(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) Ashes of combustible materials; brennen to asshe; turnen to asshe; (b) ashes as used in medicaments, for making lye, etc.; (c) hot ashes or coals, as for baking. …

A nest of wild bees or wasps; a honeycomb; hony bike. …

A body of customs or regulations current in a community (a village or district) and enforced locally, esp. regulations concerning land use, grazing, etc. [See G. C. Homans, Eng.Villagers (1942), pp……

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

A lead founder. …

Something used for tying, binding, wrapping, fastening, joining: (a) a cord, string (also fig.); a strap, halter, leash; a bowstring; (b) a twist of straw; a tendril; (c) a bandage or wrapping; (d) a……

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

A boatman. …

(a) A flat cake or loaf; also, an unbaked cake or loaf, a lump of doug; haver (ote, oten) cake, a cake of oaten bread; therf cake, a cake of unleavened bread; barli cake, flouren cake, spiced cake……

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

A land tax levied by the Norman kings [orig., either by the Anglo-Saxon kings for defense against the 'Danes', or by the 'Danish' rulers as a tribute]. …

(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……

(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 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……

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

(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. …

Jaundice. …

(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……

The keelson of a ship; also, a mast step. …

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) 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. …

(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) 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) Decay, corruption, putrefaction; (b) a disease of sheep; (c) a wasting disease in man; also fig.; (d) ?fig. moral corruption; ?error for riot(e n., 'debauchery, dissipation'; (e) in place name. …

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

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

(a) Any of various skin diseases characterized by itching, pustules, ulceration, etc.; also, the pustule characteristic of such diseases [quot.: a1398, 1st]; also, scabby or scaly condition of the……

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) A toy that spins around, a top, whirligig, perh. consisting of a disc of some sort with a pointed peg passed through its center; (b) her. ?a badge in the form of a disc. …

(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) ?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……

(a) A wood or forest; a grove; a thicket; at a shau side, at the edge of a forest; shau of (the) wod, a wodes shau; under (the) shau, beneath the foliage of a wood, in the shade; in thickets; also……

(a) A shout, call, cry; shouting, outcry, clamor, uproar; (b) maken shout, to utter a shout, shout; setten (up) shout, raise a clamor, shout; (c) a cry of distress or lamentation; maken shout; (d) a……

An outbuilding; a shed, lean-to. …

(a) The sky, heavens; -- often pl.; (b) a cloud. …

(a) The sky, heavens, firmament; -- often pl.; also fig.; ski of night, darkness, night; al the wateres under the ski, all the rivers, etc. in the world; bi o side of the ski, in the same quadrant of……

(a) The lower part of a man's gown or robe, clerical vestment, etc.; prest skirt; serke skirt; (b) the lower part of a woman's dress, a skirt; also, a skirt used as a receptacle; (c) in glossary……

In phrase: on slant, at an angle, obliquely [cp. aslant(e adv.]; he shal on slant, he shall stagger or have a fall; -- ?used fig. he shall come to grief. …

(a) The killing of an individual; manslaughter, murder; also, execution; (b) the killing of many people as the result of war, feuding, etc., slaughter, carnage; also, an instance of this, a bloody……

(a) The killing of a person, murder, assassination, homicide; (b) the killing of large numbers of people, esp. in battle, massacre; (c) spiritual slaying. …

A drop of liquid. …

(a) A blacksmith's shop, smithy, forge; also fig.; (b) in cpds. & combs.: smithi hous, a smithy; smithi knave (man), a worker in a smithy; smithi tonges; (c) in surnames and place names. …

A messenger, an emissary; also fig. …

Filth, pollution; also fig. …

?A plough trace, often of iron. …

Some kind of tongs used by a blacksmith. …

(a) A fragment of wood; a splinter; (b) spil bon, the thighbone, femur; also, a bone of the arm, prob. the radius. …

(a) A shore; the bank of a river, edge of a pond [last quot. may be error for scath(e n.]; also in proverbs; (b) a dock, wharf, landing place; lond stath, an embankment forming the end of a bridge……

(a) An upright bar in a rack for hay or fodder; hacche staver; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.141, 142]. …

(a) A large stone; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.150]. …

(a) A jug, often made of leather; also, a measure for liquids, varying from one pint to several gallons; (b) a vessel or container for holy water; holi water stoupe. …

A bag, sack. …

(a) An attendant upon a knight, a squire; a soldier below the rank of knight; knight(es and swein(es; (b) a retainer, an attendant; a servant; swein lof, bread to be eaten by servants; (c) a man……

(a) A fee paid to a lord or the king for the right to let swine feed in a forest or on a piece of land; a customary fee for the right to keep swine; tak and tol, tol and tak; tak fre, not subject to……

A slip of wood, a cutting; tal shide, a piece of hewn timber from which faggots are cut, a length of wood, billet of firewood;—also coll.; tal ston, some kind of cut stone; tal wode, q.v. …

(a) Straw, reeds, or similar material used in covering a roof, thatch; also, such material put to other uses; lode thach; (b) a covering of thatch or of lead, tiles, etc. over a roof; also, a roof……

Pain, discomfort. …

(a) Material wealth, prosperity; a state of prosperity; pl. wealth; also, earnings; blouen thrift at the col, to use one's wealth to kindle a fire;—used fig., perhaps with punning reference to (d)……

Growth, health, physical development. …

(a) A contraction of the uterus while giving birth; the pain and discomfort experienced while giving birth;—usu. pl.; also in fig. context [quot. a1393]; pininge throwes; a twenti throwes, a period of……

(a) A report of an occurrence or event; a report brought by an official messenger;—also pl.; (b) information gathered for a particular purpose, intelligence;—also pl.; also, a piece of information or……

A locker or similar container for the storage of military gear; also, a casket or similar container. …

(a) The extreme end of something, usu. rounded or pointed; also, a metal or other attachment to the end of something; (b) in cpd.: tip to, the end of the toe;—used in pl.; also, the end of a bird's……

(a) A double-armed instrument, usually hinged, for manipulating objects too hot or too difficult to hold; a pincers, pliers, pair of tongs;—often pl.; also fig. and in fig. context; fir tonges; paire……

(a) Hardship, misfortune, trouble, distress; also, a hardship, difficulty; (b) physical suffering, torment; also, a physical torment; (c) a disaster; (d) obstructiveness, ill will. …

Trouble, labor, effort. …

(a) An administrative division within the Danelaw comprising one-third of a county, a riding; an administrative division in the Danelaw corresponding in size to three or more hundreds; trithing reve……

The act of going around, circuiting; circumference, circuit, perimeter; also fig.; in umgang of, round about (sb. or sth.); also fig. [last quot.]; in his (thin) umgang, round about him (you); of……

?Extraordinary or incalculable force, harshness, or severity; undemnes dint, an extraordinarily strong blow. …

Naut. The lowest part of the stem of a ship fastened or joined to the keel. …

An object of reproach. …

(a) A division of land; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.245]. …

(a) The state of penury, want; also, a shortage or lack of something (b) want of, absence or lack of (sth.); a shortage or an insufficiency of (sth.); also, the loss or removal of (sb. or sth.……

(a) An administrative division of certain counties, all within the Danelaw, corresponding to the hundred; (b) in names of specific wapentakes. …

(a) A salutation used in drinking healths, offering toasts, etc.; also used simply as a greeting or an exclamation (b) the practice or custom of drinking healths; also, an instance or occurrence of……

(a) A wave of water, esp. in the sea; ?also, a current; gon in wawes, to become tempestuous (b) pl. the sea, seen as a collection of individual waves; (c) used metonymically: the sea; water; wau of……

(a) Misery, trouble, woe; wei and wel (ange, wand-reth), wel or wei; wei sith, misery, wretchedness; also, a wretched end [quot. c1275, 2nd]; (b) wei the, wei is him, woe be to you (him). …

Entertainment offered to a stranger, traveler, or guest, hospitality; ?also, a banquet or festive affair. …

(a) A trap for catching fish, crabs, etc., prob. made of wicker; ?wele hous [may be a mistranscription of wilchon n.]; (b) a basket for storage. …

(a) The less morally acceptable of two states, the worse condition; not in-to the bettre but in-to the wer (b) the less desirable of two circumstances, the less favorable outcome; bien the devel of……

(a) Water as a naturally occurring substance; water as a medium for preparing recipes, soaking, etc.; also, a fluid with properties similar to those of water (b) a naturally occurring body of water,……

(a) An act of deceit, a deception, trick; an underhanded scheme, a subterfuge; a plot, machination; also, a clever maneuver, tactic, cunning strategy; also person. [quot. c1400(?a1387)]; wile and……