(a) Of a stream: to run, flow; also fig.; (b) of water or other liquid: to run; of blood, humors, pus: to move (within the body), run (to a part of the body).
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(a) To prepare (sth.), arrange, make ready; prepare the way for (sth.); (b) to prepare (food), cook, dress; (c) to complete (preparations); trim (a lamp); skin and cut up (game); wash (a vessel)……
(a) To be awake; also, be conscious and alive; ppl.wakinge, awake; also, living
(b) to remain awake, esp. during hours customarily given to sleeping; also, with inf. as adj. in phrase: holden waken,……
(a) scer-man, one who shears woolen cloth, a shearman [cp. sher-man n.(a)]; (b) to go away, depart; take (sth.) away; curtail (a vice); sceren awei, do away with (the desire of the flesh); sceren……
(a) To be broken, fall apart, break, shatter; bresten atwo, bresten atwinne, bresten in peces, bresten in sunder; (b) to break (sth.), shatter, crush; break (one's arm); ppl.brosten, of grain or……
To choose (sb. or sth.), select; also, with partitive prep. phrase: welen of, choose from among (victims); welen oute, pick out (persons), choose out; welen the werse, determine the greater (of two……
(a) In phrase: swippen at (to), to strike at (sb.), hit, attack, assail; (b) swippen of, strike off (someone's head); -- also, with dat. of pers.pron. [last 2 quots.]; (c) to swing (a sword).
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(a) To fail to find (sb. or sth.), notice to be absent or missing; become separated from (one's company, one's comrade); missen path, lose (one's) way; ben missed, be absent; be noticed to be absent……
(a) To convey (sth. to sb. or an institution) by a grant; bestow (sth. on sb.), confer; accord (sth. to sb.); provide (sth., sth. for sb.); yeten and yeven, yeven and yeten
(b) to yield (sth.) up;……
(a) To topple, fall over; also, fall in defeat; welten bakwardes (upright)
(b) to overturn (walls); overset (sb.), throw over; welten doun; welten over; throw or toss (a body) over something;
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(a) To prosper, flourish, thrive; enjoy good fortune; thriven and then; thriven ivele, have bad luck, do poorly; (b) in proverbs, aphorisms, and prov. expressions; (c) in oaths and asseverations: as……
(a) To drown (sb.), kill by drowning; -- also refl.; (b) to be drowned, die by drowning; (c) ppl.drouned, drowned; ben drouned, to be drowned, drown.
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To suspend (sb. or sth.) from an elevated point: (a) to hang (sb., his corpse, or parts of it) up by the feet, hands, or hair; hongen up, hongen up bi the fet, etc.; (b) to fasten or mount (sth. on……
(a) To care, heed; litel recchen, ne (not, nought) recchen, recchen never; the devel have (who) that reche, may the devil have anyone who cares; (b) recchen of, to care about (sb., oneself, an……
(a) To practice the craft of weaving; also fig.; ppl.wevinge, weaving; also, as noun: a weaver
(b) to interlace (threads, yarn, etc.) to form a fabric; weven togeder; weven togeder to hem-self, of……
(a) To throw (sb. or sth., esp. into a place or in a specified direction), hurl, fling; also, fell (an adversary) in battle; also, raze (a city); slingen abouten, swing (sb.) around; slingen doun……
