(a) Refl. To make confession, make confession (to sb., to God); also iron., with implication of impending decease [quot.: Chaucer TC]; (b) refl.shriven o (of), to confess (sins), make confession of……
(a) Of a candle: to be necessary (for sb.), be needed, avail; (b) impers.hit thare, used parenthetically: it is necessary; (c) ?impers.thurte, he experienced (no lack of knights at his disposal).
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(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……
