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……

From early ME a prep., derived from unstressed an before nouns, adjs., and advs. beginning with a consonant [OE on, an]. (a) Orig. noun phrases: a-beggeþ, a-bedde, a-blode, a-clokke, a-dai(es,……

(a) To lose one's composure, be upset; -- refl. & intr.; (b) ben abaished, be upset or perplexed (as by fear, shame, surprise); contextually: be afraid, embarrassed, surprised; (c) waxen (becomen)……

In words taken from OF (& L): (a) derived from verbs, with 'passive' meaning: accept-able, agre-able, am-able, blam-able, chaunge-able, forfet-able, fortun-able, honor-able, etc.; (b) derived from……

Secretly agreed, plotting. …

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

By compulsion, of necessity; aforce fin, by sheer force, by main force. …

Verbal cpds.: (a) after- bending, the second bending, a bending back (of a bow); prob., the shaping process which gives the ends a curvature the reverse of that at the center; after- berende, bearing……

(a) In numerous adjs. taken from Latin, either directly or by way of Old French, as annu-al, -el, cordi-al, formal, -el, funer-al, gener-al, mort-al, natur-al, tempor-al, -el; (b) in a number of……

Overcome (as with fatigue or surprise); exhausted, confounded. …

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) Of vigor of body or mind: grow or make faint or tired; grow indifferent; of youth: wane; (b) of emotions, memory: fade away or make fade; tone down, allay; (c) of power, honor, fame, etc.: grow or……

(a) To move along, pass by; pass (over sth.); pass (to sb.); (b) to go by, vanish; (c) to pass away, die; (d) of time: to pass. …

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

To retain or claim (sth.) as one's personal property or for one's own exclusive benefit; approprishen to himself. …

(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. …

(a) To attribute (sth. to sth.); aretten it mi vileinie, attribute it to my ill-breeding; aretten to (in), to impute (sin, guile, unbelief, etc.) to (sb.); aretten to (unto), to place the blame for……

(a) Conj. In such a way that; even as, as; (b) as if, pretending that; -- also ascaunce that. …

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) In numerous ppls. taken from Latin ( ?& OF), e.g. cre-at, desol-at, determin-at, fortun-at, immacul-at, moder-at, ordin-at, priv-at, separ-at; (b) in several nouns (orig. ppls.) taken from Latin (……

(a) Of great age or antiquity, old; of wine: well aged; (b) having existed in a certain state from early times; auncien demene, ancient demesne, property held by a tenant and by his ancestors; also……

A firedog, an andiron; -- often pl. …

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

(a) In many pr.ppls. taken from OF, e.g. abound-a(u)nt, appar-a(u)nt, ard-a(u)nt, arrog-a(u)nt, charge-a(u)nt, ramp-aunt, -and, etc.; (b) in a number of nouns (orig. ppls.) adopted from OF, as……

(a) Of persons, speech, manner: harsh, severe, stern; (b) rigorously moral, austere; (c) grim, fierce. …

(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……

Compliant, obedient. …

Split or crushed by or after soaking. …

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……

(a) Cook. Decorated with strips of metal foil; (b) Her. divided equally by horizontal stripes of two alternating colors; also as noun: blazon so constituted. …

(a) To beat; esp. to beat or strike repeatedly, batter, flog; also fig.; (b) to pat (sb. on the back). …

(a) To beat (sb.); stamp, pound (sth.); knock (on the door); ppl. batted, battered, bruised; (b) to pat (sb., sth.); (c) to beat or flap (wings, fins); (d) without obj., of a bird: to strike or peck. …

(a) To strike (sth.) with the beak, peck; (b) to strike with a pointed weapon; (c) of a hawk: to cleanse (itself) with the beak; (d) beken out, to thrust out the beak; fig. to stick out one's nose. …

(a) To grow a beard, have a beard; also, to reach the age of puberty; berded bukke, a lascivious male; (b) of a leaf: to have hair or fuzz; (c) of a star: to have a tail; berded sterre, a comet. …

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……

Engraved, etched. …

A legal adviser. …

(a) Of persons or their behavior: lacking in polish, learning, skill, or experience; crude, unmannerly, awkward; unlearned, unskilled, ignorant; artless, simple, humble; of an animal: simple; (b) of……

Inflammable bitumen, some form of petroleum. …

(a) To furnish (a garment) with buttons; provide (sth.) with knobs or studs; (b) to button (a garment); (c) to put forth buds. …

(a) To joust; bourden at, tilt at (the quintain), charge (a boar) with a spear; (b) to butt with horns; clash (together). …

(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……

(a) Of hair: braided; (b) of a coat of mail: linked. …

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) To achieve, accomplish, or execute (sth.); attain (one's purpose); (b) to attain to or achieve (a certain state or position); (c) to acquire or obtain (sth.); also, inherit (an estate). …

(a) chokken thurgh, thrust through, pierce; (b) chokken togeder, cram or crowd together; (c) chokken on, ?thrust out (the chin). …

To join or cement. …

(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). …

(a) To fulfill (sth.); (b) to carry out or do (sth.). …

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) To cover (an object) by laying or spreading material over or about it; cover up or envelop; also, coveren above, coveren up; (b) of the material: to cover (the object). …

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

(a) To agree upon (sth.); (b) ben covined, to be agreed. …

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……

To restrict or limit (succession to the throne). …

The dace Lenciscus lenciscus. …

Of : (a) in names, titles, etc. ; (b) with English nouns in Latin contexts [cp. le, art.] …

(a) To protect (sb.), defend (sth.), fortify (a city), bar (a gate, window); refl. defend oneself; (b) to guard (honor, the soul); safeguard (a monastery) in rights or possessions; defend (against……

(a) To put (sb.) down from high rank, demote, depose; also fig. overthrow (sb.), bring down, humble, deprive (sb. of bliss); (b) to deprive (sb.) of ecclesiastical rank; reduce (a cleric) to a layman……

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

(a) To announce, declare, proclaim, tell, or say (sth.); (b) to tell or reveal (a confidential matter). …

To foreordain (sth.), assign or fix by destiny. …

To ravage, devastate, or ruin (a country or city). …

(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). …