| ah | Expressing entreaty, appeal, or remonstrance; (formerly also) †used to gain attention. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| aland | In the land; (also) on earth. Cf. upaland adv. Obs. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| allings | = alling adv. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| altogethers | Completely, entirely, wholly; = altogether adv. 1a. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| anunder | Of condition: Under the rule of. | 1220 | Go To Quotation |
| Araby | An Arab horse. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| argh(e | To be disheartened, timid, fearful, loath; to hesitate from timidity. (Still in Sc.) | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| aspill | To destroy, kill. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| assot | intr. To become or act like a fool; to become infatuated, foolishly fond, madly in love. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| atelich | = atel adj. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| atgo | intr. (with dat. = from) To go away, pass away, depart. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| a that | Until, till. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| atlet | to remit, pardon. | 1200 | Go To Quotation |
| a-wane | In want, wanting. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| aweld | trans. To rule with power, control, subdue; to wield, manage. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| awem | To corrupt, defile; to disgrace, dishonour; to impair, injure, spoil. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| awit | To watch over, command (a troop). | 1200 | Go To Quotation |
| bar | esp. A stake or rod of iron or wood used to fasten a gate, door, hatch, etc. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| becomely | Becoming, fitting, acceptable. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bede | Command, bidding. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| beget | The action of acquiring; acquisition, gaining; acquisition, gain, profit, advantage. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| beginning | The point of time at which anything begins; absol. the time when the universe began to be. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| behest | A command, injunction, bidding. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| behest | trans. (or with subord. clause). To vow, promise. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| behoving | That behoves; of use, needful, appropriate, incumbent. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| beliefful | Having faith in something, especially religion; believing. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| besay | To declare, speak about. | 1200 | Go To Quotation |
| beseech | To beg earnestly for, entreat (a thing). | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bespouse | trans. To espouse, marry. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| beswink | To chastise. rare. (Prob. for beswinge.) | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| betide | Const. dative object; occas. to, unto. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| betoken | trans. To signify, mean; to denote, express in words. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| betokening | The giving of a sign or token; signification, meaning; emblem, symbol; omen, portent. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bewin | To gain, to win, get possession of. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bidding | bidding of beads, beads-bidding; bidding of prayers, bidding prayer. As to these… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bideme | trans. To condemn. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| bihofth(e | Need, behoof; use, service. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| binding | The action of bind v. in various senses. | 1239 | Go To Quotation |
| birise | To become, befit (only in 3rd pers.). | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bischun | trans. To shun, avoid (a thing); also with refl. pron. | 1200 | Go To Quotation |
| bishoping | The action or rite of confirmation. arch. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bisocne | Visiting, frequenting, attendance. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| biting | The action of bite v. in its various senses. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bitwihen | = betwixt prep. adv., between prep. adv. n. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| blanchet | White flour or powder for the face. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| blessed | Enjoying supreme felicity; happy, fortunate. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| blissful | Of things: Full of or fraught with bliss. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| blowing | That blows (see the vb.); esp. windy. blowing adder n., blowing snake a snake… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| boon | A prayer to God, Christ, etc. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| breaker | One who breaks, crushes, or destroys; so breaker off, etc.; and with defining n. as housebreaker n., ship-breaker n., etc., q.v. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bune | Buying, purchase. (In the last quot. a pa. pple. seems required.) | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| buxom | Obedient; pliant; compliant, tractable (to). Obs. (exc. as a rare archaism.) | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| buxomness | Obedience, submissiveness; lowliness, humility. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| bysening | The action of setting an example; concr. a pattern, example, symbol, type. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| chiding | That chides, that gives loud and vehement utterance to displeasure; brawling, scolding, rebuking. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| chire | Form of kire, Old English cyre, Choice. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| christenman | = Christian man, Christian. | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| chull(e | = ich'ulle, ich wulle, I will: see ich I pron. n. forms. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| church work | Work on the construction or repair of a church; †a fund set aside for this (obs.). Cf. kirk work… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| circumcision | The action of circumcising; practised as a religious rite by Jews and Muslims, and… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| crook | trans. To bend into an angular or curved form; to distort from a straight line; to curve. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| crown | trans. To place a crown, wreath, or garland upon the head of (a person), in token of… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| derfness | Trouble, hardship; = derf n. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| dernly | In a secret manner, with secrecy. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| dizzily | In a dizzy or giddy manner. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| dread | trans. To fear greatly, be in mortal fear of; to regard with awe or reverence, venerate. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| dreadly | In a manner inspiring dread; dreadfully, awfully, terribly. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| drinking | Of a material: That sucks up moisture; absorbent. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| earn | To be affected with poignant grief or compassion; also impers. it earns me. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| eating | The action or habit of taking food. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| erite | A heretic. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| ermine | An animal of the weasel tribe (Mustela Erminea), an inhabitant of northern countries… | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| eteliche | Variant of ateliche adv. Obs., grievously, cruelly. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| evangelist | One of the writers of the Four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| evening | An equal, one of the same rank; a ‘match’; a neighbour (in scriptural sense). | 1199 | Go To Quotation |
| eyesene | Eyesight, presence. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| fastening | concr. That which fastens or makes secure; that which connects one person or thing… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| fasting | The action of fast v.; abstinence from food; an instance of this. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| feeble | Of persons or animals, their limbs or organs: Lacking strength, weak, infirm. Now… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| feeling | The faculty or power by which one feels (feel v. 6); the ‘sense of touch’ in… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| feng | = fang n. 2. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| fere | Able to go, in health; hence gen. able, strong; sound, ‘whole’. Also in phrase whole and fere. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| fetherfooted | Fourfooted. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| fikenung | Deceit. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| flume | A stream, a river; also, water. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| fodneth | Sustenance. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| font-stone | The stone font used in baptism. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| food | trans. To supply food to; to feed, nourish, support. Also intr. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| forbysen | An example, pattern, type. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| forespeaker | One who speaks for another; an advocate. (The later examples are Sc.) | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| forguilt | trans. To bring into a state of guilt. Only refl. or in pass. Const. wið, gæn. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| forthnim | trans. To consume. Cf. fornim v. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| four-footed | Having four feet, quadruped. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| foxly | Craftily. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| frakel | Dangerous, deceitful. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| fruit | Vegetable products in general, that are fit to be used as food by men and animals. Now… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| garner | A storehouse for corn, granary. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| gift | A faculty, power, or quality miraculously bestowed, e.g. upon the apostles and… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| gluttonry | Gluttony. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| gnast | A spark; the snuff of a candle. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| goder-heal | (more fully to goderheal) With good fortune, fortunately, profitably. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| godness | = godhead n. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| grace | Said with reference to God. (See also 11a.) | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| hallowing | That hallows; sanctifying. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| harbinger | One who provides lodging; an entertainer, a host; a harbourer n. common herberger, a common lodging-house keeper. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| hark | trans. To give ear or listen to; to hearken to, hear with active attention. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| healer | One who heals (wounds, diseases, the sick, etc.); a leach, doctor; also, one who… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| hellen | Of or belonging to hell; infernal, hellish. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| helpless | Destitute of help; having no assistance from others; needy. (Of persons, their condition, etc.) | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| hereto | To this matter, subject, etc.; with reference to or in regard to this point. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| hereupon | Upon this thing, point, subject, or matter. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-house | A stable: in quot. tr. Latin stabulum stable, hostelry, inn. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| hundredfold | A hundred times the amount or number. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| ine | = in prep., in its various uses. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| irnen | = iron adj. 1. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| i-sehtne | trans. To reconcile. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| Jew | A person of Hebrew descent; one whose religion is Judaism; an Israelite. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| John | A masculine Christian name, that of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist; hence… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| kindred | A group or body of persons related to each other by blood; a family, clan, tribe, etc.; = kin n.… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| knave-child | A male child. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| large | Liberal in giving; generous; bountiful, munificent; open-handed. Also, liberal… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| last | A fault, vice, sin; blame; also, a physical blemish. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| lasting | Continuing, enduring; also of long continuance, permanent. (In early use often… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| late | Look; appearance, aspect; outward manner or bearing. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| leath | Cessation, intermission, rest. a leoð gān (early Middle English): to make peace. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| lecher | A man immoderately given to sexual indulgence; a lewd or grossly unchaste man, a debauchee. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| leese | intr. To come to ruin, to be ‘lost’. rare. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| left | left side, left half (also left hand n.), used (with a preceding prep.) for: The… | 1174 | Go To Quotation |
| lewness | Treacherousness. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| liche | Form, figure, guise. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| lightness | The quality or fact of having little weight. Of a vessel: The fact of being lightly laden.… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| lippen | intr. To confide, rely, trust. Const. to, till; occas. in, into, of, on, unto. Also in indirect… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| litheness | Flexibility, suppleness. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| litten | intr. To look to, unto. Also const. for to with inf.: to rely on. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| livenoth | Food; provision, means of living. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| liverison | Deliverance, freedom; redemption. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| loathness | In various senses of loath adj.: Harmfulness, enmity; unpleasantness. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| looking | The action of look v.; look, gaze. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| Lord's day | A Christian appellation for Sunday. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| manner | Species, kind, or sort. Now rare exc. in what manner of ——? (also what manner a ——?), and as in senses 1b and 1d. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| mercy | Clemency and compassion shown to a person who is in a position of powerlessness or… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| mild-hearted | Tender-hearted, gentle, merciful. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| misdoing | Wrongdoing, evildoing. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| mone | Mind, memory; intention. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| mostwhat | Almost, nearly. Obs. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| namely | Particularly, especially, above all. Now rare (in later use chiefly Sc.). | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| neighboured | = neighbourhood n. 6. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| netheless | Nevertheless. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| oncome | Something harmful that comes upon a person, esp. as a calamity or affliction; spec. an… | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| ondful | Malicious; spiteful, envious. Also as n. with the and pl. concord: malicious or envious people as a class. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| orison | A prayer. In later use chiefly in pl. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| otherways | Otherwise; by other means, differently; in other respects; contrarily. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| palfrey | A horse for ordinary riding (as distinct from a warhorse); esp. a small saddle horse for a woman. Also in extended use. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| pilt | To drive, push, or thrust; to strike; to thrust away or out. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| postel | A pillar, a post; esp. a doorpost, a gatepost. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| poverty | The condition of having little or no wealth or few material possessions; indigence, destitution. Cf. poor adj. 1. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| ruesomeness | Repentance. Obs. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| ruth | The quality of being compassionate; the feeling of sorrow for another; compassion, pity. Also with for. | 1224 | Go To Quotation |
| sacrament | Ecclesiastical. Used as the common name for certain solemn ceremonies or religious… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| saint | Prefixed to the name of a canonized person (see B. 2), also to the names of the… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| sakful | Guilty, criminal. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| saughten | trans. To reconcile. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| sermon | trans. To preach to (a person). lit. and fig. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| sike | intr. To sigh. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| skill | That which is reasonable, proper, right, or just. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| slitting | The action of making a slit or slits, or of cutting in this manner. Also with up. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| sloth | Physical or mental inactivity; disinclination to action, exertion, or labour; sluggishness, idleness, indolence, laziness. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| smell | That property of things which affects the olfactory organ, whether agreeably or otherwise; odour, perfume, aroma; stench, stink. | 1174 | Go To Quotation |
| smell | To have perception of (an object, odour, etc.) by means of the olfactory sense. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| smelling | The sense of smell. Cf. smell n. 1. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| smother | Dense, suffocating, or stifling smoke, such as is produced by combustion without flame. (Freq. coupled with smoke.) | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| snow-water | Water derived or obtained from melted snow. Also transf. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| spene | trans. To spend, expend (money, goods, etc.). | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| spousehood | The marriage state; matrimony; wedlock. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| sput | trans. To urge, incite. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| stead | impers. or with subj. a clause, inf., or noun of action: To avail, profit, be of use to… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| strand | A stream, brook, rivulet; transf. a stream (of blood, etc.). Obs. | 1239 | Go To Quotation |
| swike | Deceitful; treacherous; traitorous. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| swinking | The action of the verb swink v.; toiling, toil, labour. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| synagogue | The regular assembly or congregation of the Jews for religious instruction and worship… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| teaching | The imparting of instruction or knowledge; the occupation or function of a teacher. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| therefore | In various senses of for prep. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| ther(e)-mide | Along with that; together with that; at the same time. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| therethrough | Of place: Through that, it, or them. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| thereupon | Upon that or it (of position or motion, lit. or fig.). arch. or formal. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| thraldom | fig. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| timbering | The action of the verb timber v., in various senses. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| tind | trans. To set fire to, ignite, light, kindle (a fire, lamp, torch, flame, etc.). | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| to-draw | fig. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| togethers | = together adv. prep. n. adj. (in its various senses). | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| to-twitch | trans. To pull apart or away with a sudden jerk or twitch. Also fig. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| troth | Faithfulness, good faith, loyalty; honesty: = truth n. 1 4 ? Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| trueship | Faithfulness, fidelity. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| tune | Early Middle English form of tyne, tine v. (Old English týnan), to close, shut; to fence or enclose. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| twofold | Double (in fig. sense); double-minded, wavering. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| unskill | Improper or foolish conduct; folly; wrongdoing; wrong. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| unwin | Grief, sorrow, distress. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| waking | spec. Keeping vigil as an act of devotion. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| waking | That remains awake; that keeps watch; fig. that continues on the alert, vigilant, watchful. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| wandreth | Misery, distress, hardship; adversity, poverty. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| warmth | A moderately hot or pleasantly heated state of the atmosphere, esp. as an essential… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| wastine | A wild, uncultivated tract of country; a desert region, wilderness. | 1174 | Go To Quotation |
| werve | A ‘beast’ for riding on. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| whate | Quickly. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| whenso | = when adv. 4. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| whoever | As nominal relative, or with correlative in principal clause, which usually follows… | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| whoredom | The practice of playing the whore, or of intercourse with whores; illicit sexual indulgence in general; fornication, harlotry. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| wing | Each of the organs of flight of any flying animal, as a bird, bat, or insect. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| winking | Closing the eyes in sleep; dozing, slumbering; also, a doze, a nap. Obs. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| wori | ‘Troubled’, disturbed, turbid. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| worthing | Dung; manure. Also fig., moral corruption or filth. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| wrethful | Of persons: Angry, irate; = wrathful adj. 1. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| wright | Desert, what one has deserved; hence, blame, fault. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| wumme | Woe is me! | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| yclansed | pa. pple. of cleanse v., yclense v. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| yclepe | trans. To call by name, name. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| yeie | intr. To cry out, shout. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
| yher(i)ed | As past participle: praised. | 1175 | Go To Quotation |
