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) A parcel of cleared land (as in a forest), a clearing; (b) a rent on such land. …

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……

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

(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……

Behavior, bearing, conduct; manners, esp. good manners; chere and contenaunce, contenaunce and beringe, contenaunce and maneres; courteis (hende) contenaunce, courtly or gracious manner; maken……

A piece of armor to protect the elbow, elbow-piece. …

(a) Mild, gentle, kind; courteous, gracious; humble, meek; (b) of things: benign, favorable; of winds: mild; of words or speech: kindly, courteous; of life, actions: gentle, meek; of eyes……

(a) To provide (someone) with worldly goods, a livelihood, or privileges; to endow (a church, temple, etc.); --often with of, with, or in phrase of the thing given; (b) to grant (a privilege), to……

Hunt. Of hounds: (a) to follow a scent; (b) to follow the wrong scent. …

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

(a) A small hunting dog, small hound; also, a dog, cur; (b) as surname. …

(a) Of persons: lascivious; amorous; (b) of actions, desires: lascivious; likerous tail, a lecherous sex organ; (c) inciting to lechery; bawdy in speech [quot.: a1475]; likerous eie, an eye which……

(a) A partridge (Perdix perdix); (b) partrich ei (galle, hed), partridge egg (gall, head); covei(e of partriches, a covey or flock of partridges; (c) partridge as food; partridge meat; (d) as surname……

(a) Land on which animals graze, pastureland; a field, pasture; (b) commune pastur, pastur commune, shared pastureland; feint pastur, poor pasture; gentil pastur, excellent pasture; worthi to pastur……

A peppery sauce served with meat; peverade sauce. …

(a) A poisonous or deadly substance, poison; poisoun makere, one who makes poison; poisoun mongere, a dealer in poison; (b) the crime of poisoning someone; (c) ?a drugged drink; ?a bitter drink; (d)……

The fur or pelt of a squirrel; polaine grei, the fur of a gray squirrel. …

(a) A young chicken; a pullet; (b) in surnames. …

(a) A portcullis; (b) a representation of a portcullis used as a military badge; also, the leader using or authorizing such a badge; i.e., the Duke of Somerset [quot.: (c1450)]; (c) fig. a spiritual……

(a) A gatekeeper, doorkeeper; also, one who guards the gate of a bridge; porter logge, a porter's lodge; (b) in titles: grom (sergeaunt, yeman) porter; (c) a keeper of the gates of heaven or hell……

(a) A cooking pot; vessel, pan; (b) potel possenet, possenet of a potel, a pot which holds a half-gallon; possenet of a quart, a pot which holds a quart. …

(a) A bag for carrying things; a pouch worn on one's person; al that hangeth in the pouche, everything; (b) a pouch for carrying money, purse; (c) pouche maker, a maker of pouches or purses; (d) in……

(a) The ability of a person, an animal, a soul, an angel, a spirit, etc., to act; ability (to do sth.); pouer of, capacity for or power of (doing sth.); pouer of harm, means or capacity for doing……

(a) Capable of being taken by force, pregnable; also fig. obtainable; (b) of words: weighty, convincing [confused with preignaunt]. …

(a) A press for expressing juice from grapes, oil from olives, etc.; a wine press, oil press, etc.; also fig.; pressour hous, a building containing a wine press; (b) ?a cheese press; (c) a device for……

(a) Before the present, past; preterit time; (b) having to do with the past; (c) gram. of tense in Latin: denoting action in the past; preterit imparfit tens, the imperfect tense. …

(a) Observed or recorded evidence supporting a statement, an assertion, accusation, or a claim; a piece of such evidence; maken preve of, to give evidence of (sth.); (b) evidence such as instances……

(a) One who conducts tests or trials; (b) one who accuses another of a crime; often, a felon who gives evidence against his accomplices in exchange for a pardon; prever for the king, kinges prever……

(a) Eccl. One to whom the pope has granted the right to be appointed to a benefice as soon as a vacancy occurs; also, a religious to whom the pope has granted exemption from the duty of obedience to……

(a) To remove to a distance, put away; remove or entice away (a craftsman, an apprentice) from his proper master; remove or carry off (valuables), misappropriate (sth.); remove (a legal document) from……

(a) To foresee (sth.), foreknow; (b) to think beforehand, consider, reflect; refl. purveien of, bethink oneself of (sth.), reflect on; ppl. purveiinge, prudent, provident [quot.: a1500]; (c) to take……

(a) A group of sheets of paper, vellum, or parchment folded one within the other; writen quaier, to cover such a group with writing; (b) a gathering of a book or manuscript in a bound or an unbound……

(a) A sack stuffed with wool, down, hair, etc., used as a mattress, cushion, or coverlet for a bed; also, a stuffed bag used as defense against a battering ram [quots.: Vegetius(1) & (2)]; quiltes……

(a) The fifteenth day, inclusive, after a specified major liturgical feast; quinsime of seint hillar (jon, martin, mighel); quinsime of estern; quinsime of (after) pentecoste; (b) a period offifteen……

Leather boiled in water and then molded to the required form and hardened by drying, cuir-bouilli; -- used esp. as armor; quir-boili vessel, a container made of cuir-bouilli. …

Hunt. (a) The parts of a deer, usually placed on the animal's hide, which are given to the hounds as a reward for the chase; (b) the ceremony of giving the hounds their reward; (c) the collection of……

(a) A cushion, bolster, or pillow; a cushion for the arm or for sitting or kneeling on; also, a hassock or footstool; (b) quishin(es cloth, a case or cover for a cushion. …

A cook's assistant or errand boy, scullion; also, a page, lowly servant, knave; also, a sutler, camp follower; whel of quistrounes, a contemptuous epithet for the wheel of Fortune. …

To pull off (a helmet). …

(a) A grape, cluster of grapes; also in proverb; (b) a raisin; gret raisin; raisin graines, raisin seeds; (c) raisin corauns, raisin of corauns, a Corinthian raisin, currant [see also corauns n.]; (d)……

(a) The release of a prisoner of war by payment; also, fig. with payment in blood; bien raunsoun [see bien v. 1a.(a)]; maken raunsoun, to effect (one's) ransom; also fig.; proferen to raunsoun, offer……

(a) Robbery, rapine; also person.; don (usen) ravin; liven bi (of) ravin, to get a living from the profits of robbery; (b) an act of robbery; (c) in Bibl. transl. of Phil.2.6: robbery; ?usurpation……

(a) Of a king, one of the royal family, his power, dignity, etc.: majestic, royal, kingly; real blod, blod real [see also blod n. 6a.(a)]; real estat, estat real [see also estat n. 11d.]; real……

(a) A place of refuge, shelter, or accommodation; also fig.; (b) shelter, refuge, protection; asken recet, to request aid for (sb.); haven (taken) recet, obtain or take shelter, take refuge; (c) the……

Hawk. (a) To call back (a hawk); also in sayings; (b) to make (a hawk) tame; ppl. reclaimed, tame, trained. …

(a) To drive (an enemy or opponent) back; beat back (the devil); recoilen abak (ayen-ward); (b) to retreat, draw back; recoilen ayen. …

(a) To comfort (sb., the heart), console; recomforten chere, brighten (someone's) appearance; recomforten of, relieve (sb.) of (sorrow); recomforten from, ease (someone's heart) of (misery or……

(a) The chief legal official of a city; (b) a witness. …

(a) To recover from sickness, injury, etc., regain health; of a bodily part: regain normal functions; recoveren of, recover from (an illness); (b) ben recovered, to recover from illness or injury, be……

(a) Relief from suffering or from the pain of hell; recovery; also, salvation; haven recoverer, to recover from defeat, rally; at no recoverer, having no power or chance to recover from defeat; (b)……

(a) Severity, sternness, rigor, strictness; also, firmness of mind; also, a rule of a religious order [quot.: Rule Minoresses]; (b) severe treatment; (c) don (putten) reddour, to deal strictly or……

(a) To refresh (sb.), restore; feed (sb.); also fig.; (b) to fatten (livestock); (c) ben refeted, of a wild sow at mating time: to be cooled, cool off [cp. refreiden v. (b)]. …

To be tempered or restrained. …

(a) The refrain of a song or poem; also, a song; (b) a repeated phrase; ?also, liturg. a repeated response; (c) a debate. …

(a) A look; appearance; fairest of regard, best-looking; person. swete regard [F doulz regarde], sweet looks; sen a regard unto, to cast a glance at (sth.); (b) a consideration; a judgment; haven……

(a) A kingdom, an empire, a realm; a country, nation, province; scotland regioun, regioun of moab, regioun of jeues; (b) heaven; the realm of hell or the underworld; regioun of the shadwe of deth; (c)……

(a) To exercise royal power, be king, queen, or emperor; also, reign as pope; -- also used fig. of the sun, the soul; impers. hit was regned, government continued; regnen on (upon), reign over (a……

(a) To narrate (sth., a story, that sth. happened), report, tell; describe (sth.); impers. hit reherseth; rehersen of, give a description of (sth.); rehersen of marble, ?carve (a description) in……

Good cheer, entertainment. …

(a) A human or an animal kidney; -- usu. pl.; litel (smale) reines, the kidneys; reine guttes [see also gut n. 1a.(a)]; also, as translation term for L ilia groin; (b) pl. the loins, flanks; (c) pl.……

To send back (a document, message), return. …

(a) To bear (sb. or sth.) in mind, give heed to, reflect on, consider; take (sth.) into account; consider (that sth. is the case); (b) remembren of (on, upon), to pay heed to (sth.), meditate on……

(a) The rest, remaining part or quantity; the residual portion of an estate; a remaining or reserved portion; also fig.; (b) the remaining part of a story, question, text, law, etc.; a remaining……

(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……

Apostasy. …

(a) To turn (sth.) back, fold; bend back (a probe), flex; (b) to make opposition; retaliate; oppose (sth.), object to; repudiate (a former opinion), divorce (one's wife), cancel (a command, decision)……

(a) To rebuke (sb.), reproach; ppl. reproching as noun: one who rebukes; (b) to insult (sb.), mock; (c) to condemn (sth.); also, belittle (a gift); (d) to reject (sth.), destroy; (e) reprochen of, ?by……

(a) The intellectual faculty, intellectual power or capacity, reason; -- also pl.; light of resoun; (b) the exercise of the intellectual faculty, act or process of reasoning; mental processes……

(a) To re-echo, resound; return an echo; resounen of (with), ring with (a sound), reverberate with, be filled with; (b) to sound, make or utter a sound; resounen in-to mirthe and pleie, make jokes……

(a) The Resurrection of Christ; also, the resurrection of Antichrist [quot.: Chester Pl.Antichr.]; (b) the religious festival commemorating the Resurrection; resurreccioun gilde, a guild that……

(a) Compensation, payment, esp. a salary or compensation periodically paid for regular service [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (b)]; also fig.; (b) a payment for a specific service or limited……

(a) Of Saracen manufacture or style; brouet Sarasineis blaunk, a milk-based sauce; (b) of Saracen birth; (c) as noun: the territory of the Saracens [cp. Sarasinesse n.(a)]. …

(a) One owing a duty of service to a master or lord; a laborer for hire; a male or female domestic servant, household servant; servaunt man, servaunt womman; (b) servaunt familier (domestical,……