| aback | In a backward direction; to or towards the rear; back. Also fig. and in extended use… | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| Abba | An invocation to God as father. Chiefly in Abba, father. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| affright | In predicative use: struck with fear; terrified, frightened, afraid. Also with with. Also fig. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| afind | trans. To find out, discover. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| agin | intr. and trans. To begin (in various senses). | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| agive | trans. To give up, give back; to render, surrender. Obs. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| akennedness | Birth; generation. Esp. with reference to Christ's incarnation. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| alive | Of a person, animal, or plant: living, not dead. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| amen | As a concluding formula (merely transferred from Latin) = Finis. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| a-night | By night, at night. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| anim | To take away. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| anlike | Like, similar, alike. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| anuppe | On the top of, upon, both of position and direction. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| aquench | To quench, extinguish, put out (fire, light, life). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| arfname | Inheritor, heir. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| arine | To touch. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| arm | Poor, needy. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| arvethliche | With difficulty or trouble, hardly. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| asend | To send forth. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| astir | To stir up, move, disturb, excite, physically or emotionally. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| atfore | In front of, before. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| atrine | To touch. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| atsake | intr. To deny. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| aught | Possession; that which one possesses as his own; property. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| awaried(e | Accursed. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| awarp | To throw or cast away; to throw or cast down. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| awecche | trans. To arouse out of sleep (or swoon). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| aworth | intr. To vanish, perish; to escape notice. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| axe | A tool or instrument for hewing, cleaving, or chopping, trees, wood, ice, etc.; consisting… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| aywhere | Everywhere. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| barm | The froth that forms on the top of fermenting malt liquors, which is used to leaven bread… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| beclip | trans. To fold in the arms, embrace, clasp. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| beclose | trans. To shut up or in; to enclose, imprison. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| beer | An alcoholic liquor obtained by the fermentation of malt (or other saccharine… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| behead | trans. To deprive (a man or animal) of the head, to decapitate; to kill by cutting off the head. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| behide | trans. To hide away, conceal. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| behote | A promise. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| belewe | trans. To betray. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bene | Prayer, petition, boon; esp. prayer to God. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| beod | A table. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bewend | trans. To turn round, turn away. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bibod | Commandment. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bihowe | trans. To view; to see. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bipeche | trans. To cheat, deceive, delude. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bismer | trans. To treat with scorn, mock, deride, insult. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bit | The portion of food bitten off at once; as much as is taken in the mouth at once; a mouthful; = bite n. 4. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bitrum | trans. To surround, beset. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bitterly | In a bitter manner; with bitterness. (See the senses of bitter adj.) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bitun | trans. To enclose; to shut up. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| blithely | With kindness, benignantly. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| blow | intr. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| boding | Annunciation, proclamation, preaching. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bolghen | Physically swollen; = bollen adj. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| booker | A writer of books, a scribe. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bottle | A dwelling, habitation, building. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bree | trans. To terrify, affright, scare. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| brerd | The topmost surface or edge: rim, brim, brink. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bridegroom | A man about to be married, or very recently married. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| brightly | In a bright manner; brilliantly, clearly. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| buy | trans. To get possession of by giving an equivalent, usually in money; to obtain by paying… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| by-girdle | That which begirds; a girdle or belt; also, from the use of this, a purse, money-bag. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Calvary | The proper name of the place where Christ was crucified. (Rendered in Old English Headpan-stow.) Also used generically. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| can | To know or have learned (a thing); to have practical knowledge of (a language, art, etc.). to can… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| candle-staff | A candlestick; the main stem or shaft of a branched candlestick. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| castle | Used to render Latin castellum of the Vulgate (Greek κώμη), village. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| cheald | = cold n. (in early Kentish dial.). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Childermas | The festival of the Holy Innocents (the 28th of December), commemorating the slaughter… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| cleansing | The action of cleanse v. in its various senses; cleaning, purification, acquittal. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| cod | A bag, scrip. Obs. (In 18th c. in slang use: a purse; see quots.) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| costnung | Temptation. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| crow | intr. To utter the loud cry of a cock. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| daft | Mild, gentle, meek, humble. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| daughter | prop. The word expressing the relation of a female to her parents; female child or offspring. The female counterpart of son n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| day-red | The red of the break of day; the rosy dawn. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| deedbote | Amends-deed, penance, repentance. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| dight | trans. To dictate, give directions to, direct. Obs. (Only in Old English.) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| dit | trans. To stop up, close up, shut (an opening); to fill up (a hole or gap). lit. and fig. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| drain | trans. To strain (liquid) through any porous medium. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| drink | To take (liquid) into the stomach; to swallow down, imbibe, quaff. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| edmod | Gentle, humble, meek. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| eftsoon | A second time, again. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| eighteen | The cardinal numeral next after seventeen, represented by the symbols 18 or xviii. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ell | A measure of length varying in different countries. The English ell = 45 in.; the Scotch… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ending | The action of the verb end v.: termination, conclusion, completion; †death, etc. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| farm | trans. To cleanse, empty, purge. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fec | A definite interval in space or time; a limited distance, fixed period. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fering(e | Suddenly. After 12th c. only with genitival s, used quasi- adj. in feringes dede, sudden death. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ferling | As a coin: The fourth part of a penny. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ferly | Suddenly, unexpectedly. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| filth | Putrid matter, corruption, rottenness; in later use, purulent matter, pus. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| flesh and blood | Mankind; an individual man or men. Also predicatively to be flesh and blood: to be human, have human feelings or weaknesses. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| forbreak | To interrupt. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fordeem | trans. To condemn. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fore-run | intr. To run on in front. Old English only. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| forgive- | stem of prec. used in derivatives; as forˈgiveful adj. Obs. full of forgiveness; ready… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| for-thy | For this reason, therefore. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| forworth | intr. To perish, come to nought, go wrong. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fourfold | Four times as great or numerous: quadruple. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| frike | intr. To dance, move briskly. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fuller | One whose occupation is to full cloth. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| fullought | Baptism. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| further | That is before another in position, order, or rank; esp. of an animal's limbs or a part… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Gang-week | Rogation week, in which the gang-days n. fell. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| gate-ward | A gate-keeper. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| girdle | A belt worn round the waist to secure or confine the garments; also employed as a… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| gnide | trans. To rub with or between the hands; to bruise, crush; to rub out. Also intr. to crumble away. (Cf. gnodde v.) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ground-wall | The lower portion of a wall or building: a foundation. Also transf. and fig. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| guilty | That has offended or been in fault; delinquent, criminal. Now in stronger sense: That… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hale | Free from injury; safe, sound, unhurt. Now only Sc. and north. dial. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| head-pan | Skull, brain-pan. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| healend | One that ‘heals’ or saves; the Saviour. In Old English regularly used instead of the proper name Jesus. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Hebreish | = Hebrew n. adj. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hene | trans. To stone. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hireling | One who serves for hire or wages; a hired servant; a mercenary (soldier). (Now usually somewhat contemptuous: cf. A. 2) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hold | A carcase, dead body, corpse. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| hosanna | An exclamation, meaning ‘Save now!’ or ‘Save, pray!’, occurring in Ps. cxviii. 25… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| husband | The master of a house, the male head of a household. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-binde | trans. To bind. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-brotheren | With pl. concord. Brethren, brothers collectively (or mutually). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-cherre | intr. To turn, return. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-feond | Enemies. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-freond | With pl. concord. Friends. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-knit | trans. To tie, fasten, attach. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-lecche | trans. To lay hold of, catch. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-milce | trans. To have mercy upon, pardon. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| inbring | trans. To bring in (lit. and fig.); to introduce; to adduce; to induce, cause to come; in Sc. Law… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| inc | The objective case of the second person dual pronoun yit (see yit pron.): you two, both of you. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| infare | intr. To go in, to enter. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-tel | Number. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-thank | Thinking, thought. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-welde | trans. To exercise power over; to wield, rule; to subdue. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| i-wisliche | Certainly; truly. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Judeish | = Jewish adj. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| kipe | A basket; †spec. an osier basket used for catching fish (obs.); a basket used as a measure (dial.). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| leaning | The action of lean v.; inclination; reclining. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| leng | Longer. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| lest | Used as a negative particle of intention or purpose, introducing a clause expressive… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| lewe | Treacherous. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Messiah | The promised deliverer of the Jewish nation and redeemer of the human race prophesied in… | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| mid-fasten | The middle of Lent, mid-Lent; mid-Lent Sunday. Cf. mid-fast Sunday n. | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| nard | A fragrant ointment or perfume prepared from the rhizome of the plant of the same name… | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| ninety | Nine times ten; one more than eighty-nine. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| onsaw | An accusation or charge against a person. Also: a false accusation. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| outdrive | trans. To drive out, expel. Also intr.: to burst out. Now arch. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| overhele | trans. To cover over, conceal. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| oversail | intr. To sail over or across. Obs. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| Palm Sunday | The Sunday before Easter, on which Jesus' entry into Jerusalem is commemorated. Palm Sunday fair… | 1075 | Go To Quotation |
| plat | trans. To strike, knock, slap. to plat off: to chop off. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| queller | A person who kills someone; (sometimes) spec. an executioner. Obs. (arch. in later use). | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| rabbi | As a form of address. (In early use only in translations or echoes of N.T. passages.) | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| reaper | A person who reaps. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| reap-time | = reaping time n. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| ridder | trans. To sift or riddle (wheat, etc.); to winnow (corn). Also intr. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| Samaritan | A native or inhabitant of Samaria, a district of Palestine named from its chief city… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Satanas | = Satan n. 1. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| sench | trans. To sink, plunge. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| snake | One or other of the limbless vertebrates constituting the reptilian order Ophidia… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| something | Some unspecified or indeterminate thing (material or immaterial). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| sower | One who sows seed. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| spete | intr. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| sponge | The soft, light, porous, and easily compressible framework which remains after the… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| steeple | A tall tower; a building of great altitude in proportion to its length and breadth. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| strand | The land bordering a sea, lake, or †river; in a more restricted sense, that part of a… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| swike | A deceiver; a traitor. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| thaie | dem. adj. = those pron. adj. (sometimes = the adj. pron. n.). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| therebefore | Before that in position or order; in front. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| thirtyfold | Thirty times as great or as much; increased thirty times. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Thomas | A Greek, Latin, and common Christian name; well known as that of the ‘doubting apostle’… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| tilie | One who tills or cultivates the soil; a husbandman; = tiller n. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| to-bruise | trans. To crush to pieces, to smash; to bruise severely. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| tole | Evil-speaking, calumny; blasphemy; reproach, blame. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| toll | Orig., a general term for: (a) a definite payment exacted by a king, ruler, or lord, or… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| torve | trans. To throw, cast. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| tumb | intr. To tumble, to perform saltatory feats; to dance. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Twelfth-day | The twelfth day after Christmas; the sixth of January, on which the festival of the… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Twelfth-eve(n | The eve of Twelfth-day; Twelfth-night. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| twifoldly | Twofold, doubly, to twice the amount. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| undernim | To understand, comprehend, perceive; to feel. Also const. that. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| unhealth | Want of health; weak or poor health. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| unhele | trans. To uncover (something) so as to display or make visible; hence fig., to discover, reveal, make patent or known. Also refl. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| unknit | trans. To untie or undo (a knot or something tied). | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| untie | trans. To release, set free, detach, by undoing a cord or similar fastening. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| unwatery | Not supplied with or containing water. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| upcome | intr. To come, spring, or rise up. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| upspring | intr. Of plants, etc.: To spring up, to grow. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| upsprung | (up- prefix 3b. Cf. upspring v.) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| waedle | Poor, needy. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| water-sick | Dropsical. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| welcome | trans. To greet (a person) with ‘welcome!’; to receive (a visitor) gladly and… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| whilwendlic | Lasting for a time, temporary. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| whistler | One who sounds, or plays upon, a whistle or pipe; a flute-player, piper, or fifer. Now rare. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| wineberry | A grape. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| yend | trans. To end. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| yfold | folded; closed. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| ywrit | Written. (In quots. as past participle.) | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
