(a) Relieve (sb.); (b) reduce (sth.). …

(a) To lie in ambush for (sb.), waylay; lie in wait to get (sth.); lie in wait (to do sth.); awaiten upon, to lie in wait for; (b) to plot, conspire; secretly to plan or contrive (an injury, etc.). …

To kick or throw (a ball); fig. to treat (sb.) as one pleases, kick or chase about. …

To drive or chase (something). …

(a) To burn (sb.) with hot liquid; burn (a bodily part) with burning coal; sear (sth. in fire); of the sun, fire, hot or molten metal, hot water, etc.: scorch or burn (sb., sth., an animal); scalden……

To rough-hew (stone); square (a block of stone); also, ppl. scapeld as adj. …

(a) To be contemptuous; hold (sb. or sth.) in disdain, despise; ppl. scorninge as adj.: ?disdainful, scornful; (b) to bring (sth.) into contempt. …

(a) To remove (an outer layer, skin, etc.) with a scraping instrument; scrapen awei (of); scrapen oute of, remove (sth.) from (a place); (b) to make erasures; erase (writing, written material) with a……

(a) To besiege (a city, stronghold, etc.), lay siege to; besiege (sb. in a fortified place); segen abouten (enviroun); (b) ppl. seging, besieging, laying siege; (c) to beset (sb.); segen abouten……

(a) To follow after; follow (sb., a group), walk behind; also fig.; be guided by (a star, a blind person); seuen after, come behind; also, follow (sb.); seuen bestes, drive (a team); seuinge hire fet……

(a) To escape; (b) to run obliquely or at an angle; skeuing to, ?slanting across (the forehead). …

To move quickly, run; leap (into a saddle); ginnen skillen (awei. …

To level off (grain) with the rim of the measure. …

Of a hawk: to wipe (the beak) clean of food. …

(a) To pull at (sb., a soul), tug; also fig.; (b) to do battle, fight, struggle; also, attack (sb.); toilen up, destroy (a town); ben toiled, of Jesus: be assailed (by torments); (c) to struggle with……

(a) In phrase: tukken le mein, ?to shake hands, i.e., strike a bargain [could also be construed as OF]; (b) tukken up, to sound a blast on (a trumpet). …

(a) To afflict (sb. or sth.) physically; ben vexed, be afflicted (by sickness, frost, the pangs of love, etc.); also, of the spirit: be agitated or disturbed (by sth.); ppl. vexede, of someone’s……

(a) To offer surety (for sb. that he will not do sth.), guarantee;—also refl.; also, ?offer security or certainty [2nd quot.] (b) to give (sth.) as a pledge or as surety; also, pay (a ransom,……

(a) To cry out in sorrow, wail, lament;—also refl.; also, have or feel sorrow, be sorrowful; waimenten after, cry for (sth.), ?long in sorrow for; (b) to bewail (sth.), lament. …

(a) To direct one’s gaze, look; gaze (out a window or cave opening); waiten abouten, waiten him umbe, etc (b) to fasten one’s gaze (on sb. or sth.), look (at sb. or sth.); stare (into sth.); (c) to……

Of a horse: to gallop; of a rider: ride at a gallop; ppl. waloping, galloping. …

To act as protector, afford protection [quot. a1470, 2nd]; protect (sb. or sth., oneself), shield; also, guarantee the safety of (sth.), guard; save (sb. from death), rescue. …

(a) To stand guard, keep watch; protect (against sth.), guard; also in fig. context; also, defend oneself [last quot.] (b) to protect (sb. or sth., oneself), defend, guard; protect (sb. or sth.……

(a) To be mindful, be aware; waren of, be knowledgeable concerning (sth.), be skilled in; ware him his fal is nexte his honde, let him be mindful his fall is at hand (b) to be mindful of (sth.),……

(a) To regain one’s health or happiness, get well, recover; recover (from pain, sickness, etc.) (b) to effect a cure; also, effect the reversal of a magical transformation; effect a cure (for an……

(a) To give notice of some existing circumstance or a past or coincident event, make something known (b) to inform (sb., sb. of sth.), notify, advise; (c) to announce (sth. to sb.), proclaim,……

(a) To furnish (a city, castle, etc.) with supplies of foodstuffs or with men, provision, garrison; also, man (boats); equip (a house) for defense, fortify, make secure (b) in Biblical usage: ppl. wa……

(a) To girth or harness (a horse);—used in fig. context; (b) to bind (sb.), fetter; (c) to stabilize (a fractured limb) by securing splints around it with twisted cords. …

To abandon (the field of battle). …

(a) To wage war, go to war; attack, do battle, fight, harry; werreien forth; werreien samen, wage mutual war, fight each other (b) werreien ayen (ayenes), to engage in war against (sb., a city),……