Prefix of verbs and action nouns adopted from OF, e.g. es-cāpen, es-chaunǧen, es-pleiten, es-soinen. It is not formative in ME. as- and a-, the AF variants of this prefix, occur alongside the CF……

To free oneself from confinement or someone's grasp; also fig.;-- (a) absol. or with adv.; (b) with obj. …

Exchange of one person or thing for another; reciprocal giving and receiving: (a) of prisoners of war; (b) of properties. …

(a) To exchange (prisoners of war); (b) to undergo change; (c) of the moon: to pass through a complete cycle of changes; (d) to turn (into something else). …

An official appointed by the king to give coin in exchange for bullion or plate. …

An officer charged with looking after the king's escheats in the county to which he is appointed. …

(a) Discredit, shame; (b) slander, or an instance of it. …

(a) A spirit; seint espirit, the Holy Ghost; (b) soul, vital principle. …

(a) To enact (a law); ordain (that sth. be so); -- also with grammatical subject hit; also, institute (a sacrament); also, issue instructions (to do sth.); (b) to impose (a condition); prescribe (a……

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

common of estovers, a liberty of taking necessary wood..from off another's estate (OD). …

(a) Haughty, reserved; (b) as noun: something external to the body, a foreign substance. …

Law (a) A true copy of an original record, esp. of fines or amercements which have been entered on the rolls of a court to be collected by the bailiff or other authorized officer; (b) fines……

A kind of water pitcher, ewer. …

A servant one of whose duties was to provide water at table for washing the hands, ewerer; the head ewerer. …

The office or department (or the persons collectively) charged with the performance of the ewerers' duties. …

One who questions (a witness). …

To grant (a prayer); to grant (a supplicant) that which he prays for. …

Law (a) The carrying out, putting into effect, or enforcing (of the provisions of a statute, law, will, etc.); execution, enforcement; (b) the execution (of a sentence); the infliction of a penalty or……

An executor (of a will); an agent; also fig. …

(a) A woman executor; (b) administrator (of the Law); (c) wielder (of Fate). …

(a) Exemption or immunity from the law or a special provision of a law or statute; esp., the exemption from Civil Law enjoyed by the Church; (b) exemption from monastic rules; (c) Poet. freedom (of……

To exempt (from a law or rule); to relieve or exempt (from an obligation or duty). …

Law A writ requiring a defendant to appear on pain of outlawry; the condition of a person named in such a writ; putten in exigend, ben at exigend. …

Spread out; spread abroad. …

Furtherance or promotion (of a purpose or undertaking). …

To expedite, facilitate, or give good speed to (a journey); to favor or be propitious to (someone). …

(a) To set forth, explain (something); display, demonstrate; (b) to come forward, exert oneself (cp. OF exploier). …

To set forth, reveal, (facts, doctrines, theories, rules of conduct); describe or tell (orally or in writing); to present (one's case). …

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) Rambling, irrelevant; (b) extraordinary, unusual; (c) Canon law: constituciouns extravagaunt, papal decrees originally not included or codified in the Decretals [see quot.]; (d) spurious, not……

The art of make-believe or deception. …

(a) To reduce (a person) to extreme hunger or to death by starvation; to starve (b) to cause (a horse) to fast, whet appetite by withholding food. …

(a) Celebrated, renowned, famous; (b) well-reputed, estimable; (c) well-known. …

(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) Of a person, animal, the body, its parts: to grow or become weak or infirm; (b) to make or render (a person, etc.) physically weak or infirm; to enfeeble. …

(a) To grow feeble; (b) to weaken (persons, animals, strength, etc.). …

Any of certain cultivated or wild leguminous plants belonging to the genus Vicia or to allied genera; vetch. …

(a) A feudal estate in land or tenements held in unlimited tenure, subject only to a fixed annual rent; also, the land or tenements constituting such an estate; (b) the kind of tenure by which such an……

One who is invested, singly or jointly, with an estate in trust; feffe of (upon) trust, feffe to (another's) use. …

The investing of a person or persons with an estate in land, tenements, rents, etc.: (a) as a mode of direct conveyance for full possession and use; (b) as a mode whereby an estate was held……

(a) To put (a person, a religious foundation) in possession of a feudal estate held in heritable or perpetual tenure; to invest or endow (a person, etc.) with land, rents, etc.; to enfeof; -- usually……

(a) One who invests another or others with an estate, specif. an estate in trust; (b) one who is invested with an estate, specif. an estate in trust; a trustee. …

(a) A system of religious doctrine accepted on belief; a religious persuasion, a religion; Cristes (Cristen) feith, feith of holi chirche; fals feith, heretical or heathen belief; fikel feith……

A dealer in second-hand clothes; a fripperer. …

One who commits felony; a felon. …

Law feme couvert, a married woman; feme sole, an unmarried woman, or a married woman who holds property in her own right. [Not attested in E context until c1600.] …

(a) Of warriors: fierce, bold, proud; (b) of facial expression: bold, proud; (c) of an enterprise: worthy. …

(a) To have the use of (something) in return for a fixed payment, to rent or lease (land); (b) to delegate (an office) in return for a fixed payment. …

The closed season in which it is not lawful to hunt male deer; bi fermisounes, in fermisoun time, during the closed season on male deer; flourished of fermisoun, fattened in the closed season. …

(a) A shrine enclosing the body or relics of a saint; a tomb; (b) in fertre, enshrined; entombed. …

Load, pack. …

Capable of being accomplished, feasible. …

Pheasant: (a) the game bird or its flesh as meat; (b) the likeness of a pheasant; (c) as a surname. …

(a) What one does or succeeds in doing; act, deed, doings; the working or operation (of the universe); (b) in fet, in fact, actually. …

To make or fashion (something); build (a fortress); draw up (an army); wel feted, well shaped; smal feten, slender; feten faire, well equipped; feten about, decked out. …

(a) Of things: cleverly fashioned, neat, elegant; (b) of persons: shapely, handsome, pretty, neat [used ironically in quot.: 1477]. …

(a) A huntsman who cares for hounds and manages them in the hunt; (b) as personal name. …

Feverfew (Chrysanthemum parthenium). …

A precious stone. …

A small quantity of blazing vapor, a flame; also fig.;--usu.pl.; flaume of fir, a tongue of fire, a flame. …

(a) To emit flames, to be afire, to blaze; ppl. flaumbed, blazing, intense; (b) flaumen of (on, with) fir, to blaze; (c) to give off (fire, light, sparks); flaumen doun, to shed (light) downward. …

Smelling, odorous. …

(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) Scum or grease floating on a liquid; (b) law the legal right to flotsam. …

(a) A flowering plant of the genus Iris, the fleur-de-lis; often as fig. for Virgin Mary; (b) the fleur-de-lis (esp. the root) used in medicine. …

To be or become foolish, to act like a fool; foled, silly. …

?Foliage. …

Foolish; ?sinful. …

(a) To stop the motion of (someone), to shut (off from something), to shut (in, out); (b) to keep (something) from happening or arriving, forestall, prevent; to withhold (payment, food); to contradict……

(a) Of the body or parts of the body: severely bruised, battered, crushed; (b) of armor: broken to pieces, shattered. …

(a) A fortified place, a castle; (b) a unit in a larger fortification, such as a tower; (c) a stronghold, fortified city; a natural stronghold; also fig. …

To trim or clip (something); esp., to trim (a fleece, removing the coarser parts). …

A raised structure, resembling a tower, at the bow of a ship, esp. of a fighting ship; ship of for-castel, man-of-war. …

The act or offense of buying provisions before they have been exposed for sale in the public market; also, selling provisions outside the market. …

Law Exception, exemption, reservation. …

Law Excepted, exempt; forprised out; forprised and except, exempted and excepted. …

A fortified place, a fortress. …

A tax for the maintenance of ditches. …

Only as surname. …

A manorial service: transportation (of produce, etc.) on foot, on one's back (instead of conveyance by a draught or pack animal). …

One who builds or tends a fire, a kitchen servant. …

Tread or trample upon. …

(a) The base or stand upon which a dish, vessel, or utensil rests; also, the bottom of a vessel; (b) the bottom or bed of a lake or river. …

The original builder of a city; the founder of a country; the builder of a castle, etc. …

(a) The breaking (of an object); fracture (of a bone); (b) theol. the breaking or dividing of the Host; (c) math. an aliquot part of a unit, a fraction or subdivision; also, a mark indicating such a……

(a) A landowner and member of the gentry ranking immediately below the nobility; a freeman, a gentleman; franklein of toun, a free citizen, an owner of property in a town, a burgess; (b) as a personal……

'A tenure in virtue of which a man and his wife held lands granted to them by the father or other near relative of the wife, the estate being heritable to the fourth generation of heirs of their……

One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc. …

Freeholder; only in names. …

A freehold. …

Frenchman. …

(a) A form of land tenure, whereby an estate is held in fee simple, fee tail, or for term of life; possession of land, property, income, or office (not temporarily nor at the will of an overlord but)……

A tenant whose land is a freehold, a freeholder. …

A freeholder. …

(a) The refectory of a religious house; the room or building in which monks, nuns, or friars eat; freitour bel, refectory bell; (b) in personal names (given to one who works in, or is in charge of, a……

(a) To devour (something), to eat up; (b) to eat (something); esp., to eat hungrily or greedily; freten fil, to eat (one's) fill; freten of, to partake of, eat of; freten up, to eat up, devour; (c) to……

One who holds land in fee simple, in fee tail, or for term of life; a freeholder (as opposed to a serf). …

(a) Spawn or the young of fish; small fish; -- constr. with sg. or pl. verb; (b) roe. …