Referring to an unspecified, or as yet unspecified, member of a class or representative of a type; -- (a) as the first unit in a noun phrase [the usual construction]; (b) before an adj. modifying a……

Sun-dried or salt codfish. …

?Boastful; ?puffed up, inflated. …

To summon (sb.). …

(a) To choke, strangle, or suffocate (sb.); (b) to obstruct (sth.). …

(a) Dealings, intercourse, traffic; (b) sexual intercourse; (c) conflict, fighting. …

Askew, awry. …

(a) Straightway; (b) afoot, abroad (with 'going' implied). …

A turbulent current (of the sea), ?a tidal wave. …

Soured ale, malt vinegar. …

Eel spear, fish spear. …

leiden legges aliri, ?crossed their legs or thighs; ?made their legs lame, acted as if paralyzed. …

A songbird of some kind; ?a bullfinch, ?a thrush. …

An uncanny creature. …

A liquid measure (of varying capacity). …

Theol. rightly so named, capable of being so designated. …

Culrage (Polygonum hydropiper). …

Lizard, newt. …

One (not an heir-at-law) to whom a property or right is bequeathed; heires and assignes. …

As a horde or gang. …

?To trick, get the better of (sb.); ?get away, escape. …

(a) A spider, esp. a venomous one; (b) atter-cop ei, the cocoon of a spider; atter-cop weft, spider web, cobweb; (c) ?some other arachnid. …

A small duck of some kind. …

(a) To slant; (b) to deviate (from a rule); (c) to leer, squint. …

A stout stick; quarterstaff, cudgel. …

To move about clumsily; totter, hobble, tumble about. …

?To hit or strike. …

Prob. the English walnut tree (Juglans regia). …

A wave, billow; se bare. …

Used to confirm a pledge. …

A fish of the perch family; perch, bass. …

A finished board or bar (as used in paneling). …

To hunt birds (at night) by knocking them from the roost with a 'bat' or pole and netting them; etc. …

A beetle or bat used in washing clothes; ?also, some other implement of similar shape or function. …

An iron hook, perh. used as a seaman's weapon. …

A tool resembling a mattock. …

?To snort, snore. …

(a) To bathe or foment; (b) to soak (wood) in hot water to make it pliable. …

Shaky, feeble. …

Splashed, bespattered. …

To delude, deceive. …

?Corn marigold. …

(a) An ornate covered bowl for mixing wine; (b) a drinking vessel; goblet, beaker; biker cuppe; biker maker. …

Covered with mud. …

A shelter for cattle, cow house; bire tening, fencing of a cow house; bire hous. …

To beat or flog [orig., flog with a birch rod]. …

To strike (?as with a missile). …

Bespattered, soiled. …

Bespattered, soiled. …

blatten out tonge, stuck out the tongue. …

(a) To move suddenly or sharply; jerk, twist; flinch, wince, dodge; blenchen aside; blenchen low, duck; blenchen broues, raise (one's) eyebrows or eyelids; blenchen of slepe, wake up suddenly; (b) of……

The anus. …

A swelling, boil; a bump, hump. …

To sift (meal, flour). …

?Of the sun: become covered; ?of clouds: surround or cover the sun. …

Kissing. …

(a) Rosemary Rosemarinus officinalis; (b) corn marigold Chrysanthemum segetum; yelwe bothel; (c) blue cornflower Centaurea cyanus; bleu bothel; (d) whit bothel, ox-eye daisy Chrysanthemum leucanthemum……

A beetle or weevil; used specif. of the dung beetle, the rose chafer, the ladybug, the corn or malt weevil [see gold boude (s.v. gold adj., sense 3.(b)), malt boude, sharn boude, somer boude]. …

A kind of large nail or spike. …

?A rent paid for salt, saltsilver. …

Some kind of nail. …

Brindled. …

(a) Growth; (b) ?ancestry; ?breeding, manners. …

The process of cleaning a ship's bottom with burning broom or reeds; also, material so used [first quot.]. …

A wind. …

Bogy, hobgoblin, black-man; scarecrow; slotir bugge. …

A curved handle. …

?The fruit of the common barberry Berberis vulgaris; ?bilberry. …

Used as gloss to L papirus. …

One side of the jaw, chap. …

A fresh-water fish: the chub. …

The rim (of a barrel, formed by the joined ends of the staves). …

To quaver or warble. …

Jawbone, jaw. …

To bargain; choppen and chaungen. …

Said to be a nickname of the hare. …

A rustic, boor. …

?Besmeared, bedaubed, covered. …

(a) to clump or grow viscous; (b) ppl. clagged, ?besmeared, bedaubed, covered. …

Small boards of split oak, board cut to make barrel staves. …

To claw or beat. …

Full of clots, thrombotic. …

(a) A lump; (b) as surname. …

The stoat, European ermine Mustela erminea. …

(a) A bulbil or clove, esp. of garlic; (b) as surname. …

A line attached to an auxiliary sail or bonnet. …

Some kind of bird, possibly an aquatic bird such as teal Anas crecca, or possibly the passerine yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella. …

The larva of the caddis fly, caddis worm. …

A stream, drain, or gutter. …

Only in set on coket, set at a rakish angle. …

Stone or coal in small pieces; rubble. …

A swelling raised by a blow, a lump. …

Lit., to cull old sheep (from a flock); here, to weed out or discharge (aged officers). …

Madder. …

Small lumps or particles. …

A pushcart, wheelbarrow. …

(a) A block of wood tied to an animal to keep it from straying, a clog; (b) a surname. …

Only as surname: ?dabbler, ?meddler. …

Tattling, gossip. …

To jog or tag along. …