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

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

Carried away (with joy), reckless (for joy). …

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……

Charged with a duty or responsibility; responsible (for sth.), answerable (to sb.). …

(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……

To bring charges against (sb.), accuse, 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. …

To make (property) revert to the king or other ruler, confiscate. …

To shun (sth.), avoid, beware of. …

Encroachment (upon another's jurisdiction). …

(a) In the shape of a cross, i.e. with arms extended; (b) in a crossed position; (c) from one side to the other, across the length of something. …

(a) To conquer or subdue (sb.); overcome (sth.), subdue (wrath, pride, etc.); destroy (one's thrift); (b) to intimidate (sb.), cow, hold in check. …

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

An assessor of fines. …

In style, fashionably. …

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

(a) To use or let (land, esp. woods) for pasture; ben agisted, have a right to pasture; (b) to pasture (livestock), or put to pasture, for a rent. …

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) To alloy (a noble metal) with a base metal; (b) fig. to debase, contaminate. …

(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. …

Law To determine or fix (a date, place, or fine). …

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. …

(a) To commend or praise (sth.); worship (God); recommend (a virtue); (b) approve of, be pleased with (sth.); be pleasing (to sb.); favor (sb.); (c) appreciate or value (sth.); esteem. …

Possession in frankalmoin; cp. almes 5. …

(a) To frighten (sb.); refl. be frightened or alarmed; (b) ben amaied, to lose courage (at the prospect of danger), be alarmed, be afraid; to be filled with consternation or dismay (at an unforseen……

Enamel; an enamel figure or ornament. …

Overcome (as with fatigue, fear, grief, etc.). …

Of a mount: (a) to go an easy pace or gait, amble; (b) ppl. walking an easy pace or gait; ?smooth-riding. …

Enameler. …

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

Law (a) To fine (sb.) 'at the mercy', i.e. at the discretion, of the court; impose a penalty; -- constr.: for, of (an offence); at, in (a certain amount); after (the law), according to; (b) to fine (a……

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……

(a) To corrupt (sb.); (b) injure (someone's reputation). …

(a) In words inherited from OE: an-biden, an-elen kindle; (b) in words not attested in OE with this prefix, but occurring in early ME up to c1225: an-belȝen, an-bursten; also an-ēlen kindle, an-hongen……

Examples: an-amelen, anclosen, an-egren, an-ointen, anjoinen, anvie. …

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. …

Law & gov. (a) Declare null and void: deny (a claim), dismiss (an accusation), quash (an indictment); cancel or revoke (a charter, a privilege); set aside or repeal (an order, statute, or law); (b)……

Expansion, enlargement. …

To harm (sb.); to damage (a reputation). …

To accuse (sb.), to charge (sb. with an offence, etc.); -- often with of, with, for, upon phrase. …

Accuser. …

To make worse: (a) to damage (sth.); to spoil or ruin (sth.); (b) to impair or harm (the senses, thought, morals, etc.); (c) to injure (a person's reputation or well-being), to slander; do harm to (an……

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. …

(a) Law To appropriate (common land) to one's own use and profit [in accordance with the Statutes of Merton (1236) and Westminster (1285)]; -- refl. & intr.; (b) to assign (sth.) as property; (c) to……

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) To address (sb.); ask (sb. a question); inquire; answer (sb.); respond; aresounen rebuking, reproach; (b) to request or urge (sb. to do sth.). …

(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) To put (things) in order, arrange; to get (sth.) ready, prepare; to rule (a kingdom); to organize (a book, an argument); (b) to marshall (men for battle), draw up (an army, a division of an army)……

(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) To interrogate (sb.), ask (sb.) a question; ask (a question); (b) to rebuke (sb.), censure. …

In or to the rear; behind; don arrere, drive back; arainen arrere, hold back, restrain; neither avaunt nor arrere, neither ahead nor farther back (in a sequence). …

(a) To fall back, retreat; -- intr. & refl.; (b) to hold back, restrain; (c) to come back, return. …

(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) To make stealthy or covert observations upon (a person, place, action, etc.) with hostile intent; to spy upon; (b) to seek to discover or discover (sth.) by spying; (c) to spy or act the spy; --……

(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) To test the quality of (materials), the effectiveness of (a weapon, a medicine), or the performance of (a horse); test, try out; also, to test the accuracy of (weights & measures) officially; (b)……

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

(a) To authenticate (a charter, agreement, etc.) with an official mark or seal; aselen up; aselen by, under, with; to put an official mark or seal on a document; (b) to affix a signet (to a letter)……

(a) Compliant; willing to support; (b) abetting. …

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. …

(a) To restrain (anger); (b) satisfy (sexual desire). …

Of persons: stupified, stunned; insensate, unconscious. …

To stun, stupefy, or daze (sb.); paralyze (feeling). …

Stock of provisions. …

(a) To store, stock (a place) with provisions; provide (a city with defenders); (b) provide (oneself) with supplies. …

To meditate (about sth.). …

(a) In many agent nouns from Latin (often by way of OF), e.g. cre-atour, cur-atour, dict-atour, fornic-atour, idol-atour, medi-atour, or-atour, salv-atour; (b) in equ-ator. …

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