| a | Before a noun denoting an individual object or notion, or denoting an… | 1159 | Go To Quotation |
| abbotric | The benefice or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess; an abbacy. Also: an abbey. | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| ablend | To deprive of sight, blind; to deprive of sight temporarily; to dazzle. | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| above | With regard to writing: further up on the present page; previously in the text; in… | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| accord | To restore (estranged parties) to friendly relations; to reconcile (people in conflict or disagreement). Obs. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| adrive | To drive out or away, to banish, expel. Also: to relieve (an illness, a symptom, etc.). Freq. with out (also with away, from). | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| advent | Christian Church Chiefly with capital initial. The ecclesiastical season immediately preceding Christmas. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| afore | Of time: in or at an earlier time than, previous to. Also: preceding in order of time, anterior to. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| after | Following the course of (anything extended in space); along (a linear dimension); across… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| ago | intr. Of time: to pass, elapse. Chiefly (now only) in past participle, orig. and usu. with to be. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| ait | = eyot n. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| alatch | trans. To get hold of, to catch. | 1124 | Go To Quotation |
| alder- | Prefixed to superlative adverbs with the sense ‘of all’, as alder-best, alder-first, alder-last… | 1159 | Go To Quotation |
| along | In a direction which follows the length, or any part of the length of. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| a-morrow | On the morrow after, next morning. | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| an | Now usu. in form an'. = and conj. I. (coordinating). Now regional and nonstandard. | 1159 | Go To Quotation |
| anether | To bring down, lower, reduce, humiliate. | 1120 | Go To Quotation |
| anneal | To set on fire, kindle, inflame. lit. and fig. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| arbalest | A cross-bow, consisting of a steel bow fitted to a wooden shaft, furnished with… | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| archbishopric | The rank or office of an archbishop. | 994 | Go To Quotation |
| asleep | In a state of sleep, sleeping. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| asye | To sink down; to ‘set’. | 1024 | Go To Quotation |
| at | With proper names of places: particularly used of towns (with many exceptions, such as London… | 755 | Go To Quotation |
| atend | trans. To set on fire, kindle. | 1006 | Go To Quotation |
| a the | Until. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| at-hind(en | Behind. | 1016 | Go To Quotation |
| atsit | intr. To remain sitting, stay, abide. | 905 | Go To Quotation |
| aughtly | Estimably, worthily, nobly. | 1120 | Go To Quotation |
| aware | Watchful, vigilant, cautious, on one's guard. to be aware of: to be on one's guard against. Obs. | 1095 | Go To Quotation |
| away | From this (or that) place, to a distance. | 918 | Go To Quotation |
| awonder | pa. pple. Amazed, astonished, astounded. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| baft | Obs. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| bane | A slayer or murderer; one who causes the death or destruction of another. Obs. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| barley | The grain. barley French, barley pearl, pot barley; see quots. | 1124 | Go To Quotation |
| Bath | A well-known city in the west of England, so called from its hot springs. Cf. bath n. 13. | 973 | Go To Quotation |
| be-east | East of. (Orig. adv. phr.) | 894 | Go To Quotation |
| bego | To go about hostilely, beset, overrun (in hostile sense). Also fig.; cf. 8. Obs. | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| behind | lit. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| benorth | To the north. Obs. | 1087 | Go To Quotation |
| benote | trans. To use, make use of. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| berne | A warrior, a hero, a man of valour; in later use, simply one of the many poetic words for ‘man’. | 937 | Go To Quotation |
| besit | trans. To encamp about, besiege. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| bestrip | trans. To strip clean: to deprive of or take away entirely. | 1065 | Go To Quotation |
| betell | trans. To speak for, answer for, justify. | 1048 | Go To Quotation |
| betrap | trans. To catch in a trap, entrap, ensnare, circumvent, enclose. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bewest | To the west of. Now only Sc. | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| bigeten | trans. To pour about or over; to suffuse. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| bishopdom | = bishophood n. Obs. | 886 | Go To Quotation |
| blithemod | Of blithe mood; of cheerful disposition. | 1065 | Go To Quotation |
| boc-leden | Book-Latin, the Latin language; afterwards book-language. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| both | Preceding two homogeneous words (ns., adjs., vbs., advbs., or preps.) or phrases, coupled by and… | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| bout | Outside, without; out. | 889 | Go To Quotation |
| bove | = above prep. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| break | To enter (a house, an enclosed place, etc.) by breaking part of its circuit; to enter by… | 851 | Go To Quotation |
| Brett | A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| Bretwalda | A title given in the Old English Chronicle to King Egbert, and (retrospectively) to… | 855 | Go To Quotation |
| bridal | A wedding feast or festival; a wedding. | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| bride-ale | A wedding-feast of the Old English type, an ale-drinking at a wedding. | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| brim | An old poetical word for the sea; also, ‘flood’, water. | 937 | Go To Quotation |
| British | (a) = Briton n. 1; (b) = Briton n. 2. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| brother | properly. The son of the same parents. But often extended to include one who has either… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| buscarl | In (late) Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England: a member of a body of men… | 1070 | Go To Quotation |
| Candlemas | The feast of the purification of the Virgin Mary (or presentation of Christ in… | 1014 | Go To Quotation |
| cantel-cape | A kind of cope or cape. | 1120 | Go To Quotation |
| cardinal | One of the seventy ecclesiastical princes (six cardinal bishops, fifty cardinal… | 1125 | Go To Quotation |
| carman | A man, an adult male. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| chancellor | the same officer who was originally the King's Chancellor (see 1a), who has in course… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| chaplain | spec. A clergyman who conducts religious service in the private chapel of a sovereign… | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| chapter-house | A building attached to a cathedral, monastery, etc., in which meetings of the chapter are held. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| charity | as manifested in action: spec. alms-giving. Applied also to the public provision for the… | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| cheap | Exchangeable commodities, merchandise, goods, chattels, esp. (live) cattle. | 897 | Go To Quotation |
| chester | A city or walled town; orig. one that had been a Roman station in Britain. | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| Chiltern | Proper name of a range of hills, in some parts wooded, which extend from the south… | 1124 | Go To Quotation |
| chore | The choir or chancel of a church; = choir n. 3. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| chrisom | ? leaving off of the baptismal cloth or robe. | 886 | Go To Quotation |
| church hallowing | The consecration of a church building. | 1070 | Go To Quotation |
| churchly | Of or relating to the Christian Church; ecclesiastical; characteristic of or befitting the Church or a church. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| churchyard | The enclosed piece of consecrated ground in which a church stands, formerly almost… | 1159 | Go To Quotation |
| comet | A celestial body moving about the sun in a greatly elongated elliptical, or a parabolic… | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| cotlif | A cot-house, a cottage; or (as some think) a village. | 1001 | Go To Quotation |
| council | spec. An assembly of ecclesiastics (with or without laymen) convened for the… | 1125 | Go To Quotation |
| countess | A lady holding a position in her own right equal to that of a count or earl. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| court | A formal assembly held by the sovereign at his residence: in early times, of his… | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| crowd | intr. To press, drive, or hasten on: said of a ship (or its crew); in later usage, app.… | 937 | Go To Quotation |
| crucet-hus | House of torment; see quot. | 1137 | Go To Quotation |
| Dane | A native or subject of Denmark; in older usage including all the Northmen who invaded England from the 9th to the 11th c. | 901 | Go To Quotation |
| Danish | Of or belonging to the Danes and to Denmark. subst. The language of Denmark. Danish axe: a… | 833 | Go To Quotation |
| down | In a descending direction; from above, or towards that which is below; from a higher to a lower place or position; to the ground. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| dream | Joy, pleasure, gladness, mirth, rejoicing. | 975 | Go To Quotation |
| dub | (with compl.) to dub (one) a knight (†to a knight). | 1085 | Go To Quotation |
| duke | In some European countries: A sovereign prince, the ruler of a small state called a duchy. | 1129 | Go To Quotation |
| dwild | Error, heresy. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| ea | A river, running water. Still in use in Lanc.; in the fen-country applied to the… | 896 | Go To Quotation |
| ealdorman | In Anglo-Saxon England: a man who rules over a large area or a shire, usually subject to… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| earldom | The domain or territory governed by an earl (obs. exc. Hist.); the rank or dignity of an earl. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| earthdin | An earthquake; earthquake activity. | 1080 | Go To Quotation |
| eastdeal | The eastern part or district (of a place); the east. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| east end | The eastern part of something; spec. the (usually eastern) end of a church where the altar is situated. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| east half | The eastern part or side of something, the east (cf. half n. 1). Cf. west half n. Now arch. and rare. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| eastward | Situated in or directed towards the east; lying, facing, moving, etc., towards the east. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| eaves | Of a wood: The edge, margin. Obs. | 898 | Go To Quotation |
| empress | The consort of an emperor. Also, a female sovereign having the rank equivalent to that of an emperor. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| ere | Before, formerly, at a former time, on a former occasion; often preceded by ever, never.… | 821 | Go To Quotation |
| erf | Cattle. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| es | Carrion; also carrion used as bait, a bait. | 975 | Go To Quotation |
| estriche | In Old English spec. The East-Frankish kingdom. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| everte | Ever; at any time. | 1159 | Go To Quotation |
| fang | concr. That which is caught or taken; captured game; booty, plunder, spoils (obs. exc. Sc.).… | 1016 | Go To Quotation |
| fang | intr. To seize, lay hold, take hold on; to take to, betake oneself to, turn to, proceed to or against; to set upon, attack. | 855 | Go To Quotation |
| fatherkin | Descent by the father's side. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| faxed | Having hair, hairy. faxed star n. a comet, from the resemblance of its tail to hair. | 891 | Go To Quotation |
| fellow | One who shares with another in a possession, official dignity, or in the performance of any… | 1016 | Go To Quotation |
| ferd | An army, host. | 823 | Go To Quotation |
| fifth | With ellipsis of n. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| firk | trans. To bring, carry, conduct; to help forward on one's way. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| first | Preceding all others in a series, succession, order, set or enumeration. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| float | To rest on the surface of any liquid; to be buoyed up; to be or become buoyant. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| flock | A band, body, or company (of persons). Now only as transf. from 2 or 3. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| flote | A fleet or flotilla. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forbid | with double object, of the person (orig. dat.), and of the thing prohibited. Also in pass.… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forcarve | trans. To carve or cut asunder, down, in two, out, through; to cut to pieces. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forcurse | trans. To curse utterly, lay under a heavy curse. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| fordrive | trans. To drive forth, drive about. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fore-ride | trans. To ride before or in advance of. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| foreward | An agreement, compact, covenant, promise. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forfare | intr. To pass away, perish, decay. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forfare | trans. To pass along (a way, etc.) before others. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forfere | intr. To perish. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forout | Besides. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forsworn | That has forsworn himself, perjured. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forth | trans. To accomplish, carry out; also, to manage to (do something). See afford v. 1. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forthgo | intr. To go forth: see forth adv. 5 6 Occas. with cognate object. Of day, night, etc.: To pass, pass away. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forthsithe | Departure, decease; hence, death-bed. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forwound | trans. To wound sorely. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forwray | trans. To accuse, betray, charge with a crime. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fother | A load; a cart-load (of hay, turf, wood, etc.). Obs. exc. dial. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| freeness | The quality or state of being free (in various senses of the adjective); freedom. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| French | Esp. in early use: of or relating to the Romance-speaking peoples of western Europe (as… | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| Frenchman | A man of French birth or nationality; (also) a francophone man. | 1070 | Go To Quotation |
| froward | In a direction that leads away from the person or thing under consideration; = fromward adv. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gang-days | The three days preceding Ascension-day or Holy Thursday; also called Rogation-days. | 891 | Go To Quotation |
| ganging | That goes or walks. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| gersum | A treasure, precious possession; a costly gift. | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| ging | A company of armed men, a troop, army, host. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| give | Of a parent or guardian: To sanction the marriage of (a daughter or female ward). Now… | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| godcund | Divine, spiritual. (Only Old English and Middle English.) | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| godson | A male god-child. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| greave | pl. Branches, twigs. (Used once by Drayton as sing.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| greediness | Excessive eagerness or longing for wealth or gain; covetousness, avarice, rapacity, greed. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| hamble | trans. To mutilate, maim; to cut short, dock; spec. to cut off the balls of the feet of… | 1049 | Go To Quotation |
| harn | Brain; brains. | 1153 | Go To Quotation |
| have | With transitive verb and object. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| haven | A recess or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, affording good anchorage and a safe station for ships; a harbour, port. | 1031 | Go To Quotation |
| heathenship | Heathenism, heathendom. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hede | By entering into combination with qualifying adj., or with n., it became a suffix… | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| hem | dat. (To) them. (Latin iis. German ihnen.) | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| heo | The original 3rd singular feminine nominative pronoun, corresponding to he; the place of… | 855 | Go To Quotation |
| here | An armed host, an army. Also, more generally: A host; a multitude, a great company. | 855 | Go To Quotation |
| hereword | Word of praise; praise, renown, glory. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| hewe | A domestic, a servant. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hide | The skin of an animal, raw or dressed: more particularly applied to the skins of the… | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| him | Governed by a preposition. | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| hin | 3rd singular masculine accusative pronoun; = him pron., direct objective. Also refl. | 855 | Go To Quotation |
| his | Referring to a person: Of or belonging to him, that man's, the male being's; also refl.… | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| hitherward | hitherward and thitherward: see hither adv. 5. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| hoard | An accumulation or collection of anything valuable hidden away or laid by for… | 937 | Go To Quotation |
| hold | In Old English times, the title of an officer of high rank in the Danelaw, corresponding to the High Reeve amongst the English. | 910 | Go To Quotation |
| hold | To have or keep as one's own absolutely or temporarily; to own, have as property; to be… | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| homeward | Towards home; in the direction of one's residence, neighbourhood, or native land. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| homewards | = homeward adv. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| horse | trans. To provide with a horse or horses; to set on horseback. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| housecarl | A retainer or member of the household troops of an (esp. Scandinavian) king or noble.… | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| husting | An assembly for deliberative purposes, esp. one summoned by a king or other leader… | 1029 | Go To Quotation |
| i-bede | trans. To command, proclaim, offer. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| i-hente | trans. To grasp; to hold, uphold. | 905 | Go To Quotation |
| i-limp | intr. To happen, befall. | 975 | Go To Quotation |
| ilk | The same thing. with that ilke, in that ilke, at that very moment. Obs. | 755 | Go To Quotation |
| inn | trans. To lodge, house, find lodging for. refl. To lodge oneself, find oneself a lodging. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| inne | Of position. | 855 | Go To Quotation |
| Irish | Of a person: native to Ireland; that is a citizen of Ireland; (also) descended from… | 1070 | Go To Quotation |
| Irishman | A man of Irish birth or nationality; (also, chiefly U.S.) a man of Irish… | 1070 | Go To Quotation |
| it | The neuter accusative or direct object after a vb.: having the same range of reference as the nominative: see I. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| i-wrathe | trans. To make angry or wroth; refl. to become angry. | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| July | The seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, containing 31 days and falling between June and August. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| June | The sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, containing 30 days and falling between May and July. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| justice | Exercise of authority or power in maintenance of right; vindication of right by… | 1137 | Go To Quotation |
| Kentish | pl. The natives or inhabitants of Kent. rare. | 905 | Go To Quotation |
| kinrick | = kingdom n., in various senses. | 892 | Go To Quotation |
| knotted | Having a knot or knots tied on it; tied in a knot; fastened with a knot. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| knowledge | The action of acknowledging or owning something; acknowledgement, confession; an instance… | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| lake | A pond, a pool. Obs. exc. U.S. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| latesome | Backward; slow, sluggish; late. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| leaper | A runner; a dancer. Also with advs. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| legate | An ecclesiastic deputed to represent the Pope and armed with his authority. legate of the cross… | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| lend | intr. To arrive, come. Also refl. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| lengest | Longest. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| lered | = learned adj. Also absol., esp. in lered and lewd. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| lithsman | A sailor in the navy under the Danish kings of England. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| logh | Place, stead. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| mail | Payment, tax, tribute, rent. In O.E. also: †agreement, deal (obs.). mails and duties: the rents of an estate. Cf. blackmail n. | 1070 | Go To Quotation |
| making | The action of make v. in various senses; production, creation… | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| man | orig. Mil. and Naut. To provide (a fort, ship, etc.) with a person or a company of people… | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| man | One (one pron. 17a). | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| manifold | In many ways, modes, degrees, etc.; (occas.) in many pieces. Obs. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| manqualm | Loss of life, mortality, esp. from plague; plague, pestilence; an instance of this. Also fig. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| many | With noun in singular without article. Sc. in later use. Obs. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| market | A meeting or gathering together of people for the purchase and sale of provisions… | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| marshland | Land consisting of marsh, marshy country; (in some places) a specific local area of marsh. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| May | The fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendar, containing 31 days and falling between April and June. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| meat | To feed or supply (a person) with food or provisions; to feed or provide (an animal) with fodder or feed. Also refl. | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| meet | trans. To come together with or confront in a battle, fight, etc.; to stand up to in… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| midlenten | = mid-Lent n. Chiefly in midlenten Sunday n. = mid-Lent Sunday n. at mid-Lent n. Compounds. | 1070 | Go To Quotation |
| Midsummer Day | 24 June, the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, and one of the recognized… | 1132 | Go To Quotation |
| miracle | A marvellous event not ascribable to human power or the operation of any natural… | 1159 | Go To Quotation |
| mund | = sense 2. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| nathemo | Never the more. | 1123 | Go To Quotation |
| nativity | Christian Church. The feast of the birth of Jesus (celebrated on 25 December); Christmas… | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| neve | A nephew. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| never | With addition of limiting word, as after, before, since, yet, etc. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| nevermore | Never again, at no future time; no longer; (also simply) never. | 1124 | Go To Quotation |
| nigh hand | Near or close at hand; nearby. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| nineteenth | Next in order after the eighteenth; that is number nineteen in a series. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| nithing | A coward, a villain; a person who breaks the law or a code of honour; an outlaw. | 1070 | Go To Quotation |
| Norren | A Norwegian. Also as adj. | 1080 | Go To Quotation |
| north | With reference to direction, motion, or extent. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| north and south | (both) north and south: everywhere, in every direction. Obs. | 1125 | Go To Quotation |
| norther | More northerly; situated further to the north. Now chiefly in place names (esp. in Newfoundland). | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| northern | Living in or coming from the north, esp. the north of England or Europe. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| North Sea | (A name for) the Bristol Channel. Obs. rare. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Northumber | A native or inhabitant of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. Usu. in pl. Cf. Northumbrian n. 1. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| northwards | With reference to direction, motion, or extent: = northward adv. 1. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Norways | With pl. concord: Norwegians; Norsemen. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| nowhere | In or at no place; not anywhere. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| oar | A long pole, traditionally of wood, widened and flattened at one end into a blade, used… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| oc | With weak adversative meaning, or none: yet, and. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| of | Indicating the thing, place, or direction from which something goes, comes, or is driven… | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| offeared | In predicative use: frightened, terrified; = afeared adj. 1. | 1132 | Go To Quotation |
| ofhold | trans. To retain, withhold; to detain or restrain. | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| ofride | trans. To ride down, overtake by riding; to encompass in riding, to ride around. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ofsend | trans. To send for, to summon. | 1080 | Go To Quotation |
| on | With or as with the hands touching (a bible, etc.), in making an oath; using or invoking… | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| one | Designating a person who or thing which consists of a single individual or unit… | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| orrest | Battle or combat; (spec. in Law) trial by combat; the right or prerogative of jurisdiction in a trial by combat. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| oth | Until. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| other | As a simple conjunction. Obs. | 1128 | Go To Quotation |
| out | From the land, into the sea or ocean. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| outdraw | trans. To pull or draw out; to extract, unsheath, etc. Now rare. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| outlaw | Law. To deprive (a person) of the benefit and protection of law; to declare an outlaw… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| outleap | intr. To run away; to leap out or forth. Obs. (poet. in later use). | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| outward | Situated on the outside, outer side, or surface of something; (of something that is… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| oversea | Across the sea; to a country across the sea; = overseas adv. 2. | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| pad | A toad. Later also: a frog (Eng. regional (north.)). Also fig. | 1159 | Go To Quotation |
| peace | Freedom from civil unrest or disorder; public order and security. | 1159 | Go To Quotation |
| Peak | Now only with the. = Peak District n. at 2. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Peakland | The Peak District. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Pentecost | A festival observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter, in commemoration of events… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| Pictish | The language (or languages) of the Picts. | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| popedom | The office or position of Pope; the period of office of a pope, a pontificate. Cf. papacy n. 1a. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| presbyter | In an episcopal church: a minister of the second degree of holy orders, ranking below a… | 1045 | Go To Quotation |
| prison | Without article, freq. preceded by a preposition, as to prison, in prison.… | 1080 | Go To Quotation |
| reap | Harvest, reaping; (also) that which is reaped, the ripened crop. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| rent | Chiefly in pl. A source or item of revenue or income; a separate piece of property… | 1159 | Go To Quotation |
| rider | A knight; a mounted warrior. Now arch. or hist. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| rightful | Of a person: disposed to do what is right; just, virtuous; = righteous adj. 1a. Now rare. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| road | spec. The act of riding with hostile intent against a person or district; a hostile… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| rootfast | Firmly held by the roots. Freq. (and in earliest use) fig.: securely established; firmly fixed. | 1128 | Go To Quotation |
| sandesman | A messenger, envoy, ambassador. | 1123 | Go To Quotation |
| saughtel | trans. To reconcile (persons). Also refl. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| Saxish | = Saxon n. adj. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| scat | Treasure, money; in Middle English only in phr. scat and s(c)rud. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| scatter | trans. To dissipate, squander (goods or possessions). Obs. or arch. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| school | Any of several hostels in Rome for the use of pilgrims of specific nationalities; esp.… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| Scot | Celtic Hist. A member of the Gaelic people inhabiting early medieval Ireland; spec. a member… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-rim | The sea-shore. Obs. rare. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| service | A ritual or series of words and ceremonies prescribed for public worship, or for… | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| shill | trans. To separate. Obs. | 1049 | Go To Quotation |
| ship | pass. To be furnished with a ship or ships. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| shipper | A seaman. Obs. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| sibred | Relationship, kinship, consanguinity. | 1127 | Go To Quotation |
| sibsomeness | Peace, concord. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| snack | A species of ship. | 1052 | Go To Quotation |
| somewhile | At or in some former time; erewhile; formerly. Obs. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| sotly | Foolishly. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| spilling | The action of destroying, spoiling, or marring. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| staller | The title of a high officer in the reign of Edward the Confessor, equivalent to constable n. 1. | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| standard | A flag, sculptured figure, or other conspicuous object, raised on a pole to… | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| starkly | Stoutly, boldly; strongly, powerfully; strenuously; harshly, sternly. Obs. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| stem | A fixed time; a period of time; a turn, vicissitude. Obs. Cf. steven n. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| steven | A citation, summons; bidding, command. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| stour | Of natural agencies: Violent, fierce. Obs. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| swain | A young man attending on a knight; hence, a man of low degree. (Often coupled with knight.) Obs. | 1149 | Go To Quotation |
| take | trans. To lay hold upon, get into one's hands by force or artifice; to seize, capture, esp.… | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| that | a fact, act, or occurrence, or a statement or question, implied or contained in… | 854 | Go To Quotation |
| there | with a n. as antecedent. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| thereabout | About (orig. outside) or near that place: = thereabouts adv. 1. | 924 | Go To Quotation |
| thig | trans. To take, receive, accept; esp. to take (food), to consume by eating or drinking. | 863 | Go To Quotation |
| threating | The action of threat v.; threatening; a threat. | 1046 | Go To Quotation |
| threng | trans. To press or crush into a narrow space; to force into confinement: = thring v. 5c. | 1153 | Go To Quotation |
| thundering | lit. (see thunder v. 1); also in pl.: = thunder n. 1 1c (now rare or arch.). | 1099 | Go To Quotation |
| tiding | The announcement of an event or occurrence; a piece of news (now obs. or arch.); usually in pl.… | 1069 | Go To Quotation |
| to | In figurative expressions of motion; the following n. denoting (a) a state or… | 875 | Go To Quotation |
| to-fleet | intr. To float away; to be carried away by or as by water. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| to-shift | trans. To divide, separate, distribute. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| treasure | Wealth or riches stored or accumulated, esp. in the form of precious metals; gold or… | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| trendle | A circle, a ring, a coronet; a circular disk, orb; a ball, globe. Obs. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| trim | trans. To make firm or strong; to strengthen, confirm; to give as security; to arm or… | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| Twelfth-night | The evening before Twelfth-day, formerly observed as a time of merry-making. Also attrib. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| twice | Two (successive) times; on two occasions. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| two | absol. with ellipsis of n. (which may usually be supplied from context; also often… | 882 | Go To Quotation |
| umquhile | At times; sometimes. Obs. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| unfere | Infirm, weak, unfit for or incapable of exertion. Also absol. | 1059 | Go To Quotation |
| unimete | Immeasurable, vast; immoderate, excessive. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| unsaught | Discord, dissension; hostile speech. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| unsaught | At variance or enmity; hostile. | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| unwares | Without warning; unexpectedly, suddenly. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| upland | The parts of a country outside the towns; the rural districts. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| wanze | trans. To diminish, waste; in later use, to render lean. | 1120 | Go To Quotation |
| war | to have war: to be at war (with, to). to hold, keep war or wars: to be continuously at war. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| war | trans. To make war upon. Obs. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| weald | (Now usu. with capital initial.) The name of the tract of country, formerly wooded… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| weathering | Weather conditions; (good or bad) weather; in nautical use chiefly with reference to the direction and force of the winds. Obs. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| week | The cycle of seven days, recognized in the calendar of the Jews and thence adopted… | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| well-nigh | Very nearly, almost wholly or entirely. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| were | To defend, guard, or protect from assault or injury. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| west | With reference to direction, motion, or extent. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| west-about | By a westerly route; westwards. Also as adj. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| whereso | = wherever adv. conj. 2 5. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| Whit Sunday | The seventh Sunday after Easter, observed as a festival of the Christian Church in… | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| whoso | = whoever pron. 1: Any (one) who. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| wide-where | In or to various places, over a wide region, widely, far and wide; in or to a distant place, far away. | 1122 | Go To Quotation |
| wildwood | A forest of natural growth, or allowed to grow naturally; an uncultivated or unfrequented wood. (In later use chiefly poet.) | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| wile | A crafty, cunning, or deceitful trick; a sly, insidious, or underhand artifice; a… | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| witter | Knowing, cunning, wise. Also, cognizant, aware (cf. wise adj. 3b). | 1100 | Go To Quotation |
| wretchhead | = wretchedness n. 1. | 1154 | Go To Quotation |
| yate | trans. To grant, bestow, concede. Also absol. | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| ydo(n | done, put. wel idon (cf. Middle High German wol getân): excellent. | 1123 | Go To Quotation |
| ye | And; also, too. ȝe…ȝe (or and): both…and; as well…as. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| year | The time occupied by the sun in its apparent passage through the signs of the zodiac, i.e… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| year-day | (year's day.) The first day of the year, New Year's Day. Obs. (Cf. French jour de l'an.) | 1121 | Go To Quotation |
| yfare(n | As past participle: gone; travelled; dealt with. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| ygad(e)red | gathered. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| yhaded | consecrated, ordained. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
