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

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

(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) A treasured object, valuable possession; also, a gift or reward; (b) coll. treasure, valuables, movable possessions; (c) gold and gersum, etc. [See also gold n., sense 2.] …

(a) A feast, banquet; aleth gestening, an ale feast; cold gestening, a cheerless banquet, a feast without food; (b) the Last Supper; also fig. heaven. …

Shining brightness; radiance. …

To fight (sb.), struggle with. …

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

(a) Iron, as ore, metal, or commodity; of iren, made of iron or consisting of iron parts; (b) a piece of iron; things made of iron; (c) filinge (limature) of iren, iron filings; filth (rust) of iren……

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

A derivational suffix in abstract nouns derived from OE or ON: brud-lac, fair-lek, fight-lak, freo-lac, godleic, grimme-leȝȝc, haȝherleȝc, meklac, reflac, wedlok, etc. In ME formations it is……

That part of the sides of the body of a man or quadruped between the ribs and thighs; the flank. …

(a) Gentle, quiet, unaggressive; of a woman: modest; of eyes: soft; mek and milde, milde and mek; (b) full of loving kindness, benevolent, kind, sweet; mek and milde, milde and mek, mek and minde; (c)……

An affliction, a misery; affliction, privation, want. …

A common prefix, frequent in words of OE origin, esp. verbs: ofanimen, oflien, ofrechen, ofsen, ofsenden, ofsetten, ofslen, ofstingen, ofthenchen, ofthinken, etc.; also participles: oflonged,……

A piece of land detached from common land; -- often in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.7]. [Delete the entry ave-names n.(pl.).] …

(a) Combat, struggle; (b) law the right of jurisdiction over cases involving trial by combat; (c) by misunderstanding of (b): the liberty of entering woods or lands; (d) by false etymologizing [cp. or……

A kind of iron, made chiefly in Sweden; also a standard-size piece of such iron; fals osmund, a counterfeit piece of such iron; trencher osmund, a knife made of such iron. …

A rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia). …

(a) To lift up (sb. or sth.), hold up; engage in lifting and carrying [quot.: 1446]; reisen up; reisen eien, reisen up eie-sight, look up; reisen eres, of an elephant: stretch out the ears; reisen up……

A rowan-tree berry. …

(a) To brag, boast; claim (that one can do sth.); claim (oneself to be sth. or to be able to do sth.); rosen of (o), boast about (sth.); (b) refl. to boast (that one can do sth. or has done sth., that……

To make a loud noise, resound; of a storm: rage, roar; of wind: howl. …

To become flushed from strong emotion. …

(a) Hairy, shaggy-haired; of hair: shaggy, bristly; (b) of clothing: tattered, ragged; (c) of a metal nail: ?blunt; ?crudely made. …

Refl. To rush (to do sth.). …

(a) To make a rumbling sound; (b) to make a low noise; murmur, mumble, mutter; (c) of a crowd: to make noise or tumult; (d) to move with a rumbling sound; (e) to cause a rumbling sound by movement. …

(a) The rump of a quadruped mammal; also, the tail; also, an animal rump as food for a hawk; (b) the rump of a person, posterior; (c) as surname. …

A wrinkle, crease, fold; also, as adj., of an animal's neck: wrinkled with folds. …

(a) To start (game); (b) rusken up, to root up (sth.); (c) of a bird: ?to ruffle (its feathers); (d) in surname. …

(a) The crown or top of the head; (b) the skull; (c) as surname. …

(a) A rocky cliff, precipice; a crag, jagged outcropping; (b) a crag or rock formation rising out of the sea; (c) in surname and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.124]. …

(a) A pottery fragment, shard; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.124]. …

(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) The feeling of having offended against propriety or decency; the feeling of having done something disgraceful; an instance of such feeling; embarrassment or revulsion caused by awareness of one's……

(a) To clear (sb., oneself of a crime or misdeed); -- also without obj. [1st quot.]; exonerate (oneself), exculpate; defend (oneself) from a charge or an accusation; skeren hire of him, clear herself……

Suddenly, swiftly. …

(a) To jump, leap, spring; skip or jump in play, caper; also, jump from writhing [quot.: ?c1425]; ?also, cause (sb.) to jump from beating [quot.: a1450 Yk.Pl.]; (b) skippen oute, to spring forth……

(a) To shriek with pain, fear, or grief; scream, screech; also used of a frightened bird or chicken; (b) to scream with anger or excitement; also used of a snake and a scorpion; (c) of a baby or an……

(a) An upright bar in a rack for hay or fodder; hacche staver; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.141, 142]. …

(a) A jug, often made of leather; also, a measure for liquids, varying from one pint to several gallons; (b) a vessel or container for holy water; holi water stoupe. …

(a) As; ?also, error for soth adj. [quot. a1225]; sum that, where [cp. as conj. 10.]; as fer sum, so fer..sum, insofar as; so (as) sum, as, just as; also, as though [quot.Orm .3694]; swich (al-swich)……

As anaph. or pers. pron.: (a) the persons referred to, they; (b) used pleonastically or for emphasis; (c) with antecedent in apposition following; (d) as obj. of verb or prep.: them, those; (e) with……

(a) Used anaphorically, pointing to previously mentioned persons, things, actions, etc.: these, they; also, these, them [quots. 1st & c1450(?a1400)]; alle thir; also, pointing to one of two previously……

(a) To go, step, proceed; trinen forth (in, on, up); trinen a (heigh) trot, trinen on a (gret) trot, go speedily, go at a smart pace; (b) to approach (sth.), go near to; trinen a trace, make one's way……

(a) ?A sorcerer or demon;—used in fig. context; (b) in surnames and place name [see Smith PNElem.2.188]. …

(a) One of two children born at a single birth, a twin; a pair of children or animal progeny born at a single birth, twins; twinling of men (wommen), a male (female) twin; twinling of notes or of……

Cardinal number as adj.: (a) two; also, with diminished force in generalizing phrase: a furlong or twin [could also be construed as sense 2.(a)]; (b) double, dual; twofold; of two kinds; having two……

Suppurated matter, pus, ichor; ?also, ear wax [2nd quot.]. …

Lacking physical rigidity, flexible, pliant [glossing L flexibilis, lentus]; also, thin, slender. …

To become feeble or deranged. …

(a) Water as a naturally occurring substance; water as a medium for preparing recipes, soaking, etc.; also, a fluid with properties similar to those of water (b) a naturally occurring body of water,……

(a) A sapling; also fig.; a cutting; also, a branch; tre (treen) wond; under wond, in the woods; wode wond, coll. branches (b) in stock similes and prov. expressions; (c) wond penies, a customary……

(a) To give alms, gifts, etc., give something voluntarily, make a gift; give generously (to sb.); give alms, gifts, etc. (to sb.) in response to a request; also, in partitive construction: yeven of……