Eel spear, fish spear. …

(a) Face; (b) forehead; (c) appearance, looks; image. …

?Askance; ?with a scowl. …

To cry, bellow, wail; of goats: bleat; bleren on, cry out at (sb.), mock, insult. …

(a) Bare (boughs); (b) bareness, lack of cover. …

(a) A bull; fre bole, a bull free to roam with the herd [see Homans Eng.Villagers 61-3]; (b) a steer or bullock. …

(a) To belch; retch, vomit; vomit (sth.); (b) to cast forth (sth.), cast up; pour out (one's blood), bleed to death; of a garner: spill over, be full to bursting. …

(a) Salt water, brine; (b) setten in brine, to make (land) salty (hence barren); lond of brine, a desert. …

(a) A bend or curve; loop (of thread or yarn); fold (of cloth); loop (in a dragon's tail); (b) a hollow or curve in the body; bught of the arm, the angle of the elbow; bught of the kne (leg), the……

A curved handle. …

(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth. …

(a) The end of a spear or pike opposite the head, butt; (b) naut.?the end of a plank in a ship's side; ?also, one of the planks. …

(a) The core (of an apple); the heart (of an onion); sparen neither appel ne colk, to do all one can, go as quickly as possible; (b) the center or bottom (of the heart). …

(a) A bursting or splitting sound, a crash; (b) a fart; (c) the sound of a trumpet. …

(a) Neck; throat; (b) crop of a bird or fowl, craw. …

In place names only [see Smith PNElem. 2.7]: a circle, bend. …

Madder. …

(a) A woman's private parts; cunte-beten, impotent (man); (b) the corresponding organ(s) of a female animal; (c) sexual intercourse; (d) in place names and surnames; grope cunte lane [see gropen v.]……

(a) To behave foolishly or irrationally, do foolish things; be or grow silly; be or grow upset or deranged, rave; (b) to befuddle or fool (sb.). …

(a) Refuse of grain, chaff, husks; ?also, bran; fig. the worthless part of something; (b) waste parts of grapes or olives after removal of juice or oil; also fig.; (c) solid parts of leaves or herbs……

(a) The action of pulling, a pull, pulling in harness; (b) pulling or drawing a net to catch birds or fish; (c) the drawing of water from a well; drawing of liquor from a cask, etc.; (d) one cut of a……

(a) Driving cattle to pasture; (b) a drove or herd; a group of persons; drift of fisheres. …

(a) Doubt, perplexity, uncertainty; in (a) dwere, in doubt; without dwere, without question, certainly; (b) ?disagreement, dissension; ?distress, trouble; (c) amazement, awe; dread, fear. …

An awl or some other pointed instrument or tool; elsen blad, the blade of such an instrument. …

(a) A fart; (b) wolves fest, puff-ball (a fungus). …

(a) Of young birds: ready to fly, fledged; flegge-rip, full-fledged; (b) of persons: as if winged, ?ready for action; wordes flegge, winged words. …

(a) From Flanders, of the Flemings, Flemish; (b) as noun: Flemish people; the Flemish language. …

(a) Of recent making or occurrence, new, recent; fresh age, childhood or youth; fresh deluge, a new (or second) deluge; fresh and newe; (b) fresh god, a new or strange god, any god other than the……

A place where roads intersect, a crossroad; the point at which a road divides into two or more branches. …

To stink. …

(a) A stream of water; watercourse, brook; a current or swell of the ocean; also, a stream of blood; (b) a channel, ditch, drain; a sluice; (c) got nail, some kind of nail; (d) in place names [see……

(a) A kind of pitchfork, dungfork; (b) ?a trowel. …

(a) A steward; headman of a town or village; also, a royal official; (b) as surname; also in cpds.: bern greive, fen greive [see also plough greive, wode greive]. …

(a) Fierceness; (b) fury, anger, hatred; o grim, angrily; taken to grim, to be angered, take offense; (c) excitement, agitation; (d) terrible creature(s. …

(a) To dig in earth with a tool; grubben and graven; (b) to dig up (earth); dig around the roots of (a vine); (c) grubben up, to dig up (sth.), extract; dig up (a tree by the roots); grubben awei……

(a) ?A fish, a groundling; ?a bird [cp. L fringilla, ML frigellus]; (b) as surname. …

(a) A harrow for cultivating land, a drag; gon at harwe, to drive a harrow; (b) fig. the Old or New Testament; the power of Love (with pun on arwe); also, in proverb; (c) harwe tind (toth), a tooth of……

An instrument for carding flax, a flax comb, a hatchel; hechel maker. …

(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) Liege lord, sovereign, chief; a superior (secular or ecclesiastical); haven (holden) for herre, to acknowledge (sb.) as lord, do homage to; (b) a nobleman; (c) a warrior; (d) ?the sire of a horse……

(a) Of persons, animals, things: to leap, spring, hop, bounce; hippen ayen, spring back, rebound; -- also refl.; (b) to leap downward; of a thing: fall; hippen adoun, hippen to ground; (c) to travel……

(a) A husk or shell; the seedpod of a leguminous plant [see also pese hol], the hull of grain, the skin of a grape, the cupule of an acorn, etc.; (b) the shell of a whelk; (c) ?the skin of a person……

(a) A circular band of wood or metal, used for barrels, wheels, candelabra; a hoop, ring; welle hop, q.v.; (b) a circular band used to support the sign outside a house or inn; (c) one of the ribs of a……

(a) A petty merchant, peddler, male huckster; ?also, an auctioneer; (b) in surnames. …

(a) A petty merchant, a peddler; -- often used contemptuously; (b) in names. …

A derivational suffix in words from OE and borrowings from ON, MLG, and MDu.: (nouns) balk(e, larke, etc.; (verbs) lurken, runken, sanken, skulken, etc. It occasionally occurs in ME or possibly ME……

A diminutive suffix: (a) in nouns of foreign, usually MDu. or MLG origin; e.g. boidekin, cruskin, ferdekin, kilderkin; (b) in prob. ME formations; e.g. baudekin n. (2), fauntekin, fend(e)kin,……

(a) A crag, twisted rock; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.102]. …

A lump; ?a swelling, ?a tumor. …

(a) Lack, absence, want; shortage, deficiency; default of payment; lak of sacramentes, failure to receive the sacraments; no lak (of, no shortage (of, no deficiency (of; pens lak, q.v.; (b) for lak of……

(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 shingle; herte latthe [see herte 1d. (c)]; (b) latthe……

Leaky. …

A derivational suffix in adverbs of position, direction, or manner; from OE: hinderling, nedlinge, etc.; ?from MDu.: sidlinge; of ME formation: blindlinge, derkeling, eggelinge, flatlinge,……

(a) The pollack (Gadus pollachius); lob fish; (b) a lazy lout, lubber; ?also, a bundle of clothing [quot.: c1475]; (c) as surname. …

To lure (sb.); loken out. …

(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) = mer(e-maid(e 1.; (b) = mer(e-maiden (b). …

An ant; also, as surname. …

(a) The common European mole (Talpa europæa); as an ingredient in medicine; also as an image of covetousness or folly; moseling molle [see moselen (d)]; (b) molle hep, molle hille, mole hill; molle……

(a) The nose as part of the human body; brigge of the nese [see also brigge 2. (f)]; nese ende, the tip of the nose; nese gristil, the cartilage of the nose; (b) the nose of a man or animal as an……

(a) To make or live in a bird's nest; also fig.; also, stay alive in a nest, live [quot.: ?a1300]; (b) of persons: to settle, find or make a home or place of rest. …

To stir or poke ashes. …

(a) To thrust (sth.), drive (a stake, etc.); picchen in (o, to, into), stick, thrust, or drive (sth.) into (sth.); surround (a wood) with a palisade [quot.: a1450, 1st]; (b) to pierce (sb. or sth.)……

(a) A spike; a pointed tip or spike on a staff, pole, weapon, instrument of torture, etc.; a spike affixed to a door or wall; also, a spike used to tear or wound someone; also fig.; → of iren, an iron……

(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is……

(a) A piece or patch of land; (b) a spot or speck; a spot or blemish as an outward sign of sin; (c) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.67]. …

(a) Of the wind: to blow; ppl. puffing, whistling; (b) to blow (sth.) down; puffen adoun, blow (sb.) down; puffen awei, blow (sth.) away; puffen oute, extinguish (a fire) by blowing; fig. puffen up……

(a) Evil, wickedness; (b) an evil thing or event; a wicked act or sin; harm or trouble; sickness or injury; (c) boden qued, to foretell evil; don (to) qued, do evil, do wrong; don (spien, waiten,……

(a) A rack, esp. for kitchen use; framework; a bar for hanging pots, etc.; a roasting spit or a support for a spit; fir rak; (b) a framework or rack for holding fodder for livestock, manger; -- also……

(a) Unrestrained, rash; garrulous; rash and rank, eager and impetuous; (b) as surname. …

(a) A rat; rat trappe; rattes bait; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.79]. …

In the names of plants: (a) simply: any of several unrelated plants, including especially ground pine Ajuga chamaepitys, wall or common germander Teucrium chamaedrys, yellow rattle Rhinanthus……

(a) Of teeth: to chatter; of bones: rattle; (b) of a banner: to flap. …

(a) Rest due to sleep; repose; slumber; -- also pl.; at (in, on) rest, at rest, asleep; oute of rest, out of sleep; (b) the repose of the grave, death; rest of the ded, repose of death; at rest, dead……

A riding path, bridle path. …

(a) A small metal ring; (b) in place name. …

(a) To cut through (armor), split; cut open (a stomach); also, stab (sb.), pierce; (b) to cut with a knife, slit, make a cut; also, pierce; (c) to cut the skin round (the leg of a deer); (d) to tear……

(a) A strong, heavy cord, a rope; a tightrope [quots.: a1425, ?c1475]; leten haven to longe rop, to give (sb.) too much freedom; pullen up rop and stake, break camp; taken everi ropes ende, ?join in……

Confusion, tumult, uproar; bringen upon a rore, setten in rore, to plunge (a city, the world) into confusion. …

To make a loud noise, resound; of a storm: rage, roar; of wind: howl. …

Soon; ?also, immediately [1st quot.]. …

(a) To scatter; disperse (sth.), throw or spread about, strew; scateren on, cast (dirt) on (one's head); (b) ben scatered, to be spread about so as to be common or prevalent; (c) to scatter (clouds)……

(a) A scaly or scabby disease of the skin, esp. of the head; also, a similar disease in sheep [quot.: Palladius]; (b) the dry slough or scab produced by a caustic medicine, the bursting of a……

(a) The common seal Phoca vitulina, a marine carnivorous mammal; -- sometimes confused with other marine mammals such as the whale [last quot.] and perh. the porpoise [quot.: 1440]; also, the seal……

A harness; also, part of a harness, ?a hame. …

(a) The parting of the hair; ?also, the crown of the head; shed of the here, shed of hed, hed shed; (b) difference, distinction; maken shed, to discern a difference; (c) the faculty of discernment……

(a) To divide (people, things); separate (sb. or oneself from sb. or sth., sth. from sth.); also fig.; also, take (sb.) away [quot.: Gen.& Ex.208]; also, declare or determine (dissension between……

(a) In general, the protective calcareous or chitinous outer covering of an invertebrate, a shell; (b) the shell of a mollusk, crustacean, or an echinoderm; also fig.; also in proverb; (c) shel fish [……

A sandbar in a river. …

(a) To do harm to (sb.), injure; bring (sb.) to ruin, overcome; injure (sb., a part of the body, a faculty or capacity of the body), damage, afflict; of cattle: make (themselves) sick; (b) to bring……

(a) The leg below the knee; the front part of the lower leg, shin; also, the shinbone; ?also, the leg [quot.: NV Psalter]; (b) shin bon [OE scin-bān], the shinbone, tibia; ?also, error for chin-bon……

Refl. To amuse oneself, enjoy oneself. …

A group of sheaves of grain placed on end and leaning against one another in order to dry, a shock, stook; (b) fig. …

To deceive (sb., the soul), ensnare. …

(a) Refl. To make confession, make confession (to sb., to God); also iron., with implication of impending decease [quot.: Chaucer TC]; (b) refl. shriven o (of), to confess (sins), make confession of……

(a) The shoulder of a person; also used of an image or of God; also, the part of the body comprising the shoulders and the region between them; shulder joint; (b) more (louer) bi the shulderes, head……

Sideways, obliquely; to or from the side. …

A plant, prob. houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); part of this plant, used medicinally. …

(a) A strainer, sieve; also, a fishing net [cp. sein(e n.(a)]; (b) in cpds. & combs.: sive makere; clensing sive; here sive, q.v.; heren sive; malt sive; mele sive; (c) in prov. expressions; (d) a dry……

(a) The intellectual faculty, reason; also person.; wit and skil; (b) skil wille (lereth, mot sen), reason demands (teaches, might discover); skil witnesse, reason; -- ?error for skil-wisnes n.; a……