(a) A communication conveyed by a messenger or in a ballad; a message; don message, to deliver a message; maken message, send a message; (b) a message borne from a king or lord; an official message……

Adopted, taken over;—applied to words used figuratively. …

Secretly, stealthily. …

(a) Made in Flanders or by Flemings, made according to a Flemish style or pattern; (b) Flaundrish occean, the North Sea. …

Living. …

Wisdom; skil witnes, reason, intelligence [perh. based on misunderstanding of skil-wisnes n.]. …

(a) Eradication (of heresy); (b) removal (of an abscess) by excision or the application of corrosives. …

(a) Extinguished; (b) of mental faculties: blotted out, dead; (c) of a class of people: eradicated, eliminated; (c) of a debt: ?repaid. …

Exceedingly great, monstrous. …

Necessarily. …

(a) A female swan, a brood swan; (b) fig. in allegorical context. …

To fail to merit (poor treatment), not deserve; ppl. unasserved, undeserved. …

A baron. …

(a) A rod or switch for flogging; (b) fig. a source of tribulation, scourge. …

(a) One who distributes alms for another; an official distributor of alms; a servant at a meal who distributes food (either left over or set aside for the purpose) to the poor; (b) as a personal name……

Law To carry out or put into effect; enforce (a law), execute (a sentence); also, issue (a warrant, etc.). …

(a) To change the clothing or appearance of (sb.), disguise; ?also, despoil (sb.) of array; (b) refl. to put oneself in disarray, behave in a disordered manner, behave madly. …

Law Excepted, exempt; forprised out; forprised and except, exempted and excepted. …

(a) To pack, pack up; ?also, lade a ship, make ready to sail [last quot. & perh. 1st]; also, refl. pack oneself up, get oneself ready to go; (b) to apply a truss to the body. …

The act, ceremony, or sacrament of baptism; the fact of being baptized; also fig.; bapteme water, water of bapteme, water used in baptism; ben hight in bapteme, be given a Christian name; name of……