(a) A two-edged stiletto or dagger; (b) a spike [see quot.]. …

(a) A bag or sack, with or without its contents; traveling bag, wallet, satchel, pouch; bagge portatif; undo the bagge; (b) a bag as a unit of measure. …

(a) A package or bale (of merchandise), perh. specif. of a certain weight or size; (b) without of: ii bale(s flax, two bales of flax; etc. …

(a) A proclamation or edict of an overlord; also, a summons by proclamation; crien (blouen) the ban; (b) one of the banns of marriage; asken (crien, greden, spiren) the ban(n)es; (c) a proclamation of……

A type of Flemish ship. …

One who makes announcements or carries messages and performs other services on the authority of a lord, court, guild, etc.; herald, town crier, summoner; bidel hod, a beadle's hood; bidel land (a……

A blister. …

(a) A large piece of wood, a block; also fig. or (as a type of something inert) in quasi-proverbial comparisons; blok bord, rough, unpolished board; also, specifically: (b) the executioner's block……

(a) Water bucket, well bucket; (b) a vessel used for other purposes. …

A bundle or pack; a bunch (of figs, grapes); a bale (of skins); a raft (of logs). …

(a) A brag, a boast; boastful speech, bragging, self-praise; (b) casten bost at, be boastful toward (sb.), insult; maken bost (of), brag (of, about); more bost is, etc., a pot of wine causes more……

(a) A freshwater fish, the bream (Abramis brama); (b) breme de mere, some seafish, perh. the sea bream (Pagellus centrodontus). …

Bridle. …

(a) Meat broth, gravy; (b) a liquid for dyeing cloth; (c) a disagreeable business, a mess or pickle. …

(a) Water in which meat or fish has been boiled, juice, broth; (b) in broth, served in its own juice; pot broth, broth with various added ingredients; ballok broth, flesh broth, ro broth; (c) water in……

(a) The carp (Cyprinus carpio); (b) a heraldic representation of this fish. …

A 'turn' in time: (a) adv. & prep. phrs.: on char, on one occasion, once; at som char, at a certain time; som char, sometimes; thrid char, (for) a third time; at on char, all at once; etc.; (b) a……

(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) Violent contraction of muscles, a spasm; a disease characterized by contortion or spasms; the crampe; (b) crampe ring, a ring to ward off or cure such afflictions; crampe wort, a medicinal plant……

Chaff, siftings of grain; ?also, weed seeds; -- often in pl. …

(a) A cricket; esp., the European house cricket (Gryllus domesticus); also, the mythical salamander; (b) a surname. …

(a) A small vessel for sacramental wine, holy water, or chrism; (b) a jug, bottle, or bowl (as for water); (c) fig. …

(a) A weed growing in grainfields: cockle, darnel (Lolium temulentum); (b) fig. …

A metal-pointed missile, such as a javelin or spear, hurled by hand (perhaps also by the arbalest); [see esp. *Vegetius(1)]; casten dart, sheten dart; fishers dart, hunters dart. …

(a) A fortress, citadel, castle; (b) the most strongly fortified central part of a citadel or castle, donjon, keep; chef dongoun, roial dongoun; (c) fig. of a person: chief support, mainstay; (d) fig.……

Any medicinal preparation, a drug. …

A renovator of old cloth or clothing. …

A supernatural being having magical powers for good or evil; a spirit, fairy, goblin, incubus, succubus, or the like. …

(a) Mortal enmity, hostility, hostile conspiracy; revengeful spirit, homicide committed in revenge; (b) a mortal enemy; one of the three enemies of mankind (i.e. the flesh, the world, the Devil). …

(a) A gable of a building; also, a façade; (b) gable ende, gable wal, gable wough, the end wall surmounted by a gable, gable end; gable forke, a gable; gable windou, a window in a gable; (c) in place……

(a) Something deposited as security, a pledge; leid in gage, given as security; holden under gage, to retain (sth.) by giving security, hostages, or the like; (b) a ransom, payment. …

(a) A cultivated piece of land (large or small, usually enclosed) for vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees, etc.; a garden, park, orchard; clos gardin, a courtyard; fish gardin, a garden containing fish……

(a) A boy or youth; a young male servant, squire, page, messenger, etc.; (b) a retainer, follower; (c) as surname. …

(a) Tribute; a tax, subsidy; (b) manorial or customary rent; ?also, a field rented for a customary service or payment; setten to gavel, to let (property) out to rent; (c) in combs: burgable, ?a tax on……

(a) Advantage, benefit; help, remedy; don gein, to benefit (sb.), do (sb.) good; ther is no gein, there is no help, nothing can be done; (b) worth, value or usefulness in battle; (c) reward, profit……

A large falcon used in hawking, a gerfalcon; whit gerfaucoun, the white gerfalcon of Iceland. …

Only in phr. in a gethe, ?spiritedly, ?hastily. …

A foot soldier. …

(a) A crafty or fraudulent trick; a plot; stratagem, wile; a lie; (b) fraudulent behavior, treachery, double-dealing, lying; also, friendly trickery; (c) something deceptive or illusory, delusion. …

A grating of iron bars to cover a door or window. …

A boundary, limit. …

(a) A battle standard; the standard or banner of a king, an army, a division of an army, a troop; gounfanoun bere, maister of the gounfanoun, standard-bearer; maister gounfanoun, chief banner; (b) a……

An iron tool with hooked ends used by glaziers to cut or trim glass, a grozing iron. …

A bit, a whit; no gru, not at all; not (nought) a (on) gru, not a bit. …

(a) A battle-ax; hache daneis, a Danish ax; (b) an ax, ?a hatchet. …

(a) The fish haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus); (b) as surname. …

Hatred; ?also, wickedness; haven in haine, to hate (sb.). …

Merriment, revelry; sitten at (in) hait, to engage in merrymaking. …

(a) A large private residence, a manorial hall; a royal residence, palace, castle; (b) a large public building for the transaction of business, holding court, worship, etc.; [see also both hal, mot……

A small village, hamlet. …

(a) Personal fighting equipment, body armor; also, armor and weapons; leg harneis, leg armor; horse and harneis, horse and arms; to harneis, to arms!; wenden to harneis, to arm oneself; (b) a set of……

(a) A harp; also, any of several ancient stringed instruments; in harp, with the harp, to the accompaniment of a harp; in proverb [see asse 1. (c)]; (b) harp long, the large harp; harp smal, a small……

(a) One who plays the harp, one who sings while accompanying himself on the harp, a minstrel; smal harper, one who plays a small harp; (b) in surnames; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.240]. …

A harpoon. …

(a) A fastening for a door, gate, chest, etc.; a hasp; up bi the hasp, unfastened, unlatched; barre and hasp, stapel and hasp; (b) a fastening for a garment or a helmet; ?a buckle, ?a lace; (c) a hank……

A retainer, young courtier; ?also coll.: retainers. …

(a) Hurrying, haste, speed; -- also in prov.; (b) violence, violent action; vehemence; (c) a need for quick action, urgency; a situation demanding quick action; haven hast, to be required to act……

(a) A coat of mail; also, plate armor or a coat of mail reinforced with plates; -- sometimes used interchangeably with habergeoun; (b) chain mail worn over a hair shirt as a form of penance; (c) fig.……

(a) The part of the human body between the lowest ribs and the thighs, the hips, haunch; haunche joint, the bones of the haunch; (b) one side of the haunch, a hip; pl. hips; also, buttocks; (c) the……

(a) A hedge or fence; (b) an enclosed plot of land; field, yard; also, an enclosed hunting park in a forest; chirche hei, q.v.; (c) cpds. & combs. hei brer, some kind of briar growing in hedges; hei……

(a) The European heron (Ardea cinerea); bevei (sege) of heirounes, a flock of herons; (b) the heron used for food; (c) a piece of wood shaped like a heron; a heraldic representation of a heron; (d) as……

(a) An officer of a tournament who makes announcements, introduces knights, reports their actions, awards prizes, etc.; heraud of armes [cp. OF hiraut darmes]; (b) an expert in the records of knights……

(a) A temporary lodging place; also, the tents or camp of an army in the field; (b) a permanent dwelling place; a repository for treasures; (c) fig. a human being as God's dwelling place; the Virgin……

(a) A stiff and coarse cloth made of hair, haircloth; (b) ?pl. for sg. …

(a) A herring Clupea harengus; (b) red hering, smoked herring; whit hering, herring salted but not smoked; (c) hering barel, a cask for herring; hering breder (carter), one who roasts (hauls) herring……

(a) An outer garment, a cloak with a hood; (b) ?an ornamental covering for a shield; (c) ?caparison of a horse [?error for hak n. (2)]. …

(a) Law The blending together of property belonging to different persons for equal division; (b) cook. a kind of stew; esp. one made with goose, herbs, spices, wine, and other ingredients; gos (ges)……

(a) An island; a peninsula; (b) a meadow on a river bank; (c) a hill; (d) in surnames & place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.258-9, 268]. …

(a) A basket or pannier for carrying earth, stone, mortar, and similar loads; (b) a unit of measure for grain; (c) a shed or hut [?orig. of wattlework]; (d) ?a lump of dirt; (e) in surnames. …

A mattock, pickax; also fig. …

An owlet; also, an owl. …

(a) A wooden framework, a hurdle; (b) a hurdle used for defense in battles and sieges; also, a palisade, bulwark, or other structure made of hurdles; (c) a wooden bulwark or other structure on a ship……

(a) A wound, an injury; also, disease, malady; also, the loss of a member, maiming [last quot.]; (b) sorrow, vexation; lovesickness; (c) spiritual injury, injury to the soul. …

A kind of large fish, sturgeon, beluga. …

(a) An idle word, idle speech, gossip, prating; (b) vicious gossip, slanderous conversation; (c) dispute. …

?A fool, jester. …

A snooze or nap; ?also as surname. …

A thong used to fasten parts of armor, shields, clothing, etc.; strap, lace; ?also, a bandage; lainer knittere, one who makes thongs and straps; lainer line, some kind of line or rope. …

(a) A long, thin strip of wood used in building; esp. such a strip nailed to rafters to form a support for shingles, tiles, or slates; ?also, a pole, stake; ?also, a shingle; hart lat, q.v.; (b) a……

Cook. (a) A strip, slice; (b) any of a number of jellylike dishes prepared from various ingredients and usually cut into strips or slices; (c) in names of specific dishes; (d) as adj. …

(a) A lascivious person, fornicator, adulterer; also, a lover or mistress, a pimp or bawd; also, one who sins sexually against nature; (b) a self-indulgent person; esp. a glutton; (c) Luxuria as one……

?The load on a table, a meal. …

(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……

(a) Fence, palisade, barrier; (b) an enclosed place, a prison. …

A mouthful, a little bit. …

Border, edge, rim; hem; band, stripe. …

Naut. (a) A spar holding out and down the windward tack of a square sail while going into the wind; wenden (turnen) lof, to change course; also fig.; lof shete, a line attached to the lof [cp. quot……

(a) A lovelock, curl; (b) a lock of wool. …

(a) A loophole or embrasure in a wall, for the protection of archers, gunners, etc.; also, the covering structure built about or over the loophole; (b) an opening for ventilation, a louver; loup bord……

(a) A wild duck or drake (Anas platyrhynchos, i.e. A. boschas); wild drake [quot.: Arth.& M., Merlin]; (b) a domestic duck or drake; drake [quot.: 1381, a1500]; (c) in terms for a flock of ducks; (d)……

(a) The boundary of a country; border district; pl. borderlands, frontiers; the surrounding areas of a town or castle; putten out of marches, to drive (a people) out of their land; (b) a coastal part……

(a) The boundary or limit of a field, mountain, forest, etc.; a border between countries or regions; the shore or bank of a sea or river; mark wei [OE mearc-weg], a road that serves as a boundary……

(a) A measure of weight equivalent to 8 ounces; (b) mark pound, a measure of weight equivalent to 1/16 of a lispound. …

(a) The chief officer of a kingdom, steward; (b) one of the high officers of the royal court; marshal of (on) engelond; countesse marshal, the wife of the earl marshal; erl marshal, q.v.; (c) an……

(a) The European marten (a member of the genus Martes); (b) the European polecat Mustela putorius. …

(a) Spot, mark; blemish; (b) pl. the strands or cords of a net; also, the openings between the strands or cords of a net; (c) gise of maskel, ?lozenge shaped. …

(a) A mason, worker or builder in stone; one who dresses, lays, or carves stone; (b) chef (maister) masoun, a chief mason, mason charged with supervising and overseeing other masons; fre (maister)……

(a) A basket woven of wicker or other material; basket serving as a measure, varying in capacity; (b) ?as surname. …

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

(a) Sin, sinfulness; guilt, culpability for sin; evil, wickedness; withouten mis, sinless, innocent; withouten mis of this man, he being sinless, innocent as he was; (b) a sin, an evil deed; criminal……