| abbot | A man who is the head or superior of an abbey of (Christian) monks. Also used as a… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ache | A pain, esp. a continuous or prolonged dull pain, in contrast to one which is sudden… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| addeem | trans. To judge; to try, test; = adjudge v. (in various senses). Also fig. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| adle | Sickness, disease. Also as count noun: an illness, an ailment. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| adrink | intr. To be drowned. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| adze | A tool similar to an axe, with a blade set at right angles to the shaft and… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| against | In reception of, in welcome of. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| akenned | That has been born or begotten. Esp. with reference to Christ. Cf. ankenned adj. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Albion | Originally: the island of Britain. Later: the nation of Britain or England, often… | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| alesness | = alesedness n. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| alleluia | ‘Praise the Lord’: used as an expression of worship. Now also in weakened or ironic use.… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| all-thing | Everything. Now Sc. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| amanse | To excommunicate, anathematize. | 800 | Go To Quotation |
| anthem | A composition, in prose or verse, sung antiphonally, or by two voices or choirs, responsively; an antiphon n. Obs. or arch. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| apostly | | 880 | Go To Quotation |
| aquick | intr. To revive, come to life again. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| aread | trans. To determine by counsel; to decree. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| argh | Cowardly, pusillanimous, timid, fearful; (also) weak. (Still in north. dial.) | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| armliche | Miserably. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| atee | trans. and intr. To drag or draw away, to withdraw. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| balsamum | An aromatic resinous vegetable juice; = balm n. 1, balsam n. 1. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| bead | Prayer; pl. prayers, devotions. Obs. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| befly | To fly from, shun, escape. | 889 | Go To Quotation |
| begird | To encircle, encompass, enclose, with. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| behove | trans. To have use for or need of, to require; to be in want of. (Object orig. gen.) Obs. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bend | Anything with which one's body or limbs are bound; a band, bond, or fetter. pl. collective… | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| benim | trans. To rob, deprive, bereave. Const. orig. gen., later of (? at, from). | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| berwe | A grove, a shady place. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bestir | ? To heap or pile (a thing) about with. (Old English). | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| beswape | trans. To envelop, entangle. | 980 | Go To Quotation |
| between | Of place: In an intermediate position or course, midway, in the midst. lit. and fig. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bield | Boldness, courage. Obs. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bier | A framework for carrying; a handbarrow; a litter, a stretcher. Obs. exc. Hist. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bilewhit | Mild, gentle, clement; innocent, simple. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bishoply | Episcopal. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bishopric | The province of a bishop; a diocese. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| black | Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| blead | Blowing, breath, inspiration. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bloodlease | = bloodletting n. 1. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| blossom | intr. To put forth blossoms, bloom, flower. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| body | The complete physical form of a person or animal; the assemblage of parts, organs… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| brede | trans. To make broad; to broaden, dilate. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bree | The lid of the eye, the eyelid. (In Layamon the breow of the first text is displaced by brouw, brow n. in the second text.) Obs. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| bruise | (the body of men or animals). | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| brune | Burning, a burn. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| buriness | A burial-place; a grave, tomb. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| canon | A rule, law, or decree of the Church; esp. a rule laid down by an ecclesiastical Council. the canon… | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| capitle | A short division of a book, a chapter. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| chapman | A man whose business is buying and selling; a merchant, trader, dealer. Obs. or arch. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| childly | Of, belonging to, or natural to a child or childhood; childish. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| chrism | = chrisom n. 2 4. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| christen | = Christian adj. n.: of persons. Cf. christenman n. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| christen | trans. To convert to Christianity, make Christian, christianize. Obs. or arch. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| cleanness | Moral or ceremonial purity; chastity; innocence; undefiled quality. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| cold | gen. Significant lowness of temperature; lack of heat in an object or a substance; coldness… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| couthly | Certainly, manifestly; clearly. Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| crisp | Of the hair: Curly; now applied esp. to stiff, closely curling, or frizzy hair; †also, having or wearing such hair. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| crutch | A staff for a lame or infirm person to lean upon in walking; now a staff with a cross-piece… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| daw | with it as subject. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| dawing | Dawn, daybreak; morning twilight. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| deacon | In Episcopal Churches, a member of the third order of the ministry, ranking below… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| disciple | A personal follower or pupil of any religious or (in more recent use) other teacher… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| dive | To dip, submerge, or plunge (a person or thing) in, or into a liquid, or the like. arch. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| dizziness | The state or condition of being dizzy or giddy. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| drive | To move along or advance quickly; to run or come with violence; to dash, rush, hasten. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| dwele | intr. To wander, go astray; to err, be deluded. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| e | Marriage. Also: the marriage vow. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| earth | The action of ploughing; an instance of this. In early use also: †the produce of ploughed… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| East Sea | A sea on the east side of a country, or in an eastern region of the world; spec. (formerly) the Baltic Sea. | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| eathly | Inconsiderable, slight, trifling. Often in antithesis to eche (= eternal): Of short duration. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| elchur | Elsewhere, otherwise, besides. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| eleven | In concord with n. expressed. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| elsewhat | Something or anything else. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| Engle | The Angles (Angle n. 1), considered collectively. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| English | The English language. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ernde | intr. To intercede. Const. to and dat. of indirect obj. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| errand | A message, a verbal communication to be repeated to a third party. Obs. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| even- | | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| evenly | In an equal degree or proportion. Sometimes followed by as. Obs. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| eyethurl | An eye-hole, a window; also pl. the eye-windows. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| fax | The hair of the head. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fell | Of a disease, hunger, etc.: To lay low, lay prostrate; †to kill. Obs. exc. dial. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fere | Combined with advbs.: = fare v. III. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fewness | Scantiness in number; paucity, small number. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fiendship | The personality of a fiend. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fifteenth | In concord with n. expressed. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| flite | intr. To contend, strive; also, to contend in words, chide, wrangle. Const. against, on, with. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fordilghe | trans. To exterminate, destroy. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fordo | To destroy, ruin, spoil, wreck (a place or thing); to lay waste (land). arch. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fore | A going, journey, expedition. Also, an expeditionary force. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fore | In support of, in favour of; = for prep. 7. Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forecome | To gain the advantage of, overcome (obs.). | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fore-say | trans. To say beforehand, foretell, predict. Now rare. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| foresee | To prepare beforehand or provide; in early use with dat. of person, later with to. Also, to provide of or with (something). Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forgive | trans. To give, grant. Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forgiveness | The action of forgiving; pardon of a fault, remission of a debt, etc. †In Old English also: Indulgent permission. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forhevedness | Restraint, continence, abstinence. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forhow | trans. To despise, scorn. Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forlet | trans. To allow, permit. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forold | intr. To grow old, wear out with age. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forset | trans. To beset (lit. and fig.); to bar (a way; with dat. of person); to surround, invest… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forthbear | To promote, uphold. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forthdo | trans. To put forth; to utter (words). | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forthfore | Used as rendering of Latin transitus, given by Jerome as the literal meaning of pascha (passover). | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forthgang | A going forth or out; progress, advance. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| for-thon | For this reason, therefore. In Middle English sometimes repeated, forþon.. forþon ‘for this reason..that’. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forthyete | trans. To pour out. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| forward | In Old English used in partitive concord: The front part of (any thing material); the… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fourteenth | in concord with n. expressed; also ellipt. fourteenth part: one of 14 equal parts into which a whole is divided. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fraked | Wicked, vile. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| frame | intr. To gain ground, make progress; to prosper, succeed. Also (in neutral sense): to fare, go (well, ill, etc.). Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| framing | Advancement, progress; profit, gain. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| friendly | Characteristic of or befitting a friend or friends; that expresses or is indicative of friendship or a kind and helpful attitude. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| fright | trans. To affect with fright; to scare, terrify. Now rare exc. poet. and dial.;… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| frosty | Affected with or characterized by frost; reduced to a temperature at or below freezing-point; ice-cold. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| frover | trans. To comfort, console. Const. for, of. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| frumschaft | First formation, creation. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| full | trans. To baptize. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fullend | trans. To end fully, accomplish, complete, fulfil. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| fully | In a full manner or degree; to the full, without deficiency; completely… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| gagate | Jet. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| gathering | The action of coming together, uniting or combining; the result of this; union, accumulation. (In early instances also with ge-.) | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| genge | Current, prevalent, valid. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| ghostly | Concerned with sacred things, or with the church; belonging to an ecclesiastical order or… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| gladly | In a glad fashion; with gladness or joy. Also, in weaker sense, willingly, with alacrity… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| gladness | The state of being glad; joy, rejoicing. †Also, cheerfulness, alacrity (in action). | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| glew | intr. To make merry; to jest; to play on musical instruments. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| gnede | Of persons: Sparing, niggardly, miserly. Also gnede of (gifts, etc.). | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| goodless | Devoid of good; comfortless; worthless. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| Goth | One of a Germanic tribe, who, in the third, fourth, and fifth centuries, invaded both… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| Greekish | With reference to the language, its words, phrases, etc.; = Greek adj. 2. Also occas. of a person: Speaking Greek. Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| greeting | The action of greet v., in various senses; an instance of this, esp. a salutation. sendeth greeting… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| gristbite | intr. To gnash the teeth. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| grure | Fright, terror; something frightful, fearful agony. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hade | trans. To ordain. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hallow | To consecrate (a person) to an office, as bishop, king, etc. Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hallowed | Sanctified, blessed, consecrated, dedicated. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hallowing | The action of the verb hallow v.; consecration, dedication, sanctification. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| harrying | Warlike incursion; devastation, laying waste; ravaging, plundering, raiding. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| heap | transf. and fig. To amass, accumulate; to add many things together or one thing to another. Often with up, together. Also absol. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| heaping | The action of the verb heap v.; making into a heap; accumulation. Also concr. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hearsum | Ready to hear; obedient, compliant; dutiful, devout. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hearsum | trans. To obey, be obedient to; to revere. (In Old English with dative.) | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| heathenesse | The quality or condition of being heathen; the belief and practice of the heathen; heathenism. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| heifer | A young cow, spec. one that is over one year of age but has not yet calved (or, in… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hereafter | After, in this writing, book, or place; in the sequel; after this in order or… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| heretoga | Anglo-Saxon Hist. The leader of an army; the commander of the militia of a shire or district.… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hew | To cut with blows so as to shape, smooth, trim, reduce in size, or the like; to shape… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| high | trans. To make high or higher (lit. and fig.); to raise, lift up, elevate, exalt, extol. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| highly | In or to a high position or rank. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hithercome | The action of coming hither; advent, arrival. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| holy water | Water dedicated to holy uses and used for ritual purification of persons and things… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| Holy Writ | Holy writings collectively; spec. the Bible or Holy Scriptures. In earlier… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| hot | Of a fever, pain, reddening of the skin, etc.: producing or accompanied by a… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| hotly | With passion, fervour, or intense feeling; angrily, excitedly; eagerly, keenly, ardently. Cf. hot adj. 8a. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| house | In sing. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| housel | The consecrated elements of the Eucharist, esp. the bread; (also) the administration… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| hymn-book | A book containing a collection of hymns. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| ice | In pl. A mass or piece of ice. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ides | In the ancient Roman calendar (Julian and pre-Julian): the third of the three marker days… | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| id est | Used to introduce an explanation of a word or phrase: that is to say. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| i-go | intr. To go, pass. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| ingang | The act or fact of going in; entrance, entry. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| ingo | intr. To go in, to enter. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| inly | Inward, interior, internal; inwardly felt, heartfelt. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| inner | Said of the mind or soul (as the more inaccessible or secret, or as the more central… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| inset | trans. ? To institute, initiate. (Only in Old English: rendering Latin instituĕre.) Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| i-quethe | intr. To say, speak; to arrange, come to terms, agree. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| i-seggen | trans. To say, tell, declare, relate, confess. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| i-setnesse | Institution, ordinance, statute, law. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| i-still | trans. To restrain, stay, still, calm. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| i-thave | trans. To permit, allow. (In Old English also absol. or intr.) | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| i-thrast | trans. To press, force. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| i-wite | trans. To understand, know, get to know, learn. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| i-wuneliche | Customarily, usually. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| Jute | In pl. One of the three Low German tribes which, according to the account preserved… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| kiss | trans. To press or touch with the lips (at the same time compressing and then separating… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lahter | A vice, sin, crime. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lait | Lightning; occas. flash of fire. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| larew | A teacher. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lathe | trans. To invite, call. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lead | The heaviest of the base metals, of a dull pale bluish-gray colour, fusible at a… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| learn | trans. To acquire knowledge of (a subject) or skill in (an art, etc.) as a result… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| learner | One who learns or receives instruction; a disciple. †In early use, a scholar, man of learning. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| leave | Permission asked for or granted to do something: freq. in phr. to ask, beg, get, give, grant, have… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lechne | trans. To cure, heal, lit. and fig. Also absol. to administer medicine. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| leech | A physician; one who practises the healing art. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lenger | Longer. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lere | trans. To teach; = learn v. 4. In various constructions: To give instruction to (a… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lewd | Lay, not in holy orders, not clerical. Also absol. Obs. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| lichamly | Bodily (= bodily adv. 1 2); in a bodily manner or form; in the flesh. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lidded | Having a lid; covered with or as with a lid. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lie | An act or instance of lying; a false statement made with intent to deceive; a… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| liefly | Beautifully; dearly, kindly; willingly, gladly. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| light | intr. To descend from a horse or vehicle; to dismount; to bring one's ride to an end. Also with off… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| light | In a light manner (cf. senses of the adj.); lightly as opposed to heavily; nimbly, †quickly; †easily, comfortably. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lith | A limb. lith from lith, from lith to lith: limb from limb. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lithe | intr. To go, pass; in Old English esp. to go by sea, to sail. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| litten | A churchyard. (Cf. church-litten n.) | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| loath | Something hateful or harmful; evil, harm, injury; an annoyance, a trouble. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| loathly | Hateful, disgusting, loathsome, repulsive, hideous, horrible. Rare in 17th and… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lock | An appliance for fastening a door, lid, etc., consisting of a bolt (or system of… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lof-song | A song of praise, a hymn. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| loom | An implement or tool of any kind. Obs. exc. Sc. and north. dial. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| lovesomely | In a lovesome manner; esp. (in early use) lovingly, affectionately; kindly. See lovesome adj. | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| lustfulness | Lustful condition or character; †delight, pleasurableness (obs.); libidinousness. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| maegth | A family; a person's kin; a race, a tribe; a people or nation. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| mannishness | The state of being in or taking human form; humanity. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| mare | The female of any equine animal (horse, mule, ass, or zebra); spec. the female of the domestic horse, Equus caballus. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| martyr | Christian Church. A person who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce faith in… | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| meed | In early use: something given in return for labour or service; wages, hire… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| mese | Moss. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| metre | a metrical verse. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| midwinter | the time around midwinter; spec. Christmas time. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| minster | A monastery; a Christian religious house. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| monk | Within the Christian Church: such a person typically living a celibate life according to… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| monkhood | The state or profession of a monk; the monastic life, monasticism; monks collectively. (In quot. 1740 app. punningly.) | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| monklife | Monastic life. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| monkly | Of or relating to a monk or monks; monastic. | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| mood | Mind, thought, will. Also: heart, feeling. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| moor | A piece of unenclosed waste ground; (now usually, esp. in Brit.) uncultivated ground… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| moorland | Country consisting of moors, heathland; a moor, a heath. In early use: any open… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| murther | A murderer, an assassin. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| needing | By force, forcibly; under compulsion, unwillingly. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| neighleche | intr. Of a person: to approach, draw near (to or toward a place or person). Also fig. Cf. i-nehleche v. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| nen | Nor. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| new star | A star that has recently become visible in the sky; a nova or supernova. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| nighness | Nearness in place, neighbourhood, proximity; nearness in time. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| nithering | Humiliation, abasement; condemnation; diminishment. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| noontide | Originally: †the time of noon, reckoned as the ninth hour of the day (see noon n. 1) (obs.).… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| nun | Christian Church. A female member of a religious order, typically bound by vows… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| one | trans. To make into one; to join, unite. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| oneness | The quality of being single or unitary; an instance of this. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| onlepy | Solitary; single, unmarried. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| opening | That opens, in various senses of open v. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ore | Respect, reverence; honour, glory. in ore: in an honourable manner; honourably. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| otherwise | Another way. In adverb phrases. in (also on) other wise: in another way. (on) any otherwise… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| outfly | intr. To fly out. Chiefly poet. Now rare. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| oven | A furnace; a chamber in or below which fuel is burnt to produce an intense consuming heat. Also fig. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| overcoming | That overcomes; overwhelming, overpowering. Also (in Old English): †that comes upon, that overtakes (obs.). | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| overleap | trans. To leap over or across; to leap beyond or further than. Freq. fig.: to exceed, go beyond, transcend. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| overnim | trans. To overtake; to overcome, subdue. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| override | To ride over or across (land, etc.); to cross by riding. Also fig. Chiefly poet. in later use. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| overrun | fig. To overpower, overcome, defeat comprehensively. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| overstand | trans. To stand over (formerly esp. so as to guard or intimidate); to stand higher than or above. Also occas. intr. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| overyet | trans. To forget, disregard, neglect. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| own | Used after a possessive adjective, or a noun in the genitive, to emphasize… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Pict | Sc. Hist. A member of a Celtic people, first mentioned in the late 3rd cent. a.d.… | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| pope | (Used as a title preceding the name of) the Bishop of Rome, head of the Roman Catholic Church; a person holding this office. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| port | A town or place possessing a harbour which boats use for loading or unloading, or which… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| portic | Archit. A portico, a porch. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| privilege | Ecclesiastical Law. A special ordinance issued by the Pope, granting exemption from… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| quale | Death, mortality; destruction; plague. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| queemness | Pleasure, satisfaction. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| quoth | trans. Without direct speech. Now arch. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| rear | To construct, esp. by building up; = raise v. 8. Also fig. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| redness | The quality or state of being red or reddish; red colour; an instance of this. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| reghel | A rule, a regulation; a principle, a precept. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| reird | A language. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| resthouse | A small building consisting of a single room for sleeping in, a bedchamber. Also in extended use: an animal's den or lair. Obs. | 1020 | Go To Quotation |
| retheness | Fierceness, roughness (of the weather or the sea); cruelty, severity. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| rich | Of a person: powerful, mighty; noble, great. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ride | To sit on and direct the movement of a horse or other animal, or (in later use)… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Romanish | Originally (in Old English): †of or relating to Rome in its capacity as a centre of… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| roun | A runic letter; = rune n. 1. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| running | The action of riding on horseback, typically at a quick pace, and esp. in a race… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| sailing | The action of travelling on water in a ship or other vessel which is propelled by means… | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| sain | trans. To make the sign of the cross on (a thing or person) in token of consecration… | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| Saturday | The day following Friday and preceding Sunday, traditionally regarded as the seventh day… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Scottish | Celtic Hist. Designating the Scots of early medieval Ireland (cf. Scot n. 1), or the form… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| scurf | The scales or small laminæ of epidermis that are continually being detached from the… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| senye | A military banner or standard = ensign n. 5. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| seventeen | In concord with n. expressed. Also, qualifying a higher numeral. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| seventeenth | The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal seventeen; qualifying a n. expressed or implied. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| shipman | A seaman or sailor. Now somewhat arch. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| shippon | A cattle-shed, a cowhouse. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| slough | A piece of soft, miry, or muddy ground; esp. a place or hole in a road or way filled with… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| smithe | = smithy n. 1. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| songer | A church-singer; a psalm-writer. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| sorry | intr. To grieve, to sorrow; to feel sorry for. Now rare. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| span | The distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, or sometimes to the… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| sprit | intr. To sprout or shoot; to germinate. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| staddle | A foundation. lit. and fig. Obs. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| steed | From the 16th c. used only poet. or rhetorically for: A horse, usually one for riding… | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| steven | = voice n. in various applications. In mod. dial. use chiefly: A loud voice (cf. 5). | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| sting | The fact or effect of being stung; the wound inflicted by the aculeus of an insect, the… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| strength | Capacity for moral effort or endurance; firmness (of mind, character, will, purpose);… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| stretch | trans. To prostrate (oneself, one's body); to extend (one's limbs) in a reclining posture; refl.… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| strind | Generation, descent, lineage; a race, breed, stock; offspring, progeny; = strain n. 4 – 7. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| strong | Qualifying a verb or predication: = strongly adv. Obs. exc. as in 1b 1c. more stronger: = a fortiori adv. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| sundrily | Diverse. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| sundrily | Separately, severally, individually. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| sundry | Belonging or assigned distributively to certain individuals; distinct or different for each respectively. Obs. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| swie | intr. To be silent. Also in ppl._adj. (swihende), silent. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| swind | intr. To waste away, languish; to dwindle, decrease; to vanish, disappear. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| table | A flat and comparatively thin piece of wood, stone, metal, or other solid material; a… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| teld | A tent, pavilion, covering; hence, a tabernacle, dwelling. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thankful | Satisfied, content. Obs. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| theine | intr. To be a servant or minister, to perform the duties of an office. With dat.: To… | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thellich | Of this or such a kind; suchlike, such. | 889 | Go To Quotation |
| thereat | At the place, meeting, etc., mentioned; there. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thereto | Added to that, in addition to that; besides, also, moreover. Now arch. and poet. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thester | Dark. lit. and fig. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thirl | A hole, bore, perforation; an aperture. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thirteen | In concord with n. expressed. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thirtieth | The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral thirty adj. n.; the last… | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thorough | Indicating the agent after a passive verb; = through prep. 7b. Obs. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thoroughfare | trans. To go, pass, or travel through. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| thwite | trans. To cut down, whittle, pare, shave; to shape by paring; to cut away. Also fig.… | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| tithe | A granting; a concession, boon. See also bene-tiðe n. adj. at bene n. Compounds. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| tithe | To whom a concession or grant is made; successful in prayer or beseeching. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| to-dreve | trans. To drive asunder or apart; to disperse, separate, scatter. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| to-gang | intr. To go away, pass away. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| token | Something that serves to indicate a fact, event, object, feeling, etc.; a sign, a symbol. in token… | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| to-louk | trans. To pull or tear to pieces; to pull apart, wrench asunder. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| tongue | Considered as the principal organ of speech; hence, the faculty of speech; the… | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| to-reose | intr. To fall to pieces, fall into ruins; to decay. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| township | In Old English, The inhabitants or population of a tún or village collectively… | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| twie | = twice adv. | 899 | Go To Quotation |
| twifold | Twofold, double. | 890 | Go To Quotation |
| ughten | attrib. in ughten-tide; also ughten-song n. = uht-song n. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| umbe | About, concerning, of. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| unchristen | = unchristian adj. n. Also absol. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| unclean | Of animals: Regarded as defiled or impure, and esp. as unfit to be eaten on that account. Hence also of food. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| undern-tide | = undern n. 1. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| ungird | trans. and refl. To divest of, or free from, a girdle or girth. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| unhold | Of persons: Exhibiting dislike or hostility; unfriendly, hostile. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| unmeet | Immoderate or excessive in amount. Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| unmild | Not mild or gentle; harsh, rough, unkind. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| utter | = outer adj. 2. Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| verse | A succession of words arranged according to natural or recognized rules of prosody and… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wanger | A pillow. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| waning | gen. Decrease or diminution in magnitude, importance, brilliancy, intensity, etc. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wark | A pain, an ache. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| warm | To make (one's body, limbs, etc.) warm by approach to a fire, exposure to the… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wattle | In pl. and collect. sing. Rods or stakes, interlaced with twigs or branches of trees, used… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| weariness | Weary condition; extreme tiredness or fatigue resulting from exertion, continued endurance of pain, or want of sleep. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| weave | trans. To form or fabricate (a stuff or material) by interlacing yarns or other filaments… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wede | intr. To be or become mad. Cf. awede v. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| weekday | A day of the week. (In quot. 1200 a literal as opposed to a metaphorical day.) Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| weening | The action of thinking, supposing, expecting, etc. In Middle English often = mere… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| weeping | Of the voice, the countenance: Tearful, lachrymose. Of utterances: Accompanied… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wem | trans. To disfigure, mutilate (a person, his body); to impair (the mind); to injure (a thing). | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| western | Coming from the west; esp. (of a wind) blowing from the west. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| west wind | A wind blowing from the west. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| when | adv. At some time (only Old English with nú, seld(um); when and when, at one time and another, now and then. Obs. rare. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| whittle | A shawl or wrap. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wick | An abode, dwelling, dwelling-place (in general). Obs. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wifkin | Womankind, women collectively. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| willing | Wishing, desire, inclination. Obs., or arch. in collocation with nilling (with mixture of… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| winter-tide | = winter-time n. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wisely | = wise adj. 1. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wite | A wise man, sage; a councillor; spec. one of the witan n., q.v. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| witship | Witness, testimony; knowledge. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| worldhood | The secular world, as opposed to the religious world of the cloister. Also: a person living… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| wound | A hurt caused by the laceration or separation of the tissues of the body by a hard… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wrack | Retributive punishment; vengeance, revenge; in later use also, hostile action… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| wye | One who fights; a fighting man; a warrior or soldier. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| ycore | Chosen (freq. as past participle); elect; ‘choice’, fair, comely (cf. the uses of choose v.);… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| yern | intr. = run v. 1, 7, 8. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| yfilled | Filled; fulfilled. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| yfound | As past participle: found. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| yhalewed | hallowed. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| yheled | healed. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| yore | A long time ago; of old; freq. strengthened by full; also in collocation with ago, agone.… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| younger | absol. (usually, now always, with def. article) in sing. or pl. sense; One who is, or… | 900 | Go To Quotation |
| youthly | Pertaining to or characteristic of youth: = youthful adj. 2. | 900 | Go To Quotation |
