(a) The letter A of the alphabet; cp. a-per-se; (b) the letter A used in enumeration, in labeling a diagram or a square on the chess board, the recto of a folio, a star, etc.; (c) the dominical letter……

River, stream; -- in names of streams and places [see EPNSoc. 1 (pt. 1.1) & 5 (pp. 161, 165)]. …

Referring to an unspecified, or as yet unspecified, member of a class or representative of a type; -- (a) as the first unit in a noun phrase [the usual construction]; (b) before an adj. modifying a……

Unstressed var. of on & of in early ME. …

(a) In various phrases taken from OF; see a- pref. (2) 3; (b) in surnames derived from place names, such as a Becket, Anorthbrok. …

And; -- linking (a) noun phrases, (b) verb phrases, (c) sentences; (d) introducing a sentence. …

An exclamation used in a great variety of situations to express attitudes and emotions ranging from admiration to scorn and from joy to grief, or simply to attract attention; -- (a) alone; (b) before……

In the year of our Lord. …

In verbs inherited from OE:(a) From OE ā-: a-biden, a-breken, a-fallen, a-reren, a-risen, a-senden, a-waken, a-winnen, and many others. (b) From OE on-: a-biden (also an-biden), ppl. a-knoue(n (also……

From early ME a prep., derived from unstressed an before nouns, adjs., and advs. beginning with a consonant [OE on, an]. (a) Orig. noun phrases: a-beggeþ, a-bedde, a-blode, a-clokke, a-dai(es,……

Occasional variant of i- [OE ge-] in past ppls. and in some other words, as anough beside inough, enough; aware beside iware. …

Irritated, upset. …

In weaving: the woof. …

One who performs calculations with an abacus, an arithmetician. …

Abacus, the instrument, and the art of calculating with it. …

Rouse to anger, provoke. …

(a) The act or occasion of keeping a hunted animal at bay by barking dogs; (b) the confrontation of hounds and the carcass of slain prey (the former encouraged to lunge and bark at the latter); (c) of……

(a) Of hunting dogs: to bay or bark beside a hunted or slain animal; (b) to bark; (c) of a person: to bark (at sb.), speak rudely. …

Barking; -- used fig. …

(a) To furnish bail or surety; (b) to pay bail to (sb. for deliverance of a prisoner). …

Lack of composure, ?fear. …

(a) Lowering (of prices); (b) embarrassment, dread, fear. …

(a) To lose one's composure, be upset; -- refl. & intr.; (b) ben abaished, be upset or perplexed (as by fear, shame, surprise); contextually: be afraid, embarrassed, surprised; (c) waxen (becomen)……

Bewilderment, dismay. …

(a) A setting on (of dogs), pursuit; (b) excitement; power to excite. …

(a) To incite; to set (a dog on game); (b) to excite (the flesh), make eager. …

(a) Of motion: to the rear, backward, back; away; gon bak, stirten abak, throuen abak, fallen abak; drauen abak, withdraw; (b) of direction: back; loken abak; speken abak, reply; (c) of position……

(a) Backward; drauen or ten abakward, pull back; retreat; loken abakward, look back; turnen abakward, reverse; (b) toward a worse state; gon abakward, degenerate. …

(a) To give up or surrender (sth.); (b) to discard (sth.), cast off; (c) to dispense (sth.) with abandon, give away without restraint; (d) to give (sb) up for lost, despair of saving. …

Control; under abandoun, under (one's) control; yeven (putten) in or to abandoun, put at (someone's) disposal. …

(a) Under control, at one's will; (b) at will, unchecked; (c) freely, fully. …

Surrender. …

Down, low; maken abas melodie, to stop singing. …

Fortified. …

Battlement. …

(a) Lessening, loss; (b) impairment, infringement; (c) lowering (of prices), depreciation; deficiency, as in the weight of a coin; a deduction for light weight; (d) law the quashing of a suit or writ……

(a) To knock down or demolish (a wall, etc.); (b) to knock (sb.) down; strike down or defeat (an enemy); (c) strike (sail); cast down (a banner). …

(a) Something that alleviates pain, an analgesic; (b) a destroyer. …

(a) Decrease or loss; (b) impairment; (c) of the sun, a planet: decline, esp. with respect to influence. …

(a) To feel fear, surprise, etc.; (b) ppl. abaved, upset by fear, surprise, or wonder; afraid, embarrassed, puzzled, or amazed [largely contextual]. …

Father! -- addressed to God & to an abbot. …

Pertaining to an abbey or an abbess. …

?Down on the ground. …

(a) The office, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot; (b) an abbey. …

Abbess. …

The office, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot, abbacy. …

A woman superior of a convent of nuns. …

Deviation, disagreement. …

Abbess. …

Abbacy. …

The office, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess; an abbacy. …

(a) The superior of a convent of monks having the status of an abbey; (b) = abba, q.v. …

Some kind of horn, an abbot's hunting horn. …

A loaf of bread of some kind. …

The office of abbot. …

(a) Shortness; (b) abridgement (of a story, etc.); an abstract or summary. …

Shorten or abstract (a story, a set of plays, etc.); shorten (a period of time). …

An alphabet, esp. the Latin alphabet of 22 letters (lacking k and w, and distinct characters for j and v) arranged in fixed sequence; abece of Grew, abece of Hebru, abece of Latine men. …

A spelling book or primer. …

To feed, as the mother bird feeds a nestling. …

In bed, to bed: (a) with ref. to sleep or rest; laien, bringen abedde, put to bed; (b) with ref. to amorous affairs. …

To present or deliver (a message). …

gon abeggeþ, go begging. …

gon abegging, go begging. …

(a) To bend (down); abeien face, incline the head; (b) to bow in homage (to sb.). …

To grow bold. …

(a) Obliquely, slantwise; (b) ?as adj.: oblique. …

(a) To anger or incense (sb.); (b) to grow angry; warþ abolwen, became angry or incensed; was abelȝen, was enraged or incensed. …

(a) In an able manner, competently, effectively; (b) fittingly, suitably, appropriately. …

On a bench; at table, in court. …

Sun-dried or salt codfish. …

Gesture, sign. …

bringen abere, bring to the bier, cause to die. …

(a) Bear up, raise (sth.); aberen up; (b) aberen wæstm, fig. bear fruit [ref. to salvation]. …

Law god abering, good behavior, proper conduct. …

To burn up (sth.), consume in flames. …

(a) To knock (out teeth); (b) to strike down or humble (pride). …

Incitement to evil; urging. …

Instigation to, or connivance in, an offense or crime. …

(a) To urge or incite (sb. to evil); encourage or abet (wrong-doing); (b) to encourage (sb.); promote (well-being). …

Urging, encouragement, abetting. …

One who encourages or supports an offender. …

Of a thing, a sight, a disease, an action, etc.: physically loathsome, disgusting, repulsive; abhominable to the stomak, nauseating. …

(a) In an abominable manner, disgustingly; (b) disgustingly, extremely. …

(a) Physical loathing, disgust, nausea; abhominacioun of wlatsomnesse, nausea; haven abhominacioun of, to be disgusted or nauseated by (sth.); abhominacioun of stomak; (b) moral abhorrence; haven……

Abhorrent, detestable. …

Loathing. …

(a) To shrink from (sth.) physically, loathe, dislike; (b) to shrink from or dread (death, adversity, etc.); (c) to regard (sth.) with repugnance, detest, abhor. …

To pray; pray for (sth.). …

A delay, tarrying. …

(a) To wait, be patient; (b) abiding time, a period of waiting; (c) impers. it abod not long er, it was not until; (d) in proverbs. …

(a) One who stays in a place, a sojourner, a dweller; (b) one who is constant or steadfast, one who perseveres. …

Tarrying, delay, hesitation; withouten abiding, without delay, immediately. …

Over a long period of time; continually, unceasingly; with perseverence, steadfastly. …

(a) To buy or pay for (sth.), obtain at the cost of labor or suffering; abien bargain, pay for a purchase; fig. pay the penalty for an action; abien time, pay interest on money; abien dere (bitter(li,……

A kind of hawk. …