(a) To go along a border, sail along the coast; pass along the border of (sth.), go alongside (sth.), skirt; (b) to follow along (someone's route); accompany (sb.); to shadow (an opposing army)……

(a) A bed-ridden person; couchour at hame, a stay-at-home, laggard; couchour with males, a sodomite; (b) a kind of spaniel. …

(a) To counsel (sb.), advise, teach, instruct; also, give advice; (b) to advise (sb. to do sth.), advise (doing sth., a course of action); -- often with to phr. or that clause. …

(a) A counselor, an adviser; also, one who shares secrets, a confidant; (b) a legal adviser; a lawyer; (c) the Holy Ghost (Paracletus); (d) one of the names of Christ. …

(a) Containing a reckoning or account; (b) able to record or remember; (c) responsible, accountable. …

A count, calculation; at a counte, by count or measurement; bi counte, by a count, as counted; by calculating the position (of a star); pl. for sg. countes, a calculation. …

A count, an earl. …

(a) The territory ruled by a count; also, an English earldom; also fig.; (b) ?country, territory. …

(a) To count (sth.), enumerate, add up; (b) to reckon (sth.) among, include (sth.) in; ppl. counted, included, including; (c) ?to assign (sth.), distribute. …

(a) The wife of a count or an earl; also, the female heir of an earl (a countess in her own right); (b) the wife of a nobleman in ancient times; (c) a viscountess; (d) as a surname. …

(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……

Opposite, in the opposite direction; rennen countre, to do the opposite. …

Contrary to, in opposition to, against. …

Against (in position, motion, direction), opposite, counter-; ?back, rear (as opposed to front, forward); countre- filet, some kind of ribbon for the head or headdress; countre- frount, countre-……

(a) A likeness, a representation, an image; (b) a utensil made of a metal which has been given the appearance of a different metal. …

(a) Made to resemble something, made after a pattern, imitation; (b) made of metal which has been given the appearance of a different metal. …

A counterfeiter, a forger. …

(a) To rescind (an order, a sentence); (b) to give (sb.) an order which has the effect of rescinding a previous order; (c) to recall (sb.), command (sb.) to return or remain. …

(a) A counterweight; also fig.; (b) the balancing of two things; fig. making equal; (c) an equivalent; (d) ?a recompense. …

(a) To balance (two things in a scale), weigh; countrepeisen with, balance (sth.) with (sth. else), offset (sth.) by adding to (its opposite); -- used fig.; (b) to balance (sth.), weigh as much as……

The art of singing an accompaniment to plain song, contrapuntal singing. …

Hawk. A beater stationed on the opposite bank of a river or on the far side of a body of water. …

(a) To equal (sth.) in value; of land: be as profitable as; countrevaillen to, be equal to; (b) to compensate for (sth.); be accepted in lieu of (sth.); (c) to resist with equal force; avail, succeed……

(a) To check or verify (receipts or payments) [orig., by comparison with a duplicate register]; also, check (a collector of money); (b) to enter (a record of events) in a register. …

(a) The official in charge of accounts in the king's household; (b) an accountant in the customs; (c) any officer of the king having charge of receipts and/or disbursements; (d) a lord's accountant; a……

(a) Of persons: courtly or refined in manners; well-bred, urbane; polite, courteous; considerate, kind; courteis and hende; (b) of behavior, actions, words, etc.: refined, well-mannered, polite. …

The complex of courtly ideals; chivalry, chivalrous conduct; also, contextually, one of these ideals, as courtly love, benevolence, kindness, cheerfulness. …

(a) A person attached to a sovereign's court, a courtier; (b) a member of a court of law or of one of the Inns of Court; (c) in names. …

A piece of armor to protect the elbow, elbow-piece. …

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

(a) Chalk; ?crai lond, chalklike earth, ?chalk; (b) a digestive disease of hawks. …

A kind of small ship. …

(a) To become larger, increase; of the moon: wax; ?also, augment (sth.); (b) of fame, pain, sin: to become greater; also, increase (hurt), worsen; (c) to be more productive; bear children, have……

The moon's shape in the first or last quarter, a crescent. …

An inferior foreign coin often passed as an English silver halfpenny. …

(a) A prelate's crosier bearer; also, one who carries a cross before a prelate; ?also, one who lives near a cross; (b) one who bears a cross; (c) ?one who carries a staff. …

(a) A prelate's crosier bearer; ?also, one who lives near a cross; (b) one who bears a cross; (c) a cross or crucifix. …

(a) An ornamental curl or roll of hair; (b) a hook. …

(a) A strong term of abuse: beast, hag; (b) ?as surname. …

(a) A chronicle, history, record; (b) story, account; fals cronicle. …

(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

(a) A small cross; a cruciform reliquary; (b) her. a cross crosslet; (c) crosselet wise, shaped like a cross crosslet. …

Alch. A crucible. …

A small lamp. …

(a) A crucible; (b) a small lamp. …

A small lamp. …

Of the deer and the hare: to void excrement (in pellets). …

Pellet-shaped excrement. …

(a) A cover for the hindquarters of a horse, or a crupper; (b) the hindquarters or haunches of a horse [some quots. may belong to (a)]. …

(a) The hindquarters (of an animal), rump, haunches; (b) the haunches (of a giant); (c) crupper. …

(a) Christ on the cross; the crucified one, Christ; image of the crucifix, an image of Christ crucified, a crucifix; also, a mental image of Christ on the cross; signe of the crucifix, a……

Underground chambers, the crypt of a church. …

(a) A small vessel for sacramental wine, holy water, or chrism; (b) a jug, bottle, or bowl (as for water); (c) fig. …

(a) A night lamp; (b) a crucible. …

Any dish baked in a crust; a pie or patty (of meat, fish, eggs, etc.). …

(a) A piece cut off, a slice, a chunk; (b) a bunch; (c) a section, a segment. …

Covetousness, cupidity. …

(a) The curlew (Numenius); ?also, quail; (b) the quail (Coturnix); curleu eiren, quail's eggs; curleu mete, quails for food. …

A licensed trader who is not a citizen or a member of a merchant guild. …

To clean and comb (a horse), curry; also, torture (a person with a hot horse-comb). …

A friar in charge of gardening; maister curtiler, chief gardener. …

A craftsman who makes cutting instruments, such as knives, daggers, etc.; a cutler. …

(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. …

Polite, leisurely, intimate conversation or entertainment; exchange of pleasantries; chatting, small talk, gossip; knightli daliaunce, polite conversation; leued daliaunce, rude talk; don daliaunce……

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

One who works in clay, lime, mortar, or calking material: plasterer, dauber; potter; calker. …

(a) A lord; (b) a cleric or monk. …

(a) Domination, power, control, or possession (as exercised by a ruler, lord, or adversary); abiden daunger, to submit to control; ben in (under) daunger, be in (someone's) power or hands, be a……

(a) To treat (sb.) with respect or kindness; (b) to humor (sb.), induce by flattery (to do sth.). …

(a) Turning white; (b) a cosmetic to make the skin white. …

Law An objection strong enough to invalidate a claim. …

(a) To prevent (sb. from being or doing sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb.); (b) to suppress (truth). …

A written statement that one owes a certain sum to a person named; esp., an acknowledgment of debt issued in the king's name. …

The Devil; fi a debles [see fi int.]. …

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. …

To decrease, diminish. …

State of being thrown down, ruin. …

(a) Trickery, deceit, treachery; lying; (b) act of deceiving; a deception, stratagem, trick; a lie; (c) an ambush; (d) a fowler's snare or trap; some device to impede the passage of ships. …

(a) Of persons or animals: deceitful, lying, treacherous; -- also as noun; (b) disloyal, seditious. …

(a) The act of deceiving, treacherous action or conduct; lying, deception, trickery; fig. act of deceiving the eyes; (b) the quality of deceitfulness; in deceivaunce, deceitfully. …

(a) Lying, deceitful; (b) as noun: a deceiver, something that deceives. …

(a) To deceive (sb.), lie to, be false to; defraud (sb.), cheat, rob; mock (sb.), play tricks on; (b) deceiven of, to defraud (sb.) of (sth.), rob (sb.) of (sth.); also fig. …

(a) A liar, deceiver; (b) fig. a thing or action that causes error; fals deceivour, mannes deceivour, the Devil; (c) one who mocks, a deceitful scoffer; (d) one who defrauds, a cheat, swindler, thief……

To determine (sth.), decide (a question, dispute, legal case). …

(a) Becoming fewer or smaller, decrease, diminution; waning (of the moon); (b) detriment, harm; fallen in decres, to become poorer or weaker, decline; (c) ?amelioration. …

(a) Law The defendant in a suit (as opposed to the plaintiff); (b) the challenged party in a trial by combat. …

(a) Defending; him (him self, me) defendaunt, defending himself (myself), in self-defense [cp. OF se defendant]; mi sonne defendaunt, my son defending himself; (b) law defending in a suit; partie……

Law Of rights to income or property: capable of being voided or annulled. …

Law A condition which, if fulfilled, nullifies a contract, an obligation, or a judgment against litigant; also, the document stating such a condition; in defesaunce of, for nullifying (an obligation)……

(a) To digest (food, drink); carry on digestive processes; defien with teth, masticate; god to defien, beneficial to digestion; ppl. defiing, promoting digestion, digestible; (b) to be digested; (c)……

(a) To keep (sth.) by force from the rightful owner; rob (sb.); deforcen of, rob (sb.) of (rent); deforcen to, withhold (land) from (sb.); (b) deforced, deforcing, defending in a lawsuit, defendant. …

One who keeps property from the rightful owner by force; esp., the defendant in a lawsuit. …

One who keeps property by force from the rightful owner; esp., the defendant in a lawsuit. …

(a) A feeling of esteem, regard; delight, pleasure; deinte of, esteem for (sth.), affection for, delight in; in deinte, pleasantly, politely; (b) pleasure (in doing sth.); -- with (for) to and inf……

(a) A feeling of pleasure, delight; haven deinteth, to take pleasure (in sth., in doing sth.); (b) condition of being esteemed; ben in deinteth, to be held in esteem, be prized; (c) a pleasurable……

(a) A raised platform, dais; the place occupied by a king, councilors, judges, etc.; ?also, a throne, the judge's bench; (b) heigh deis, high platform, exalted place; (c) at (on, upon) deis, on the……

Law Plaintiff. …

(a) A question; (b) it is no demaunde, there is no question; that is no demaunde, this holde I no demaunde, there is no question about it, there is no doubt about that. …

(a) To ask questions; ask (a question); question (sb.), interrogate; demaunden of, ask (sb.) about (sth.), ask (a question) of (sb.); (b) to demand (sth.), claim, require; as laue wil demaunden, as……

Quiet, well-mannered, poised, dignified, grave, sedate; of the sea: calm; benigne and demur, kind and gentle; demur of age, mature; also as AF surname. …