| alesing | Release; redemption. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| all-holy | Entirely or infinitely holy. Also as n.: an entirely or infinitely holy person or thing; (now only) spec. (with the) God. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| all-might | Omnipotence, almightiness. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| allophyle | A member of another tribe; a foreigner, an alien. rare. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| arseling(s | Backwards. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| aseek | To seek for, search after. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| aslide | To slide, slip away. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| aspide | By-form of asp n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| atlead | trans. To lead or take away (with dat. = from). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| aught | Anything whatever; anything. In interrogative, negative, and conditional contexts. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bale | Evil, especially considered in its active operation, as destroying, blasting… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bedo | trans. To put to, to shut. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bee | A well-known insect, or rather genus of insects, of the Hymenopterous order, living… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| beflee | trans. To flee from, flee, avoid, shun. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bename | trans. To declare or utter solemnly or on oath; to promise with an oath. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bend | To constrain or bring into tension by a string (a bow, an arbalest, a catapult, etc.)… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bifel-e | trans. To commit, entrust, consign, grant. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bishophood | The office, condition, dignity, or rank of a bishop. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bold | Of persons: Stout-hearted, courageous, daring, fearless; the opposite of ‘timid’… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| briche | Useful, serviceable. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bryche | Breakable, fragile; broken down. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| cassia | An inferior kind of cinnamon, esp. the bark obtained from Cinnamomum Cassia; thicker… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| cedar | A well-known evergreen conifer, the Pinus Cedrus of Linnæus, Abies Cedrus, Cedrus Libani… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| chare | trans. To turn; esp. to turn aside or away (also with by); to lead aside; to drive away. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| comely | Of things. (? orig. Delicately fashioned.) Hence, in later times affected by b. and sense 3. arch. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| cook | The domestic officer charged with the preparation of food for a great household, monastery, college, ship, etc. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| coolness | The fact or condition of being or feeling cool; cool quality or sensation. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| couth | Clearly, manifestly; familiarly. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| crack | intr. To make a sharp noise in the act of breaking, or as in breaking; to make a sharp… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| drast | (mostly pl.) Dregs, lees; fæces, refuse, residue. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| dreep | intr. To fall in drops, to drip. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| drench | trans. To make to drink; to administer drink to; now spec. to administer a draught of… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| drop | Of a liquid: To fall in drops or globules; to exude or distil in drops. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| dropping | The action of falling or letting fall in drops. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| edmede | Gentleness, humility. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| edmede | Humble. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| evenness | Of the administration of justice: Equitableness, impartiality. †Formerly in wider use: Equity, righteousness. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ever | A wild boar. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| evil | trans. To do evil to; to harm or injure; to ill-treat; to affect with disease. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| faken | Deceitful, fraudulent. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fat | trans. As lit. rendering of Hebrew dishshēn, Vulgate impinguare: To anoint, ‘make fat’… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fatherless | Having no father. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fatness | The condition of having the flesh interspersed with fat; plumpness, fullness of flesh, corpulence. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fele | In Middle English: Proper, of the right sort, good. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| felefold | = manifold adv. Also absol. in by felefold: by a great deal, many times over. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| flite | Contention, strife, a dispute; also, abuse, an abusive speech. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| forhide | trans. To hide. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fornean | Nearly, almost. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| forthink | intr. To be reluctant. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| forthward | For the future onwards. Also, ay, (from) hence, now, then forthward; from that or this day or time forthward. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| forwhy | As direct interrog. For what reason? Why? | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| frith-stool | A seat, usually of stone, formerly placed near the altar in some churches… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| gainchare | A return, way of returning, means of escape. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| gane | intr. To open the mouth wide, to gape or yawn. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| gilded | Overlaid wholly or in parts with a thin coating of gold. Gilded Chamber: the House… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gospel | intr. To preach the gospel. rare. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| gramely | Angrily, furiously, grievously. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| heascen | trans. To mock, deride, taunt. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| heavy | In a heavy manner; with weight, lit. and fig.; ponderously; massively; burdensomely, oppressively. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hight | intr. To hope, anticipate something with hope or joy; to rejoice, exult. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hinderling | The backward direction: only in the Old English adv. phr. on hinderling backward. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| his | The absolute form of prec., used when no noun follows: = His one, his ones. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| holde | Graciously, kindly; loyally, faithfully. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hound-fly | A fly troublesome to dogs: cf. dogfly n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-rede | Prepared, ready. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-stink | trans. To smell, perceive by smell. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| knave | A boy or lad employed as a servant; hence, a male servant or menial in general; one… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| lease | intr. To tell lies. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| lick | Frequent in phrases expressive of actions referred to allusively or fig., as to lick one's fingers… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| longsomeness | Tedious lengthiness; †tardiness (Sc.). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| mother child | A mother's child. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| mown | Cut down with a scythe or a mowing machine. Also, of a tract of land: that has had… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| outland | A foreign land. Now arch. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| pelican | In early and biblical use: a bird of uncertain identity, associated with the… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| psalterium | A small ancient or medieval stringed instrument, trapezoidal or rectangular in shape… | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| quickly | In a living or lively manner; with animation; vigorously. Also: with strong feeling; sensitively. Obs. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| ripe | Ripeness. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| ruly | Expressive of pain or sorrow; woeful; wretched, pitiful. | 1050 | Go To Quotation |
| salt-marsh | Marsh overflowed or flooded by the sea; spec. one in which the sea water is collected… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| salt water | (with stress salt ˈwater). Water impregnated with salt; sea-water. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| seaway | A way over the sea; the sea as a means of communication; the open sea. Also (nonce-use) a channel made for the sea. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sharp | In a sharp manner, = sharply adv. in various senses; †shrilly; †niggardly, stingily.… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| shode | The crown of the head; the parting of the hair. Cf. shed n. 2. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| spurn | To strike against something with the foot; to trip or stumble. Also fig. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| swing | Labour, toil. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| swother | intr. To sleep, slumber; also, to swoon. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| teenful | Causing trouble or sorrow; vexatious, troublesome, painful, grievous, distressing. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| thin | trans. To stretch out, extend. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| truly | Faithfully, loyally, constantly, with steadfast allegiance. arch. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| turtle | = turtle-dove n. 1 (Often mentioned as a type of conjugal affection and constancy: cf. 2.) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| uneven | = unevenly adv. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| walled | Furnished with or as with a wall, enclosed with a wall. Of a town, etc.: Surrounded… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| water-stream | A stream or current of water; a river or brook; †a flood. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| weila | Alas! | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| whatliche | Quickly. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| winly | Pleasantly, agreeably; finely, splendidly. (Often vague in alliterative verse.) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| wisly | Certain. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| wisly | Certainly, surely; assuredly; verily. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| yfastened | set fast, fixed, fastened. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
