| abut | intr. To stick out, to project. Cf. butt v. 4a. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| achate | = agate n. 2. Now rare. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| achesoun | Reason, motive, occasion; = encheason n. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| acquit | To pay the debt of and free (a debtor who has been held in prison); to ransom (a… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| adoted | Doting, foolish, silly. Also as n.: foolish people. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| adventure | A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| adversity | Adverse fortune, condition, or circumstance; a state opposed to well-being… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| affection | The action or result of affecting the mind in some way; a mental state brought about by any influence; an emotion, feeling. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| agrue | trans. (impers.). To cause to shudder, to horrify. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| air | An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| alas | Used to express grief, pity, regret, disappointment, or concern. Also with for, †to. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| amaister | To master, control, subdue; to teach. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| ampul | A small bottle or flask; a phial. Obs. in general sense. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| anchor | trans. To secure (the ship) with an anchor; to place at, or bring to, anchor. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| anguishous | actively, Fraught with anguish, attended with much suffering; tormenting, distressing. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| annoy | A mental state akin to pain arising from the involuntary reception of impressions, or… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| areim-en | To set at large, liberate. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| arm | fig. (from 2) of things immaterial. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| a-row | Of time or order: In succession, one after another, successively. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| aspy | = espy v. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| asquint | (To look) to one side instead of straight forward; obliquely, out at the corners of the eyes. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| assoin(e | trans. To excuse; to offer or put in an excuse for non-appearance of. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| astate | | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| aswelt | intr. To perish, die, become extinct. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| atbreak | intr. (with dat.) To break away, escape (from). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| at once | At one and the same time; simultaneously. (At first scarcely distinguishable from the prec.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| attent | Intention, aim, purpose. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| atterness | Malignity, bitterness. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ave | Short for Ave Maria n., q.v. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| Ave Maria | The Hail Mary! the angelic salutation to the Virgin (Luke i. 28), combined with that… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| awly | Awfully, terribly, dreadfully. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| baban | A baby, an infant; (also) a doll. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| back- | attrib. Of or pertaining to the back, used for or carried on the back, e.g. back-ache, back-cloth… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| backbiter | One who backbites; a slanderer or secret calumniator. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bag | A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| barrat | Trouble, distress, sorrow, grief, pain. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bat | A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) arch.… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| beadsman | lit. A man of prayer; one who prays for the soul or spiritual welfare of another. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| beak | trans. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bebleed | To cover, or stain with blood, make bloody. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| bedwele(n | trans. To mislead, lead into error. | 1205 | Go To Quotation |
| beforehand | In anticipation of something so as to be ready for it; in advance. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| beforesaid | Mentioned, or treated of before or already. Now arch. or Obs., its place being taken by aforesaid adj. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| beg | trans. To ask (bread, money, etc.) in alms or as a charitable gift; to procure (one's living) by begging. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| beggar | One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| beguile | trans. To entangle or over-reach with guile; to delude, deceive, cheat. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bell | intr. To swell up (like a boil). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| berain | trans. To rain upon. (Chiefly in pa. pple.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bested | Placed in some situation, situated, circumstanced; generally with ill, and the like. to be hard… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| beswinkful | Toilsome. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| bewrap | trans. To wrap up, clothe, cover, envelop. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| biheve | Behoof; advantage. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| bipil(en | trans. To deprive of the peel or bark. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| birewness | Commiseration, compassion, ruth, pity. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| bisaumple | To moralize (about); bring forward ‘instances’ in illustration, palliation, etc. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bithynch | impers. To seem right or good. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| bitrufle | trans. To befool, delude. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| biwrench(e | To cheat, deceive. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| blasphemy | Profane speaking of God or sacred things; impious irreverence. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| blaze | intr. To burn with a bright fervent flame. Often with away, forth, out. to blaze up: to burst or flash into a blaze. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bleeding | Losing or emitting blood, or transf. sap. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| blindfold | To cover the eyes, esp. with a bandage. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| blindfolding | The action of covering up the eyes; hoodwinking; the apparatus used in the action; the state produced. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bollen | Swollen; inflated, puffed up. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bolt | To spring back, rebound, recoil; to fall violently backward. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| bounce | trans. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| brooch | An ornamental fastening, consisting of a safety pin, with the clasping part fashioned into… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| buffet | A blow, stroke; now usually one given with the hand. †pl. Fisticuffs (rare). blindman('s) buffet… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| buffet | trans. To beat, strike, esp. with the hand; to thump, cuff, knock about. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| burgess | An inhabitant of a borough; strictly, one possessing full municipal rights; a citizen, freeman of a borough. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| busyship | Busy state or quality; bustling activity; = busyness n. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| buying | The action of buy v.; purchase. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| cackle | A cackler. (Or ? adj. cackling.) | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| cackle | Said of the chattering of other birds, esp. crows, jackdaws, magpies, and starlings. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| cader | A cradle. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| cage | A box or place of confinement for birds and other animals (or, in barbarous times… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| canonial | = canonical adj. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| capital | Of or relating to the head or top. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| carving | The action of the verb carve v., in various senses. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| catch | esp. To capture or lay hold of (that which tries or would try to escape, as a man or… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| cellar | In general sense. A storehouse or storeroom, whether above or below ground, for… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| chaffer | Traffic, trade; buying and selling, dealing. Obs. exc. as in 1b. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| challenge | trans. To accuse, bring a charge against, arraign, impeach. Also absol. Obs. (or ? dial.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| chamber | A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| champion | A fighting man, a combatant; a stout fighter, a man of valour. Also fig. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| change | The act of changing (see change v. 6 7); alteration in the state or quality of anything… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| charge | A (material) load, burden, weight. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| chaste | Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; continent, virtuous. (Of persons, their lives, conduct, etc.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| chastiment | Chastisement, correction, punishment. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| chattering | That chatters (in various senses of the verb). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| cherte | Dearness, tenderness, fondness, affection; esp. in phr. to have (or hold) in chertee. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| childene | Of the nature of children, childish. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| circumstance | pl. The logical surroundings or ‘adjuncts’ of an action; the time, place, manner… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| city | orig. A town or other inhabited place. Not a native designation, but app. at first… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| clap | The clapper of a mill; = clack n. 3, clapper n. 1 clap and hopper (Sc.): ‘the… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| clause | A short sentence; a single passage or member of a discourse or writing; a distinct part… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| cleche | A clutch. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| clergess | A female scholar, a learned woman. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| clove-gillyflower | The spice clove n. 1. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| clutch | The claw of a beast or bird of prey, or of a fiend: mostly in pl. claws, talons… | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| comfort | Strengthening; encouragement, incitement; aid, succour, support, countenance. upon comfort of… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| confiteor | A form of prayer, or confession of sins (Confiteor Deo Omnipotenti, I confess to… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| consense | Consent. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| consent | Voluntarily to accede to or acquiesce in what another proposes or desires; to agree… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| contumace | = contumacy n.; also, a pronouncing a person to be in contumacy. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| costen | = cost v. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| counsel | Opinion as to what ought to be done given as the result of consultation; aid or… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| coverture | A bed-cover, coverlet, or quilt. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| covet | To desire with concupiscence or with fleshly appetite. Obs. (or merged in sense 3). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| cowe | Obs. = chough n. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| crooked | Bent from the straight form; having (one or more) bends or angles; curved, bent… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| cruel | Severe, strict, rigorous. Obs. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| cruelty | The quality of being cruel; disposition to inflict suffering; delight in or indifference… | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| cubbel | Something fastened to a beast as a clog. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| culvertship | Villainy, treachery, perfidy. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| dainty | Estimation, honour, favour (in which anything is held); esteem, regard; affection, love. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| danger | Power of a lord or master, jurisdiction, dominion; power to dispose of, or to hurt or harm; esp.… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| dangerous | Difficult or awkward to deal with; haughty, arrogant; rigorous, hard, severe: the opposite of affable. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| debonair | Pleasant and affable in outward manner or address; often in mod. quots. connoting gaiety of heart. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| debonairty | Debonair character or disposition; mildness, gentleness, meekness; graciousness, kindness; courtesy, affability. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| debtor | One who owes an obligation or duty. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| default | (with a and pl.) A failure in duty; a wrong act or deed; a fault, misdeed, offence; = fault n. 5. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| delight | The fact or condition of being delighted; pleasure, joy, or gratification felt in a high degree. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| demur | intr. To linger, tarry, wait; fig. to dwell upon something. Obs. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| depaint | trans. To represent or portray in colours, to paint; to depict; to delineate. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| descrive | = describe v. 2. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| desperance | Despair. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| destroy | To lay waste, ravage, make desolate. Obs. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| devout | Devoted to divine worship or service; solemn and reverential in religious exercises; pious, religious. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| dimly | In a dim manner; in or with a dim light; obscurely; somewhat darkly; faintly, indistinctly. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| dirge | In the Latin rite: The first word of the antiphon at Matins in the Office of the Dead, used… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| discipline | Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| discomfit | trans. To undo in battle; to defeat or overthrow completely; to beat, to rout. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| dolk | A wound, a scar. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| double | Having a twofold relation or application; occurring or existing in two ways or respects… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| dreadful | Full of dread, fear, or awe; fearful, terrified, timid; reverential. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| dreadly | = dreadful adj. 1 2. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| dry-footed | Having dry feet; with the feet not wetted; =prec. i. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| dwele | A going astray; error, delusion, deceit. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| earn | Earnestly, longingly. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ease | Opportunity, means or ability to do something (cf. easy adj. 1). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| embreve | trans. To make a formal entry of; to inscribe. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| enjoin | In early use: To impose (a penalty, task, duty, or obligation); said esp. of a spiritual… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| entermete | refl. To concern or occupy oneself, intermeddle, take part; to have dealings or… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| estudy | = study v. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| evesong | = evensong n. 1; also gen. (perh. transf.) a song sung at eventide. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| excuse | To attempt to clear (a person) wholly or partially from blame, without denying or justifying his imputed action. Chiefly refl. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| falling | Syntactical Combinations. falling-disease, falling-evil (see evil adj. 7b), falling-ill… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| fame | The character attributed to a person or thing by report or generally entertained; reputation. Usually in good sense. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| fawn | intr. Of an animal, esp. a dog: To show delight or fondness (by wagging the tail, whining, etc.) as a dog does. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| fawning | Said of animals: see fawn v. 1. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| fay | trans. ? To adorn. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| feer | A price. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| fellowred | The condition or state of being fellows or companions; companionship, company… | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| fickle | intr. To flatter. Also to fickle with. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| fig | The fruit of the fig-tree or Ficus, esp. the fruit of the Ficus carica. figs of Pharaoh… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| fighting | The action of fight v. in various senses; an instance of the same. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| figure | A numerical symbol. Originally, and still chiefly, applied to the ten symbols of… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| file | To remove (roughnesses, part of a surface, etc.) by filing. Now only with away, off. Also fig. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| flacker | = flatter v. Obs. rare. (Perh. a corrupt reading; cf. however the similar sense of flicker v.) | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| flower | fig. Also with out, into. to flower off: (of reflexions) to arise spontaneously in the treatment of a subject. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| fool | Foolish, silly. Now colloq. (freq. in U.S.). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| forfret | trans. To devour, gnaw; to eat up or into, corrode. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| forkulie | trans. To blacken by heat. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| forquidder | A foreteller. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| forstop | trans. To stop; to stifle (breath); also, to dam up, in quot. fig. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| forthinking | The action of forthink v.; also, repentance. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| free will | Spontaneous or unconstrained will; unforced choice; (also) inclination to act… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| fretewil | Voracious. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| garse | A cut, incision, gash. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| gathering | That gathers, brings together, or accumulates. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| gentrice | Gentle or honourable feeling; kindness, generosity, clemency, courtesy. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| gewgaw | fig. A paltry thing of no account, a trifle. In pl. also, ‘vanities’. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| gibbet | Originally synonymous with gallows n., but in later use signifying an upright post… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| gist | A stopping-place or lodging. Also pl. a list of stopping-places or stages in a monarch's progress. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| gladful | Full of gladness or joy. Now only arch. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| gloppen | trans. To startle, frighten, astound. Chiefly in pass. pple. gloppened. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| glutton | One who eats to excess, or who takes pleasure in immoderate eating; a gormandizer. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| godhood | In early use: = godhead n. 1. Now chiefly, the state or rank of being a god. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| grace | trans. To thank. Only in pass. subj. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| grane | A snare, trap; a noose. (Cf. girn n.) | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| grant | Consent, permission. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| grant | To accede to, consent to fulfil (a request, prayer, wish, etc.). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| greatest | The superlative of great adj. adv. n. in various senses. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| Greek | a combustible composition for setting fire to an enemy's ships, works, etc.; so called… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| grief | Hardship, suffering; a kind, or cause, of hardship or suffering. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| grieve | To cause bodily discomfort or pain to (a person); to affect with pain or disease. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| grindstone | A millstone. Obs. (exc. in nonce-use). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| grinning | The action of grin v. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| grithful | Peaceful. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| grucchild | A (female) grumbler. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| gruse | trans. To munch. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| grutching | Grumbling, complaining; reluctant. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hag | fig. Applied to personifications of evil or of vice. (The place of the first quot. is uncertain.) | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| hardly | Boldly, daringly, hardily. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hardship | The quality of being hard to bear; hardness; rigour; severity; painful difficulty. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| harlot | A vagabond, beggar, rogue, rascal, villain, low fellow, knave. In later use (16–17th… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hayward | An officer of a manor, township, or parish, having charge of the fences and enclosures, esp.… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| heaven bliss | = bliss n. 2c. Also: a state or feeling of great happiness. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| Hebrewish | Somewhat Hebrew; having something of a Hebrew character. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| hereabout | About or concerning this (thing, etc.). Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hereout | Out of this place. (Of motion and position.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| heresy | Theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hid | Hidden, concealed, secret. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hiding | The action of hide v., lit. and fig.; the condition of being hidden; concealment. (Often in phr. in hiding, Sc. under hiding.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hidlings | In hidden wise, secretly. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| highing | Raising aloft, exaltation, elevation. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| highship | Elevation; high dignity; altitude. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hokerly | In a way worthy of scorn, contemptibly, ridiculously. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| holding | The action of hold v., in various senses. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hour | Ecclesiastical (pl.). The prayers or offices appointed to be said at the seven stated times… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| housewifeship | Household management; housewifery. Also in later use: the role or status of housewife. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hurt | Bodily or material injury, esp. that caused by a blow or stroke; a wound; a lesion; damage. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| hurtling | The action of the verb hurtle v.; clashing, collision, conflict; †a charge, onset; dashing, rushing, darting, etc.: see the verb. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| hypocrisy | The assuming of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, with dissimulation of real… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| i-creoiced | Crossed, signed with the cross. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ignorance | The fact or condition of being ignorant; want of knowledge (general or special). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| i-hudeket | Hooded. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| i-hwulen | intr. To have time, be at leisure. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| i-kepe | trans. To keep, receive, observe. (In quots. the sense is that of keep v. 5 6c, to watch for, wait for, intercept, ward off.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| impatience | Want of endurance; failure to bear suffering, discomfort, annoyance, etc. with equanimity; irritability, irascibility. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| incest | The crime of sexual intercourse or cohabitation between persons related within the… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| Ind | An earlier name for the country now called India (India n.); (also) Asia; the East. Now arch. and poet. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| indebted | Under obligation to another on account of some liability incurred or claim unsatisfied… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| inobedience | The withholding of obedience; = disobedience n. (Rare after 1600.) | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| inred | Very red. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| instead | Phrase. instead of, in stead of: In place of, in lieu of, in room of; for, in substitution for. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| intent | The act or fact of intending or purposing; intention, purpose (formed in the mind).… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| inwit | Conscience; inward sense of right and wrong. Also clean inwit = ‘a clean heart’. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| itching | A feeling of uneasiness or irritation in the skin, which leads to scratching: see itch v. 1. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| i-worded | Full of words, talkative, garrulous. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| James | either apostle of the name; esp. St. James the Greater, chosen as the Patron Saint of… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| judge | To form an opinion about; to exercise the mind upon (something) so as to arrive at a… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| keach-cup | A toss-pot, drunkard. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| kernel | An indentation or embrasure in the battlement of a wall; = crenel n. 1. Also pl. (rarely sing.) = battlements. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| kid | Made known, mentioned, declared, renowned; well-known; famous; notorious: see also kithe v. 5. (Freq. in alliterative poetry.) | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| kill | A stroke, blow. Obs. rare. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| kill | trans. To strike, hit; to beat, knock. Also with off, and absol. or intr. Also fig. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| lace | To fasten or tighten with, or as with, a lace or string; to tie on; to fasten the lace of.… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| largely | Copiously, abundantly; in a large measure; to a great extent; extensively, greatly, considerably, much. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| largess | Liberality, bountifulness, munificence. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| leather | trans. To cover or arm with leather. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| leprous | Of a person or part of the body: affected with leprosy (leprosy n. 1). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| lesson | Christian Church. A portion of Scripture or other sacred writing read at divine service. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| loathly | To look upon as loathly; to loathe. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| lodge | To place in tents or other temporary shelter; to encamp, station (an army). Often refl.… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| loose | Not rigidly or securely attached or fixed in place; ready to move in or come apart from… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| lowship | Lowness; humility. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| lutewiht | A little. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| malicious | Of a person, disposition, etc.: given to malice; addicted to sentiments or acts of ill… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| mate | trans. To overcome, defeat, subdue. Also fig. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| mathelild | A female chatterer, a gossip. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| matheling | That chatters. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| matter | An event, circumstance, fact, question, state or course of things, etc., which is or may… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| mercer | A person who deals in textile fabrics, esp. silks, velvets, and other fine materials; spec.… | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| messenger | A person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another; a courier. Formerly… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| metal | Usually as a mass noun. Hard, shiny, malleable material of the kind originally… | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| minor | a Franciscan friar. Also Minor Friar (obs.). | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| minstrel | gen. A servant; a functionary. Obs. rare. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| misbefall | trans. (impers.) To happen unfortunately; to turn out harmfully or badly. With dative of the person affected. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| misease | Distressed, miserable; in need. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| miserere | Psalm 51 (50 in the Vulgate), beginning Miserere mei Deus (‘Have mercy upon me, O God’)… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| misericord | Compassion, pity, mercy. Also as int. Now arch. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| mishap | Bad luck; misfortune. Now rare. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| mishappening | Misfortune. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| miskeeping | Carelessness, neglect, mistreatment; an instance of this. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| misnote | trans. To abuse, misuse. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| mispay | trans. To displease, dissatisfy; to anger, irritate. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| missaw | Evil-speaking, calumny, slander, insult; an instance of this. Also: desecration. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| mistithe | intr. To be dishonest in paying tithes. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| mitcher | A robber, a petty thief. Now hist. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| moan | Lamentation, complaint; an instance of this. Freq. in to make (one's) moan: to… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| mongling | A mixing, mingling; admixture, adulteration. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| monstrison | A display; an assembly, review, parade. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| mouled | Mouldy; rotten; decayed. Also fig.: ill-tempered (cf. mouldy adj. 2b). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| namely | Precise, proper. Obs. rare. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| narrowth | Narrowness, constraint; constriction. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| nick | intr. To make denial. rare. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| nivel | intr. To look downcast; to grimace, or wrinkle one's nose; to snivel. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| nobleman | A man of noble birth or rank; a male peer. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| noblewoman | A woman of noble birth or rank; a peeress. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ocker | The lending of money at (excessive) interest, usury; interest gained from this. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ofdraw | trans. To draw away, draw to oneself, attract. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ofseche | trans. To search for, seek out; to conduct a search of; to search for and find; to… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| open-head | = open-headed adj. 1. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ornament | An accessory or adjunct, primarily functional, but often also fancy or decorative; (in pl.… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| Our Lady day | = Lady day n. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| outcome | The act or fact of coming out. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| overcast | trans. To overthrow, overturn, cast down, upset. Also fig. Now rare. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| over-feeble | Excessively feeble, too weak. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| overfilled | That has been filled to excess or to overflowing; (of a container, etc.) containing too much. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| overforth | Very far forth, forward, or onward; directly above. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| overmuch | Too great in amount; excessive; immoderate. Also occas.: very great. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| overrun | Speed or exceptional ability in running. Obs. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| over-strong | Excessively strong (in various senses). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| overtrust | Excessive trust; overconfidence, presumption. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| overtrust | intr. To trust too much; to be overconfident. Freq. with to. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| over-trusty | Overconfident, presumptuous. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| parishen | A member of a parish community; = parishioner n. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| part | With from. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| peel | To rob or strip (a person) of possessions; to pillage or plunder (a place); (also) to… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| peril | The position or condition of being imminently exposed to the chance of injury, loss, or destruction; risk, jeopardy, danger. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| person | An individual human being; a man, woman, or child. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| pick | trans. Of a bird or (occas.) other animal: to pierce or strike with its beak or mouthparts; to peck or peck at. Also fig. Obs. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| piece | Without complement or with of. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| pilch | intr. and trans. To pick, pluck; to pilfer, rob. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| pittance | A bequest made to a religious house or order for the provision of an additional allowance… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| plaint | The action or an act of plaining; audible expression of sorrow; (also) such an expression… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| point | A critical position in the course of affairs; a decisive moment or juncture; (also) a… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| polling | The cutting of hair; shearing, cropping, clipping; an instance of this. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| praising | The action of commending or lauding a person or thing; the offering of praise to God… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| preacher | A person who preaches, esp. one whose occupation or function is to preach the (Christian)… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-eminence | Higher rank or distinction; priority of place, precedence; primacy; superiority. In early… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| prelate | A cleric of high rank and authority, as a bishop, archbishop, or the superior of a religious house or order. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| present | Something that is offered, presented, or given as a gift; = gift n. 3. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| pricking | That causes a prick or puncture; sharp, piercing, prickly. Also in fig. contexts. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| primogeniture | The fact or condition of being the firstborn child in a family. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| prison | trans. To put in a place of confinement, make a prisoner of; to keep in a prison or other… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| privily | Not openly or publicly; secretly, in secret; stealthily, craftily; discreetly… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| proof | Something that proves a statement; evidence or argument establishing a fact or the… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| proper | Suitable for a specified or implicit purpose or requirement; appropriate to the… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| properly | Correctly, rightly, duly; in an appropriate or suitable manner; respectably, with propriety or decency. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| prophecy | That which is done or spoken by a prophet; the action or practice of revealing or… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| proprement | By nature, characteristically. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| prosperity | The condition of being prosperous, successful, or thriving; good fortune, success, well-being, wealth. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| proving | A demonstrative argument; a proof. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| purgatory | Also with capital initial. A condition or place of spiritual cleansing and… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| purity | The state or quality of being morally or spiritually pure; sinlessness; freedom… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| quarrel | A short, heavy arrow or bolt with a four-sided (typically square) head for shooting from… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| quedeship | Evil, wickedness; a wicked deed. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| quench | The action or an act of quenching something (in various senses); the state or fact of being quenched. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| quickness | The quality or fact of being alive or living; life, vitality, vital principle. Now literary. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| quickship | = quickness n. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| quit | Exempt or released from an obligation, debt, etc.; free, clear. Also (more emphatically) quit and… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| quit | To pay (a debt, penalty, due, etc.). Now arch. and rare. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ragged | The ragged or rough part of something; raggedness, roughness. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| raiker | A wanderer, a traveller; a vagabond. Cf. Rome-raiker n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| reckoner | A person who or (occas.) thing which reckons (in various senses of the verb); esp. a… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| record | To learn by heart, to commit to memory, to go over in one's mind; (also) to repeat or say over… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| redely | Clearly, plainly, distinctly. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| regibbe | intr. To kick. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| relic | In the Christian Church, esp. the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches: the physical… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| renge | intr. To move in all directions over an area; = range v. 1a. Occas. trans. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| repentant | Experiencing repentance; feeling contrition or regret for past sins or actions; penitent. Also with of, for. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| restiff | Of an animal, esp. a horse: stubbornly standing still or moving backwards or sideways… | 1390 | Go To Quotation |
| riddle | trans. To separate (a person, quality, etc.) from another or others, as if with a riddle… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| roll | A piece of parchment or paper which is written upon or intended to contain writing… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| rond | A stick, a piece of firewood. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| rotted | In attributive use. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| route | A way or course taken in moving from a starting point to a destination; a regular line of… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| row | trans. To stir; to mix by stirring; to poke or rake about. Esp. in Brewing. Also intr.: to… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ruckle | trans. To pile up, heap together. Now: spec. (Eng. regional (Yorks.)) to gather (clover)… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| rule | To exercise sway or influence over; to provide guidance or direction to. Now rare except as merged with senses 4a and 4b. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ruling | The action of governing; the exercise of authority, control, or influence. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| rust | intr. Of metal (esp. iron) or a metal object: to become corroded, covered, or marked with… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| rusted | In predicative use. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| sabras | A decoction or infusion. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| sacre | To consecrate (the elements, or the body and blood of Christ) in the Mass. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| saint | pass. To be or become a saint in Heaven. Obs. or arch. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| salus | A salutation. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| salvation | The saving of the soul; the deliverance from sin and its consequences, and admission… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| scald | absol. or intr. To be scalding hot. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| scale | A drinking-bowl or cup. Obs. exc. S. Afr. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| scapulary | = scapular n. 1. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| schule | intr. To look obliquely. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| scot | intr. With in, of. To share in something. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| scrat | intr. To use the nails or claws for attack; to scratch (at a person). | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| scrow | = scroll n. 1. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| servant | A personal or domestic attendant; one whose duty is to wait upon his master or mistress… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| shaking | In the senses of the verb. Of a bog, morass, etc.: Quaking. shaking prairie, (in… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| sharpship | Hardship, rigour. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| shendfully | Ignominiously, disgracefully, infamously. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| shindle | Origin and precise meaning unknown. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| shirely | Brightly, clearly; purely. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| shooting | The action or practice of discharging missiles from a bow or gun. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| shrepe | intr. To scratch. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| shrift-father | A confessor. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| shurt | intr. To amuse oneself, to pass the time. Also refl. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| siege | A seat, esp. one used by a person of rank or distinction. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| sigaldry | Enchantment, sorcery. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| silence | The fact of abstaining or forbearing from speech or utterance (sometimes with reference… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| skere | trans. To free (a person) from blame or accusation; to acquit (one) of a penalty or charge; to clear, exculpate. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| skirm | intr. To fence, to skirmish. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| sleat | ? var. of slat v. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| sleeper | One who is inclined to sleep, or spends much time in sleep; one who sleeps (well or… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| slummy | Drowsy; inclined to slumber. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| smiter | One who smites, strikes, or buffets; a beater, striker. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| snatch | To make a sudden snap or bite (at something). | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| soaper | A soap-boiler, soap-maker. Now Hist. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| soiled | Defiled; stained, dirtied. Also fig. Comb. soiled dove n. Austral. and N. Amer. slang. a prostitute. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| somewhiles | At some former time; formerly. Obs. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| sorrowfulness | Sorrowful state or character; grief, sadness, melancholy. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| speakful | Talkative. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| speche | Spittle. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| special | Of actions, qualities, etc. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| spele | To signify or mean. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| spense | concr. That which may be or is spent; money, supplies; dial. pocket-money. Also pl. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| spice | fig. (In Middle English sometimes applied to persons.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| spouse-breach | Adultery. Also transf. (arch. in quot. 1922). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| sprintle | A twig or shoot. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| stamin | A coarse cloth of worsted; in earliest use usually an under garment made of this worn by ascetics. Cf. stammel n. 1. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| stinging | fig. That causes sharp mental pain or irritation, poignant; that goads or stimulates. Of speech: Biting, pungent. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| stone-still | As still as a stone; perfectly still or motionless. Usually after sit, stand, lie, etc. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| stop | absol. To make a closure or obstruction. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| story | A narrative, true or presumed to be true, relating to important events and celebrated persons… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| stream | Of a body of liquid: To flow or issue in a stream; to flow or run in a full and… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| strive | intr. To be in a state of variance or mutual hostility. ? Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| strust | trans. and intr. To trust. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| sturb | trans. To disturb, trouble, upset. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| succour | Aid, help, assistance. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| suffer | pain, death, punishment, †judgement; hardship, disaster; grief, †sorrow, care. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| suffragies | Prayers, esp. on behalf of the departed. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| superstition | An action characterized by superfluity or excess. Cf. superstitious adj. 4. Obs. rare. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| surquidry | Arrogance, haughty pride, presumption. (In first quot. 1250 app. personified.) | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| swow | intr. To swoon, faint. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| tap | trans. To strike lightly, but clearly and audibly; rarely applied by meiosis to a sharp… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| tempt | trans. To try to attract, to entice (a person) to do evil; to present attractions to… | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| temptation | With a and pl. An instance of this. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| tent | A variant of tempt n., occasional down to 16th c. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| thereas | In that place (or case) in which; where; = there adv. 9. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| thilk | (determiner). The very (thing, person, etc.) mentioned or indicated; the same; that; this. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| thirling | The action of thirl v.; piercing, boring. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| tholemodely | Patiently, submissively, meekly. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| thucke | A malicious trick. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| time | To befall, happen, occur; = tide v. 1a. Usu. impers. or with it as subject. Cf. i-time v. a. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| to-fret | trans. To gnaw, devour, consume. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| toggle | intr. To tug, tussle. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| tooting | Looking out, peeping, prying, spying; protruding, sprouting. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| to-tag | Something ‘tagged’ or attached to a fact; a circumstance. | 1200 | Go To Quotation |
| traitor | One who betrays any person that trusts him, or any duty entrusted to him; a betrayer. In… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| treachery | Deceit, cheating, perfidy; violation of faith or betrayal of trust; perfidious conduct. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| treason | The action of betraying; betrayal of the trust undertaken by or reposed in any one… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| tribulation | With a and pl. An affliction. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| trinity | The three ‘persons’ or modes of being of the Godhead as conceived in orthodox Christian… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| trod | intr. (U.S.) To pursue a path. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| trouble | To put into a state of (mental) agitation or disquiet; to disturb, distress, grieve, perplex. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| trousseau | A bunch of keys. rare. (perhaps only as French.) | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| truandise | Fraudulent begging; vagabondage; roguery, knavery. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| truce | A suspension of hostilities for a specified period between armies at war (formerly… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| truss | A collection of things bound together, or packed in a receptacle; a bundle, pack; †in… | 1200 | Go To Quotation |
| truss | To charge or burden with a bundle or pack, or a number of such; to load (a pack-horse, etc.); to lade (a ship). Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| trust | Confidence in or reliance on some quality or attribute of a person or thing, or the truth… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| trust | Confident, safe, secure, sure. | 1200 | Go To Quotation |
| tutel | intr. and trans. To whisper. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| twin | Of two persons or things: To go asunder; to separate, part. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ug | trans. To inspire or affect with dread, loathing, or disgust. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| umbestound | After a (short) time. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| unasked | Without being asked; not requested or intreated; uninvited. | 1254 | Go To Quotation |
| understipre | trans. To prop up, support. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| unevenly | Incomparable. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| unfasten | To unfix; to deprive of firmness or fixity; to make loose or slack. Also absol. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| ungladly | Without gladness (†or brightness.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| unkindly | Morally unnatural; unnaturally wicked or vile. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| unlid | trans. To remove the lid from; to uncover. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| unlime | trans. To detach, dissever. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| unsained | Unblessed; esp. not formally blessed or protected by a blessing. | 1274 | Go To Quotation |
| unshriven | (un- prefix 8b.) | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| unsicker | Uncertain; unsafe; insecure. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| unsought | Not searched out or sought after; not sought or asked for. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| unstrength | trans. To weaken, enfeeble. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| untiffed | Unadorned. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| untrust | intr. To have no confidence; to be in despair. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| uphold | To support, sustain, maintain, by aid or assistance; to preserve unimpaired or intact. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| ure | intr. To pray. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| utterly | Without reserve or extenuation; sincerely, truly, plainly; straight out, straightway. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| vamp | That part of hose or stockings which covers the foot and ankle; also, a short stocking, a sock. Now dial. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| Venite | The ninety-fifth psalm (the ninety-fourth in the Vulgate, beginning Venite, exultemus Domino)… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| verset | = verse n. 2, versicle n. 1. Now Hist. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| versle | intr. To say or sing versicles or verses of the Psalms, esp. during Divine Office. Also trans. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| vestiment | A vestment, esp. one worn by an ecclesiastic. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| vigil | Christian Church. The eve of (i.e. preceding) a festival or holy day, as an occasion… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| vilety | Vileness, in various senses; a vile action. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| virtue | With a and pl. A particular moral excellence; a special manifestation of the influence of moral principles in life or conduct. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| visit | trans. Of the Deity: To come to (persons) in order to comfort or benefit. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| viteroke | A ragged upper garment. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| wag | To be in motion or activity; to stir, move. Now colloq. (chiefly in negative context), to stir, move one's limbs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| warden | One who guards, protects, or defends; occas. a guardian angel: = guardian n. 1. Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| wearing | The fact or habit of being clothed in a particular way; kind or style of clothing; also concr.… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| well(-)acquainted | Familiarly known (to others). Obs. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| well-itoȝe(n | Well trained or instructed; well-conditioned, modest. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| wem | Moral defilement; stain (of sin). Chiefly in phr. without(en) wem = immaculate adj. 1. Obs. exc. arch. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| wiggle | intr. To move to and fro or from side to side irregularly and lightly, to waggle; to walk… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| wild | intr. Of an animal or plant: To be or become wild; to run wild, grow wild. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| wimple | trans. To envelop in a wimple; loosely, to veil (†occas. pass. to take the veil). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| window | An opening in a wall or side of a building, ship, or carriage, to admit light or air, or… | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| winnowing | The process described s.v. winnow v. 1. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| withdraw | To take back or away (something that has been given, granted, allowed, possessed, enjoyed, or experienced). | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| withen | A withy or willow. Also attrib. or adj. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| withsaw | = withsaying n. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| womanly | Of a man: resembling a woman in appearance or behaviour; effeminate. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| wore | trans. To trouble, disturb, confuse. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| worsen | trans. To make worse; to impair, vitiate, cause to deteriorate. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| wouhleche | Wooing, courtship. | 1230 | Go To Quotation |
| wraw | Of persons: Angry, wrathful, wroth. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| wretchdom | Misery; distress; baseness. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| wrien | Hidden; covered. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
| writing | The action of one who writes, in various senses; the penning or forming of letters or… | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| yei | A cry, wail. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| yhacked | hacked. | 1225 | Go To Quotation |
| yours | Equivalent to your with a noun supplied from the context. Frequently paired or contrasted with another possessive. | 1249 | Go To Quotation |
