(a) To summon (troops) by proclamation; assemble (a fighting force); bannen out; (b) to assemble (a fleet) for an attack; (c) to gather (arms), make ready; to man or make ready (a castle). …

(a) To surround or encircle (sth.); (b) to close in upon (an enemy); surround; besiege. …

(a) To shatter (sth.), smash; break up, fracture; brisen in two, etc.; brisen doun, knock (sb.) down; (b) to go to pieces; also fig. [last quot.]. …

To recover from illness, fainting, suffering, threatened defeat, etc.; be delivered (from sin); be restored (to health, life, etc.); revive; also coveren ayen; -- (a) simply; (b) refl.; (c) with of……

(a) To bend (sth.), curl, curve, twist; (b) to bend, genuflect; (c) med. to afflict (part of the body) with spasms. …

(a) To create (a knight); confer knighthood on (sb.); give the accolade to (sb.); also, beat (sb.) [1st quot.]; neudubbed, of a knight: newly created; (b) dubben (to) knight, to make (sb.) a knight……

(a) To decorate with needlework or with ornaments, esp. precious stones, sewn on; to embroider; (b) to sew on (an ornament). …

(a) To fill (something) with light, illumine; (b) to decorate (with paintings or miniatures). …

(a) To color or tinge (something); to lend a fair complexion or color to (someone's face); to brighten, make radiant; (b) to ornament (a description) with 'colors' of rhetoric. …

(a) To winnow (grain); also fig.; (b) to separate (the hulls) from the meal of grain ground in a mortar; fannen awei, fannen out; also, to process (grain) in this way. …

(a) To cut or wear away (sth.) with a file, rasp, or other abrading instrument; to rub or polish (sth.) ; (b) to use a file; (c) of a file: to abrade. …

(a) To render (something) materially foul, unclean, or impure; to dirty, soil, pollute; (b) fig. to pollute or defile (the mouth, the air) with false or evil words; (c) to void excrement, defecate. …

(a) To cut (someone) off from escape or retreat, to surround (someone); (b) to bar (someone) from entering or approaching, to shut out; (c) law to exclude (someone) from an inheritance; (d) prevent……

(a) To make (something) dirty, to soil, to pollute; (b) to be or become filthy; (c) to void excrement. …

(a) To murmur, mutter, grumble; groinen ayenes (into), complain against (sb.); (b) of a sow: to grunt; -- also of a wild boar; (c) of a dog: to growl, snarl; (d) of a bull: to bellow. …

(a) To play a harp; (b) to play (notes, a tune, song, etc.) on a harp; of a harp: to play (sth.); (c) to play the harp for (sb.). …

(a) To pillage (a place), plunder (a house, town, country, etc.); rob (sb.); also, plunder (in a place), go pillaging; herien and brennen, pillage and burn, ravage; herien up, ravage (a country); (b)……

(a) To shout, whoop, call out; houpen after, call loudly for (sb.); houpen to, call out to (sb.); (b) to shout (a summons); summon (hawks) by shouting or whooping. …

(a) To injure (sb., a part of the body), wound, hurt; afflict (sb.) with disease [quot.: WB(1), Pecock]; of hunger: to pain (sb.); ben hurt, be wounded or injured; -- also intr.; (b) to receive an……

(a) To invite (sb.); (b) to call (sb.) into the presence of another, summon; order (sb.) to appear; also, order (sb. to come to a specific place); (c) law to cite (sb.) to appear before a court or……

(a) To wash (sb. or sth.); bathe (sb.); moisten (sth.); wet; also fig.; (b) of water or blood: to stream, flow; swell; well; lavande teres, flowing tears; laven ablode (aswote), stream with blood……

Eccl. To put (sb.) to death as a martyr, make a martyr of (sb.); torture and execute (sb.) for professing the Christian faith. …

To celebrate mass; ppl. imassed, of mass: celebrated or sung; -- impers. …

To pilfer (small things), steal; -- also without obj. …

(a) To kill (sb.) deliberately; murder (sb.), assassinate; put (sb.) to death unjustly; mortheren for ever, mortheren to deth, kill (sb.) utterly; (b) refl. to commit suicide; torment oneself to death……

(a) To present (sb., an animal) as a religious sacrifice to God or to a heathen god; sacrifice (sb., an animal) to (God); offer (food, drink, blood, a burnt offering) as a sacrifice; offren up; (b) to……

(a) To thrust (sth.), drive (a stake, etc.); picchen in (o, to, into), stick, thrust, or drive (sth.) into (sth.); surround (a wood) with a palisade [quot.: a1450, 1st]; (b) to pierce (sb. or sth.)……

To work with a pick or other digging implement; --also refl.; dig (sth.); break up (land, a field); dig up (weeds); piken awei, dig up (weeds); undermine (a foundation); piken oute, dig out (stones……

(a) To rob, steal; rob (sb.), steal from (sb.); rifle (sb.) [1st quot.], despoil (the dead); (b) to take (sth.) by robbery; (c) to defraud (sb.), cheat. …

To torture (sb.). …

To cover (sth.) with a layer of metal or with mail; harneis plated, armored gear, armor. …

(a) To plant or set (a tree, an herb, a vine, etc.); also fig.; also, transplant (a tree, etc.); plaunten over; plaunted thing, a plant; (b) to plant (a vineyard, a garden); (c) to plant or sow a……

To sing Psalms or songs, sing praise (to God) in Psalms; praise (sth.) with Psalms; psalmed writes, writings composed as Psalms, the Psalter. …

To sift (grain); also, fig. test (sb.); -- also without obj.; spread (ashes) by means of sifting; -- used without obj.; ridelen oute of, separate (sb.) from (God's chosen). …

To scorch, singe. …

(a) To move quickly, move violently, rush; charge, dash; of wind: blow violently; of water, blood: flow rapidly, stream; rushen forth, charge; also, hurry on one's way; rushen up, leap up; (b) to dash……

(a) To make the sign of the cross, bless; bless (sb. or sth.); make the sign of the cross on or over (sb. or sth.); signen with cros, enlist (sb.) for a crusade; (b) refl. to bless oneself, make the……

(a) To throw (sb. or sth., esp. into a place or in a specified direction), hurl, fling; also, fell (an adversary) in battle; also, raze (a city); slingen abouten, swing (sb.) around; slingen doun……

To become dirty or soiled; ppl. solied, made dirty, soiled; also, defiled or polluted (with sin). …

(a) To urge (sb. to do sth.), invite, call upon; order (sb. to do sth.); -- also with that clause; ben somned, be called upon (to do sth.), be obliged; ben somned to, be invited to (a feast); (b) ?to……

(a) Of a dragon: to wrap itself around (an animal, an animal's legs), bind; (b) to grasp or seize (a spear). …

(a) To spend money, expend wealth; also fig.; (b) to spend (money, an amount or a specified sum of money), pay out, disburse; pay (expenses); expend (wealth, treasure, etc.); also fig.; also, spend……

(a) To pound or mash an ingredient; pound (sth.), beat; crush (sth.), mash; also fig. [last quot.]; -- also without obj. [quot.: ?a1500]; stamp (ingredients in a mortar), bray; ppl. stamped, pounded……

(a) To remove the clothes of (sb.); strepen naked (stert-naked, to flesh and bon), strip (sb.) naked; strepen (naked) oute of, strip (sb.) of (his or her clothes); strepen of, strip (a corpse) of……

(a) To be mixed (with sth.); combine (ingredients), blend (a mixture of ingredients); also, be mixed with (sth.) [quot. c1400 Why werre]; tempren (al) togeder, tempren up; (b) tempren with, to mix……

(a) To write (sth.) down, record, chronicle; list (sth.); also, inscribe (a symbol, name, etc.); also, with adv.: titlen in [quot. c1450(?a1400)]; ppl. titled as adj.: inscribed [quot. c1400]; (b) to……

(a) To hang down loosely, hang low so as to be dragged along the ground; also, of a horse: trail (its guts); trailen doun (adoun); trailen abouten, of a dragon's tail: ?hang looped around (a ball)……

(a) To fall; (b) to leap, tumble, dance. …

(a) To move about an axis, a center, or a fixed position, pivot;—also refl. [quot. a1393]; revolve; also fig. and in fig. context; also, spin, whirl; turnen abouten; turnen of herre, of the heavens……

(a) To stand guard, keep watch; protect (against sth.), guard; also in fig. context; also, defend oneself [last quot.] (b) to protect (sb. or sth., oneself), defend, guard; protect (sb. or sth.……

(a) To be mindful, be aware; waren of, be knowledgeable concerning (sth.), be skilled in; ware him his fal is nexte his honde, let him be mindful his fall is at hand (b) to be mindful of (sth.),……

(a) To give notice of some existing circumstance or a past or coincident event, make something known (b) to inform (sb., sb. of sth.), notify, advise; (c) to announce (sth. to sb.), proclaim,……

(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,……