A silly fellow, an upstart. …

(a) A bear; (b) blak ber, a bear with black fur; whit ber, white bear, polar bear; wild ber, untamed bear; (c) ber baiting, the sport of setting dogs upon a bear chained to a stake; ber binder, bear……

A rowboat of some kind (with 2 or 4 oars). …

One who tends cows, a cowherd. …

Strength, force, power; also, moral strength, a virtue. …

Terror, fright. …

(a) A gateway; a gate of a city, castle, house, etc.; also, a doorway; flod gate, a floodgate; (b) the movable barrier which closes off a gateway; one of the valves of a double gate; ?a portcullis……

The holy man, St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne; Hali-wer folk(es, people holding lands in return for the service of defending the body, relics, and territory of St. Cuthbert; people of the County of……

A heifer; heifer hide, a piece of leather from a heifer's hide. …

(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) Color; also, brightness or freshness of color; of on heu, in solid color(s; clothen in heu, to take (a lady's) colors, become her servant; (b) paint, dye, pigment; fig. a rhetorical color; (c) fig……

(a) A household; the familia of a cathedral; an eccl. court [last quot.]; the heavenly retinue of the Virgin Mary, the Devil's retinue; fig. the senses and desires of man; hiredes alder (lord), the……

Might, power. …

(a) The Latin language; fals Latin, incorrect Latin; latines leden (lore, tonge), the Latin language; Latin makere (wright), one who understands or writes Latin; (b) Latin speech or writing; a book or……

(a) The art or science of medicine and/or surgery; -- also used in pl.; also, magic [quot.: a1225]; (b) the practice or profession of medicine and/or surgery. …

Spring; lent corn, grains sown in spring; lent erthe, ?an extra plowing in spring; lent sed, any seed sown in spring; time of lent sed, the time at which such seed is sown. …

(a) The act of jumping; a jump, leap; a spring of a fish from the water; at a (o) lep, in one jump; at lepes, ?quickly; lepen (taken, nimen, yeven) lep, to take a leap; maken lepes, leap about, play……

(a) Appearance, guise, shape; gome liknes, the shape of a man; bi liknes, in this guise, in this manner; (b) a shade, a vision; (c) a soul; (d) a pretense. …

(a) A lake; also, any body of water, ?a river [1st quot.]; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.27]. …

Noise, shouting. …

(a) Either of a married human couple, mate, husband, wife; (b) either of a non-human couple, bird, animal or fish; a mate; (c) either of a betrothed human couple; also, lover, paramour, mistress; (d)……

(a) A person, a man or woman; (b) erest men, the first men, Adam and Eve; cristen man, ded man, fals man, god man, haveles man, hethen man, ivel man, povre man, riche man, rightwis man, unilered man,……

A hindrance; mer in mouth, a speech impediment. …

(a) The celebration or occasion of the Eucharistic service; also, an instance of the celebration of this service; messe of the dai, the regular mass celebrated on any given day as specified by the……

(a) Midnight, 12 o'clock at night; houre (time) of mid-night, midnight; heigh mid-night, exactly midnight; (b) a the mid-night, at (the) mid-night, to (the) mid-night, at midnight; (c) abouten (the)……

(a) Largest in size, highest, most extensive; very large [quot.: (a1382)]; ?tallest [quot.: c1380]; most finger, biggest or longest finger; (b) greatest in number or quantity; the majority of (sth.)……

A tax. …

(a) A serpent, a snake; (b) water naddre, a serpent that lives in water; naddre eiren, snake eggs; naddre fot, serpent-footed; naddre hedes, naddre skin; etc.; (c) with reference or allusion to Gen.3……

In place names & surnames only: a headland, promontory: (a) in surnames; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.48-49]. …

(a) An ox; (b) oxe and asse, etc.; forwe oxe, ?an ox that walks in or near the previous furrow to align the one being plowed; plough oxe, an ox of a plow-team, ploued oxe, an ox that has plowed the……

(a) A sack, pouch, bag [in some quots. perhaps a measure of quantity, but see quot.: a1500]; pissinge poke, provande poke, sond poke [see pissinge, provende, sond]; (b) a full, elongated type of……

(a) Incense, frankincense; rekels fat [OE recels-fæt], a vessel for incense; a censer, thurible; (b) the smoke or aroma of incense; rekels smoke; (c) med. frankincense used in ointments, etc.; bastard……

(a) The action of reaping or harvesting; also, harvest time; barli ripe; dai (time) of ripe; (b) that which is reaped, harvest, fruit; a sheaf of grain; also, ?a bundle or lot of metalware [quot……

(a) The feeling of being in disgrace; the outward manifestation of this feeling, blushing; (b) the state of being in dishonor or disgrace, ignominy; humiliation. …

(a) A ruminant of the genus Ovis, a domestic sheep; (b) a male sheep, a ram; also, Aries, a sign of the zodiac; shep wether, wether shep; (c) a female sheep, a ewe; moder shep. …

(a) God as the creator of the universe, its parts, creatures, etc.; (b) pl. the Fates as the shapers of a child's destiny. …

(a) A cave; also fig.; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.113-14]. …

(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……

(a) The metal silver; also, silver ore; also fig. [quot.: Rolle Psalter, 1st occurrence]; filinge (isweorf, shavinge) of silver, silver filings; gobet of silver, a piece or strip of silver; (b) silver……

A piece of something; a fragment, morsel, bit; also, fig. a section of a text, portion; bi litel stiches, detail by detail. …

Gain, acquisition. …

(a) A plow; also fig.; also, a plowshare [quots. ?a1475 & perh. c1230]; glossing L iugum: ?a yoke by which a plow is drawn [quot. 1460]; (b) in cpds. & combs.: ?sulou al, an adjustable piece of wood……

(a) A female sibling, a sister or half-sister; suster quene, a sister who is a queen; seinte petres suster, ?a personification of the White Paternoster; trusten to suster no brother, to trust no one……

(a) A bladed weapon designed for cutting and thrusting, a sword; also fig. & in fig. context; pleien at the sword and bokeler, to fence; (b) death by the sword; don to (the) sword, to put (sb.) to the……

(a) A young woman; a girl; (b) a female servant, handmaid. …

(a) A way of behaving toward others; deportment, bearing, manners;—usu. pl.; (b) a habitual mode of conduct; a habit, practice [occas. difficult to distinguish from (a)]; (c) proper conduct, good……

(a) An inscription, esp. the superscription on Christ's cross; (b) a stone memorial; also, a stone altar. …

(a) A small branch of a tree, a twig, shoot; also, the stem of a plant; a sprig of a medicinal plant or herb; a leafy branch, frond; any green and growing part of a plant; lim twig [see lim n.(2) 4.(c……

No good end or purpose, mischief; on uniðor, to no good end, unprofitably; to uniðor, astray, amiss. …

(a) A vineyard; also, a pictorial representation of a vineyard [quot. a1398]; vine-yerd of plesire, ?a vineyard designed for recreational or aesthetic purposes; vine-yerd silver, a customary rent paid……

(a) A shore; ?also, a ford [quot. c1400(?c1390); cp. wath n.]; se warth [OE sǣ-waroþ], the seashore; (b) the sea floor; (c) in surnames; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.246,255]. …

(a) Misery, trouble, woe; wand-reth and we; we sith, a time of woe or trouble; ?a trouble; (b) we is him, woe be to him. …

(a) A garment, an article of clothing; also, coll. & pl. clothes, apparel, attire; also fig. & in fig. context; wede brech [cp. OE wǣd-brēc], some kind of covering for the loins; cloth wede; hali-dai……

(a) An established road, a main thoroughfare, highway; a principal road between cities; a city street; also, the surface of a road, roadbed; brod wei; commune (private) wei; pleine wei, level roadway……

(a) A deep pool or turbulent whirlpool, as in the sea; also, a rushing stream, torrent; also fig. (b) a pit; an infernal pool or pit; also fig.; also, the pit or abyss of hell; helle wel; (c) in……