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……

In weaving: the woof. …

Rouse to anger, provoke. …

(a) Of motion: to the rear, backward, back; away; gon bak, stirten abak, throuen abak, fallen abak; drauen abak, withdraw; (b) of direction: back; loken abak; speken abak, reply; (c) of position……

Abbess. …

The office, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess; an abbacy. …

(a) The superior of a convent of monks having the status of an abbey; (b) = abba, q.v. …

To present or deliver (a message). …

To grow bold. …

(a) To anger or incense (sb.); (b) to grow angry; warþ abolwen, became angry or incensed; was abelȝen, was enraged or incensed. …

Gesture, sign. …

(a) Bear up, raise (sth.); aberen up; (b) aberen wæstm, fig. bear fruit [ref. to salvation]. …

To burn up (sth.), consume in flames. …

(a) To knock (out teeth); (b) to strike down or humble (pride). …

To pray; pray for (sth.). …

(a) To wait, be patient; (b) abiding time, a period of waiting; (c) impers. it abod not long er, it was not until; (d) in proverbs. …

(a) To buy or pay for (sth.), obtain at the cost of labor or suffering; abien bargain, pay for a purchase; fig. pay the penalty for an action; abien time, pay interest on money; abien dere (bitter(li,……

To taste or eat (sth.). …

Busy, occupied. …

(a) To kill by biting; kill; (b) of the wind: to tear (sth.) to pieces, destroy. …

Overcome with awe or fear. …

(a) To deprive (sb.) of the power of vision, to blind; also, to dazzle or confuse (sb., the sight), to blind temporarily (as with strong light, violent motion, etc.); (b) to blind (sb.) mentally or……

To turn pale, lose color, fade. …

(a) To become physically blind, to lose one's sight; (b) to become spiritually blind, to be misled or deceived. …

(a) To blow (sth. upon or into sb.); (b) to breathe (a soul into a body); ablouen gost (soul), to endow with life, create a soul; (c) to puff up or inflate (sb.) as with pride; (d) to blow into or……

(a) The act of waiting, delay; abod of, waiting for, awaiting; (b) non abod, no delay, no hesitation; withouten (buten) abod, without delay, immediately; no leng abod, no longer delay. …

To bend, bow, incline; also fig.; abouen in sundre, bend so as to break. …

(a) So as to be on all sides, so as to encircle or surround; putten aboute to, to place around (sth.), ?to pierce with (sth.); (b) so as to wrap or cover; (c) on the circumference or outer edge, on……

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

(a) To open (the eyes) wide; (b) ?spread out, prostrate. …

To move (sth.) suddenly or violently: (a) thrust; snatch (away); lift; draw (a sword); raise (the eyes or the eyelids); fig. save (sb. from sin); (b) to cast down, destroy. …

(a) To break (sth.) to pieces, shatter; (b) ruin the health of (sb.); (c) violate (a charter); (d) force one's way through, or out of, something; in abreken, enter violently, burst in; abreken out of……

To degenerate; esp., to become a traitor, apostate, or deserter; of law: to be perverted. …

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

Chilled, cold; also fig. …

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.). …

To be split or cleft. …

(a) To become colder, cool off; (b) of persons: to become less ardent; of wrath: to cool; to cool or placate (wrath); of law: to grow slack. …

(a) To come (to hand); come into being; (b) to come by (sth.), attain; (c) to come forth, germinate. …

To experience or suffer (pain, punishment); to suffer for (sth.), pay the penalty of (guilt, sin, etc.); to suffer, be punished. …

(a) To regain (sth.), recover; (b) to remedy (an omission); (c) to revive, regain consciousness; (d) acoveren up, to rise again. …

Crumbled; fig. decrepit. …

Possible things or events; what can exist or occur. …

(a) To excommunicate (sb.); also, to interdict (a nation); (b) to pronounce a formal curse upon (sb.), declare (sb.) outcast or accursed, anathematize. …

To disappear, be eclipsed. …

A funeral pyre. …

(a) In the daytime (as opposed to night), by day; ayen eve a dai, toward evening; a dai or anight; (b) each day, daily, in the day; oft a dai, many times each day; (c) on a certain day, one day; (d)……

Out of existence; don (bringen, haven) adaue, to put (sb.) to death, do away with. …

(a) To dawn, become day; shine; (b) of hope, mirth: to dawn (in the heart), arise; of grace: to shine (upon sb.); (c) of a storm, the sky, etc.: to clear, become brighter; also fig. …

(a) To die, die off, die away; (b) to deaden, kill; to dampen or extinguish (desire, lust). …

(a) Of an egg: rotten, addled; (b) of brains: muddled. …

Excrement. …

To harm (sb.); punish. …

(a) To darken (prospects), impair (outcomes); (b) to pervert (one's virtues) to the dark side, mar. …

An adz. …

To make deaf, deafen. …

To subdue or annihilate (an enemy). …

(a) To destroy, do away with (sth.); blot out (sin); (b) to lapse, be destroyed. …

Illness, ailment; yelow adle, jaundice. …

Listless, ill. …

One who is ailing or suffering. …

To lose the power of speech, become dumb. …

(a) To do away with (sth.); (b) to take (sth.) away, subtract. …

(a) With verbs of motion: from higher to lower, downward; -- often with of; (b) with verbs of bending, looking, etc.: down, downward; (c) in expressions of extending, hanging, etc.: down, downward……

(a) To pull (sth.); draw together or clench (the fist); (b) to draw (a sword), unsheathe, (c) to unsheathe (other weapons); ?also, raise or brandish (an ax, a mace); (d) to pull back the string of (a……

To drive (sb.) away, expel, banish. …

(a) To drown (sb.); sink (a ship); submerge or inundate (land, etc.); (b) fig. stifle (the soul); of sin, the world, etc.: overwhelm or destroy (sb.); of intoxicants: befuddle. …

(a) adrien lif, to lead (one's) life, live (in a certain way); adrien dede, do something; (b) to bear or endure. …

(a) To make (sth.) dry; (b) to dry up, become lifeless. …

Only in the phrases: drauen (oneself) adrigh, go away or aside, withdraw (?orig., go to a suitable or safe distance); holden (oneself) adrigh, stay away. …

(a) To be drowned, drown; of a ship: to sink; (b) to drown (sb.); (c) to be swallowed up (in hell, in filth). …

To drive (sb.) away, banish; remove (an ailment); ppl. cast (ashore). …

To become dry; dry up, perish; to make dry. …

To fill (the ears) with din. …

To blot out; suppress or delete (a name); quench (a fire); overwhelm (an enemy). …

To dwindle; waste away. …

Falsely, erroneously. …

River, stream. …

Discoloration, darkening. …

Unending, eternal. …

?Eye nerves; ?eye socket. …

Discoloration, pallor. …

Remote, as a stranger or outcast. …

Of persons: noble. …

Of brass, brazen. …

Thoughtless, heedless, careless. …

A medicinal plant of the vervain family. …

Together. …

A medicinal plant, prob. Agrimonia eupatoria. …

Merciful, gracious. …

(a) Kindness, mercy; (b) humility. …

Loyal. …

Hastily, speedily. …

Injury. …

Only in af-(h)ingred starved, and afirst thirsty (vr. of of-thirst, a-thurst). …

(a) To fall (in space), drop; (b) of a flood: subside; of a stream: flow downward; (c) of a building: fall to the ground, collapse. …

(a) To go away, depart; (b) hou is it bi him afaren, how have things gone with him ?How has he fared ? …

To feed (sb.); rear. …