(a) Face; (b) forehead; (c) appearance, looks; image. …

(a) A bull; fre bole, a bull free to roam with the herd [see Homans Eng.Villagers 61-3]; (b) a steer or bullock. …

(a) The end of a spear or pike opposite the head, butt; (b) naut.?the end of a plank in a ship's side; ?also, one of the planks. …

(a) The drawing of lots or a lot so drawn; casten cavel(es, draw lots; cavel fell, the lot fell (upon sb.); (b) a splinter or fragment. …

(a) An inlet of the sea, cove, small estuary; also, a small stream, creek; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.6]; (c) in personal names. …

In place names only [see Smith PNElem. 2.7]: a circle, bend. …

(a) A woman's private parts; cunte-beten, impotent (man); (b) the corresponding organ(s) of a female animal; (c) sexual intercourse; (d) in place names and surnames; grope cunte lane [see gropen v.]……

(a) Refuse of grain, chaff, husks; ?also, bran; fig. the worthless part of something; (b) waste parts of grapes or olives after removal of juice or oil; also fig.; (c) solid parts of leaves or herbs……

(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) Driving cattle to pasture; (b) a drove or herd; a group of persons; drift of fisheres. …

(a) A native of Flanders; a person of Flemish birth or ancestry; ?a peddler [Competition in trade colored the Englishman's view of the Flemmings from the 14. cent. on; see esp. quots. 1390, a1450……

(a) ?A lecher; (b) ?a greedy person. …

(a) A steward; headman of a town or village; also, a royal official; (b) as surname; also in cpds.: bern greive, fen greive [see also plough greive, wode greive]. …

(a) A harrow for cultivating land, a drag; gon at harwe, to drive a harrow; (b) fig. the Old or New Testament; the power of Love (with pun on arwe); also, in proverb; (c) harwe tind (toth), a tooth of……

(a) Liege lord, sovereign, chief; a superior (secular or ecclesiastical); haven (holden) for herre, to acknowledge (sb.) as lord, do homage to; (b) a nobleman; (c) a warrior; (d) ?the sire of a horse……

(a) A circular band of wood or metal, used for barrels, wheels, candelabra; a hoop, ring; welle hop, q.v.; (b) a circular band used to support the sign outside a house or inn; (c) one of the ribs of a……

(a) A bundle or lot of animal hides; (b) ?the hide of a small animal; ?a particular kind of hide; (c) a bundle of sticks. …

(a) Lack, absence, want; shortage, deficiency; default of payment; lak of sacramentes, failure to receive the sacraments; no lak (of, no shortage (of, no deficiency (of; pens lak, q.v.; (b) for lak of……

(a) The movable batten of a handloom; (b) some kind of supporting frame or scaffold; (c) a device used by coopers, ?a turning lathe; lathe stok, ?the framework of such a device; lathe oke, ?error for……

A blue pigment, litmus; ?also, lichens from which the pigment is obtained. …

An affliction, a misery; affliction, privation, want. …

(a) A bundle or package; a bundle of cloth, moss, skins, merchandise, etc.; also, pl. baggage [quot.: (a1393)]; also fig.; pak mailed, a tied bundle; priken in a pak, to pin (sth.) up in a bundle; (b)……

(a) A spike; a pointed tip or spike on a staff, pole, weapon, instrument of torture, etc.; a spike affixed to a door or wall; also, a spike used to tear or wound someone; also fig.; → of iren, an iron……

Naut. In cpds.: ro bende, a rope attaching the head of a sail to the yard [cp. ro-bond n.]; ro line (rop), ?a brace for swinging the yards horizontally; ?a footrope; ?a gasket of some kind. …

(a) A mist, vapor; drizzling rain; (b) smoke, fumes; (c) rok peni, = reke-peni, s.v. rek(e n.(3)(d). …

(a) A distaff; (b) rok mone-dai, error for rop-mone-dai, s.v. rop n.(1) 4.(b). …

A wrinkle, crease, fold; also, as adj., of an animal's neck: wrinkled with folds. …

In cpd.: scot-som nail, = scot-sem(e nail [s.v. scot-sem(e n.]. …

(a) The bony structure enclosing the brain, cranium; also, the skeleton of the entire head; also, the head; also in asseveration: bi mi scul; (b) scul bon, the cranium, skull; also, one of the bones……

(a) A scaly or scabby disease of the skin, esp. of the head; also, a similar disease in sheep [quot.: Palladius]; (b) the dry slough or scab produced by a caustic medicine, the bursting of a……

A prop, support; a wooden prop used to support a wall, a fence, a ship under construction, etc.; shore tre, ?a piece of wood used for support in shipbuilding. …

(a) A flat-bottomed boat, barge; (b) shout man, the master of a shoute; also, a sailor on a shoute; also as surname. …

(a) A shelf; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2. 125]. …

(a) The intellectual faculty, reason; also person.; wit and skil; (b) skil wille (lereth, mot sen), reason demands (teaches, might discover); skil witnesse, reason; -- ?error for skil-wisnes n.; a……

(a) A loose outer garment; (b) a magic bag for stealing milk; (c) a kind of shoe; (d) in surname. …

(a) A snipe, esp. the common snipe (Gallinago gallinago), great snipe (G. media), or jacksnipe (Lymnocryptes minima); (b) the Egyptian ibis (Threskiornis aethiopica). …

(a) A piece of timber used in building; a rafter, beam; a board; -- also coll.; firre sparre; hilinge of sparres, a roof; joininge of sparres, a roof or building; maister sparre, a main beam or……

(a) A thin piece of wood; a splinter; (b) a spine-bearing animal, ?a hedgehog; (c) spel bon, a bone of the ankle. …

(a) A wooden rod; a bar, beam; also, a log; (b) a sapling. …

(a) A stain left by something on a surface, a blot; also in fig. context; (b) fig. ?contamination or stain resulting from intercourse; (c) a patch or mark in the fur of an animal, on the body of a……

(a) The trunk of a living tree; the base of a tree; the part of a bush or tree receiving a graft; also, a tree [quot. a1382, 1st]; also, ?a branch [quot. a1382, 2nd]; crabbe (fige, vine) stok; comen……

(a) An upright piece of timber used as support in a wall, partition, etc. [quots. ?c1475 and a1500 may belong to sense 4]; stoth nail, nails of some kind used in fastening such timbers; (b) fig. a……

(a) A jug, often made of leather; also, a measure for liquids, varying from one pint to several gallons; (b) a vessel or container for holy water; holi water stoupe. …

(a) A piece of wood, stick; a stake, post; also, a post supporting a canopy; (b) a stake or rod used in building, esp. in the wattle and daub construction of a wall; daubing stour; stikke and stour……

(a) Coll. The dried stalks of grain after threshing, straw; also in fig. context [quot. a1475]; -- also pl.; stubbe strau; (b) a stalk or stem; a piece of straw; in the strau, on the stalk, before……

Sweden; Swethe lond (riche). …

?One of a pair of boards used to hold a bundle of skins; ?a small piece of fur, a skin. …

(a) A building used for the making of tiles; (b) as place name. …

(a) The extreme end of something, usu. rounded or pointed; also, a metal or other attachment to the end of something; (b) in cpd.: tip to, the end of the toe;—used in pl.; also, the end of a bird's……

(a) A projection of rock and earth, a hill; ?also, the mound of earth at the base of a large tree [quot. a1425]; tout hille, = tote-hil(le n. (a); (b) the buttocks, rump; (c) in surname and place……

(a) Confidence (in sb. or sth.), reliance (on sb. or sth.), trust; haven trust, to have confidence (in sb. or sth.), rely (on sb. or sth.); with inf.: haven more trust..thanne, think it preferable (to……

In comb.: vlet line, part of the rigging of a ship, prob. some kind of flat plaited cord, ?a gasket. …

A fishing net. …

A coarse woolen cloth, used for horse collars, sacks, etc. …

(a) A wave of water, esp. in the sea; ?also, a current; gon in wawes, to become tempestuous (b) pl. the sea, seen as a collection of individual waves; (c) used metonymically: the sea; water; wau of……

(a) A small circular weight placed on a spindle to serve as a flywheel, a pulley used in the operation of a spinning wheel, a spindle whorl; ?also, a small circular object serving to attach or hold……

(a) A whirlwind, tornado; also, a windstorm, tempest; ?a swirling wind; storm of whirl-wind; (b) fig. trouble, affliction; also, an excessive emotion or manifestation. …

A northern European species of the cod family, a whiting (Merlangus merlangus);—also coll. …

In cpds. and combs.: yarn (garn) windel, a wooden reel from which a hank or thread of yarn may be wound into a ball, a yarn-winder; yarn (garn) windel blade, one of the crossed arms of a yarn-winder. …

A measure of volume equivalent to that contained in a person’s hands cupped together. …