(a) An English system of collective surety within a hundred, or some other territorial division, by which a certain number of freemen or villagers (?orig. ten) combined to give security for each other……

(a) A fruit seller, a dealer in fruit; (b) a household official in charge of fruit. …

satein fugeri, a kind of satin. …

One who makes or sells furs or furred garments, a furrier. …

A maker of saddletrees. …

A small gable. …

Of Gaul, Gallic. …

A gallon container. …

The removal of refuse from spices; office of garbelage, the office of garbelour. …

To inspect and remove refuse from (spices). …

An official whose duty is to inspect and remove refuse from spices. …

Refuse found in spices; also, refuse of wax. …

A box or trunk for storing or carrying goods or valuables [orig. a chest for meat]. …

Storage in garners or storehouses. …

Subject to compliance with the standard measure; liable to be gauged. …

Liable to the payment of taxes to the English crown; as noun: geld. …

(a) The black lignite (ligneous coal) called jet, known for its ability to take a high polish; a piece of jet; (b) ?black marble; (c) yellow jet, ?amber; (d) jet used for beads, rosaries, etc.; a jet……

Her. Guienne, the King-of-Arms having jurisdiction over the province of Guienne. …

A boring-tool, gimlet. …

(a) A military standard or flag; a knight's pennon; (b) a flag or pennant of a ship; (c) the banner of a guild. …

(a) Fetters, shackles; esp., leg bonds; also fig.; (b) chains or fastenings used on a ship. …

Her. Divided into sections of alternate colors, componé, gobony. …

A piece, fragment; bi goboun, piece by piece. …

A buffoon. …

A kind of coat. …

(a) A cucumber plant (Cucumis sativus); commune gourd; also, a cucumber; (b) the colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis); wilde gourd; also, the fruit of this plant; (c) a gourd plant (Lagenaria vulgaris……

(a) A service book containing the variable sung scriptural parts of the mass, and also sometimes the other sung parts; (b) the Gradual, a verse and response sung at mass after the Epistle. …

One who grants. …

(a) Hardship, misfortune, distress, trouble; bringen (turnen) to gref, to bring (sb.) into distress; kepen fro gref, preserve (sb.) from harm; (b) physical damage; (c) injury, grievance, wrong, cause……

(a) Rendered or melted fat, suet, lard, etc.; animal fat used for cooking, ointment, etc; also, human fat; fig. the richest part; (b) frien in ouen gres, to fry in (one's) own grease; whit gres, lard……

(a) Oppressive, burdensome, bitter; of temptation: hard severe; (b) of sin, crime: grave, serious; (c) tedious, difficult, distasteful; (d) important. …

Heaviness; also fig. gravity, seriousness. …

(a) A wholesale dealer in merchandise, such as wine, spices, pharmaceutic items, foods, etc.; ?also, a retailer; (b) groceres place, Grocers' Hall in London; (c) as surname. …

Twelve dozen; also, twenty-four dozen. …

A seller of various small articles of trade; also, a member of a company of such tradesmen; haberdasher(es ware, caps, purses, points, beads, spurs, inkhorns, thread, stationery, etc. [See Riley Mem.L……

The articles sold by a haberdasher. …

(a) A dish of chopped entrails, herbs, etc., boiled in an animal's maw, haggis; (b) hagis of Alemaine, a dish of eggs, parsley, spices, etc., enclosed in batter; (c) hagis maker, a maker of haggis. …

A net for catching wild animals, esp. rabbits; hai net. …

To bite; hanchen of, to bite off or eat off (sth.). …

A kind of pitch or tar. …

A roaster of meat, turnspit; -- also as surname. …

Haste; impatience; anger. …

Some kind of purse. …

Plunder, pillage; crien havok, to give the signal for general plundering; maken havok, to plunder thoroughly and indiscriminately. …

(a) One who inherits, or is entitled to inherit, the property, title, honors, etc. of a dead man; an heir or heiress; fals heir; verrei heir; kind heir, natural heir; thirde heir, the third in……

(a) An officer of a tournament who makes announcements, introduces knights, reports their actions, awards prizes, etc.; heraud of armes [cp. OF hiraut darmes]; (b) an expert in the records of knights……

One of two plants used for medicine: the common hemlock (Conium maculatum); the common avens (Geum urbanum). …

Buck's horn plantain Plantago coronopus; prob. also, the European ground pine Ajuga chamaepitys. …

(a) St.-John's-wort (Hypericum perforatum); (b) used in medicine; (c) used in alchemy; (d) ?used for food. …

A collector and/or seller of herbs, an herbalist. …

(a) A payment made, by the heir(s to the lord of the manor, upon the death of a tenant; (b) the right to collect this payment. …

Some precious stone. …

A boar in his third year. …

(a) A boar of the second year; (b) a sheep of the second year. …

(a) A maker or seller of hose, hosier; (b) hosier craft, the guild of hosiers; (c) in surnames and place names. …

(a) To wage war, make a military expedition; also, carry out plundering raids; (b) to ravage or plunder (a place); (c) to encamp. …

Refl. To lodge (with sb.). …

The guest master or mistress in a religious house; also fig. …

(a) Of animals: to howl, yowl; of owls: hoot; (b) of persons: to utter similar sounds, wail, lament; (c) to shout; also, pursue or chase away (an animal) with shouting; houlen on, shout at (sb.)……

Shame, disgrace. …

(a) An island in the sea, a lake, or a river; (b) an area of high land rising above marsh or fens. …

An upbraiding, a reproach. …

(a) A piece of common land which has been enclosed for agricultural purposes; (b) the management of something for profit; (c) increase of income, profit. …

(a) To enclose land for agricultural purposes; (b) to increase (income); (c) ppl. improued, ?approved, ?beloved. …

(a) Security against possible loss; (b) a payment made to compensate for loss of revenue, indemnification. …

(a) Without judicious discrimination, indiscriminately; (b) equally, alike. …

(a) Harm, damage, loss; a specific injury; don injuri; (b) injustice; a specific injustice; werken injuri; (c) dishonor, derogation; also, an insult; withouten more injuri, without further……

(a) Law A legal claim or right; also fig.; haven interesse in (of), to have a claim upon (sth.), have rights in (sth.); (b) the right to claim compensation for damage; ?also, damage, injury; (c) the……

Written between the lines of a text; glose interliniare, Anselm's interlinear gloss to the Vulgate; par interliniare, by interlining, in the manner of an interlinear gloss. …

(a) The invasion of property, or usurpation of an office, not rightfully one's own; (b) fig. …

Derivational suffix usually in nouns from L or OF: accioun, contradiccioun, dominioun, temptacioun, etc.; also in ME formations, often diminutives: conjeccion, merlioun, oinion, carioun (var. of……

(a) A small, spine-bearing, Old World mammal belonging to the genus Erinaceus; a hedgehog; also fig. [quot.Pilgr.LM]; (b) a heraldic representation of a hedgehog. …

A derivational suffix in nouns designating nations, races, or languages, and in adjectives describing them; from OE: Brittish, English, Denish (var. of Danish), Frensh, Grekish, Romanish, Welsh……

Spread out flat. …

(a) A cart horse, hack; (b) as surname. …

(a) A man's name applied familiarly or contemptuously to anybody, especially to one of the lower classes; jak nape(s, a contemptuous nickname for William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk; jak boie, jak fol……

(a) A precious stone, usually of green color; jasper; (b) jaspre ston, jasper; also, a food made in imitation of jasper stones. …

Armor for the leg. …

A pair of leg-guards, armor for the legs. …

(a) Jaundice; the jaunis; haven the jaunis, to be jaundiced; (b) yelwe jaunis, yellow jaundice, jaundice; grene jaunis, green-sickness, chlorosis; blak jaunis, ?cancer of the liver. …

The act of throwing goods overboard to lighten a ship in distress, jettison. …

(a) A Jew, one of the Jewish race or religion, one following the Mosaic law in biblical or post-biblical times; sarasin or Jeu, Jeu or painime, jeues and sarasines, sarasines and jeues, jeues and……

(a) The Jewish people, Jews; (b) the Jewish religion, Judaism; (c) Jews as moneylenders. …

(a) Entertainment; music, jesting, pantomime, sleight of hand; ?also, trickery; (b) enchantment, sorcery. …

(a) A minstrel, harper, singer; (b) an entertainer (usually itinerant); actor, jester, clown, tumbler, dancer. …

A joiner. …

(a) John; -- used as a familiar name for a priest; sire Jon; (b) used as a contemptuous name for a person of mean station. [See also herbe-jon, Seint Jones wort; Jon with the gilden mouth, see gilden……

Judicial. …

A yoke. …

(a) To try (sb.) in a court of law; judge between or concerning (persons); bring (sb., sins) to judgment on the last day; of God: judge (sb.); jugen commune laue, administer the common law; (b) to……

(a) A member of the ruling body of a city; jurates men, aldermen; (b) a juror [Latin only]; an informant under oath in an investigation leading to canonization. …

(a) A group of men (often 12) appointed by royal or local authority and sworn to return a true verdict in a legal case or to give true answers to questions of fact or law, a jury; passen in jure, to……

(a) One sworn to deliver a verdict or determine the facts in a dispute, a juror in a court of law; commune jurour, q.v.; (b) a man qualified by his property holdings or rank to serve regularly on……

?Rascals, vagabonds. …

?Filigree; kerimeri werk. …

Cook.?Choice bits, the finely divided ingredients of the sauce called camelin. …

A small tub or vessel; ?also, as surname. …

(a) A stationary fence made of stakes, wattles, and nets set in rivers or along seacoasts for catching fish; the net on such a weir; kidel man, one who has charge of a kiddle, ?a maker of kiddles; (b)……

The young of a domesticated cat, a kitten; also, the young of a wildcat. …

(a) A manual worker; esp. an unskilled laborer, casual laborer; (b) an agricultural worker, plowman, digger, etc.; (c) a female laborer; (d) a member of the laboring class, the lowest social rank……