Reliance, trust; don affie, setten affie, to put (one's) trust (in sb.). …

Removal (from office), discharge. …

(a) A two-edged stiletto or dagger; (b) a spike [see quot.]. …

(a) a small ring; (b) Med. and anat. the 'cartilage of the windpipe' [Norri]; (c) her. a cadency mark in the shape of a ring. …

A book containing a collection of antiphones [cp. anteme] and, it seems, also other sacred songs; antiphoner noted, an antiphoner with musical notation. …

(a) A decision or resolve; (b) (mental) equipment, capability. …

(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. …

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 firedog, an andiron; -- often pl. …

One of the celestial servants of God, an angel. …

(a) The altar of a church; also, the altar placed before the shrine or image of a saint; (b) heigh auter, chef auter, the high altar, the altar on which the Eucharist is offered; sacrement of the……

(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) An office held by delegation from a superior; delegated authority, jurisdiction, or rule; an official post or commission; the office of a baillif; office of bailli; (b) performance or service in……

Power to control, rule, or dispose; -- only in prep. phrases: (a) ben in (at) bandoun, be in (someone's) power or under (his) control; be dominated by (sb.); be in bondage; ben in sere bandons, be……

One who makes announcements or carries messages and performs other services on the authority of a lord, court, guild, etc.; herald, town crier, summoner; bidel hod, a beadle's hood; bidel land (a……

A legal adviser. …

Inflammable bitumen, some form of petroleum. …

(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 loincloth, breeches; (b) a surgical belt or truss; (c) a money belt [confused with bi-girdel]. …

(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. …

The island on which England, Cornwall, Wales, and Scotland are (or were) situated, or those parts of the island held by Celts after the Anglo-Saxon conquest; also, specif., Wales, Cornwall; Britaine……

The low-pitched undersong accompanying the melody, burden; the bass (as distinguished from the mean and the treble); also, of snoring: accompaniment. …

(a) A maker or seller of burel; (b) one who dresses cloth by removing burles, i.e. knots and flaws; (c) either (a) or (b). …

(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth. …

Naut. A calking iron. …

(a) A net for the hair, a kind of headdress; (b) comeli under calle, beautiful in one's headdress; uncomeli under calle; maken (sb.) a houve aboven a calle, to make a fool of (sb.); (c) ?a hood, ?a……

The cause of an effect; source, origin, root. …

(a) One who makes false charges, slanders, or inflicts injury; fals chalenger; (b) one who disputes something, objector; (c) a claimant. …

(a) A hunting-horse; (b) a hunter; also, as surname; (c) as surname. …

(a) One whose business it is to exchange money or bullion, money-changer; (b) something that produces a change. …

(a) A jaw; nethere (over) chavel, lower (upper) jaw; (b) chavel bon, jawbone, jaw; (c) the toothed jaw-like front (of a reaper). …

(a) A call uttered in chess when the opponent's king (or another important figure) is under attack: check!, guard!; (b) fig. halt! …

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) A factor conditioning, influencing or contributing to an act or process; (b) specif. an aspect of the situation in which a sin is committed as affecting its seriousness. …

(a) That branch of medical science and practice which is concerned with wounds, fractures, ulcers, etc., that require manual operation; surgery; craft of cirurgie; cirurgie and phisik; (b) a treatise……

(a) A medical practitioner concerned primarily with wounds, fractures, ulcers, etc., requiring operative or local treatment; surgeon [cp. barbour & phisicien]; (b) a member of a company or guild of……

(a) A pair of scissors or shears; paire (of) cisours; (b) candle snuffer(s. …

A young cleric; = clergeoun n., sense (a). …

The dried flower buds of a tree belonging to the Myrtaceae family, the spice cloves Syzygium aromaticum; -- usu.pl. …

A quince; coin tre, a quince tree. …

The office of the collector (at Calais). …

Eccl. (a) The last of the seven daily services or 'hours' (following even-song vespers) observed by monastics and priests of the Roman Church; complin; houre of complin; don complin, saien complin,……

An expert in computing the calendar; computer (of the calendar). …

(a) A rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus); (b) fig. a soldier who burrows under ground; one who flees from his pursuers. …

(a) A rabbit warren or burrow; (b) a tunnel. …

(a) One who consents or approves; (b) one who complies or acquiesces; (c) one who abets or supports (an offender); an abettor or accomplice. …

(a) A cut-over area grown with underbrush; coppice, thicket; also in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.106]; (b) copis hegge, a hedge of underbrush; copis tre, a tree in a thicket. …

A rent fixed by the number of horned cattle; horngeld. [See N. Neilson Cust.Rents in OSSLH 2 (1910) 120-2.] …

A piece of cloth used to cover part of the head; specif., a woman's headcloth or veil, made of fine material and sometimes enriched with jewels, worn to cover the hair, the sides of the face, and the……

(a) A cover for a vessel; lid of a cup, tankard, bowl, or pot; (b) a protective covering. …

(a) One who makes or mends roofs, a roofer; (b) something that covers or protects, a cover. …

A gray fur with tufts, or crests, of some kind. …

(a) A cross for crucifying, a gibbet; esp., the cross of Christ; holi crois; dai of the crois, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, Sept. 14; winnen crois, to recapture Christ's cross from the……

The dace Lenciscus lenciscus. …

A choice item of food or a fine drink, delicacy, dainty. …

(a) A plunderer, destroyer; also, one who nullifies (a grant); (b) one who kills; (c) one who impairs or destroys (spiritual values); (d) one who dispels or overcomes (danger or distress). …

(a) A beast that devours; (b) a glutton; (c) a waster, despoiler. …

Consternation, fear, uneasiness. …

(a) in the dismal, in days of misfortune or disaster, under inauspicious circumstances, at an unlucky time; (b) dismal dai, one of the two days in each month which were considered unlucky, a day of……

Depreciation, contempt. …

A sauce or dressing. …

(a) Dear, beloved; douce amour, sweetheart; (b) douce Fraunce, beloved France; (c) douce vie, luxurious life; (d) as noun: paramour; foul douce, filthy harlot; (e) in surnames. …

(a) One of the twelve peers or paladins of Charlemagne; also, one of the twelve great peers, temporal or ecclesiastic, of France at later times; (b) any famous knight or noble. …

Hawk. A short-winged nestling hawk (sometimes taken and brought up by hand); such a hawk during training; eias hauk. …

(a) Of man and animals: female; a female; (b) femel complexioun, the physiological 'constitution' of a female (in accordance with the 'humor' theory). …

A surname: firebrand. …

A sort of pork pie [see quot.]. …

An odor (usu. pleasant), fragrance; the smell (of a fire); flavour of fame, reputation [for this mg., cp. odour.] …

(a) Instrument used for threshing grain, a flail; (b) cap of a fleil, fleil cap, one of the bands of wood or leather (fastened about the end of the flail staff or the end of the swingle) through which……

A kind of veil. …

(a) A fleet of ships, esp. of warships; (b) company, troop; army; (c) herd of animals; (d) ?a set (of fishing nets). …

A small cake fried in deep fat, a fritter; also fig. …

(a) The refuse of birds or fowls; (b) the entrails (also head, feet, etc.) used for human food. …

A large falcon used in hawking, a gerfalcon; whit gerfaucoun, the white gerfalcon of Iceland. …

(a) A wreath or string of leaves or flowers worn as an ornament; also fig.; (b) a wreath bestowed on a victor; (c) Christ's crown of thorns; (d) a painted or embroidered representation of a garland; a……

(a) A loose woman; a courtesan, harlot; (b) villainous man, rascal; --only in Cornw. …

An anchor. …

(a) The parts of a hare given to hounds as a reward or encouragement after a successful chase; (b) a shipman's cry to incite effort. …

A harpoon. …

(a) A coat of mail; also, plate armor or a coat of mail reinforced with plates; -- sometimes used interchangeably with habergeoun; (b) chain mail worn over a hair shirt as a form of penance; (c) fig.……

(a) Temporary lodgings, quarters, an inn; (b) the camp of an army in the field; also, the tents, pavilions, etc., of an army; (c) astrol. a sign of the zodiac in which a planet has special influence……

(a) A temporary lodging place; also, the tents or camp of an army in the field; (b) a permanent dwelling place; a repository for treasures; (c) fig. a human being as God's dwelling place; the Virgin……

(a) The virtue of humility; also, patience; ?also, graciousness, gentleness; (b) humiliation, the act of humbling oneself; (c) humble behavior or conduct; in (with) al humbles, in all humility, very……

(a) Ungratefulness; (b) as adj.:?unacceptable, ?excluded. …

(a) A joint between bones; either the place where the bones meet or the structure holding them together; haunche joint, q.v.; (b) out of joint, dislocated; fallen (gon) out of joint, to become……

In phrase: in kene-boue, ?like the handle of a jug, akimbo. …

Cord made of braided or interwoven strands of silk, threads of gold, etc.; also, a length of such cord; also, the thread of life controlled by the Fates. …

An andiron; also, support for a spit [2nd quot.]. …

Arch. A king post. …

(a) An alphabetic character, a letter; also, letters; the alphabet; lettrure finden, to devise a writing system; (b) something written; an inscription, a written source or authority; coll. writings……

Cook. Any of several dishes similar to a puree or gelatin; leche lorei [see leche n. (2) (c)]. …

(a) A rhombus or diamond-shaped object or pattern, frequently used as an ornamental motif; (b) her. a lozenge [some quots. in (a) may belong here]; (c) cook. a diamond-shaped cake or wafer; a dish……

(a) One of the four humors, black bile; a bodily fluid which helps to form and nourish the body; -- not pathological unless present in excessive amounts; also, an altered form of black bile [see (b)]……

(a) Spot, mark; blemish; (b) pl. the strands or cords of a net; also, the openings between the strands or cords of a net; (c) gise of maskel, ?lozenge shaped. …

(a) The art, craft, or trade of a mason; the craft of masonri; a company, or guild of masons; also, members of the craft of masonry, masons; the art of masonri, the principles of the craft of masonry……

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

The womb. …

(a) Blame, reproach; ?ingratitude; ill-will, resentment; wrath, hostility; also, a rebuke; (b) shame, dishonor, disgrace; (c) a fault, an offense. …

(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……