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……

In verbs inherited from OE:(a) From OE ā-: a-biden, a-breken, a-fallen, a-reren, a-risen, a-senden, a-waken, a-winnen, and many others. (b) From OE on-: a-biden (also an-biden), ppl. a-knoue(n (also……

Directly over (but without touching or resting upon), overhead; in heaven; also fig. [quot. a1225]. …

Used between contrasting expressions: but, yet, however, nevertheless; -- (a) between clauses; (b) as an introductory expression. …

Pain, esp. continuous or deep-seated pain; aching, suffering; ache of hed, headache; toth ake; aches of love, the woes of love. …

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

(a) To receive (a gift, reward, etc.); also, accept; (b) to inherit (a kingdom), take possession of (land, an office, an abbey, etc.); (c) to receive (punishment, penance, etc.); suffer (a blow, a……

Verbal cpds.: (a) after- bending, the second bending, a bending back (of a bow); prob., the shaping process which gives the ends a curvature the reverse of that at the center; after- berende, bearing……

Of continous actions or states: (a) all the time, always, constantly, unceasingly; (b) eternally, forever. …

(a) An acorn; akorns of okes; cup of an akorn; (b) mast, such as acorns and nuts. …

(a) A tool or instrument with a sharp point; (b) a shoemaker's awl; (c) a spike (on armor); (d) a quill (of a hedgehog or porcupine); an awn. …

Denoting the total number of entities in a class or group: all (persons, creatures, things, units); all without exception: (a) with a noun: al(le men, al(le the knightes, the knightes al(le, etc.; (b)……

(a) Alder (Alnus glutinosa); alder tre; (b) alder kerre, alder kyr, alder was, alder swamp; alder shawe, alder thicket. …

Eel spear, fish spear. …

Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c) med. the drug aloes; aloe caballinum (cicotrine, epatik). …

Connecting sentences: (a) as a simple additive: in addition, moreover, also; and also, and ek also; nought onli..but also; usu. also, rarely as; (b) introd. a sequel to, or an inference from, a……

Of an area: (a) adv. in or near the center, in the center, in the middle; amid of (sth.); even amid, right in or through the middle; (b) prep. in or near the center of (sth.). …

(a) In several nouns: an-sene appearance, an-velt anvil, an-wald power; (b) in the adj. an-lich 'like, similar' and its derivatives anlicnesse & anlicni. …

(a) In words inherited from OE: an-biden, an-elen kindle; (b) in words not attested in OE with this prefix, but occurring in early ME up to c1225: an-belʒen, an-bursten; also an-ēlen kindle, an-hongen……

(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……