Of continous actions or states: (a) all the time, always, constantly, unceasingly; (b) eternally, forever. …

(a) Alder (Alnus glutinosa); alder tre; (b) alder kerre, alder kyr, alder was, alder swamp; alder shawe, alder thicket. …

?Miserable, in a wretched condition; ?scattered, widespread. …

(a) The ankle; ankle bone, esp. the inner projection [quots. c1150, c1440]; innermore ancle; utward ancle, outer projection of the ankle; (b) ancle bon, ankle bone; utter ancle, outer projection of……

(a) Acknowledge, profess; (b) confess (sins). …

(a) Back or away from something; to the rear, back, backwards; drawen ayen, ten ayen, draw back, withdraw; holden ayen, hold back, check, restrain; putten ayen, set or thrust back or away; turnen……

(a) To inquire, ask; (b) to grant (a request); baithen bon; (c) to consent, agree. …

Of a dog: ?hunting, to hunt. …

(a) Comfortable, stately (mansion); (b) perfect (happiness). …

A nest of wild bees. …

him (etc.) birth: (a) with respect to circumstances, destiny, etc.: he is constrained or compelled (to do or suffer sth.), he must; biren nede(s, he must of necessity (do sth.); biren dien, he must……

(a) The act of giving birth, childbirth; birth bering; labour of birth; at on (a) birth, in one delivery; (b) birth in wombe, conception. …

Placed (in a certain location), situated, lodged; quartered or living (with sb.). …

To buffet (sb.), pummel, flog, beat; also without obj., of waves: to dash, rage. …

(a) Of persons: ready, prepared; also, armed; boun in, clothed in (sth.); expert in (astronomy); of things: in readiness, prepared; of a weapon: drawn; of parts of buildings: made, built; of wages or……

(a) Violence, impetuosity; (b) anger, rage; -- also pl.; (c) the deadly sin of Wrath. …

(a) The undergarment covering the lower part of the body; underpants, drawers, or tights; brech and sherte, sark and brek; (b) brech, brek, as pl.; a pare brech, a pair of breeches. …

(a) A sudden or quick movement, such as a jerk, wrench, pull, start, jolt; (b) a rash or hasty act; a move; (c) an impassioned utterance, an outburst or outcry; (d) an unusual occurrence or event……

(a) To be consumed by fire; burn, burn down; brennen awai; of fire: burn; brennen up, flame up; brenning, on fire, fiery; (b) to destroy (sth.) with fire; put to the torch, reduce to ashes; brennen up……

A body of water, such as the sea, a pool, spring, river. …

(a) The bank (of a stream); the brink or raised edge (of a ditch or pit); (b) in names. …

A hill or mountain; also a towering mass of hair. …

Trade in goods, buying and selling, commerce, bargaining; driven, usen chaffare, engage in trade, do business; chaffare of lesinges, dishonest trade or bargaining. …

(a) Jaw, jawbone; chaft bon; (b) pharynx; pl. tonsils. …

Wrapped up. …

A barrel. …

To dawn, grow light; dauen clere, dauen light, dauen (to) dai; (a) with subj. it; (b) with subj. dai. …

(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) A dragnet; (b) a harrow or drag; (c) a barge or raft; (d) a grappling hook. …

(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or……

To be overcome; ppl. droukning, dejected, downcast. …

(a) The edible egg of a domesticated fowl; (b) glair or whit of an egge, the white of an egg; oil of egges, an oil extracted from eggs; yolk or yelk of an eg; (c) fried egge; hard eg, an egg roasted……

(a) A supernatural being of great size and strength, an ogre, a giant; also, a human being with these attributes; often fig.; (b) etene ring, circle of the giants (the reference is to a prehistoric……

Some kind of boat. …

(a) To make firm, stable, or stationary; to place or fix (in position), to plant firmly (in the ground); (b) to establish securely; pass. be established; refl. establish oneself (in a place), stay……

Shrovetide (the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday preceding the Lenten fast); fast-ingong even, the evening of Shrove Tuesday; faste-gong woke, the week including Shrovetide; fast-ingong sondai, fast-ingong……

(a) A place where passengers, goods, etc., are carried by boat over a narrow body of water; also, the boats and other equipment used in ferrying; (b) a ferry-boat; feri bot; (c) feri hir, feri lai……

A measure of capacity for grain, etc.; also, a vessel used to measure a firlot of grain, etc. …

(a) To marshal or deploy (troops); fitten on frounte, to line up (troops); fitten in, to join (others); (b) to be fitting or proper (for somebody); fitting, proper, befitting, right. [Cp. the……

To lose or forfeit (something) through misconduct; ppl. forgart, lost, condemned. …

Freckled, spotted. …

(a) To prepare or equip (oneself); prepare (a corpse for burial); geren aweiward, prepare (oneself) to go away; (b) to equip (oneself) for fighting, arm (oneself); (c) to dress (sb., oneself); ppl. ge……

(a) A belt or strap passing under a horse's belly to secure a saddle, harness, load, etc. [see also hors gerth]; (b) a hoop for a barrel, keg, tub, etc.; (c) in cpds. & combs.: gerth bokel, a clasp or……

(a) To acquire (sth.), earn, buy, win, receive, find; ivel geten, ill-gotten; fals geten, got by falsehood; (b) refl. …

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

To fleece or despoil (sb.). …

(a) A gosling; (b) as surname. …

(a) Sand, gravel, small stones; a gret, a grain of sand; ech gret, every speck, every bit; (b) sandstone, gristone; (c) dust, dirt. …

Law (a) Disturbances or violence committed toward persons, at places, or during specific periods that were under special protection of the king; also (after 1200), any breach of the peace; (b)……

Jaundice. …

(a) Certainly, probably, likely; with confidence; ful helde, very probably, very confidently; (b) comp. rather, sooner, more; never (the) helde, none the more; (c) sup. most, above all; al the (alder)……

(a) A flock or herd of domesticated animals; got herd, q.v.; (b) a herd of wild animals; esp. a herd of deer; also, a flock of birds, swarm of gnats; (c) fig. spiritual flock, group of people under……

(a) A herdsman; a keeper of cattle, hogs, horses, goats, or any kind of livestock; asse herd, aver herd, calf herd, colt herd, cou herd, gelde herd, gos herd, got herd, hog herd, hors herd, lomb herd,……

(a) To strike (sb. or sth.); strike a blow; deliver (blows); hitten in, cut into (sb. or sth.); hitten on, beat upon (sb. or sth.); hitten on the hed of the nailes ende, hit the nail on the head……

To suspend (sb. or sth.) from an elevated point: (a) to hang (sb., his corpse, or parts of it) up by the feet, hands, or hair; hongen up, hongen up bi the fet, etc.; (b) to fasten or mount (sth. on……

(a) To injure (sb., a part of the body), wound, hurt; afflict (sb.) with disease [quot.: WB(1), Pecock]; of hunger: to pain (sb.); ben hurt, be wounded or injured; -- also intr.; (b) to receive an……

(a) Inside (a solid object); immersed, or partly immersed, in (a fluid substance); enclosed in (fire, the air, etc.); (b) into (a solid, liquid, etc.); (c) in or into the surface of (sth.), pierced or……

(a) To kindle (a fire, flame, spark, etc.); also fig.; (b) to set fire to (sth.), set (sth.) ablaze; ppl. kindeled, burned, burning; (c) to incite (sb.), stimulate, inflame; also, stir up (feelings……

Royal; also, as noun: royalty, a person of royal birth. …

To afflict (sb.), crush; me knith it sore, it makes me contrite. …

(a) Faultless, blameless, guiltless; lasteles lotes, impeccable manners or appearance; (b) physically faultless. …

(a) A rule or set of rules prescribing or restraining conduct; -- thought of as promulgated by a rational, authoritative, and powerful lawgiver; laue positif, positif laue, laue of setnesse, a……

The European ling Molva molva; also, any fish of the genus Molva; gret leng, a full-grown ling; leng fish, a ling; whit leng, ?white ling [?error for whiting]; leng drie, dried lings. …

The cheek; in pl.: the face; loken under ler, to look down over (one's) cheek, look downward. …

(a) A swing gate for cattle; (b) in surnames; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.251]. …

(a) Flesh; also, body; (b) meat; lire both, a butcher's stall or shop; lire mongere, a dealer in meat, butcher. …

(a) To secure (a door, gate, etc.) with lock and key; lock the entrance to (a sepulcher); (b) to lock the lid of (a chest or the like). …

Characteristic of human beings, human. …

(a) In the human way, like a human being; (b) in a masculine way; (c) as befits a man; strongly, vigorously. …

(a) Middle, mid-; mid strem, the middle of the stream; mid theigh (leg), the middle of the thigh (leg); in the mid se (sheld), in the middle of the sea (shield); in the mid side, ?in the middle; to……

(a) To darken, grow dark; (b) to cause darkness; darken (the sun), deprive (of light); overshadow (a country); make (darkness) dark; darken or blacken (the brain); (c) to make (someone's wits) dull……

(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……

Nighttime, night; -- only in phrases: bi (a, on, upon, with) nighter-tale, on the nighter-tale, at night, by night, during the nighttime; also, at nightfall. …

Excessive harm. …

To work with a pick or other digging implement; --also refl.; dig (sth.); break up (land, a field); dig up (weeds); piken awei, dig up (weeds); undermine (a foundation); piken oute, dig out (stones……

(a) An accuser; the title of the statute of Edward I appointing justices to hear and determine certain specified offenses by the king's officials and others during the twenty-five years prior to……

(a) A forward movement, course, progress; also, a sea current; also, a rush of water; (b) a course of life or conduct; a period of time; rennen the develes ras, rennen oute of god ras, to pursue an……

(a) Advice, counsel; what shal me to rath, what plan shall I adopt?; outmost rath, last counsel; (b) a counselor, friend; (c) rathes-men, advisers. …

A rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia). …

(a) The European reindeer (Rangifer tarandus); (b) her. rein-der hed, a stag's head with two sets of antlers (double attires), the front pair turned down. …

(a) Strange, uncouth; (b) of an emperor: stern, awful. …

(a) Pity, compassion, sympathy; also, mercy; alas for reuth; (b) haven reuth of (on, upon), to have pity or mercy on (sb., a soul, etc.); nimen (taken) reuth of, take pity on (sb.); (c) haven reuth……

(a) Splitting, breaking, rending; (b) a cleft in the earth or in a rock, a crevice, fissure; (c) a crack in a wall, door, etc., a chink, cranny. …

Naut. A rope attaching the head of a sail to the yard. …

(a) A dealer; ro-mongour of hors, a horse trader; (b) in surnames. …

(a) Of an animal substance: in a state of decomposition or putrefaction; of a corpse or part of a dead body: putrid, rotted; of a hide: in a state of disintegration, rotten; (b) of a vegetable……

?A term of affection for a farm servant, a favorite. …

Of weather: to become stormy. …

(a) A prosecutor in an action for theft; (b) a surety paid for the right to prosecute an action. …

(a) Innocent, guiltless; blameless, free from reproach; sakles of, not guilty of (a deed); not responsible for (Christ's death); (b) free from sin; sakles of (o) sinne; (c) of sorrows, blame……

Concord, harmony. …

(a) To make (sth.), build; (b) to bring about (sth.), effect, contrive; (c) to ordain (to do sth.); ben scapen, be allotted; (d) in surname. …

A cleft, chink, small hole; a crack or cut in wood. …

(a) Harm, injury; loss, damage; misfortune; danger; also, a harm, danger; to scath, to (a person's) harm or detriment; (b) harm or injury resulting from battle or war; defeat; (c) harm resulting from……

(a) Harmful, destructive; dangerous, wild; (b) fierce or mighty in battle, cruel, not easily subdued; (c) undutiful, disloyal; (d) as noun: an opposing warrior, a wrongdoer. …

?Harmful, hurtful; ?mighty or fierce in battle. …

(a) Payment for provision of food or drink at a social gathering, at a tavern, or to one's host or benefactor; one's share of such payment; paien scot; yeven scot, to contribute to a common feast; (b)……

A wretch, rascal, rogue; -- used with derogatory force of both men and women. …

(a) Good; also, brave; also, sup. as noun: the best men [quot.: Lay.Brut 1162]; (b) good for a purpose; skilled, efficacious, favorable; the selere, better, more favorable; (c) wealthy, prosperous……

(a) ?A separate holding, perh. split off from the unified villein's holding; (b) an occupant of such a holding, one of a class of tenant named in records from Northumberland and Cumberland, app. one……