to rush (at sb.); run away (into a safe place). …

A child's crib, cradle. …

(a) An action, a deed; god dede, ivel dede, etc.; see also almes dede, est dede, man dede, mis dede; (b) a marvelous act, miracle; also, a feat of magic; (c) a favor, kindness, service; (d) ?an……

(a) A child of either sex; --often, a boy; knave girl, a boy; (b) a girl, young woman. …

(a) The European hazel bush or tree (Corylus avellana); flour (chattes) of hasel, catkins of the hazel; rednesse of hasel, ?the red stigmas of the female catkins of the hazel; (b) the wood of a hazel……

(a) A household, servants collectively; (b) a religious familia, monastic community; -- only in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.247]. …

The singular feminine object of a verb, referring to: (a) a woman: her; (b) a female animal: her; (c) a thing, an action, an abstraction: it; hes, his, he it. …

Introducing a conditional clause, the action or state expressed being within the realm of possibility: provided that, on condition that, in case that, if; -- with reference to: (a) present or future……

To hide (sth.). …

To restore (sb.) to an original state; renew or replace (a medication). …

(a) To give (sth.), provide, grant; also, to give away (sth.); entrust (the world to man); give (sth. as security); (b) to give (sb.) up (to another), deliver; (c) to sell (sth.); sell (sb.) into……

Wicked, depraved, sinful: (a) of persons, the soul; ivel man, etc.; (b) of a spirit; ivel gost, an evil spirit, a devil; the Devil; (c) of an action; ivel dede, ivel werk; (d) of speech; ivel speche,……

(a) To be aware of (sth.) as a fact; know (that sth. is true, has happened, etc.); (b) with that clause or pronoun and that clause; (c) with who, which, what, when, wher, hou, or whi clause; (d) with……

The hoopoe (Upupa epops); lap-wink eiren, a hoopoe's eggs; lap-wink nest. …

(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. …

(a) Forgiveness, remission; lesnesse of sinne(s; (b) expiation. …

(a) To grant (sb. land, rights, privileges); fig. allow (sb. time), grant (sb. a reprieve); grant (a place or room to hatred); (b) to bequeath (property), leave (property to sb. at one's death); fig.……

(a) To grant (sth. to sb.), grant (sth.); (b) to give permission; authorize (sb. or sth.), allow; (c) to allow (sb. to do sth.), empower; grant (that sth. be done or be the case); grant (sb. that he……

(a) A mat made of rushes, straw, etc., used on the floor or as a seat cover; (b) a pad or underlay for a bed; ?also, bedcover, quilt; (c) a piece of coarse fabric or matting; naut. ?piece of coarse……

(a) A meadow; clearing, open field; also, meadowland, a tract of grassland; mede feld (ground); (b) demeine mede [see demeine n. (1) 2. (b)]; mede carde (cresse), a kind of cress; ?meadow cress……

(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) An offense, a transgression, misdeed; sin, crime; (b) wrongdoing, misconduct, wicked or sinful conduct; wickedness, sinfulness; -- esp. early: sins; (c) ill-usage, maltreatment; damage, harm……

(a) To do wrong or evil, sin, transgress; commit fornication or adultery [quots.: Mannyng HS, Gen.& Ex. 1890, Sidrak & B. 8888]; (b) to make a mistake, err; fail to perform well, do a job badly; ?do……

(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……

(a) To nail (sb. or sth. to sth.); nailen to cros (rode, tre), crucify (sb.); (b) to nail (sb. or sth. on sth.); nailen on cros (rode, rode-tre, tre), nailen o (a) rode, nailen upon cros (tre)……

(a) A necessity or need; what is required, wanted, or desired; wants or needs; also, the satisfaction of one's need, relief [quot.: Lay.Brut]; ned of flesh (bodilich kinde), bodilich nedes, needs or……

(a) Near (in space), nearby; close together; adjacent, surrounding; neigh costes, borders; to neigh, too close together; neigh biside, near; fer and neigh, neigh and fer (wid), far and near, near and……

(a) Near in space, nearby, close; also fig.; -- with verbs of motion; (b) with verbs indicating stationary position or being in space; (c) fer and neigh, neigh and fer, fer or (ne) neigh, far and (or……

In space or physical position: close to, near to; (a) with verbs of motion or action; neigh aleien, to lay (sth.) near (sth.); dighten neigh, prepare (sth.) near (sb.); entren neigh, approach (walls)……

(a) Near in space or time, nearby, close; also fig.; fer ne ner, no later and no sooner; comen (approchen, drauen, gon, neighen, wenden) ner, to come or go near, approach; yede ner, came near……

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

(a) To take (sth.), pick up (sth.); draw (a weapon), take up, take out; grab (sth.), grasp, seize; pick (a fruit); also fig.; also, use (sth.); (b) to take away (sth.); bear (sth.), carry off; take……

(a) To overtake (sb.); (b) to flee from (sb.); (c) to be propagated; (d) to run (a horse) to exhaustion. …

(a) To grow old; take on the characteristics of old age, grow feeble; (b) of things: to deteriorate through age; become outdated. …

(a) Above and touching (sth.), on top of, on; placed on (some support, a bench, bed, the back, etc.), resting on, seated on; on a foundation of (sth.); lying on (a woman); wound on wound, one wound on……

A derivational prefix appearing in all parts of speech except pronouns, but most frequently in verbs. It is found in words descended from OE: (verbs) onblowen, onbrirden, onhauien, onheven [see……

Cunning, crafty, clever; of a bee: skillful. …

(a) Unreasonable self-esteem, pride; desire to exceed one's proper station; also, the sin of pride (shading into 1c.); prid of herte; (b) love of praise, vanity; (c) prideful bearing or behavior……

(a) To tremble, shudder, quake; also, tremble with rage; (b) to shake (sth.); -- also without obj.; refl. shake oneself; fig. disturb (sb.), overthrow; (c) to rattle, clatter. …

(a) Room, space; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.89]. …

(a) That which is morally right; resoun and right; (b) moral rectitude, righteousness; right and skil, skil and right; haven right, to act rightly; (c) a right action, good deed; bi right or wrong, by……

(a) To straighten (sth., a path); make right (deformed limbs), make normal, restore; also iron. [quot.: Lay.Brut]; righten oute, straighten out (stiffened limbs); (b) to stand up straight, rise……

(a) Conforming to divine law, virtuous, holy, righteous; (b) of God: good, holy, just; right-wis blod, innocent blood of Christ; right-wis gost, the Holy Ghost; (c) just in all dealings, impartial……

(a) Justice; fairness, impartiality; court of right-wisnes, court of justice; (b) an instance of justice; just punishment; also, just punishment personified; don right-wisnes, to see justice done……

(a) To retreat, depart; die; refl. depart, go away; depart from (a land), leave; rimen abak (ayen), retreat; rimen flet, give ground; (b) to clear a way; clear (a way), clear (a path of enemies); (c)……

A rush, any of several plants characterized chiefly by stiff, pithy, or hollow stems and an aquatic or a marshy habitat, esp. plants of the order Juncaceæ, genus Juncus, or of the order Cyperaceæ……

(a) To give (sth., sth. to sb.), present as a gift, bestow; also, give away possessions [quot.: Bod.Hom., 2nd]; sellen on honde, give (sth. into someone's hand); (b) to grant (sth. to sb.), render……

(a) Laziness, indolence; negligence; ?also, dullness, stupidity [last quot.]; (b) the vice of sloth, one of the seven deadly sins; spiritual torpor, indifference to one's spiritual state, acedia……

(a) To investigate, scrutinize; smegen bi, think about (sth.); also, investigate about or regarding (sth.); smegen of, meditate on (sb.); smegen umbe, meditate on (God, sth.), think about; also……

(a) A candle, usu. of wax; also fig. as an epithet for the Virgin Mary [quot. c1426]; lighten (tenden) taper; (b) taper berere, an acolyte; taper candel, a candle; taper dish, a candleholder; taper(es……

To do (sb. or sth.) harm; harass (sb., an animal), annoy, oppress; tenen on, inflict damage on (sb.). …

With noun, referring to a specific member of a class and used anaphorically, pointing to a previously mentioned thing: this; also pointing to a thing not previously mentioned but understood from the……

Referring to specific members of a class and used anaphorically, pointing to previously mentioned persons or things, a group, or a series of persons, things, actions, etc.: these, those, the……

Referring to specific members of a class and used anaphorically, pointing to persons or things previously mentioned: those, these: (a) with noun, pron., or num. as noun; (b) with noun, now further……

(a) Unfortunate; wretched; also, unwise, foolish; also, as noun: a fool, wretch (b) unblessed, accursed, unholy, wicked; also, of hellfire: ?causing misery [last quot.]; also, as noun, with ref. to……

(a) ?Evil; ?vices [if the latter, could also be construed as a noun use of unlede adj.]; (b) ?misfortune. …

(a) Wretched, miserable; also, causing wretchedness, dreadful (b) not blessed, accursed; wicked, vile; ?also, cruel [last quot.]; (c) of words: cruel, harsh; (d) as noun: an evildoer, a perpetrator……

(a) Aware (of sth., an event, a fact, etc.), mindful; also, with clause introduced by that: aware (that sth. is so) [quot. c1425]; war of him (hem), aware of his (their) presence; nought war of……

(a) To beg, ask for alms; also, ?live as a beggar [2nd quot.]; (b) ppl. wædliende, begging, asking for alms; also, as noun: the poor, the needy. …

(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) To wage war, go to war; attack, do battle, fight, harry; werreien forth; werreien samen, wage mutual war, fight each other (b) werreien ayen (ayenes), to engage in war against (sb., a city),……

(a) To wage war, go to war; fight, attack, do battle, harry; werren forth (b) to make war against one another, fight each other; werren samen (togeder), wage mutual war; (c) werren ayen (ayenes, on,……