(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) 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. …

Enamel; an enamel figure or ornament. …

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

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) 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) 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) 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) 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……

Stock of provisions. …

(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) A lying in wait, an ambush; leien (maken) await, to set an ambush; leien (sb.) in await, to put (sb.) in ambush; leien await for (upon), to set an ambush for (sb.); lien (sitten, stonden) in await……

(a) One who lies in ambush; conspirator, plotter; (b) an attendant. …

(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) 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 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.' …

Basques. …

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. …

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

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

Any pathological swelling, eruption or lesion, such as a boil, a tumor, a (running) sore, an ulcer, a tubercle, a bubo. …

A written document, an official letter. …

A predicament, plight, difficulty; ben, bringen, fallen in brike. …

(a) Some kind of pointed tool; (b) a kind of sword; (c) the first spikelike horn of a deer. …

A candle stuck on a spike, a pricket. …

(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) 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. …

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

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. …

Flesh; carnel of pork, a dish made of ground pork, etc. …

(a) The art or craft of carpentry; the occupation of a carpenter; carpentrie craft; (b) something done or made by carpenters, carpenter's work; carpentrie werk; (c) the carpenters attached to a Roman……

(a) The driver of a cart or coach; a carter, coachman; also fig.; (b) carter stable, a stable for cart horses; lavedies carter, ladies' coachman; (c) as personal name. …

A plowland, a carucate. …

A basket for draining curds. …

(a) A castle; also, a fortress similar to a medieval castle; (b) a fortified place, a stronghold. …

(a) The governor of a castle, a castellan; (b) the mistress of a castle, chatelaine; (c) a surname. …

(a) A small castle; esp. a tower forming part of a larger fortification; (b) a small tower, a turret; (c) a pastry tower. …

(a) Property of any kind; goods, treasure, money, land, income, etc.; (b) fig.; (c) ?the condition of being rich, wealth; (d) commune catel, property held jointly by members of a guild; worldes catel,……

(a) A raised and surfaced road; a highway or causeway; (b) cauce wei = caucee. …

(a) A hot fortified drink, esp. one containing spiced wine or ale; also, a broth; (b) a pudding, meat loaf, or the like; (c) a mess. …

(a) A kettle or pot (as for heating water or cooking), a caldron; (b) fig. uses; (c) caudroun bọ̄ter, one who mends or makes kettles [cp. boten (1)]. …

(a) The supreme virtue of Love or Charity according to Christian doctrine, comprising affection, devotion, benevolence, kindness, mercy, gratitude as between God and man or man and man; charite of,……

A singer, composer, poet, minstrel; also used fig. of the cock. …

Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale). …

(a) A cherry; cheri fruit; red as cheri; (b) a cherry tree; (c) ?a cherry blossom. …

(a) A spring onion (bulb and stalk, as used in salads); (b) elecampane (error in transl.). …

(a) The spinal column, backbone, chine; chine of the bakke; nekke of the chine, cervical spine; joint of the chine, vertebra; (b) chine bon, backbone, spine; (c) a vertebra. …

(a) Any of several cutting tools used by stone masons, sculptors, carpenters or metal workers; chisel, punch, etc.; (b) a pointed blade, such as a scalpel; (c) fig. a means of destruction and……

A freeman of a city or town; also, any established inhabitant of a city or town. …

Chive (Allium schoenoprasum); -- usually pl. …

A movable, rectangular frame of interwoven slats or twigs, a hurdle. …

(a) A ship of some kind [apparently of medium size and used in military expeditions]; gret cogge; (b) with proper name [chiefly OF]; (c) ?a cockboat. …

One who makes coifes. …

(a) A ship's boat, cockboat; also = cogge (1); (b) cokswain, an officer in charge of a cockboat and its crew, coxswain. …

Formal permission to depart; asken conge, to beg leave to depart; taken conge, take leave (of sb.), say goodbye; yeven god conge, bid farewell. …

A fool, a nincompoop; a worthless person, a rascal. …