(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) Distress, suffering; anguish, agony; the anguish of love, love-longing; anger and wo (tene, care); (b) a source of distress, suffering, or discomfort; trouble, hardship; pl. troubles……

(a) Plowland; ar-dawe feld; (b) dais ar-dawe, an acre or juger of plowland (orig. a day's plowing). …

Funeral feast, wake. …

Fire-tender [lit., one who bathes in or messes with ashes]; -- used contemptuously. …

Fire-tender [lit., one who blows into the ashes]; -- prob. a term of contempt. …

(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. …

Fear, terror, dread; also, great reverence, veneration, awe. …

The beard on grain; an awn. …

Pieces of land taken from the common land and enclosed for private use. …

(a) A bag or sack, with or without its contents; traveling bag, wallet, satchel, pouch; bagge portatif; undo the bagge; (b) a bag as a unit of measure. …

(a) Bait for fish, fowl, or vermin; (b) a worm or insect to be used for bait. …

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 wave, billow; se bare. …

The bark of a tree or woody plant. …

A grain bin; the hopper of a mill. …

(a) A bench, a seat; esp., a long, backless seat; (b) a royal seat, the throne of a ruler; setten on benk, to put (sb.) on a throne, do honor to (sb.); (c) benk ende, the end of the bench. …

A pole (?for propelling a boat); berling tre. …

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 surname. …

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

A coffer; a bin. …

Naut. A wind or breeze, esp. one favorable for sailing; haven bir at the bak, have a tail wind; abiden the bir, await favorable wind (i.e. circumstances). …

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. …

A blend of wheat and rye sown together. …

A caulking compound made of tar and tow or oakum. …

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

A lead founder. …

(a) A flower, blossom; flowers, bloom; flowering (as a stage in the development of a plant); also fig.; bright as blom; beren blom, to flower; (b) as an epithet: Christ; the Virgin; (c) pre-eminence……

(a) A commandment (of God); the bode-word(es, the (ten) Commandments; forbeden bode-word, impose a prohibition; (b) a command or edict. …

(a) An ax for cutting or splitting wood; (b) a poleax. …

(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 trunk (of a tree); also, a tree; (b) ?a branch or grape cluster [may be error for bobbe n]. …

(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……

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) 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 stall at a market or fair, a merchant's shop; ?also, house of prostitution [L meritorium]; (b) a temporary dwelling, arbor of branches, tent, hut; also a poor dwelling, a hovel; (c) in personal……

(a) Farmstead or livestock; (b) bou herde, bou hirt, herdsman; (c) bou erthe, pasture land. …

(a) Any one of a variety of ferns [see quot. ?a1450 Agnus Castus]; bracken; (b) brake bush, a fern thicket; (c) brake of fern, fern-brake, a thicket of fern; (d) in place names [see A. H. Smith PNElem……

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

(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. …

Wrath, anger, vengeful spirit; the fury (of battle); wreken breth, wreak vengeance. …

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

(a) Eyebrows, or the ridges of the eyebrows; (b) eyelid(s). …

(a) The shore (of the sea); seashore, coast; se brinke; ?also, the top (of a mound) [quot.: 1607], ?a precipice [quot. a1425 Wycl.]; (b) the bank (of a stream); (c) the edge (of a spring); (d) in……

Humiliating treatment or circumstances; shameless behavior, chiding. …

(a) A sprout, a shoot; (b) a pointed instrument, a goad; (c) a nail (applied to several types and sizes); (d) brod smith, a maker of goads, ?a maker of nails. …

(a) A sudden movement, a rush; at a bront, suddenly, speedily; (b) an attack, a charge; (c) a blow; also fig.; (d) the full force (of an attack, misfortune, etc.); a)biden (beren) the bront, endure……

Sudden, hasty; of a person: quick, eager (to do sth.). …

The cargo of a ship, a shipload (of a commodity). …

A boatman. …

Warrior. …

(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) An outcry (against sb.), a charge, an accusation; maken cal; (b) a summons; an invitation. …

The calf of the leg. …

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

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

A horse or gelding; a warhorse, cart horse, riding horse, etc.; capel clauer, horse clawer, stable boy; cutted capel, a gelding. …

A cask; fig. a place of confinement. …

(a) A man (usually of low estate); often patronizingly or contemptuously: fellow; (b) a contemptuous term of address: fellow, knave, rascal; (c) as term of association: cloddre (cluster) of carles, a……

A kind of ship's timber; ?a timber in the kelson, ?the kelson, ?a mast-step. …

A male human being, a man. …

(a) Talking, chatting, conversation, discourse; (b) a statement, a saying; a message (spoken or written); (c) a story, tale, poem, song; (d) mention, news; (e) meaning. …

(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) The throwing of a dart, stone, etc.; casting with a sling; throwing or putting the stone as a sport; hurling missiles with a siege engine; (b) the throwing of dice; al is cast on a cast, all is……

(a) The drawing of lots or a lot so drawn; casten cavel(es, draw lots; cavel fell, the lot fell (upon sb.); (b) a splinter or fragment. …

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

(a) A trunk, chest, casket, box, etc., (for storing or safekeeping); a strongbox (for valuables, documents, money); the Ark (of the Covenant); (b) common chest, public chest or treasury; (c) chest……

A consecrated building: (a) for Christian worship and the performance of religious rites; (b) as affording rights of sanctuary to fugitives; taken the chirche; (c) as used for the performance of……

?A horsefly [see Craigie DOS]. …

(a) A ledge of rock; a cliff, steep bank; (b) in place names. …

Claw; also fig.; -- only in pl. …

(a) Silence; (b) as interj.: Be silent! Mum's the word! …

Trouble, difficulty. …

(a) A club or cudgel; club lome, club-like weapon; (b) a bat. …

A corner, nook. …

(a) A kind of ship's timber, a knee or crotch in the bow; craft nail, a wooden peg for fastening such timbers; (b) ?a wooden brace. …

(a) A member of the genus Corvus; esp., the English carrion crow (C. corone); (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.6]; (c) crak brid, young of the crow or the raven; crak fot……

?A fastener of some kind. …

(a) An inlet of the sea, cove, small estuary; also, a small stream, creek; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.6]; (c) in personal names. …

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 block of wood tied to an animal to keep it from straying, a clog; (b) a surname. …

A boil or sore. …

A valley, dell, glen; valley bottom; dale and doun, hil and dale; bi (over) dale and doun, over hill and dale, everywhere. …

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

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]. …

Wet, damp; dampness, moisture. …

A term of contempt: worthless fellow, wretch, good-for-nothing; coward; dullard. …

(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 darling, a pet. …

A deep place; derknes dipt, the pit of darkness, hell. …