(a) Lack of zeal, laziness, negligence; (b) tardiness, procrastination; (c) heaviness, dullness. …

(a) An estate in land held on condition of rendering secular services; (b) lay people, the laity. …

The common people as distinguished from the clergy; laity. …

(a) A kind of falcon used in falconry, a laner; esp. the female of the species; (b) a cowardly man. …

A supply of salt pork, bacon, and other meats; such meat in storage; also fig. [Certain instances of the word in for and to phrases may belong with sense 2. (a).] …

(a) A room or building for processing and storing meats, a larder; (b) the department of the royal household in charge of the larder; (c) provision of meats. …

(a) A person in charge of a larder; (b) as surname. …

Extent or amount of rent. …

(a) The load of a ship, cargo; (b) a measure for hides, 200 hides; (c) a measure for wool; prob. 20 sacks; (d) a measure for herrings and other fish, bacon, beer, wine, small cut or shaped stones……

(a) A translator, interpreter; (b) in surnames. …

(a) Of a feudal superior: entitled to feudal allegiance and service; of a sovereign: entitled to a subject's allegiance; lege lord, lege ladie, lege soverain, etc.; (b) fig. lege lord, religious Lord……

A person or animal afflicted with leprosy. …

(a) A lizard; esp. the stellion; (b) ?a crocodile, ?a serpent; (c) a dagger, dirk; ?also, the point of a weapon, sharp point; (d) her. a representation of a lizard, (?) or of a salamander. …

One who lets property on lease. …

A precious stone with magical properties. …

(a) A kind of local court with power to investigate, try lesser offenses, levy fines, and sometimes legislate for its district; a court leet; also, a session of such a court; lete general, gret lete……

?Milk, ?a special kind of milk. …

(a) A white or light gray fur; perh. the winter fur of the common European weasel Mustela vulgaris; lettice; (b) a pelt of this fur; ?also, a piece of lettice used for trimming a garment; letuse skin……

A young hare, leveret. …

(a) A building or room to house books; also, a book closet, chest, or bookcase; (b) a collection of books or records, an archive; (c) pl. memoirs, records; (d) fig. a great deal of learning; a body of……

An illuminator of manuscripts; also, a member of a gild of illuminators; also, as surname. …

(a) In a line or row; lineal ordre, linear order; (b) straight, not crooked; (c) lineal climat, the climate of a certain latitude [cp. climat 2. (a)]. …

(a) A sort of stile that can be leaped, a very low gate; (b) in names. …

(a) A portable bed carried by man or beasts, a litter; hors liter [see hors n. 8. (f)]; (b) a bed; also, bedding; also fig.; bed liter [see bed n. (1) 1c.]. …

A magical stone, ligure. …

A Londoner. …

(a) A day appointed for a meeting between enemies, rivals, parties to a lawsuit, etc., for the purpose of reconciliation or arbitration; often, the meeting so arranged; also, the reconciliation or……

An illuminator of manuscripts; also, as surname. …

(a) Lustful, lecherous; (b) wanton, outrageous. …

A butcher; also, an executioner; also, as surname. …

(a) A mutilation, injury, disfigurement; bringen to maim, to amputate (a limb); (b) a maimed person. …

The finest kind of wheat bread [cp. pain-demeine]; main-chet bred, main-chet flour. …

Armor for the hand, a gauntlet. …

Tenure, management. …

(a) To control (a town), manage (land, a fortification); (b) to take in hand (portable property), lay hold of; (c) to rule (a territory). …

One who offers himself as surety that another (esp. a prisoner to be released on bail) will fulfill his legal obligation to appear in court when required; also fig. …

(a) The release of a prisoner on someone's undertaking to act as surety for him, mainprise; bidden to main-pris, to offer to be surety for (sb.); goinge to main-pris, being allowed mainprise; leten……

Of a prisoner: eligible for release by surety. …

= maintenaunce 1. (a). …

Law Admissible. …

(a) The office of a mayor; office of mairalte; (b) a mayor's tenure; time of the mairalte. …

(a) Ill-tempered, irascible; (b) of the sun or moon: in such a position as to favor the formation of black bile; (c) as noun: a person whose complexion, or physiological make-up, is dominated by black……

(a) A manorial estate, consisting of a manor house, service buildings, lands, etc.; (b) ?a field; (c) a stronghold. …

(a) A kind, sort, variety, or species; a distinct tribe, nation, or race; (b) with appositive noun: a kind of, sort of, etc. …

(a) Trading, commerce; also fig.; don (maken, usen) marchaundise, to buy and sell, trade; engage in (one's) business; sathanas marchaundise, sinful traffic, evil dealings; (b) purchasing; maken……

(a) A wholesale businessman; a factor, broker; a peddler, retailer; a shopkeeper; also fig.; coll. merchants; marchauntes of the staple, the influential businessmen engaged in English export of……

(a) The month of March; march butere, ?butter made in March and preserved for medicinal use; march month, March; marches idus vi, March 10; last idus of march, March 15; march thonder, thunder in……

?Reckoning; dai of marche, Judgment Day. …

(a) A seaman, sailor; navigator; boatman; ?also, a fighting sailor or marine soldier; coll. sailors; a ship's crew; (b) the master or owner of a ship, captain; chef (maister) mariner; also fig.; (c)……

The action or right of seizing the persons or property of subjects of a foreign state as restitution for injuries committed by these subjects; also, the warrant granted by the king authorizing such……

The name of a portable siege tower used by Richard I. …

(a) A household, household servants and officers; (b) meine bord, a table other than the high table; meine chaumbre; meine shetes, household linen, napery, etc.; child of meine, a minor child; fader……

(a) Belonging to a household; meinial meine, meine meinial, household servants; meinial man (servaunt), servaunt meinial; in NT transl.: meinial chirche, a church comprising a household; (b) connected……

Stolen goods. …

The outer wall of a building. …

The faculty of memory; celles of memori [see celle 6.]; hurting in the memori, impairment or loss of (one's) memory; in wills: being in god memori, in god minde and sauf memori, haven gode knouinge……

(a) A begging friar; (b) one of the mendicant orders of friars; (c) a beggar. …

(a) Of the friars: mendicant; (b) collective pl. as noun: beggars, needy people. …

(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) The fur of some kind of squirrel, used in garments, etc., esp. as a trimming; ?the winter belly fur of some species of gray squirrel; meni-ver mantel, a robe of miniver; (b) pured meni-ver, pelts……

(a) A fine, an amercement; (b) state of being liable to be fined; in (the) merci, at the merci, liable to be fined; in merci of, liable to pay a fine of (a specified amount); in the kinges merci, in……

To levy fines; fine (sb.). …

Lumber, timber. …

(a) A small European falcon, the merlin Falco aesalon; (b) ?confused with the heraldic merlete. …

(a) A dwelling house with the adjacent outbuildings and grounds; a messuage; also, the house on such an estate; (b) mes place. …

A residence, dwelling house; farmstead; also, a household. …

(a) To move (sb. or sth.), shift; remove (sth.), dislodge; move (sth.) about, shake, disturb; stir (a liquid); apply (sth.); also fig.; meven hat ne hod, remove hat nor hood, uncover the head; meven……

(a) Music as produced on an instrument, musical sound; musical entertainment, ?singing; also, merriment, revelry; don (maken) minstralsi, to perform music; provide musical entertainment; (b) a tune or……

(a) Miserable, wretched, unhappy; also, causing pain or distress, painful; as noun: the wretched, the needy, the suffering; (b) unfortunate, regrettable; calamitous, ruinous; dangerous; (c) evil……

Law An offense or illegal act, esp. on the part of a public official. …

A mullion. …

?A stud on the bit of a horse's bridle; ?a bridle-rein. …

Assembly, review. …

Law Legal proceedings brought by a rightful heir upon the death of his ancestor against one wrongfully possessing his inheritance. …

The carcass of an animal killed by disease or accident; mortkin fel, the hide taken from a dead animal. …

(a) A customary gift or exaction from the estate of a deceased parishioner to the parish priest; (b) a funeral service. …

(a) A mountain or hill; also fig.; pl. mountains, mountainous region; mountain range; mount joie, mount of joy, highest bliss; bi mount(es, among the mountains; (b) the Alps; -- pl. & coll.; (c) in……

To charge or collect multure on (grain). …

(a) A fee for grinding grain, usually consisting of a share of the grain; multure; (b) multur arke, a chest for storing multure; multur dish, a container for measuring multure; multur greive, multur……

(a) A mushroom; fungus, toadstool; (b) as surname. …

(a) The sparrow hawk; (b) as surname. …

A pack of hunting dogs; ?also, the baying of such a pack. …

Iron. Having a nose or a big nose; i.e., having no nose or a mutilated one. …

(a) A fleet of warships, navy; (b) a naval expedition; (c) ships; with grete navei, with many ships; (d) a ship. …

The status of a serf, serfdom, villeinage. …

Black. …

(a) Catnip, catmint (Nepeta cataria), often used in cooking or in medecines; nept roial; (b) ?one of various plants (including Teucrium chamædrys, Arum colocasia, and Asarum europeæum). …

(a) Something trivial or useless; (b) a small or flimsy article of dress, ?a kerchief of fine material; (c) a trick, a jest. …

(a) An English gold coin usually equivalent to 6 s. 8 d.; noble english, noble of gold; half noble [see also half adj. 2d.], dim. noble, half noble; (b) any of several European gold coins; noble of……

(a) A number; (b) nombre diminutif, a number greater than the sum of its aliquot parts; nombre dividing, a divisor; nombre exeant, quotient [see exeant]; nombre multipliing, a multiplier; nombre of……

Uncertainty; an instance of uncertainty. …

Law ben nonsued, of a plaintiff or his suit: to receive an adverse judgment recording failure to prosecute or to produce sufficient evidence. …

Insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency. …

(a) Law The failure of a plaintiff to prosecute his claim or to provide sufficient evidence; (b) failure to follow. …

The third of the chief heralds, or Kings-of-Arms, of the College of Arms, having jurisdiction north of the river Trent. …

(a) Norwegians; also, a Norwegian; (b) inhabitants of northern England and Scotland; (c) in surnames. …

A mounted gem or cluster of gems; a brooch or pin; a buckle, clasp, bracelet, or earrings ornamented with gems; a necklace; ?also, a ring; also fig. …

(a) Childhood, minority; (b) a payment due the king when an estate fell to a minor. …

Gram. (a) A noun; noun abstract, an abstract noun (as opposed to concrete); noun appellatif, a common noun; noun collectif, a collective noun; noun concret, a concrete noun; noun distributif, a……

(a) A holder or possessor of lands, manors, a benefice, church, etc.; a renter; an officeholder; a holder of the privilege of collecting revenue or receiving customary rent or service; (b) a possessor……