(a) An ant; (b) ampte eiren, the pupae of ants; ampte hil, ant hill; empt hors [cp. OE æmetan hors, O. Cockayne, Leechdoms 2.42], the pupae of ants. …

A recluse. …

(a) Anvil; (b) anfel-stock, the block or base of an anvil. …

Power; power to rule, authority; the rule (of a lord, etc.); habben on anwalde, have in (one's) power, be able; setten on anwald, put (sb.) in power or authority. …

Poison, venom (as of reptiles); -- also attrib. [quots.Bod.Hom. & Cursor]. …

(a) A round body; sphere, globe, orb; turnen as a bal, to turn as does Fortune's ball; (b) the orb borne together with a scepter as an emblem of sovereignty; (c) a rounded protuberance or boss for……

Bearing, conduct; niþinges bearde, cowardly conduct; uppe niþinges bearde, on pain of being branded as a coward. …

The means of subsistence, a livelihood (as of food, clothing, shelter); beggen, finden, winnen bi-live. …

Ridicule, mockery, derision, disdain, or an instance of it; on (a) or for bi-smar, by way of mockery or ridicule, tauntingly, derisively; driven to bi-smar, engage in mockery, make fun of, be amused……

The European bison. …

(a) Vegetation; produce, crop; (b) progeny; a scion (esp., of Christ). …

(a) The whole physical frame of a living being; physique, body; bodi-lich, body [cp. līch body]; assaien bodi, test (one's) physique or physical prowess; (b) build, stature, figure; (c) bodi and……

As noun: Two together, both; -- in various constructions: (a) alone; (b) the bothe, the two of them; (c) both here (theire) hedes, the heads of both of them; etc.; (d) here bother (baþre, bothe,……

(a) A branch of a tree or bush; a main branch, a limb; also, a small branch or twig; (b) a branch of any kind of plant; a spray of an herb or shrub, a shoot, a branch of a vine, a palm frond; (c) a……

(a) Porridge, pulse; (b) broth (of meat), liquor (of vegetables);(c) ?a type of ale or beer; ?some sort of broth, juice, or liquor;bre mongere, a seller of such a commodity; ale bre, a drink made from……

(a) The undergarment covering the lower part of the body; underpants, drawers, or tights; brech and sherte, sark and brek; (b) brech, brek, as pl.; a pare brech, a pair of breeches. …

Roasted or grilled meat; also, a roast. …

(a) A freshwater fish, the bream (Abramis brama); (b) breme de mere, some seafish, perh. the sea bream (Pagellus centrodontus). …

An eyebrow; eie breu; above-bregh, over-brei [cp. L super-cilium]. …

(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. …

A Roman emperor, a Caesar; caiser of Rome. …

(a) A flat cake or loaf; also, an unbaked cake or loaf; haver (ote, oten) cake, a cake of oaten bread; therf cake, a cake of unleavened bread; barli cake, flouren cake, spiced cake; (b) bread of the……

A beetle of some kind. …

A vessel of some kind. …

(a) Bargaining, dickering; (b) a (good) bargain or purchase; (c) price asked or offered; þurh non chep, at no price; for negard chep, because of niggardliness; (d) value set (upon a person)……

Concubine, paramour (of a noble); cheves-boren, born of a concubine, bastard. …

(a) A chip, splinter, shaving (of wood); also, kindling, trash (usu. pl.); (b) peg; (c) share-beam (of a plow). …

The young of an animal. …

(a) Throat, gullet; (b) the front of the neck; jowl, double chin, dewlap, etc.; (c) forehead, head; balled cholle bald head. …

One of several birds of the crow family: chough, jackdaw, jay; Cornish chough; co-brid. …

(a) A wedge, cleat; clet nail, a cleat nail [?error for clout nail]; (b) a lump, bit, small portion; ne counten at o clet, to regard (sth.) as worthless; yeven nought a clet of, not to give a damn……

(a) A crack, fissure, rift, notch, cleft, slash; helle clift, the chasm of hell; (b) a break in the skin, crack; a cut, gash; (c) a tear in a muscle, rupture; (d) a surgical cutting or incision. …

(a) A narrow valley or dell; a ravine or gorge; (b) the steep side of a gorge; a bluff or cliff. …

(a) A bulbil or clove, esp. of garlic; (b) clof-lēk, clove-, garlic; -- attested only as surname. …

A jackdaw; co-brid. …

(a) A case for arrows, quiver; (b) a covering for the legs, leggings; ?also, a kind of shoe or boot; (c) in a name: coker-hose, leggings. …

(a) Charcoal, or a piece of it; wode and col(es; prob. also, fuel; -- sg. or pl.; (b) mineral coal [some late quots. in (a) may belong here]. …

The rootlets or sprouts (of malt). …

(a) The summit or peak (of a hill or mountain); also, the height of a mountain pass; (b) the top (of a tower), the ridge (of a house); (c) cop of hevene, the top of the firmament [but cp. cope n……

Wool matted together in the fleece. …

(a) A large wicker basket; pannier, dosser; coupe ful; (b) a coop or house for chickens; henne coupe; (c) a cart or sled with a wicker box (as for carrying manure); coupe bodi, wicker body (of a……

(a) A bursting or splitting sound, a crash; (b) a fart; (c) the sound of a trumpet. …

(a) A plant of the mustard family, a cress; esp., the common water cress (Roripa nasturtium aquaticum, Nasturtium officinale); also, the garden cress or garden peppergrass (Lepidium sativum); cresse……

A child's crib, cradle. …

(a) A manger; (b) a stall for a cow or ox; (c) a beehive. …

(a) The carrion crow (Corvus corone); also, the rook (Corvus frugilegus); (b) the raven (Corvus corax). …

A crutch or walking stick. …

Cartilage, gristle; a cartilage. …

(a) A jackdaw;(b) ?a stupid fellow. …

(a) A period of scarcity or high prices, a famine; derth of scarcite, a famine caused by scarcity; (b) derth of, a shortage of (sth.), lack, scarcity; high price of (sth.), expensiveness. …

(a) A dimple; (b) in place name: ?a pool [see Smith PNElem. 1.137-8];(c) ?as surname. …

A deep dell or hollow: (a) se dingle, a deep in the bed of the sea; (b) in names [see Smith PNElem. 1.133]. …

The pit of hell, an abyss. …

(a) The male of the duck, drake; ?also, a gander; (b) a representation of a drake. …

(a) The action of pulling, a pull, pulling in harness; (b) pulling or drawing a net to catch birds or fish; (c) the drawing of water from a well; drawing of liquor from a cask, etc.; (d) one cut of a……

(a) The Lord [said of God and of Christ]; (b) almighti Drihten, alwelding Drihten, hevenli Drihten, Drihten in trinite, Drihten in heven, etc.; drihtnes dom, God's Judgment; crist our Drihten, Drihten……

Thrashing floor. …

A small fish of some kind. [See OD eldring.] …

Only in set phrases: this ender(s) dai, recently, the other day; this ender(s) night, one night not long ago; this ender(s) yer, formerly, in recent times. …

(a) The grain-bearing head of a cereal plant, as wheat, barley, or the like; also fig.; (b) a fruit-cluster, as of olives. …

(a) Livestock; a herd of livestock; (b) fe-hous, a shed for livestock; (c) fe-man a herdsman; (d) fe-rod, ?the product of a rood of land as a perquisite for herding livestock. …

(a) The emotion of fear; a state of being afraid; haven fer, to have fear, be afraid; (b) for fer, because of fear; for fer of, for fear of (something); in fer, in fear, afraid; putten in (into) fer……

(a) Wind or gas expelled through the anus, a fart; (b) leten (maken) a fert, leten flien a fert, to break wind; (c) not a fert, nothing at all; not worth a fert, completely worthless. …

A (limited) period of time; yere first, a period of years; yeven first, to grant time (for a certain purpose). …

An epithet of the hare. …

A bowed stringed instrument; viol, violin. …

A female (fox), she-fox; fixen of the fox. …

A sort of pie or cake [see quots. 1381, c1425]. …

(a) A flea; (b) flen, flies, and freres, fleas, flies, and friars; fle in ere, exciting story or report. …

(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……

Flying, flight. …

(a) The act of fleeing, flight, escape; also fig.; (b) avoidance; (c) departure; also fig.; (d) ability to flee. …

(a) The act of flying with wings, flight through the air; comen in (with) flight, to come flying; foules flight, the flight of a bird; fig. spiritual soaring; (b) flight-foul, bird of the air; flight……

(a) A spark of fire;--also fig.; (b) something worthless or contemptible; not worth a fonke. …

(a) Gnawing; (b) the wearing effect (of greed, fear, etc.). …

(a) A royal forest, a game preserve; (b) frith-mot, frith yeld, fridmannes mot[cp. OE mōt toll, tax], an annual rent paid by certain townships in Delamere Forest (a royal forest in Chester) for the……

A place where roads intersect, a crossroad; the point at which a road divides into two or more branches. …

(a) Rare, scarce, lacking; not (nought) gesoun, not uncommon, frequent; (b) barren, empty, vain; gesoun on, barren of (sth.), lacking in; gesoun of, free from (bushes), cleared of; (c) as noun……

Only in phr. in a gethe, ?spiritedly, ?hastily. …

(a) Anger, fury; (b) grief. …

(a) Fierceness; (b) fury, anger, hatred; o grim, angrily; taken to grim, to be angered, take offense; (c) excitement, agitation; (d) terrible creature(s. …

(a) A sweet healing liquid, used either as potion or lotion; hale-wei drenche, a potion of this liquid; also, any medicinal antidote; (b) the aromatic oleoresin of the balm of Gilead; (c) fig.; (d)……

(a) The cereal grain, oats; (b) haver bern, haver gerner, a storehouse for oats; haver bred, oaten bread; haver cake, a loaf made from oaten flour; also as surname; haver mele, oaten flour; (c) haver……

Leader, commander, governor of a province; also fig. …

(a) The sense of hearing; (b) that which one has heard. …

Millet. …

(a) The second Monday and Tuesday (?also Wednesday) after Easter, a period during which merrymakers stopped travelers on the roads and exacted contributions; hok tide; (b) hok dai, Hock Tuesday; --……

(a) The offspring of any animal, a young one; also fig.; (b) ?a human child; wommen kindelin, female babies. …

(a) ?A bed frame, bedstead; (b) ?a cooper's tool. …

(a) A long, thin strip of wood used in building; esp. such a strip nailed to rafters to form a support for shingles, tiles, or slates; ?also, a shingle; herte latthe [see herte 1d. (c)]; (b) latthe……

?The side of the human body, flank. …

A small fish; the minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus); the stickleback (?Gasterosteus aculeatus). …

(a) = mer(e-maid(e 1.; (b) = mer(e-maiden (b). …

(a) Mercy, kindness; (b) as adj.: merciful, kind. …

(a) A slice, piece, usu. of bread or other food; also in proverb; also, a portion of food; shive (of) bred; step-moder shive, a thin slice, an insufficient portion; (b) ?a slab or length of wood; ?a……

(a) A slice, piece, usu. of bread or other food; (b) a splinter, fragment, chip; ?also, a rock fragment, mason-chip [quot.: 1432]; shiveres of the rib, fragments of a broken rib; gon (shaken, toflien……

(a) Physical pain; also, harm [quot. a1420]; also, a burn [quot. 1440]; don smert, to cause (an animal) pain, harm; (b) grief, sorrow, annoyance; also fig. of Jesus; also, contrition, remorse; (c)……

The son of one's stepfather or stepmother. …

The daughter of one's stepmother or stepfather. …

?Any substance for whitening, bleaching, or stiffening fabrics; also used for washing the face [quot. a1500]. …