (penaunce), an act of penance; (b) the operation or effect (of heat or fire); the activity or function (of a bodily organ); accioun visif……

(a) One who keeps accounts; (b) a writer, a historian. …

(a) The act of buying, a purchase; (b) comune achat [transl. L coemptio], a purchase made under (unfair) conditions imposed by a ruler; (c) fig. redemption. …

A buyer of provisions, esp. for the household of the king or a lord; a purveyor. …

(a) Cause, reason; motive for doing something; objective, goal; withouten achesoun, in vain, for nothing; (b) that which furnishes a pretext, an opportunity; achesoun of sclaunder; (c) blame……

Reversion of property to a feudal lord upon failure of heires to the tenant, escheat; also, the right to claim such escheated property; writ of achete. …

Encroachment (upon another's jurisdiction). …

(a) Things one does; activities, doings, affairs; also, behavior; (b) sg. an enterprise. …

An assessor of fines. …

The practice of pasturing, or permitting the pasturing, of livestock; also the right to do so, or the land so used. …

A forest officer in charge of pasturing livestock; also as surname. …

(a) The alloying of a noble metal with a base metal; debasing a noble metal or coin by this means; (b) dilution of wine. …

(a) A highly prized ferocious dog of a breed used in hunting, bull-baiting, etc. [described in quot.: c1410]; (b) a representation of such a dog. [See A. S. Cook, Trans.Conn.Acad. 2.128, 23.30.] …

The office of an alderman. …

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

A garlic sauce, with pepper. …

Mitigation, easing, or relief; -- often with of (rarely to) phrase. …

(a) Allegiance (to a lord), loyalty; esp., loyalty to the king [quot. 1461]; fidelity (to God); (b) a lord's title to the loyalty of his subjects, lordship; your alligeaunce, your Highness. …

Possession in frankalmoin; cp. almes 5. …

Enamel; an enamel figure or ornament. …

Enameler. …

(a) Mediation, intercession; (b) mediator, intercessor. …

The state of being liable to amercement. …

(a) A penalty imposed upon an offender or defaulter, esp. one imposed 'at the mercy', i.e. at the discretion, of the court (as distinct from a statutory fine); amercement; (b) the income from such……

Cause, reason, grounds. …

A precious stone of some kind; ?the diamond. …

A charge for anchoring a ship in a harbor. …

A grant payable in annual installments (over a stated period or without limitation in time); an annual allowance or income, annuity. …

Accuser. …

The utilization (of waste or common land); the practice of using (such land) to one's advantage or to improve it; the leasing of such land in return for a fraction of the yield from it. …

An agent who looks after the interests of an employer or who manages property; specif., an official appointed by the Crown to supervise the collection of royal revenue; steward. …

A right, privilege, or possession subsidiary or incidental to a principal one (such as lordship, a manor, etc.); the totality of such rights, etc.; -- coll. sg. or pl. …

(a) Belonging (to a country, a manor) as a possession or a right; (b) as noun: what belongs to or forms a subsidiary part (of a manor, etc.). …

The manner in which one acquits oneself; conduct, behavior; treue aquitaille, dutiful or faithful conduct; froward aquitaille, perverse behavior. …

(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 soldier armed with a crossbow; a crossbowman. …

One who is trained in the use of bow and arrow: (a) a soldier armed with a bow or longbow, longbowman, archer; also, crossbowman [quot. 1509]; archers and arblasters, longbowmen and crossbowmen; (b)……

The practice, art, or skill of an archer; man of archerie, an archer. …

(a) The tartar produced by fermentation of wine, crude potassium bitartrate; (b) poudre of argoil, powdered tartar; prob. also, sal tartar; (c) salt argoil, potassium carbonate made by heating tartar……

(a) Act of coming to land, end of a voyage, arrival by sea; (b) disembarkation, landing. …

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

Some kind of rent due a feudal lord. …

(a) The action of preparing or arranging; the building (of a temple); the mustering (of an army); commissioun of arrai, officials in charge of mustering troops; (b) festivities, ceremonies……

(a) The action of preparing for something, preparation; (b) action of decorating, ornamentation. …

Law The procedure of calling upon an accused person to answer to a formal charge, arraignment. …

(a) An illustrative instance or story; (b) a model of conduct. …

Pathol. A collection of serous fluid in the peritoneal cavity; dropsy of the abdomen; ascites. …

(a) An outcry, battle-cry; shouting, clamor; setten (up) ascri, yeven ascri, to raise a clamor or battle-cry; (b) an attack accompanied by a battle-cry. …

Law Escrow. …

Stealthy investigation, observation, or watching; scouting, spying; also, information obtained by scouting; maken or setten aspie(s, to scout or spy; -- often pl., rendering L insidiae. …

(a) The testing or a test of quality (as of a metal or other object); assaying of metal; putten in assai; after the assai of London, according to the London standard of quality; (b) of god assai, of……

(a) Assayer [an officer of the Crown]; kinges assaiour; (b) an official or servant who tastes food before serving; (c) investigator, student. …

An assessor (of taxes). …

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 juryman or sworn witness in a court of assize. …

Stock of provisions. …

Law The act of distraining (sb.) to appear in court, or of sequestering (property); also, a writ of distraint, writ of attachement. …

Law A person formally designated or appointed to represent a litigant in court or to transact official business; legal agent, attorney, advocate; attourne general, advocate empowered to act in all……

Formal acknowledgment of allegiance and service (of a tenant). …

An official who examines and verifies accounts, an auditor or examiner; also fig. of God. …

(a) A kind of balance or scale (prob. a steelyard) used for weighing [banned by law as lending itself easily to deception; see quots. 1351, 1429, 1439]; also, the system of measuring weight with such……

(a) The sister of one's father or mother, aunt; (b) aunte doughter, the daughter of one's aunt, cousin; aunte sone, the son of one's aunt, cousin. …

(a) A friar of the Augustinian order; (b) Austin frere, an Augustinian friar. …

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

The foremost position or part of an army, the vanguard. …

A piece of chain mail protecting the neck and upper chest. …

A draft horse; ?also, any beast of burden or draft animal. …

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]. …

Act of emptying something; esp., emptying the alimentary tract by bowel movement or vomiting. …

(a) A judicial decision, judgment, verdict, sentence; don award, maken award, yeven award, to render a decision, pronounce judgment; abiden award, holden award, stonden to award, to accept a decision……

(a) Pork cured in brine or by smoking; esp. salt pork or a cut of it; salt bacoun; seind bacoun, smoked pork; bacoun hog, a hog fattened for butchering; (b) bacoun flich or flik, a side of bacon; (c)……

Her. A badge of cognizance, insignia; bagge of armes. …

(a) A small fast naval vessel; balinger of werre; (b) a sailor on such a vessel. …

A German coin. …

(a) A banner-bearer; the standard-bearer of a king; a standard-bearer in the van of battle; meister baneour, chief standard-bearer; (b) a knight banneret. …

A kind of short straight sword or dagger, in civilian use, worn in a sheath hung from a strap, e.g. at the girdle; baselard knif; in some examples perhaps used loosely of a curved 'hanger.' …

(a) A container made of withes, splints, rushes, etc.; wicker basket, hamper, etc.; (b) a basketful; (c) as a name. …

Forged metal ware. …

A manorial rent [orig., a fine collected for faulty pleading, or a fee paid for correction of faulty pleas]; also, the right to collect this rent. …

A shepherd. …

A sheepfold. …

A hunting dog trained to follow wounded game. …

A drink or beverage. …

A flock (of quail), a herd (of roe); a company (of ladies); a bevy. …

Some kind of feminine ornament; ?a chaplet, a studded girdle. …

(a) A formal document (embodying a will, a permit, etc.); fig. a list or inventory; (b) a papal bull. …

(a) An official register, roll, or record; (b) an official tag or badge of registration or identification. …

An enclosure, pen. …

(a) Flattery, blandishment; (b) dalliance, caresses; (c) allurement, attractiveness; (d) deception, deceitfulness. …

A kind of fur, ?ermine. …

(a) A costly silk fabric; (b) a garment of this fabric, a tunic; (c) a bedspread of this fabric. …

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

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

(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 costly silk cloth from the Near East. …

(a) A brag, a boast; boastful speech, bragging, self-praise; (b) casten bost at, be boastful toward (sb.), insult; maken bost (of), brag (of, about); more bost is, etc., a pot of wine causes more……