Of continous actions or states: (a) all the time, always, constantly, unceasingly; (b) eternally, forever. …

(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) Ashes of combustible materials; brennen to asshe; turnen to asshe; (b) ashes as used in medicaments, for making lye, etc.; (c) hot ashes or coals, as for baking. …

Expressing regret or grief: alas!, oh! …

(a) Back or away from something; to the rear, back, backwards; drawen ayen, ten ayen, draw back, withdraw; holden ayen, hold back, check, restrain; putten ayen, set or thrust back or away; turnen……

(a) To inquire, ask; (b) to grant (a request); baithen bon; (c) to consent, agree. …

(a) To be, exist, live; there is (was, were, etc.); that was, who formerly lived, now dead; if his liking be, if it be his will; if (sth.) ne were, if (sth.) had not been, if it were not for (sth.)……

(a) Comfortable, stately (mansion); (b) perfect (happiness). …

A nest of wild bees or wasps; a honeycomb; hony bike. …

A body of customs or regulations current in a community (a village or district) and enforced locally, esp. regulations concerning land use, grazing, etc. [See G. C. Homans, Eng.Villagers (1942), pp……

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

Placed (in a certain location), situated, lodged; quartered or living (with sb.). …

A lead founder. …

Something used for tying, binding, wrapping, fastening, joining: (a) a cord, string (also fig.); a strap, halter, leash; a bowstring; (b) a twist of straw; a tendril; (c) a bandage or wrapping; (d) a……

(a) Of persons: ready, prepared; also, armed; boun in, clothed in (sth.); expert in (astronomy); of things: in readiness, prepared; of a weapon: drawn; of parts of buildings: made, built; of wages or……

(a) Violence, impetuosity; (b) anger, rage; -- also pl.; (c) the deadly sin of Wrath. …

(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) To be consumed by fire; burn, burn down; brennen awai; of fire: burn; brennen up, flame up; brenning, on fire, fiery; (b) to destroy (sth.) with fire; put to the torch, reduce to ashes; brennen up……

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

A boatman. …

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

(a) To talk, chat, converse, discourse; carpen toward, address (sb.); (b) tell (sth.), say; ask (a question); as I have herd carpen, as I have heard tell; as men do carpen, as people say; to carpen……

(a) Jaw, jawbone; chaft bon; (b) pharynx; pl. tonsils. …

A land tax levied by the Norman kings [orig., either by the Anglo-Saxon kings for defense against the 'Danes', or by the 'Danish' rulers as a tribute]. …

(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) The edible egg of a domesticated fowl; (b) glair or whit of an egge, the white of an egg; oil of egges, an oil extracted from eggs; yolk or yelk of an eg; (c) fried egge; hard eg, an egg roasted……

At or near the beginning of the day; in the first part of the morning; early in the morning. …

(a) To burn up (something), to consume or destroy by fire; (b) to ravage or lay waste (a country) with fire; (c) to burn up, to be destroyed by fire. …

Ordinal as adj.: fourteenth. …

(a) To prepare or equip (oneself); prepare (a corpse for burial); geren aweiward, prepare (oneself) to go away; (b) to equip (oneself) for fighting, arm (oneself); (c) to dress (sb., oneself); ppl. ge……

(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……

(a) To have or take lodging; stay (with sb., at or in a place) as a guest; spend (a night); also fig.; (b) to provide lodging for (sb.); entertain (sb.) as a guest; also fig.; (c) ?to feast. …

(a) To acquire (sth.), earn, buy, win, receive, find; ivel geten, ill-gotten; fals geten, got by falsehood; (b) refl. …

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

To fleece or despoil (sb.). …

(a) A gosling; (b) as surname. …

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

Jaundice. …

(a) Certainly, probably, likely; with confidence; ful helde, very probably, very confidently; (b) comp. rather, sooner, more; never (the) helde, none the more; (c) sup. most, above all; al the (alder)……

(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) To strike (sb. or sth.); strike a blow; deliver (blows); hitten in, cut into (sb. or sth.); hitten on, beat upon (sb. or sth.); hitten on the hed of the nailes ende, hit the nail on the head……

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) Inside (a solid object); immersed, or partly immersed, in (a fluid substance); enclosed in (fire, the air, etc.); (b) into (a solid, liquid, etc.); (c) in or into the surface of (sth.), pierced or……

To long; isken after, wish or long for (sth.). …

The keelson of a ship; also, a mast step. …

Royal; also, as noun: royalty, a person of royal birth. …

To afflict (sb.), crush; me knith it sore, it makes me contrite. …

(a) Faultless, blameless, guiltless; lasteles lotes, impeccable manners or appearance; (b) physically faultless. …

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

(a) To secure (a door, gate, etc.) with lock and key; lock the entrance to (a sepulcher); (b) to lock the lid of (a chest or the like). …

(a) In the human way, like a human being; (b) in a masculine way; (c) as befits a man; strongly, vigorously. …

(a) Middle, mid-; mid strem, the middle of the stream; mid theigh (leg), the middle of the thigh (leg); in the mid se (sheld), in the middle of the sea (shield); in the mid side, ?in the middle; to……

(a) To darken, grow dark; (b) to cause darkness; darken (the sun), deprive (of light); overshadow (a country); make (darkness) dark; darken or blacken (the brain); (c) to make (someone's wits) dull……

(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……

Unclean, filthy. …

Nighttime, night; -- only in phrases: bi (a, on, upon, with) nighter-tale, on the nighter-tale, at night, by night, during the nighttime; also, at nightfall. …

Excessive harm. …

To work with a pick or other digging implement; --also refl.; dig (sth.); break up (land, a field); dig up (weeds); piken awei, dig up (weeds); undermine (a foundation); piken oute, dig out (stones……

Revolving. …

(a) Guilty of the sin of Pride; haughty, arrogant; also, obstinate, rebellious; (b) proudest of pride, supremely proud; proud as lucifer; proud herte, proud heart; -- also as surname or epithet; maken……

(a) An accuser; the title of the statute of Edward I appointing justices to hear and determine certain specified offenses by the king's officials and others during the twenty-five years prior to……

(a) A forward movement, course, progress; also, a sea current; also, a rush of water; (b) a course of life or conduct; a period of time; rennen the develes ras, rennen oute of god ras, to pursue an……

(a) Advice, counsel; what shal me to rath, what plan shall I adopt?; outmost rath, last counsel; (b) a counselor, friend; (c) rathes-men, advisers. …

A rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia). …

(a) The European reindeer (Rangifer tarandus); (b) her. rein-der hed, a stag's head with two sets of antlers (double attires), the front pair turned down. …

(a) Strange, uncouth; (b) of an emperor: stern, awful. …

(a) Pity, compassion, sympathy; also, mercy; alas for reuth; (b) haven reuth of (on, upon), to have pity or mercy on (sb., a soul, etc.); nimen (taken) reuth of, take pity on (sb.); (c) haven reuth……

(a) Splitting, breaking, rending; (b) a cleft in the earth or in a rock, a crevice, fissure; (c) a crack in a wall, door, etc., a chink, cranny. …

Naut. A rope attaching the head of a sail to the yard. …

(a) A dealer; ro-mongour of hors, a horse trader; (b) in surnames. …

(a) Decay, corruption, putrefaction; (b) a disease of sheep; (c) a wasting disease in man; also fig.; (d) in place name. …

(a) Of an animal substance: in a state of decomposition or putrefaction; of a corpse or part of a dead body: putrid, rotted; of a hide: in a state of disintegration, rotten; (b) of a vegetable……

(a) Hairy, shaggy, bristly; (b) rugged in form, unshapely. …

?A term of affection for a farm servant, a favorite. …

Of weather: to become stormy. …

(a) A prosecutor in an action for theft; (b) a surety paid for the right to prosecute an action. …

(a) Any of various skin diseases characterized by itching, pustules, ulceration, etc.; also, the pustule characteristic of such diseases [quot.: a1398, 1st]; also, scabby or scaly condition of the……

Stinginess, niggardliness. …

(a) To make (sth.), build; (b) to bring about (sth.), effect, contrive; (c) to ordain (to do sth.); ben scapen, be allotted; (d) in surname. …

A cleft, chink, small hole; a crack or cut in wood. …

(a) Harm, injury; loss, damage; misfortune; danger; also, a harm, danger; to scath, to (a person's) harm or detriment; (b) harm or injury resulting from battle or war; defeat; (c) harm resulting from……

(a) Harmful, destructive; dangerous, wild; (b) fierce or mighty in battle, cruel, not easily subdued; (c) undutiful, disloyal; (d) as noun: an opposing warrior, a wrongdoer. …

?Harmful, hurtful; ?mighty or fierce in battle. …

(a) A toy that spins around, a top, whirligig, perh. consisting of a disc of some sort with a pointed peg passed through its center; (b) her. ?a badge in the form of a disc. …

(a) Payment for provision of food or drink at a social gathering, at a tavern, or to one's host or benefactor; one's share of such payment; paien scot; yeven scot, to contribute to a common feast; (b)……

To leap, skip, bound. …

A wretch, rascal, rogue; -- used with derogatory force of both men and women. …

(a) ?A separate holding, perh. split off from the unified villein's holding; (b) an occupant of such a holding, one of a class of tenant named in records from Northumberland and Cumberland, app. one……

(a) Ordinal number as adj.: seventeenth; (b) ordinal number as noun: the seventeenth year, letter of the alphabet, etc.; (c) in compound number. …

(a) A wood or forest; a grove; a thicket; at a shau side, at the edge of a forest; shau of (the) wod, a wodes shau; under (the) shau, beneath the foliage of a wood, in the shade; in thickets; also……

(a) To hasten from one place to another, move swiftly, rush; also fig.; plunge (into a river); duck (under a shield); refl. rush (into a ship); of a ship: sail swiftly; of an arrow: fly forth from a……

(a) A shout, call, cry; shouting, outcry, clamor, uproar; (b) maken shout, to utter a shout, shout; setten (up) shout, raise a clamor, shout; (c) a cry of distress or lamentation; maken shout; (d) a……

(a) With a high-pitched, piercing sound, shrilly; ?also, loudly; (b) with a pleasant or melodious sound; (c) brightly, sharply. …

(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……

To strain (sth.). …

(a) To sink, fall; of tears: drop, flow; silen adoun (doun); geren silen, kill (sb.); ppl. silande as adj.: flowing; (b) to proceed, go; proceed (to do sth.); silen forth. …

(a) Of a horse: easily frightened; of a person: ?fastidious, particular; (b) ?as surname. …