(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on……

Handmaid, bondwoman. …

(a) The ankle; ankle bone, esp. the inner projection [quots. c1150, c1440]; innermore ancle; utward ancle, outer projection of the ankle; (b) ancle bon, ankle bone; utter ancle, outer projection of……

A blazing fire, esp. one for burning victims or corpses; also, hell-fire; bale-fir. …

(a) A natural ridge; (b) a height, hill, mountain; (c) a slope, a hill-side; (d) ?the crest of a wave. …

A dwelling; farm, village, town; bi-milne, town mill. [Common in place names and field names of the East Midland and the North (the Danelaw). See A. H. Smith PNElem. 1.66, & the thorp, by, tun map in……

Barley; big bern, barley barn; big rid(d)el, barley riddle or sieve (for bolting). …

(a) The act of giving birth, childbirth; birth bering; labour of birth; at on (a) birth, in one delivery; (b) birth in wombe, conception. …

(a) Ink; blek pot, inkhorn; (b) a black substance, ?tar; (c) a dark or somber mood. …

(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 act of praying, or what one asks for in praying; a prayer; a favor asked for; bidden, don, maken, praien bon, address a prayer (to God), say a prayer, pray; asken, bidden bon, pray for……

(a) A customary tenant (as distinct from a free-holder); a villager (villain) or farmer (husbandman) holding land under a lord in return for customary services, esp. plowing (cp. plough-man); specif……

(a) A grate, gridiron, or trivet for supporting cooking utensils above a fire; (b) a gridiron for torture. …

(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. …

A body of water, such as the sea, a pool, spring, river. …

Warrior. …

(a) Foolish; also, lewd, worthless, ?wicked; cang eien, lustful eyes; (b) a fool. …

A clergyman living under a rule of canons, a canon. …

(a) A cart, a wagon; also fig.; dong cart, [see dong n.(1), 5.]; fare cart, [see fare n. (1), 8.(b)]; iren-bounden cart, shod cart, a cart with wheels which are bound or reinforced with iron bands……

A corner, nook. …

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

(a) Any tool, implement, or utensil consisting of, or having as an important part, a curved piece of metal or hook, such as a grappling iron, a pot hook, a reaping hook or sickle, ?a hoe, ?a fork, a……

(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

A pot or crock. …

(a) A dam; also, the bank (of a stream); (b) dam bord, a sluice gate. …

(a) An excavated trench; a ditch for fencing an enclosure, marking a boundary, draining water, etc.; (b) fig. & prov. expressions: as water of dich, freely, unstintingly; commune as water in a dich……

(a) A dragnet; (b) a harrow or drag; (c) a barge or raft; (d) a grappling hook. …

(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or……

A state of agitation or turmoil; in flouht, in a flutter, agitated. …

(a) A gable of a building; also, a façade; (b) gable ende, gable wal, gable wough, the end wall surmounted by a gable, gable end; gable forke, a gable; gable windou, a window in a gable; (c) in place……

(a) A way, course; fig. gon ilke (haven same) gale, to go the same way, meet the same fate; (b) course of action, way, means, expedient. …

(a) A going, walking; a journey; daies gang, one day's journey; thre daies gang; (b) ability to walk; (c) manner of walking; the way one carries oneself, bearing; (d) part of (?the circumference of) a……

(a) An enclosed yard; courtyard, garden, etc.; (b) a hedge or fence; thorn garth; (c) on ground ner on garth [?grith], anywhere; (d) in cpds. & combs.: appeles garthes, apple orchards; garth cresse……

(a) Wearing apparel, clothes, dress; also, a garment; (b) pl. bedclothes. …

(a) A treasured object, valuable possession; also, a gift or reward; (b) coll. treasure, valuables, movable possessions; (c) gold and gersum, etc. [See also gold n., sense 2.] …

(a) A belt or strap passing under a horse's belly to secure a saddle, harness, load, etc. [see also hors gerth]; (b) a hoop for a barrel, keg, tub, etc.; (c) in cpds. & combs.: gerth bokel, a clasp or……

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

(a) A deep and narrow valley; ravine, glen; gil strem, a torrent; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.199, 200, 212]. …

(a) An association of dues-paying members, organized for charitable, religious, or political purposes; a fraternity, guild; (b) an association of craftsmen or tradesmen, a craft guild. …

Recurrent springs [see Smith PNElem. 1.202]. …

(a) A hostage; (b) finden (yeven) gisel, to give hostage(s as a guarantee of one's loyalty or good faith; nimen gisel, take a hostage; bitechen (sellen) to gisel, give (sb.) as a hostage; haven……

(a) A glove; one of a pair of gloves; hauking glove, a glove worn while hawking; sheting glove, a glove worn to protect the hand in drawing a bow; (b) a glove or gauntlet used for armor; one of a pair……

(a) Good fortune; advantageously, fortunately; as interj.: Good luck!; (b) to goder hele, fortunately; (c) with dative: fortunately for (sb.); to goder hele, to goder hele to, fortunately for (sb.)……

(a) A domesticated goat; (b) meat of a goat, goat's flesh; (c) a pictorial representation of a goat. …

(a) A gray fur, prob. the fur from the back of the Eurasian red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris in winter; red (ruskin) grei, the fur of the Eurasian red squirrel in winter; tristi (tresti) grei, ?error……

(a) Ash-colored, flint-colored, dull, gray; of cloth: gray, drab; of a man: gray-haired; grei hered, grei hore, grei hored, gray-haired, hoary; grei her, an old man; grei tauier, one who taws pelts……

(a) Readiness, order, governance, control; in greith, out of greith; don greith on, to exercise control over (a nation); don in greith, carry out, put into effect; (b) effective guidance, counsel……

(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) Sand, gravel, small stones; a gret, a grain of sand; ech gret, every speck, every bit; (b) sandstone, gristone; (c) dust, dirt. …

(a) The handle of a weapon, tool, surgical instrument, etc.; hilt of a sword, knife, dagger, etc.; helve of an ax; the upper part of the breastbone (manubrium sterni); also, staff of a flag [quot……

(a) The neck; hongen bi the hals, to hang (sb.) with a rope around the neck; fro hals to croupoun, from neck to rump; hals gund [OE heals-gund], a neck tumor; also in asseveration: bi mi hals; (b) the……

(a) A token or indication of luck, good or bad; fortune, luck; bad (god, glad, hard, ill, lither) hanselle; (b) something given (esp. in the New Year) as a token of good luck; also fig.; (c) payment……

(a) A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate; -- also pl.; hard happes; (b) a stroke of good or bad luck, an event affecting one's lot or fate; to (with) sori hap, bad luck to him; (c) good……

(a) The common European hare (Lepus timidus); (b) any of the various species of the genus Lepus or related genera; Irish hare, the mountain hare (Lepus variabilis); (c) hare's meat used for food; (d)……

(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) The European hazel bush or tree (Corylus avellana); flour (chattes) of hasel, catkins of the hazel; rednesse of hasel, ?the red stigmas of the female catkins of the hazel; (b) the wood of a hazel……

(a) A fastening for a door, gate, chest, etc.; a hasp; up bi the hasp, unfastened, unlatched; barre and hasp, stapel and hasp; (b) a fastening for a garment or a helmet; ?a buckle, ?a lace; (c) a hank……

(a) An outer head covering (often worn over a hood or a cap), a hat; beneten hat, ?an openwork hat; bever hat, a hat of beaver fur; ?beveren hat [see beveren]; cardinales hat; hat of strau (twigges)……

(a) An enclosure, a yard enclosed by a fence or hedge; also, an enclosure in a ship, ?the hold; ?also, a hedge; also fig.; (b) in surnames & place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.221]. …

(a) A harbor, port; a bay, estuary; a dockyard; ?a fortified port, a place where a navy is stationed; nimen (taken) haven, to reach port, enter a harbor; (b) with of- phr. or gen.: the port belonging……

(a) A helmet; casten up helm, to raise the visor of a helmet; under helm, wearing a helmet; helm ston, ?coping stone of a roof; (b) the crown of thorns; (c) fig. helm of hele, helm of hope, etc.; (d)……

(a) An individual hair of the human head; pl. hairs, the hair; heres of hed, the hair of (one's) head; (b) the hair of the head coll.; her of hed; in their her, ?with flowing hair; (c) to)drauen her,……

(a) A flock or herd of domesticated animals; got herd, q.v.; (b) a herd of wild animals; esp. a herd of deer; also, a flock of birds, swarm of gnats; (c) fig. spiritual flock, group of people under……

(a) Uncultivated land, wasteland, heath, moor; also, a tract of heath or moorland; holt and heth; heth cok, ?grouse; heth ston, q.v.; (b) a field, battlefield; (c) wild plants growing on heaths; esp……

(a) As adj.: not Christian or Jewish; pagan, heathen; hethen lei, pagan lands or people, heathendom; hethen lond; (b) hethen man, one who is not a Christian or a Jew; (c) as noun: = hethen man; --……

(a) A feeling or attitude of contempt, scorn; in (with) hething, disdainfully, contemptuously; taken on (til, with) hething, to treat (sth.) with contempt; (b) contemptuous hostility; anger, hatred. …

(a) Quality, rank, condition, status; the order of knighthood; (b) holy orders, priest's or bishop's orders, etc.; also, an order as of monks, canons, etc.; (c) one of the orders or choirs of angels. …

(a) An officer in the Danelaw; (b) ?in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.258]. …

(a) The human hand; lene of the hond, the palm; shot of hond, darts, javelins; staf of hond, a handstaff; vale of the hond, the central triangle in the palm; bar hondes, unarmed hands; folden hondes……

A promontory, cliff; mountain or high hill with steep sides; bi hilles and houes, in hurstes and houes, over hil and hough, over hill and mountain, everywhere. …

(a) A council or assembly called on a special occasion by a king or other leader; holden (setten) husting, to hold such an assembly; (b) ?the members of a council; (c) a court of common pleas……

(a) Outward manner or bearing; (b) expression. …

(a) Iron, as ore, metal, or commodity; of iren, made of iron or consisting of iron parts; (b) a piece of iron; things made of iron; (c) filinge (limature) of iren, iron filings; filth (rust) of iren……

(a) The Irish people; Irish soldiers or army; wilde Irish; (b) the Irish language; (c) ?Irish linen; (d) as surname [some examples may be OF irais, wrathful, bad-tempered]. …

(a) A pot for cooking, a kettle, a caldron; also fig.; (b) as surname; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.91; 2.3]. …

(a) A gag; (b) a bit for a horse or mule. …

(a) The quality of cold, coldness, coolth; ?also, coldness of complexion or temperament; (b) a cold breeze or flow. …

(a) A state or community ruled by a king, kingdom; (b) royal rule, sovereignty; (c) the territory ruled by a king; (d) the king's subjects. …

(a) A king, monarch; (b) in titles; king of kinges, supreme king, emperor; (c) one of the wise men of Mat. 2; also, a representation of one of them; thre kinges of coloin; king pleie, a play dealing……

(a) A community or state governed by a king; (b) the territory over which a king's rule extends; (c) a king's power, sovereignty, authority; (d) the reign of a king. …

(a) A male infant; boy; young man; (b) a servant, attendant; (c) man, fellow; rogue. …

(a) An ornamental knob on a cup, a dish or its cover; (b) a small projection on a surgical instrument; (c) a bunch or tuft on a shoe, cap, garment, armor, etc.; ?also, a tassel, a button, a clasp or……

(a) A knot tied in a rope, thread, spider web, etc., for binding or fastening; double knotte, ?a sort of pulley; ridinge (renninge, slippinge) knotte, a slip noose; (b) a knot tied in a whip, garment……

(a) Amusement, diversion; fun, mirth, joy; a game; sporting contest; (b) amorous dalliance; (c) an amusing adventure or episode; (d) holiday, festival; (e) place of joy, heaven. …

(a) A toy; a knickknack; barn leikan [see barn 2. (b)]; (b) a baby. …

(a) A bed, couch; (b) a burial place; (c) a place where an animal takes shelter, a lair; (d) the bed of a plant, soil; (e) a place where someone dwells, an inhabited place; also, a lodging; (f) sexual……

The cheek; in pl.: the face; loken under ler, to look down over (one's) cheek, look downward. …

(a) A swing gate for cattle; (b) in surnames; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.251]. …

(a) A link in a chain, necklace, etc.; (b) some kind of connecting device used in a clock; (c) ?a link in a coat of mail; (d) a section of a rope or cord; (e) a link of sausage; (f) anat. a vertebra……

(a) Flesh; also, body; (b) meat; lire both, a butcher's stall or shop; lire mongere, a dealer in meat, butcher. …

(a) The act or condition of being dispossessed of property or possessions; failure to keep something; (b) loss of a bodily part or faculty; also, loss of life; (c) loss of a lover or friend; loss by……

(a) The plant madder Rubia tinctorum, , used medicinally and for making dye; crop mader, q.v.; crop of mader, ? = crop mader; gret (more) mader, madder proper (as opposed to one of its lesser……

Language. …

Mesh of a net; pl. the openings between the cords of a net, interstices. …

Mead; also, drink in general; also fig.; med maker, one who makes mead; med and mete, med ne milk (must), med or win, milk and med, etc.;?med eglintin, mead flavored with brier rose. …

A fixed time, period of time; an occasion; at everi (ilk a) mel, on every occasion, continually; at on mel, ?at once, at one time; god (a sori) mel, ?a fortuitous (untoward, grim) occasion; kepen mel……

(a) Sin, sinfulness; guilt, culpability for sin; evil, wickedness; withouten mis, sinless, innocent; withouten mis of this man, he being sinless, innocent as he was; (b) a sin, an evil deed; criminal……

(a) Murder; morth slaga [OE morþ-slaga], a murderer; morth speche, ?legal case concerning homicide; ?right of jurisdiction over such cases; (b) a heinous crime, an outrage; treason; morth dede [OE mor……

(a) Moss, or a similar cryptogamous plant; ?also, hairiness, ?dirt [quot.: Pilgr.LM]; (b) mos crop, ?cotton grass; ?a moor flower; mos (be) growen, grown over with moss; grene mos, moss; whit mos……

In place names & surnames only: a headland, promontory: (a) in surnames; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.48-49]. …