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

(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……

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

An assessor of fines. …

(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 Germans, the German nation; also, the Teutons. …

(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. …

(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. …

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

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

(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. …

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

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

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……

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.). …

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)……

(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 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) 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. …

(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) 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)……

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) 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 suffix forming numerous collective or abstract nouns denoting states, attitudes, or activities, most of them directly borrowed from French, some formed from Latin words in -antia- on the French……

(a) In many pr.ppls. taken from OF, e.g. abound-a(u)nt, appar-a(u)nt, ard-a(u)nt, arrog-a(u)nt, charge-a(u)nt, ramp-aunt, -and, etc.; (b) in a number of nouns (orig. ppls.) adopted from OF, as……

(a) The sister of one's father or mother, aunt; (b) aunte doughter, the daughter of one's aunt, cousin; aunte sone, the son of one's aunt, cousin. …

The foremost position or part of an army, the vanguard. …

A piece of chain mail protecting the neck and upper chest. …

Things owned; possessions, property, wealth; -- coll. or pl. …

(a) To empty (a place), clear (of people); to empty (sb.); fig. to rid (the heart of sadness); avoiden of; (b) med. to cleanse (the body of rotten humors, etc.); avoiden fro, avoiden of; to evacuate……

(a) A judicial decision, judgment, verdict, sentence; don award, maken award, yeven award, to render a decision, pronounce judgment; abiden award, holden award, stonden to award, to accept a decision……

(a) To decide (a legal question), render judgment in (a lawsuit); bring in a verdict, pronounce judgment; decree (sth.); (b) to determine upon and issue (a writ or the like); (c) to sentence (sb.)……

(a) Pork cured in brine or by smoking; esp. salt pork or a cut of it; salt bacoun; seind bacoun, smoked pork; bacoun hog, a hog fattened for butchering; (b) bacoun flich or flik, a side of bacon; (c)……

(a) Barren (woman); sterile (woman or man); also fig.; (b) childless (woman or man); (c) unpregnant (animal); (d) infertile (egg). …

A kind of short straight sword or dagger, in civilian use, worn in a sheath hung from a strap, e.g. at the girdle; baselard knif; in some examples perhaps used loosely of a curved 'hanger.' …

Good, fair, pleasant, kindly. …

A sheepfold. …

A hunting dog trained to follow wounded game. …

(a) A formal document (embodying a will, a permit, etc.); fig. a list or inventory; (b) a papal bull. …

To caress, fondle; flatter. …

(a) Flattery, blandishment; (b) dalliance, caresses; (c) allurement, attractiveness; (d) deception, deceitfulness. …

(a) To flatter (sb.), fawn, be enticing or persuasive; (b) to be favorable; (c) blaundishen in, ?to acquiesce in (sth.); (d) of the sea: to subside, become calm. …

(a) A costly silk fabric; (b) a garment of this fabric, a tunic; (c) a bedspread of this fabric. …

To injure or hurt (sb.), inflict injuries; damage (sth.). …

(a) To break (sth.) into small fragments, as by stamping, crushing, grinding, chopping; braien smal; also, to mix ingredients by stamping in a mortar; (b) fig. to crush (the heart with fear). …

A written document, an official letter. …

(a) One who polishes armor; (b) one who prepares corpses for the funeral; (c) an instrument for polishing or cleaning. …

(a) A heavy rope or cable used on a ship; esp., the anchor cable; (b) a rope; (c) cable hok, instrument used in making cables; cable rop, a heavy rope; cable yarn, yarn for cables. …

(a) To grasp (sth.), seize, take hold of; pick up (sth.); catch (sth. thrown); of a blade, etc.: hold (sth.) by piercing, stick fast in (sth.); -- also refl.; (b) cacchen awei, to take (sth.) away……

(a) A minor officer of the law; a petty bailiff; a collector of fines; (b) a tax gatherer; (c) in names; strete cacche-pol, ?a book containing names of those in a district who owed fines or taxes. …

(a) One who chases, a hunter; also, a driver of animals [quot.PParv.]; (b) one who catches; taker, receiver. …

A captive, prisoner; a slave; leden caitif, to take (sb.) into captivity, enslave. …

Captured, imprisoned; enslaved; leden caitif, to lead (sb.) captive, enslave. …

(a) Captivity, slavery; also fig.; (b) coll. prisoners, slaves. …

Epileptic; goute caive, epilepsy. …

Hemp. …

A spatula. …

(a) A camel (Camelus dromedarius or C. bactrianus); (b) camel her, a cloth or garment of camel's hair; camel flesh, camel hide, camel skin; (c) cameles chaf, a medicinal plant; prob., camel grass……

A fabric of wool mixed with silk or other fibers. …

A small room. …

A small bell. …

(a) A reed (esp., Arundo donax & Phragmites communis); (b) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum); (c) a Javanese reed; prob., bamboo; (d) a fragrant reed of India and Persia. …

(a) canel bon, the collar-bone(s); -- of a coney [last quot.]; (b) a piece of armor protecting the base of the neck and upper breast; ?a camail, ?a gorget. …

A fabric made from flax or hemp, canvas [see Rogers Hist.Agric. 2.511-6]. …

A maker or seller of canvas. …

(a) A clergyman living under canon rule; also, a clergyman serving in a church or cathedral but not living under a rule; a canon; (b) as surname. …

Side; also, part, share. …

(a) A corner, nook; (b) the corner of a shield; ?also, the rim; in cantel, by the corner, obliquely, sideways [cp. OF en chantel]. …

The head of a pillar. …

(a) A short division of a book, a chapter; one of the twenty-two sections of Ps. 118 (119); (b) a short passage (usually Biblical or patristic) read in divine worship, a lesson; (c) ?an epitome. …

Charcoal. …

(a) The body of an animal slaughtered for meat or for sacrifice, a carcass; flesh, meat [quot.: 1448]; (b) a dead body (of man or beast), cadaver, corpse; (c) the living human body [used……

(a) A dead body, a corpse; also, the carcass of an animal; (b) a walking corpse, a revenant; (c) ded careine, a dead body. …

(a) A crossroads or intersection; also, a place name [see Smith PNElem. 1.81]; (b) fig. the meeting place of the four liberal arts, the quadrivium. …

(a) The act of transporting (usually with wagons or carts, also on horses or by ship); the carrying of a corpse to burial [quot.: 1426]; (b) cariage man, a carter; cariage sadel, a pack saddle……

(a) Charge, responsibility; responsibility for the truth of a story; (b) anxiety, worry; (c) trouble, misfortune; need; (d) ?poor man, miserable fellow. …