(a) To talk, chat, converse, discourse; carpen toward, address (sb.); (b) tell (sth.), say; ask (a question); as I have herd carpen, as I have heard tell; as men do carpen, as people say; to carpen……

(a) To scratch (sb., the face, etc.) with the nails; ppl. scratted, scratched (by thorns, etc.); (b) to scratch with the nails; (c) in surname. …

(a) To wither permanently through death, age, disease, etc.; become wrinkled; ppl. shrunken, withered, wrinkled; (b) of leather or wood: to shrink through loss of moisture; (c) shrinken awei, to……

To strain (sth.). …

(a) To sink, fall; of tears: drop, flow; silen adoun (doun); geren silen, kill (sb.); ppl. silande as adj.: flowing; (b) to proceed, go; proceed (to do sth.); silen forth. …

(a) To frighten (sb.), terrify; ppl. skered, frightened; also, alarmed, startled [quot.: c1400]; skered with, frightened by (sth.); (b) to become alarmed; of clamor: rise up; ppl. skerring as adj……

To be lazy or slothful; ppl. slugginge, lazy, sluggish, characterized by sloth. …

To sniffle, sniff. …

To buffet (sb. or sth.) about, agitate, toss; also [1st quot.], sift or winnow (sth.);—used fig. …

(a) To be in motion, esp. back and forth or up and down, shake, flutter, swing; also fig. with ref. to (e) [quots. a1387 & a1425]; of teeth: be loose; of a boat: rock with the waves; of flesh: wobble……

To become feeble or deranged. …

(a) To make a loud cry because of grief, pain, rage, etc., cry out, wail; also fig.; (b) of an animal: to howl. …