(a) To earn (wages, a reward, etc.); to obtain (that which one has earned); -- also refl.; (b) to merit (spiritual blessings, heavenly bliss, etc.); to be deserving of (death, the tortures of hell)……

(a) To be anxious or grieved; -- intr. & refl.; (b) ben angred, be anxious or grieved; be in agony. …

(a) To intend or plan (to do sth.); -- intr. or refl.; (b) seek or plan (sth.). …

(a) To make an effort, strive to obtain; to earn or merit; (b) ppl. endowed. …

(a) To bait (an animal) with an attacking or herding dog; specif., to bait (a tied or confined bear, bull, or badger) in sport; (b) of a dog: to set on (an animal or person); perh. [quot.: a1375] to……

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

(a) To summon (troops) by proclamation; assemble (a fighting force); bannen out; (b) to assemble (a fleet) for an attack; (c) to gather (arms), make ready; to man or make ready (a castle). …

Intrans. to bathe (in blood), bask, wallow; also refl.; basken aboute. …

To inflame; become inflamed, fester; fig. inflame with hate or rage. …

(a) To dwell or live (in a place, among people), reside; inhabit (the Earth); ben bigged, have lodging; (b) biggen bour, to establish (head)quarters; refl. establish oneself (in a location); (c) to……

(a) To turn pale (as with fear); bleiken in blodi ble, blush; (b) to make (sb.) turn pale. …

(a) To move suddenly or sharply; jerk, twist; flinch, wince, dodge; blenchen aside; blenchen low, duck; blenchen broues, raise (one's) eyebrows or eyelids; blenchen of slepe, wake up suddenly; (b) of……

Of the ram: to copulate with (the ewe), tup; blismed, tupped, pregnant. …

(a) To shine; (b) to lose color, turn pale [cp. bloknen]. …

(a) To come into flower, bloom, flower; (b) fig. to flourish, increase, abound, grow. …

(a) To walk without seeing, go blindly; (b) to proceed ignorantly, act blindly or irrationally; refl. delude oneself, be out of one's senses; ppl. blundering, rash, clumsy, thoughtless; of things……

To anoint. …

(a) To swell, become distended; also, specif., swell from infection, poison, beating, etc.; (b) bolned, swollen (from infection, beating, etc.); also, corpulent; (c) bolned hering, bloated herring……

To rush. …

(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) 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……

(a) To mash; (b) to cut to pieces, dismember; (c) to shatter; demolish. …

(a) To go, move, travel, depart; (b) refl. to betake oneself, go; (c) to carry (sth.), bring, convey, send; cairen at, pull at (a cart), draw; (d) fig. to proceed (with a story); of apples: develop……

(a) To cry out, call, shout; (b) to cry out (sth.), say (sth.) loudly; (c) callen after, to call for (sb.), summon; callen on (upon), call to (sb.), address, invoke, summon, call on (sb. for payment)……

To card (flax). …

(a) To throw (sth.) to a distance, fling, hurl; pour or sprinkle (water); (b) sift (sand); (c) scatter (seed), sow; (d) throw at (sb.). …

(a) To rattle or clatter, chatter; (b) to speak, talk. …

To cluster. …

To give birth to (sth.), create. …

(a) To cut off (sth.); clippen out; (b) to cut off (the hair, the beard); clippen awei; (c) to shear (wool, a fleece); clippen awei; (d) fig. to remove (sin); cut off (a straggler); clippen awei,……

(a) To climb (steps, etc.); cliven up and doun; (b) fig. to climb (to perfection); cliven into (up) the hil of perfeccioun. …

To claw or beat. …

To pay the penalty for (sth.), suffer for. …

(a) To swarm, crawl; ben crauling, be crawling (with worms); (b) fig. to drag oneself, walk slowly. …

To hook (sb.), catch. …

To stuff (sth.). …

To void excrement. …

To quiet down, rest. …

To have dealings with (sb.), be concerned with (sth.). …

(a) To be stunned, bewildered, befuddled, or dumfounded; -- intr. or refl.; (b) dased, stunned, dazed, dizzy; (c) dasand, stupefying. …

(a) Of a person, animal, soul, body, part of body: to cease living, die; liven or dien, liven and dien; (b) refl. …

(a) To hide (sth.), conceal, keep secret; (b) to hide oneself. …

(a) To fall suddenly or headlong, plunge; dompen in the dep, dompen into hell, dompen to the devel; (b) to dive, plunge; (c) to drop (sb. into hell). …

To smell (sth.). …

(a) To pull or draw (sth.); (b) to transport (sth.); (c) to dredge (oysters); -- OF text & inflection. …

To mumble, mutter. …

To perform or do (sth.); commit (sins); do (penance); drien wille, do (someone's) will; drien lif, lead (a certain kind of) life; drien wirdes, try (one's) luck. …

(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. …

(a) To sag, slump, droop; fig. weak, failing; droupen doun; (b) to sink or fall down; of the sun: to set. …

(a) To urge (someone) on; (b) to tempt or entice (someone), to incite (to evil) or lure (awai from good); (c) to stimulate, encourage, exhort (someone); eggen to gōd; (d) refl. to bestir oneself. …

(a) To convey (something), move, take, transport; to remove (something); fig. to transfer (power from one people to another), to deliver (someone from death or wretchedness); (b) to drive or thrust……

(a) To lie, tell lies, practice deceit; gabben on (upon, of), tell lies about (sb. or sth.); (b) to lie to (sb.); deceive; trick (sb.); gabben of, deceive (sb.) about (sth.); (c) ?to report (sth.)……

(a) To open the mouth wide; of the mouth: be opened wide; gapen on, open the mouth as if to swallow (sb.); (b) to let the mouth hang open involuntarily; of the dead: have the mouth open; of the mouth……

To open the mouth wide, gape; also, exhale. …

To avail, be of use, help. …

To look with wonder or curiosity; stare, gaze; gauren on (upon). …

(a) To be useful or profitable to (sb.), avail, help; help to heal (a sore); geinen to, be profitable or useful to (sb. or sth.); (b) to avail, be useful or helpful, serve the purpose; ppl. geining……

(a) To castrate (a male animal); (b) to spay (a sow). …

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

(a) To watch over (sb. or sth.), take care of, protect; guide (sb.), rule; tend (sheep); (b) refl. to protect oneself, be on guard; (c) geten fro, to preserve (sb.) from (sth.); geten for, be on guard……

To trap (sb.); fig. to deceive (sb.), lead into sin or to damnation, seduce. …

To give (sb.) as a hostage. …

(a) To make (sb.) glad; also, welcome (sb.); (b) to be merry. …

Of a person, the eyes: to be squint-eyed, look asquint; ppl. gliande, gleande, squint-eyed; p.ppl. gliet, gleiet, of the eyes: asquint. …

(a) Of things: to flash, sparkle, glitter, shine; reflect light; (b) to have a false or misleading glitter. …

To fleece or despoil (sb.). …

(a) To fill (sb., the heart) with fear; frighten, alarm, startle; (b) to be distressed, be filled with fear or grief; glopnen in herte, become sad at heart; glopnen and greten [cp. OI glūpna ok grāta……

To scowl, look glum. …

(a) To grind the teeth together; gnash the teeth in anger or sorrow, as a threat, etc.; gnasten with teth (toth); (b) gnasten at (ayens, into, on), to gnash the teeth at (sb.); gnasten on, gnash the……

To gnash (one's teeth). …

To look, gaze, stare; gouen on (of, upon), look or gape at (sb. or sth.). …

(a) To cry out, yell, howl, wail; (b) of a wolf: to howl. …

?To prepare (an army, a horse) for battle, ?to attack. …

(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)……

To desire, long (to do sth.). …

To weep; bewail (sth.); shed (tears). …

To fall down or lie prone. …

(a) Of water, blood: to rush with force, gush; gushen out; (b) of the belly:?to make noises. …

(a) To hack (sth.); cut, chop; (b) to cut into (sth.); (c) hag-hous, a building for chopping and storing firewood; hagge-saue, some kind of saw. …

(a) To mutilate or maim (sb., a foot); also fig.; (b) to cut short (hose); hamelen in sondre, separate (two parts) by cutting. …

(a) To greet (sb.), usually with respect, honor, or reverence; salute; also, address (sth.) with reverence; (b) in surname. …

To chastise, strike; fig. heined doun, abused. …

To pour (sth.). …

(a) To give aid or assistance to (sb. or sth.), be an assistant to (sb.); help (sb. to do sth.), help (sth. be done); helpen aloft (up), help (sb.) up; helpen doun with, help (sb.) get (sth.) down……

To mock (sth.), scorn; hethen upon, scorn (sb.). …

(a) To avenge (sth.); (b) to avenge (sb., oneself); (c) to seek or take vengeance. …

(a) To cover (sth.), spread over, bury; deck (sth.), caparison (a horse); blot out (sin, one's sight); hilen happing on, lay a coverlet over (sb.); (b) to put clothing on (sb.), clothe; cover (the……

(a) To walk with difficulty, hobble; (b) to be wrinkled. …

(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……

(a) To betroth (two people), unite; betroth (sb. to sb.); pledge oneself to (sb. to be married); also fig.; (b) ppl. as adj.: betrothed; also, manacled by the hand. …

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 cough; (b) to gape, yawn. …

To receive (a blow). …

(a) To leap, jump; ilopen to hors, mount a horse; (b) to run, rush; (c) to penetrate, pierce. …

To mention, relate. …

To reveal (sth. to sb.). …

(a) To make known (sth., what the case is, where sth. is, how sth. should be done), tell, teach, proclaim; announce (an answer), reveal (that sth. is the case); kennen crede [see crede n. (2) sense……

(a) To lie prostrate; (b) to turn (against sth.); ?push (against sth.), ?kick (against sth.). …

To sink (into a place); ppl. keved, set down. …