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

(a) Of mode: in the same manner, similarly; without distinction; (b) of degree or extent: equally; (c) in equal measure or quantity (= Latin ana). …

(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on……

Handmaid, bondwoman. …

(a) Of the actions of persons: in a wrong or mistaken manner; gon, faren amis, go astray, go wrong; leden, turnen amis, mislead; speden amis, fare badly; feren amis, be ill; sheten amis, miss the……

(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……

(a) Ashes of combustible materials; brennen to asshe; turnen to asshe; (b) ashes as used in medicaments, for making lye, etc.; (c) hot ashes or coals, as for baking. …

(a) To intend or plan (to do sth.); -- intr. or refl.; (b) seek or plan (sth.). …

(a) To show (sth.), disclose; (b) refl. to show oneself, appear; (c) ?point the way. …

Expressing regret or grief: alas!, oh! …

(a) Back or away from something; to the rear, back, backwards; drawen ayen, ten ayen, draw back, withdraw; holden ayen, hold back, check, restrain; putten ayen, set or thrust back or away; turnen……

(a) To bait (an animal) with an attacking or herding dog; specif., to bait (a tied or confined bear, bull, or badger) in sport; (b) of a dog: to set on (an animal or person); perh. [quot.: a1375] to……

A blazing fire, esp. one for burning victims or corpses; also, hell-fire; bale-fir. …

(a) A natural ridge; (b) a height, hill, mountain; (c) a slope, a hill-side; (d) ?the crest of a wave. …

(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 be, exist, live; there is (was, were, etc.); that was, who formerly lived, now dead; if his liking be, if it be his will; if (sth.) ne were, if (sth.) had not been, if it were not for (sth.)……

A dwelling; farm, village, town; bi-milne, town mill. [Common in place names and field names of the East Midland and the North (the Danelaw). See A. H. Smith PNElem. 1.66, & the thorp, by, tun map in……

Barley; big bern, barley barn; big rid(d)el, barley riddle or sieve (for bolting). …

A nest of wild bees or wasps; a honeycomb; hony bike. …

(a) The act of giving birth, childbirth; birth bering; labour of birth; at on (a) birth, in one delivery; (b) birth in wombe, conception. …

(a) Of complexion: pallid, sallow, pale; (b) whitish, white. …

(a) To turn pale (as with fear); bleiken in blodi ble, blush; (b) to make (sb.) turn pale. …

(a) Ink; blek pot, inkhorn; (b) a black substance, ?tar; (c) a dark or somber mood. …

(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……

(a) A bull; fre bole, a bull free to roam with the herd [see Homans Eng.Villagers 61-3]; (b) a steer or bullock. …

(a) The act of praying, or what one asks for in praying; a prayer; a favor asked for; bidden, don, maken, praien bon, address a prayer (to God), say a prayer, pray; asken, bidden bon, pray for……

Something used for tying, binding, wrapping, fastening, joining: (a) a cord, string (also fig.); a strap, halter, leash; a bowstring; (b) a twist of straw; a tendril; (c) a bandage or wrapping; (d) a……

(a) A customary tenant (as distinct from a free-holder); a villager (villain) or farmer (husbandman) holding land under a lord in return for customary services, esp. plowing (cp. plough-man); specif……

(a) A grate, gridiron, or trivet for supporting cooking utensils above a fire; (b) a gridiron for torture. …

(a) Steep, high; brant up, straight up, erect; brant upright, perpendicular; (b) arched (eyebrows) [cp. OI bretta brȳrnar raise the eyebrows]; (c) ?smooth (forehead); (d) in place names [see Smith PN……

(a) The undergarment covering the lower part of the body; underpants, drawers, or tights; brech and sherte, sark and brek; (b) brech, brek, as pl.; a pare brech, a pair of breeches. …

(a) Of a container: filled to the brim, brimful; (b) of an area: completely covered; (c) completely filled, chock-full. …

To rush. …

(a) To be consumed by fire; burn, burn down; brennen awai; of fire: burn; brennen up, flame up; brenning, on fire, fiery; (b) to destroy (sth.) with fire; put to the torch, reduce to ashes; brennen up……

(a) To be broken, fall apart, break, shatter; bresten atwo, bresten atwinne, bresten in peces, bresten in sunder; (b) to break (sth.), shatter, crush; break (one's arm); ppl. brosten, of grain or……

A body of water, such as the sea, a pool, spring, river. …

(a) To mash; (b) to cut to pieces, dismember; (c) to shatter; demolish. …

A boatman. …

Warrior. …

(a) Foolish; also, lewd, worthless, ?wicked; cang eien, lustful eyes; (b) a fool. …

A clergyman living under a rule of canons, a canon. …

(a) A cart, a wagon; also fig.; dong cart, [see dong n.(1), 5.]; fare cart, [see fare n. (1), 8.(b)]; iren-bounden cart, shod cart, a cart with wheels which are bound or reinforced with iron bands……

(a) A trunk, chest, casket, box, etc., (for storing or safekeeping); a strongbox (for valuables, documents, money); the Ark (of the Covenant); (b) common chest, public chest or treasury; (c) chest……

A consecrated building: (a) for Christian worship and the performance of religious rites; (b) as affording rights of sanctuary to fugitives; taken the chirche; (c) as used for the performance of……

(a) To climb (steps, etc.); cliven up and doun; (b) fig. to climb (to perfection); cliven into (up) the hil of perfeccioun. …

(a) Silence; (b) as interj.: Be silent! Mum's the word! …

A corner, nook. …

In place names only [see Smith PNElem. 2.7]: a circle, bend. …

(a) Any tool, implement, or utensil consisting of, or having as an important part, a curved piece of metal or hook, such as a grappling iron, a pot hook, a reaping hook or sickle, ?a hoe, ?a fork, a……

(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

A pot or crock. …

A valley, dell, glen; valley bottom; dale and doun, hil and dale; bi (over) dale and doun, over hill and dale, everywhere. …

(a) A dam; also, the bank (of a stream); (b) dam bord, a sluice gate. …

(a) An excavated trench; a ditch for fencing an enclosure, marking a boundary, draining water, etc.; (b) fig. & prov. expressions: as water of dich, freely, unstintingly; commune as water in a dich……

(a) A dragnet; (b) a harrow or drag; (c) a barge or raft; (d) a grappling hook. …

(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or……

(a) A man; warrior; ?also, creature, person; (b) retainer, vassal; nobleman; godes dreng, servant of God; heigh dreng, a high-ranking vassal; (c) king, chief. …

(a) Great, large, tall; of blows: hard, heavy; of a warrior: strong, valorous; driest del, greater part; (b) lasting, long; of a way or path: long, tedious; dri fro, distant from. …

To perform or do (sth.); commit (sins); do (penance); drien wille, do (someone's) will; drien lif, lead (a certain kind of) life; drien wirdes, try (one's) luck. …

Island; meadow land or habitable land among marshes; -- common in all parts of England (a) in place names; (b) in surnames derived from place names. [See EPNSoc. 1, pt.2, 24 under eg. Only a few……

As an alternative; as another choice or possibility; otherwise; -- often after or, and. Modifying (a) a predicate, (b) an adv. expression; (c) introducing a sentence. …

Embers. …

(a) At an early time or hour; early; er and late, at all times; (b) ?soon. …

Forming agent nouns from nouns and verbs, esp. also names of persons engaged in a trade or profession. (a) Inherited from OE: e.g. bōk-ere scribe [OE bōc-ere, from bōc document, charter], salt-ere……

At or near the beginning of the day; in the first part of the morning; early in the morning. …

(a) Voluntary abstinence from food and drink or from certain kinds of food, for spiritual or religious discipline; an act of such abstinence; (b) a period set aside for such abstinence; (c) faste(n……

A (limited) period of time; yere first, a period of years; yeven first, to grant time (for a certain purpose). …

(a) To delay, postpone; (b) to grant a delay; (c) to lend (money) on credit. …

(a) To engage in fishing; to fish; (b) to catch (fish); (c) to fish in, or take fish from (a pond, etc.); also fig.; (d) fishen up, recover (goods) from the sea. …

The side of a slaughtered animal; esp., the salted and cured side of a hog, a flitch; bef flicche, a side of beef; bacoun flicche, swin flicche. …

A state of agitation or turmoil; in flouht, in a flutter, agitated. …

(a) To burn up (something), to consume or destroy by fire; (b) to ravage or lay waste (a country) with fire; (c) to burn up, to be destroyed by fire. …

Ordinal as adj.: fourteenth. …

Augury, divination; god freit, good omen, good luck. …

(a) Of place or movement: away; (b) fallen fro, descend (from an ancestor); (c) tellen fro, tell about. …

(a) Of movement or direction (often with indication of the goal): away from, from; fro(m..to (til); (b) fro dore to dore, fro land to land, etc. …

Any kind of frog or toad; froskes of water, water frogs. …

With verbs of movement or direction: away from (something or someone), out of (a place); from the direction of, from. …

(a) A gable of a building; also, a façade; (b) gable ende, gable wal, gable wough, the end wall surmounted by a gable, gable end; gable forke, a gable; gable windou, a window in a gable; (c) in place……

(a) A way, course; fig. gon ilke (haven same) gale, to go the same way, meet the same fate; (b) course of action, way, means, expedient. …

(a) A going, walking; a journey; daies gang, one day's journey; thre daies gang; (b) ability to walk; (c) manner of walking; the way one carries oneself, bearing; (d) part of (?the circumference of) a……

(a) An enclosed yard; courtyard, garden, etc.; (b) a hedge or fence; thorn garth; (c) on ground ner on garth [?grith], anywhere; (d) in cpds. & combs.: appeles garthes, apple orchards; garth cresse……

(a) Wearing apparel, clothes, dress; also, a garment; (b) pl. bedclothes. …

(a) To prepare or equip (oneself); prepare (a corpse for burial); geren aweiward, prepare (oneself) to go away; (b) to equip (oneself) for fighting, arm (oneself); (c) to dress (sb., oneself); ppl. ge……

(a) A treasured object, valuable possession; also, a gift or reward; (b) coll. treasure, valuables, movable possessions; (c) gold and gersum, etc. [See also gold n., sense 2.] …

(a) A belt or strap passing under a horse's belly to secure a saddle, harness, load, etc. [see also hors gerth]; (b) a hoop for a barrel, keg, tub, etc.; (c) in cpds. & combs.: gerth bokel, a clasp or……

Only in phr. in a gethe, ?spiritedly, ?hastily. …

(a) A deep and narrow valley; ravine, glen; gil strem, a torrent; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.199, 200, 212]. …

(a) An association of dues-paying members, organized for charitable, religious, or political purposes; a fraternity, guild; (b) an association of craftsmen or tradesmen, a craft guild. …

Recurrent springs [see Smith PNElem. 1.202]. …

(a) A hostage; (b) finden (yeven) gisel, to give hostage(s as a guarantee of one's loyalty or good faith; nimen gisel, take a hostage; bitechen (sellen) to gisel, give (sb.) as a hostage; haven……

(a) Of things: to flash, sparkle, glitter, shine; reflect light; (b) to have a false or misleading glitter. …

(a) A glove; one of a pair of gloves; hauking glove, a glove worn while hawking; sheting glove, a glove worn to protect the hand in drawing a bow; (b) a glove or gauntlet used for armor; one of a pair……

(a) Good fortune; advantageously, fortunately; as interj.: Good luck!; (b) to goder hele, fortunately; (c) with dative: fortunately for (sb.); to goder hele, to goder hele to, fortunately for (sb.)……

(a) A domesticated goat; (b) meat of a goat, goat's flesh; (c) a pictorial representation of a goat. …

(a) A gray fur, prob. the fur from the back of the Eurasian red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris in winter; red (ruskin) grei, the fur of the Eurasian red squirrel in winter; tristi (tresti) grei, ?error……

(a) Ash-colored, flint-colored, dull, gray; of cloth: gray, drab; of a man: gray-haired; grei hered, grei hore, grei hored, gray-haired, hoary; grei her, an old man; grei tauier, one who taws pelts……

(a) Readiness, order, governance, control; in greith, out of greith; don greith on, to exercise control over (a nation); don in greith, carry out, put into effect; (b) effective guidance, counsel……

(a) To prepare (sth.), arrange, make ready; prepare the way for (sth.); (b) to prepare (food), cook, dress; (c) to complete (preparations); trim (a lamp); skin and cut up (game); wash (a vessel)……

(a) A steward; headman of a town or village; also, a royal official; (b) as surname; also in cpds.: bern greive, fen greive [see also plough greive, wode greive]. …