| alebench | A bench in or in front of an alehouse; a bench in a place where ale is served. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| alie | intr. To come to an end, to cease; to subside. Also: to turn out badly, to fail. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| alimp | intr. To happen, occur, befall. Usu. with person as indirect object. Also impers. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| anent | In a line with, side by side with, in company with, beside. Obs. or dial. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| astand | To stand up. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| atbear | trans. To bear away, carry off. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| atel | Terrible, hideous, foul. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| atspring | To spring forth; to spring into existence, originate. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| awend | trans. To turn, turn away. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| awhile | (For) a short time, (for) a little. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bale | gen. A great consuming fire, a conflagration; a blazing pile, a bonfire. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bale | Actively evil, deadly, dire, pernicious, destructive, fatal, cruel, tormenting. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bale-fire | A great fire in the open air, a blazing pile or heap kindled to consume anything. In… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bare | trans. To make or lay bare, uncover, open to view; to unsheathe (a weapon). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| becarve | trans. To cut off. Obs. (Cf. behead.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| beget | trans. To get, to acquire (usually by effort). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bench | A long seat, with or without a back, usually of wood, but also of stone, etc. ‘Distinguished… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| betimber | trans. To build. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bewind | fig. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bework | trans. To work round about, to surround. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bibergh | trans. To protect oneself from, ward off. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bill | A weapon of war mentioned in Old English poetry, a kind of broadsword, a falchion. Obs.… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| birle | One who pours out drink; a cupbearer, butler. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bite | trans. To cut into, pierce, or nip (anything) with the teeth. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| biwiti(e | trans. To watch over, observe, guard, keep. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| blaed-fast | Prosperous; glorious. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| blonk | Poetic word for ‘horse’; steed. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bloody | To make (a person, part of the body, etc.) bloody by drawing blood, esp. violently; to… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| boatward | A boat-keeper; (perh. also more generally) a boatman. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bold | A dwelling, habitation, building. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bold | intr. To be, or show oneself, bold; to become bold, grow strong or big. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bolster | A long stuffed pillow or cushion used to support the sleeper's head in a bed; the name… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bottom | The ground or bed under the water of a lake, sea, or river. Hence to go to the bottom: to sink, founder; to be wrecked. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bow | An arch (of masonry), as in a gateway, or bridge. Obs. exc. dial. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bowe | Bowed, bent, crooked. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bower | A dwelling, habitation, abode. In early use lit. A cottage; in later use a poetical word for ‘abode’. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| breast | The front of the thorax or chest, the fore-part of the body, lying between the neck and… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| bright | = brightly adv. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| burst | To break suddenly, snap, crack, under violent pressure, strain, or concussion. Chiefly… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| camp | Martial contest, combat, fight, battle, war. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| care | Mental suffering, sorrow, grief, trouble. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| comely | Handsomely, nicely, suitably; in a seemly or becoming manner. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| dearly | Dear. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| death-bed | The bed on which a person dies; the bed of death. (In Old English the grave.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| demend | A judge. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| den | The lair or habitation of a wild beast. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| dighel | Secret, obscure. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| din | intr. (In Old English and Middle English) To sound, ring with sound, resound. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| drepe | trans. To strike, kill, overcome. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| dreve | trans. To trouble, disturb, agitate. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| drightin | A lord, ruler, chief; spec. the Lord God, or Christ. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| eddre | A blood vessel, vein. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| edge | The thin sharpened side of the blade of a cutting instrument or weapon; opposed to the… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| eight | In concord with n. expressed. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| eilland | A foreign land. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| eisie | trans. To frighten. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| eldfather | A grandfather; a forefather in general. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| elf | The name of a class of supernatural beings, in early Teutonic belief supposed… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| elsewhere | At some other point; in some other place. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| eme | An uncle; also dial. a friend, gossip. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| end-day | The last day; the day of one's death. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| ene | Once, on one occasion; opposed to often. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| enow | ‘The plural of enough adj. adv. ’ (Johnson). (The recent literary use is almost peculiar to Sc. writers.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| erd | The land where one dwells; native land, home; a region, country. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| este | Of things: Agreeable, pleasant, savoury. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| etenish | Gigantic. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| ethem | Vapour, breath. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| far | trans. To put far off, remove. In mod. dial. only in the expression of a wish (see quots.). Const. from; rarely with double obj. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fear | In Old English: A sudden and terrible event; peril. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fet | with obj. a person; = fetch v. 1a. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fiend-scathe | A monster. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fifty | The cardinal numeral equal to five tens, represented by the symbols 50 or l. Also with… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-drake | A ‘fiery dragon’: a mythical creature belonging to Germanic superstition. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fire-light | (quot. 1845) = aurora n. 5. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| flane | An arrow. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fleme | Flight; exile. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| flet | The floor or ground under one's feet. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| foe | At feud with; hostile, inimical (to). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fold | Dry land; the earth, as the dwelling-place of man. in, on, upon fold: on the earth; often as a mere expletive. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forlead | trans. To mislead, seduce. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forlese | trans. To lose n., in various senses. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fornim | trans. To take away, do away with, destroy; also, to take up, appropriate by encroachment. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forswallow | trans. To swallow up, devour utterly. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forswear | trans. To abandon or renounce on oath or in a manner deemed irrevocable; = abjure v. to forswear… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forthring | trans. To press heavily upon, oppress. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forthwise | trans. To guide forth, direct; hence, to bring up (a child). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| forwerpe | trans. To cast away, cast off, reject. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| foryeme | trans. To disregard, neglect. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fous | Eager, ready. Const. with of, to, and inf. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fowl | Any feathered vertebrate animal; = bird n. 2 (q.v. with note attached). Now rare exc. collect. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| Frank | A person belonging to the Germanic nation, or coalition of nations, that conquered Gaul in… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| freke | Properly, one eager for fight; a warrior, champion; but usually a mere poetic synonym for ‘man’ (cf. berne n., tulk n., wye n.). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| fret | trans. Chiefly of animals: To eat, devour. Also with up and to eat of. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| frim | Easily melting, soluble, fusible. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| frist | A space of time, time; a certain time. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| frover | Comfort; a means of comforting. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| frume | Beginning. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| full | A cup, goblet; a bumper. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gadling | Originally, a companion or fellow, in good sense; esp. a companion in arms. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| galder | A charm, or incantation. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gale | intr. and trans. To sing; also, to deliver an oracular response. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gallows-tree | = gallows n. 1. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gannet | The Solan goose (Sula bassana). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gare | A spear or javelin. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| geng | intr. To go, pass, move. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gilden | Made of gold, golden. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| girded | In senses of the vb. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| glove | A covering for the whole of the hand, usually one with a separate sheath for… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gold faw | Adorned with gold. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| gome | A man. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| grip | Firm hold or grasp; the action of gripping, grasping, or clutching; esp. the tight… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hame | A covering, esp. a natural covering, integument; skin, membrane, slough (of a serpent). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| handgrip | Grasp, seize with the hand. to come to handgrips, to come to close combat. So to be at or in handgrips. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hang | To have the top bending or projecting beyond the lower part; to bend forward or downward… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| harm | Evil (physical or otherwise) as done to or suffered by some person or thing; hurt… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| heed | intr. To have a care, pay attention, take notice. Const. in Old English and Middle… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| heleth | A warrior, hero, man. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| here | Gentle, mild, pleasant. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| heven | trans. To raise, lift up, exalt. lit. and fig. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hilt | The handle of a sword or dagger. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| hilted | Furnished with or possessing a hilt; in Heraldry, having a hilt of a different tincture from the blade. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| holm | The sea, the wave. (Only in Old English.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| how | intr. To be anxious, think, consider, purpose, intend. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| i-bedde | A bedfellow. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| i-cunde | Natural; native. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| icy | Abounding in or covered with ice; characterized by the presence of ice. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-falle | intr. To fall, befall. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| i-fuse | trans. To cause to make haste, hasten, hurry. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| i-hald | trans. To hold, maintain, observe, keep, preserve. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| inker | In partitive expressions: of you two. inker either: either of you. inker both: both of you. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| iron-hard | As hard as iron: extremely hard. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| i-seche | trans. To seek, seek for. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| i-see | trans. To see, behold. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| isound | Sound, in health, well, safe. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| i-tase | Convenient, suitable, handy. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| lake | An offering, sacrifice; also, a gift. Only Old English and early Middle English to lake (dat.), as a gift. In quot. 1325: a tax. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| land-right | ‘Law of the land; legal rights of natives of the country; legal obligation connected with land or estate’ (Sweet Ags. Dict.). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| lave | trans. To wash, bathe. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| leam | Light, flame; a flash, ray, or gleam of light; brightness, gleam. Also fig. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| lean | Reward, recompense. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| leave | To transmit at one's death to heirs or successors. Hence, to direct that (something… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| leoth | A song. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| lift | The sky, upper regions; †in early use also, the air, atmosphere. Also pl., the (seven) heavens. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| lin | intr. To cease, leave off; desist from (something; in Old English const. dat.); also const. to… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| lite | (In Old English followed by genit. pl. with sing. vb.; subsequently ellipt. as subj. to plural vb.) Few. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| lo | Used to direct attention to the presence or approach of something, or to what is about to… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| longsome | Long, lengthy; long-lasting; esp. tediously long; †tardy, dilatory, slow. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| lordless | Without a lord; having no lord. Of a woman: Husbandless. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| love-token | Something given as a sign or token of love. Also in extended use. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| low | = law n. 1. arch. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| mankin | The human race, mankind. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| manly | In a manner regarded as typical of a man as distinguished from a woman… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| miss | trans. Of a person, a weapon, a missile, etc.: to fail to hit, strike, or come into… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| moody | Brave, bold, high-spirited, passionate. (Freq. as a non-specific term of approbation.) Sc. in later use. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| nether | Down, downwards. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| nether | Lower, lower down, further down. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| nicker | A supernatural being supposed to live in the sea or other waters; a water-demon, a… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| night-long | That lasts or has lasted all night. Also fig. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| night work | Work done, or which must be done, at night; an instance of this. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| nill | With bare infinitive. Sometimes also denoting simple futurity. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| oath | A solemn or formal declaration invoking God (or a god, or other object of reverence) as… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| onstell | trans. To institute, originate, establish; to set (an example). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| ork | A cup, flagon, or tankard. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| outfous | Eager to go out or stay out. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| overflee | trans. To escape from, flee. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| oversee | trans. To look down upon; to look at from, or as if from, a higher position; to keep watch over, survey. Now somewhat arch. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| overseek | trans. To overtax, put to too severe a trial. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| overswim | trans. To swim or float over, across, or upon. Also in extended use. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| queenly | Of, relating to, or befitting a queen. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| radly | Quickly, promptly, without delay or hindrance, soon. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| rese | intr. To rush on (also upon) a person, etc.; to make a rush, attack, or assault on a person or thing. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| -rights | Forming adverbs of time and place, chiefly expressing immediacy or direction… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ringed | Of armour: made of rings. Now hist. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ring net | poet. A coat of mail. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| sale | A hall or spacious chamber; a king's or noble's lodging, palace, castle; occas. a tent. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sark | A garment worn next the skin; a shirt or chemise; occas. a nightshirt; also transf. a surplice. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| scathe | One who works harm; a malefactor; a wretch, fiend, monster. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-boat | spec. A small, manœuvrable craft sent out from a larger vessel, as in cases of emergency at sea. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-ground | The bottom of the sea (cf. ground n. 1a). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| seaman | spec. A sailor below the rank of officer. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-wall | A wall or embankment to prevent the encroachment of the sea, or to form a breakwater, etc. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| seethe | To digest (food). Hence perh. the use in Old English for: To brood over (care, anxiety): cf. Greek κήδεα πέσσειν. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| segge | A man. (In the 16th c. only contemptuous.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| seine | A banner. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sele | Happiness, prosperity, good fortune. on sele, a sele (Old English on sǽlum, on sálum): happy. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| selly | Strange, marvellous, wonderful. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sene | Easy to see, visible, evident, manifest. (In later use blended with seen pa. pple. of see v.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| shalk | Originally, a servant; in alliterative poetry one of the common synonyms for ‘man’. (In the last example used contemptuously.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| shench | trans. To pour out (liquor); to give (a person) drink. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sheppend | The Creator. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| shildy | Guilty. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| show | trans. To look at, gaze upon, behold, view; to inspect, review; to reconnoitre, spy (a… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| shower | One who looks out, observes, or inspects; an observer; a scout or spy; a watchman. OE. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sithe | intr. To go, travel. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| soken | An attack or assault. Obs. rare. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sole | A rope, cord, etc. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sooth | Truly; truthfully; in truth. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| sorry-mood | Distressed, sorrowful, sad. In Old English also as n.: a distressed or sorrowful… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| soughing | Rushing, rustling, murmuring, etc. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| stare | intr. To gaze fixedly and with eyes wide open. Said also of the eyes. Const. in mod.… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| steven | A time, turn, vicissitude, occasion. níwan stefne (Old English), afresh, anew. to change (by)… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| stone-bow | An arch of stone. Obs. exc. as the name of one of the gates of Lincoln. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| stundum | At times. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| swevet | Sleep, slumber. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| swink | intr. To labour, toil, work hard; to exert oneself, take trouble. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| thatch | trans. To cover. (Only OE.) | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| theal | (Old English.) A floor. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| tir | Glory, honour, majesty. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| to-glide | intr. To glide or slip away or off; to pass away. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| to-mids | In or into the midst. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| undermeal | The time of undern; in later use esp. the early part of the afternoon. Also attrib. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| unimete | Immoderately, excessively. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| unnut | Useless, worthless, unprofitable, vain. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| unright | Improperly; not in the right way; wrongly. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| upright | With verbs, as go, rise, sit, stand, walk. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| waken | transf. and fig., of inanimate things, etc. †Of a condition, state of things: To… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| walling | Of the sea, waves: Boiling up, raging. Of water: Welling up, flowing abundantly. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| wam | A scar. Cf. wem n. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| ward | The action or function of a watchman, sentinel, or the like; observation for the… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| warth | A shore, strand; in mod. use, ‘a flat meadow, esp. one close to a stream; a stretch of coast’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| watching | That watches; observant, vigilant, unsleeping. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| what | Quick, active; stout, brave. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| whether | Nevertheless, however, and yet, for all that. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| who | In an indirect question, or clause of similar meaning. †In early use also with that (that conj. 6). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| widge | In Old English (poetical) a steed; later, a beast of burden; in quot. 1553, a mare. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| win | Joy, pleasure, delight, bliss; a source of joy, a delight. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| windy | Of places, etc.: Full of, exposed to, blown upon or through by the wind. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| wine | A friend. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| wise | trans. To show the way to (a person); to guide, direct; †hence, to direct or manage the… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| wit | The faculty of thinking and reasoning in general; mental capacity… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| wit | First person dual pronoun: we two. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| wither | Opposition, hostility; adversity. on wiðere, adversely. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| witty | Said of God or Christ: cf. wise adj. 1 (b). Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| wop | Weeping. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| worthful | Of persons: Honourable; deserving of honour; meriting respect or reverence; full of worth or merit. Also absol. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| wounden | Twisted, twined. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| writhe | To confine or fasten with a cord, bond, etc.; to bind, fetter. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| wrothly | In a wrathful, bitter, or cruel manner; wrathfully, angrily, furiously. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| ybound | Bound. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| ye | Used to address two or more persons, animals, or personified things. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| yed | A song, poem, speech, tale, riddle. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| yesternight | On the night of yesterday, last night. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| yfonded | attempted, tried, tested, tempted. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| yit | The subjective case of the second person dual pronoun: you two, both of you. Cf. inc pron. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ylere | To teach; to learn. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| yomerly | = yomer adj. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| ywhere | Everywhere. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
