A capacity for doing something, proficiency in an art or profession, ability, power. …

The game of blind-man's buff [see first quot.]; pleien abobbed; fig. to fool or delude a helpless person. …

A garlic sauce, with pepper. …

(a) A weapon for discharging quarrels, stones, etc., consisting of a bow set crosswise on a shaft; a crossbow, an arbalest; (b) a missile shot from a crossbow; arblast shute. …

One who is trained in the use of bow and arrow: (a) a soldier armed with a bow or longbow, longbowman, archer; also, crossbowman [quot. 1509]; archers and arblasters, longbowmen and crossbowmen; (b)……

(a) A black coloring matter or pigment; black ink; (b) a pigment used in glass painting; prob., ferric oxide [cp. Knowles in Antiq.50]. …

Fulfillment, satisfaction, reparation; maken (don) asseth, give satisfaction: (a) fulfillment of a wish, expectation or requirement; (b) fulfilling of a need; (c) satisfactory answer to a question or……

(a) Benefit, advantage, profit; ben avail, to be useful or effective; ben litel avail, to be of little value; (b) of persons: worthiness. …

A service owed by the tenant to his feudal superior [orig. consisting of work performed by the tenant with his draft animals]. …

(a) A small fast naval vessel; balinger of werre; (b) a sailor on such a vessel. …

(a) A container made of withes, splints, rushes, etc.; wicker basket, hamper, etc.; (b) a basketful; (c) as a name. …

Forged metal ware. …

A drink or beverage. …

An enclosure, pen. …

(a) A wild plum (Prunus insititia), bullace; bolas fruit; bolas tre; (b) see quots. …

(a) Sheepskin (as distinct from lambskin), budge, ?trimmed sheepskin; bouge skin; (b) bouge rowe, Furriers' Row; bouge shank, fur from the shank of a sheep. …

(a) The part of a suit of armor protecting the arm; (b) an arm guard or wrist guard used by archers; (c) a bracelet, an armlet. …

(a) A light body armor, consisting of a front and a back half, worn by foot soldiers (later also by others); pair (of) briganders; (b) briganders maker; briganders nail. …

Pottage, stew [see quots.]. …

Mil. A device with sharp iron spikes set on the ground to cripple the feet of an advancing enemy; similar device used against trespassers, etc.; fig. a spiritual trap or pitfall. …

(a) A carpenter; carpenteres craft, the occupation of a carpenter; (b) carpenter lof, a loaf allowed a carpenter as part of his pay; (c) member of a guild or company of carpenters; craft of……

(a) A cart or wagon; often, a small vehicle carrying half as much as a cart; (b) carre bond, the tire of a cart wheel; carre chain, a cart chain; carre clout, an iron plate protecting the axle of a……

(a) A box, chest, casket, case; as a case, like a chest, as big as a chest; corporal case, corporas case, a case or container for a corporal cloth; (b) a quiver for arrows; a case for bows or bows and……

(a) One who attends a king or other person of high rank in his private chamber, a personal attendant; chamberlain, valet; (b) an attendant (male or female) of a queen or lady of high rank……

Naut. One of two small pieces of timber, perforated to receive the tack of a sail [see quot. 1625 below and quot. 1769 in OD under chesstree]. …

(a) Preservation under law, protection; (b) administration (of a statute). …

The transaction of business by a broker; brokerage. …

A dealer; esp., a horse-dealer; -- also as surname. …

A piece of armor to protect the elbow, elbow-piece. …

(a) A small cross; a cruciform reliquary; (b) her. a cross crosslet; (c) crosselet wise, shaped like a cross crosslet. …

(a) A small vessel for sacramental wine, holy water, or chrism; (b) a jug, bottle, or bowl (as for water); (c) fig. …

A licensed trader who is not a citizen or a member of a merchant guild. …

An unmarried woman, a maiden or maiden lady, esp. one of noble or good family; also, any young woman or girl. …

(a) Departure, going away; (b) a turning away, abandoning, rejection; (c) law a change of plea, change of argument. …

(a) A deputy, a substitute, a subordinate officer; (b) Deputy Lieutenant of Ireland; -- an official title; (c) depute keper, one who serves in place of a keeper; depute lieutenant = (b); depute……

Law A plea or writ for (hearing and) adjudicating a matter in dispute; oyer and determiner. …

A renovator of old cloth or clothing. …

In phrases justice in eire, justice of eire, an itinerant judge who rides the circuit to hold court in different counties. …

Law?One who furnishes surety; ?surety, mainprize. …

The escheated estates or the treasury of a sovereign. …

One to whom land or other property has been granted; the recipient of a fief; feoffee, grantee. …

(a) State or condition; (b) stature, build, bodily form; (c) of God, the soul, immortal life, etc.: nature, essential character. …

A fortified place, a fortress. …

(a) A landowner and member of the gentry ranking immediately below the nobility; a freeman, a gentleman; franklein of toun, a free citizen, an owner of property in a town, a burgess; (b) as a personal……

(a) Spawn or the young of fish; small fish; -- constr. with sg. or pl. verb; (b) roe. …

A collector and/or seller of herbs, an herbalist. …

The guest master or mistress in a religious house; also fig. …

Shame, disgrace. …

(a) An island in the sea, a lake, or a river; (b) an area of high land rising above marsh or fens. …

(a) Security against possible loss; (b) a payment made to compensate for loss of revenue, indemnification. …

Armor for the leg. …

(a) Jaundice; the jaunis; haven the jaunis, to be jaundiced; (b) yelwe jaunis, yellow jaundice, jaundice; grene jaunis, green-sickness, chlorosis; blak jaunis, ?cancer of the liver. …

(a) A Jew, one of the Jewish race or religion, one following the Mosaic law in biblical or post-biblical times; sarasin or Jeu, Jeu or painime, jeues and sarasines, sarasines and jeues, jeues and……

(a) Entertainment; music, jesting, pantomime, sleight of hand; ?also, trickery; (b) enchantment, sorcery. …

(a) A minstrel, harper, singer; (b) an entertainer (usually itinerant); actor, jester, clown, tumbler, dancer. …

A yoke. …

(a) A manual worker; esp. an unskilled laborer, casual laborer; (b) an agricultural worker, plowman, digger, etc.; (c) a female laborer; (d) a member of the laboring class, the lowest social rank……

(a) A lizard; esp. the stellion; (b) ?a crocodile, ?a serpent; (c) a dagger, dirk; ?also, the point of a weapon, sharp point; (d) her. a representation of a lizard, (?) or of a salamander. …

?Milk, ?a special kind of milk. …

(a) A portable bed carried by man or beasts, a litter; hors liter [see hors n. 8. (f)]; (b) a bed; also, bedding; also fig.; bed liter [see bed n. (1) 1c.]. …

A magical stone, ligure. …

(a) A mutilation, injury, disfigurement; bringen to maim, to amputate (a limb); (b) a maimed person. …

(a) A kind, sort, variety, or species; a distinct tribe, nation, or race; (b) with appositive noun: a kind of, sort of, etc. …

(a) Trading, commerce; also fig.; don (maken, usen) marchaundise, to buy and sell, trade; engage in (one's) business; sathanas marchaundise, sinful traffic, evil dealings; (b) purchasing; maken……

(a) A wholesale businessman; a factor, broker; a peddler, retailer; a shopkeeper; also fig.; coll. merchants; marchauntes of the staple, the influential businessmen engaged in English export of……

The name of a portable siege tower used by Richard I. …

The faculty of memory; celles of memori [see celle 6.]; hurting in the memori, impairment or loss of (one's) memory; in wills: being in god memori, in god minde and sauf memori, haven gode knouinge……

(a) A course of action, method, way; a means of attaining an end; (b) bi mene of, with menes of; bi no (manere of) mene; bi al menes; bi god menes, with great skill; menes and weies; weies and menes……

(a) A dwelling house with the adjacent outbuildings and grounds; a messuage; also, the house on such an estate; (b) mes place. …

?A stud on the bit of a horse's bridle; ?a bridle-rein. …

(a) The eighth day following a feast day counting the day itself, an octave; octave dai; (b) the period of eight days beginning with the feast day; (c) ? = (a) or (b); (d) a period of eight days……

Heathen lands, heathendom; also, a heathen land [quot.: SMChron.]. …

A long knife or dagger. …

(a) An officer in charge of a pantry, esp. of dispensing bread; an officer of the royal court in charge of food supplies; also, a baker; kirf of paneteres, a group of pantry-keepers; (b) as surname. …

(a) A partridge Perdix perdix; (b) partrich ei (galle, hed), partridge egg (gall, head); covei(e of partriches, a covey or flock of partridges; (c) partridge as food; partridge meat; (d) as surname. …

(a) Land on which animals graze, pastureland; a field, pasture; (b) commune pastur, pastur commune, shared pastureland; feint pastur, poor pasture; gentil pastur, excellent pasture; worthi to pastur……

(a) A shed or lean-to added on to a building; a projection, sloping roof, or continuation of the eaves of a building over a window, gate, wall, etc., to provide protection against the weather; pentis……

(a) Persons, human beings, men and women; -- also pl.; gret (muche) peple, many people [see also muche adj. 2. (b)]; congregacioun of peple, a crowd of people; (b) the general public, everyone, all……

(a) A person or thing which is equivalent or similar to another in one or more ways; a match or equal; (b) finden per, to find (someone's) equal; haven no(n per, etc.; withouten per, peerless……

(a) One of several plants belonging to the parsley family; esp. the common or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum); (b) wilde perseli, one of several uncultivated plants allied to common parsley……

A peppery sauce served with meat; peverade sauce. …

(a) Wood tar; also, the residue of the distillation of wood tar; (b) blak pich, cedar gum; also, = pich navale; hard pich, solidified wood tar; pich liquide, fleting pich, neshe pich, pich molten……

A small basket; ?also, a fish trap. …

(a) A pickax, a tool used for breaking up and digging up ground, breaking up walls, quarrying, etc. (often identified with other tools, such as a mattock, spade, hoe, etc.); also fig.; ?also, a tool……

(a) A flock of birds; -- as term of association; (b) quaille pipe, q.v.; hare pipe [see hare]. …

(a) A plant of the plantain family (Plantaginaceae); (b) plantein the more, more plantein, great plantain (Plantago major); plantein the lesse, lesse plantein, ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata)……

(a) A large board, a plank; also, as surname; (b) plaunche(s bord, planking, planks; plaunche(s nail, nails for fastening planks. …

(a) A plank, beam; also, planking, beams; (b) a wooden floor, floor made of planks. …

In phrase: at point-devis, to a state of perfection, completion, or complete satisfaction; perfectly, completely [see also devis n. 6.(a)]. …

(a) A small dot marked on a surface; also, a punctuation mark, period; (b) a small hole; prick, puncture; the pointes of peines, ?the marks of Christ's wounds; (c) a spot of dirt; med. a round spot or……

(a) A poisonous or deadly substance, poison; poisoun makere, one who makes poison; poisoun mongere, a dealer in poison; (b) the crime of poisoning someone; (c) ?a drugged drink; ?a bitter drink; (d)……

The fur or pelt of a squirrel; polaine grei, the fur of a gray squirrel. …

(a) A young chicken; a pullet; (b) in surnames. …

(a) A portcullis; (b) a representation of a portcullis used as a military badge; also, the leader using or authorizing such a badge; i.e., the Duke of Somerset [quot.: (c1450)]; (c) fig. a spiritual……

(a) A gatekeeper, doorkeeper; also, one who guards the gate of a bridge; porter logge, a porter's lodge; (b) in titles: grom (sergeaunt, yeman) porter; (c) a keeper of the gates of heaven or hell……

(a) A painting, picture, drawing, carving; portrait; pictorial representation; figure, diagram; -- also coll.; in portraiture, in a painting or picture; (b) the art of painting, drawing, making……

(a) A cooking pot; vessel, pan; (b) potel possenet, possenet of a potel, a pot which holds a half-gallon; possenet of a quart, a pot which holds a quart. …

(a) One who holds or owns something; a proprietor, an owner; occupier; also fig.; persoune possessour, a person who holds property; (b) a clergyman who holds the living of a church. …

(a) A bag for carrying things; a pouch worn on one's person; al that hangeth in the pouche, everything; (b) a pouch for carrying money, purse; (c) pouche maker, a maker of pouches or purses; (d) in……

(a) The ability of a person, an animal, a soul, an angel, a spirit, etc., to act; ability (to do sth.); pouer of, capacity for or power of (doing sth.); pouer of harm, means or capacity for doing……