(a) To avoid, forbear, shun, eschew (an action, thing, person); (b) to seek to avoid or prevent (a certain result). …

In the gen.sg. masc. & neut. of the indefinite (strong) declension [OE -es], only in very early ME (later dropped). Relics of this inflection survive in a number of set phrases, e.g. eies weies,……

(a) To warm or heat (sth.); warm (oneself); grow warm; (b) to warm (sth.) by rubbing; to chafe; (c) fig. to soothe as by rubbing. …

Having (personal) experience (in or of something); experienced, wise through experience. …

Prefix of verbs and action nouns adopted from OF, e.g. es-cāpen, es-chaunǧen, es-pleiten, es-soinen. It is not formative in ME. as- and a-, the AF variants of this prefix, occur alongside the CF……

(a) To make physically warm or hot; to warm, heat; --with or without obj.; (b) to become warm or hot; ?also refl.. …

(a) The three at dice, the side of the die marked with three spots; also in fig. context [quot. c1400]; also, a dice throw that turns up the three-spot; (b) in combs.: trei as (contracted), as used in……

(a) Boeotian Thebes; also in the title of a work by Lydgate; Thebes folk; to Thebes ward, toward Thebes; (b) Egyptian Thebes. …

Hawk. To cause (a hawk) to lose superfluous fat. …

Eccl. (a) The eighth day following a feast day, counting the day itself, an octave; utas dai; seinte jon utas (b) the period of eight days beginning with the feast day; an eight-day period after the……