| abede | trans. To proclaim or deliver (a message). | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| achoose | trans. To choose, select. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| aflee | intr. To flee, run away. Also fig. In later use chiefly in pa. pple. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Afric | A native or inhabitant of Africa, esp. a black African; = African n. 1a. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| aftermost | Nearest to the rear; furthest back. Also: last in order. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| again-come | To come against, meet with, encounter. Also intr. with to. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| againward | Coming in the opposite direction to meet a person (with dative). Also: situated in the way, opposite, facing. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| aknee | With second element in plural form. On one's knees. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Alemanni | With pl. concord. A confederation of Germanic peoples originally occupying… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| alive | intr. To live; to survive. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| along | Originally: available or attainable (from); dependent (on), chargeable or attributable… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Alp | In pl. The range of mountains occupying much of Switzerland and adjacent countries. In sing.: a mountain in this range. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| altogether | Modifying the subject of a clause: acting at the same time or in unison. In later use nonstandard. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| andwurde | To answer. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| anrednesse | Singleness of aim, unanimity; constancy, steadfastness. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| ansine | A sight, a thing seen. (Only in Old English.) | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| aredde | To set free, liberate, deliver, rid. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| arm | Also of the land (obs.), a mountain (fig.). | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| aset | To set up, place; to appoint; to set out, array. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| aspend | To spend, expend. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| astell | To set up, set on foot, establish. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| athrysm | To suffocate, stifle, choke, kill. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| atter | To poison, envenom. Also fig. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| a-two | In or into two parts; a-twain. arch. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| awede | intr. To become mad, furious, or frantic; to lose one's senses. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| awest | trans. To lay waste, to devastate. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| aworry | To strangle; to worry. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| Babylon | = Babylonian n. 1a. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Babylonish | Of, from, or relating to the ancient city of Babylon (now in Iraq), or to the… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| back-board | = larboard n. Only in Old English. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| bairn-team | Brood of children, offspring, family; posterity. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| ballista | A military engine used in ancient times, resembling a giant crossbow stretched with… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| barrow | A mountain, mount, hill, or hillock. (Applied, as the date becomes later, to lower eminences.) | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| bear | To have upon the body (clothes, ornaments); to wear. to bear the breech: to ‘wear the breeches’. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| become | intr. To come (to a place), to arrive; passing in later use into ‘betake oneself, go.’ Obs. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| beet | To make, kindle, put on (a fire). Now dial. | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| belay | fig. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| bemete | trans. To measure. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| beneme | To take away. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| beshear | trans. To shear or shave all round; hence, to shear, shave, or cut clean off. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| besink | intr. To sink, fall down through any substance. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| besom | A bundle of rods or twigs used as an instrument of punishment; a birch. Obs. (Latin fascis.) | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| besouth | Towards the south, southwards. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| bespeak | To call out, exclaim, complain that. Only Old English. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| betee | To draw over (as a covering), to cover, veil. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| bid | trans. with accus. of person and genitive of thing; with dative of person and accus. of thing; passing into two objects. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| bide | To remain or continue in some state or action; to continue to be (something). arch. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| bishop | transf. Formerly applied to: A chief priest of any religion; e.g. a chief priest or High… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| bismer | Shame, disgrace; reproach, mockery; scorn. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| bit | The act or action of biting; a bite n. at a bit: at one bite; also fig. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| blindly | In a blind way; after the manner of the blind; fig. without foresight or reason, deludedly. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| bow | To have a curved direction, to lie or proceed in a curve; to curve, to be deflected. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| breath | Odour, smell, scent. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| brew | trans. Properly: To make (ale, beer, and the like) by infusion, boiling, and fermentation. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| Britannish | = British adj. 3. Also (rare): of or from Brittany in northern France. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| burrow | A heap or mound; in earlier use a hillock; now, esp. a heap of refuse made in… | 885 | Go To Quotation |
| Capitolium | Originally: = Capitol n. 1. Later also (freq. with lower-case initial): any of a number… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| chalk | ? Lime. (Traces of this sense after the Old English period are very uncertain; quot. 1572 is doubtful.) | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| chelle | A vessel. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| chiding | Scolding, reproof, rebuke. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| choose | trans. To take by preference out of all that are available; to select; to take as that… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| Christendom | The state or condition of being Christian; = Christianity n. 3 to take Christendom… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| cloud | A mass of rock; a hill. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| cloudy | Rocky; hilly. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| colossus | A statue, esp. of a person or god, that is much bigger than life size; spec. (now usu.… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| cot | A small house, a little cottage; now chiefly poetical, and connoting smallness… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| crafty | Strong, powerful, mighty. Obs. rare. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| deadly | Causing death, or fatal injury; mortal, fatal. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| dern | trans. To hide, conceal, keep secret. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| dictator | Ancient Hist. In Rome and some neighbouring states: a chief magistrate with… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| dripe | trans. To let drop, cause to fall in drops. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| drunkenness | The state of being drunk; intoxication; the habit of being drunken or addicted to excessive drinking. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| earthware | The inhabitants of earth. Cf. heavenware n. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| eastmost | = easternmost adj. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| eighteenth | Next in order after the seventeenth. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| either | As adj. used attrib. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| epistle | A communication made to an absent person in writing; a letter. Chiefly (from its… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| erde | intr. To dwell, live. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| even | Of a piece of ground, a country, etc.: Flat, plain, level, not hilly or sloping. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| fand | trans. To put to the proof, try, test (a person or thing); to make trial of… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| fat | Of animals or human beings, their limbs, etc.: In well-fed condition, plump; well supplied with fat (see B.). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| feel | trans. To handle (an object) in order to experience a tactual sensation; to examine by touching with the hand or finger. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| ferly | Sudden, unexpected. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| fetles | A vessel or receptacle; a bag, cask, sack. In religious lang. used fig. = ‘vessel’. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| fight | A hostile encounter or engagement between opposing forces; = battle n. 1. Now arch. or rhetorical. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| fill | A full supply of drink or food; enough to satisfy want or desire. Since Old English… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| filst | trans. To aid, help. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| Finn | Originally: a member of a people of Scandinavia and north-eastern Europe speaking… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| fisher | One who is employed in catching fish. Now arch.; superseded in ordinary use by fisherman n. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| fleet | A place where water flows; an arm of the sea; a creek, inlet, run of water. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| flo | An arrow. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| flock-meal | By companies or troops (of persons), rarely by groups or heaps (of things). In later use sometimes preceded by by or in. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| forblow | To blow out, inflate. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| forburn | intr. To burn, be burnt, or consumed. Also, To be on fire. lit. and fig. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| ford | A shallow place in a river or other water, where a man or beast may cross by wading. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| forlie | refl. Of a woman: To prostitute herself. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| formelt | intr. (strong) and trans. (weak). To melt, melt away. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| forspend | To exhaust (money or property). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| forspill | trans. To destroy, lose. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| forwarn | trans. To prohibit, forbid. With double obj., or obj. of the person and to with inf. or from. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| foul | intr. To be foul, become foul. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| fowler | One who hunts wild birds, whether for sport or food, esp. with nets; a bird-catcher. Now rare. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| free | To make free; to set at liberty; to release from bondage or confinement. Also fig. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| fresh | Of water: Not salt or bitter; fit for drinking. †Also of a marsh: Containing fresh as… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| frith | Peace; freedom from molestation, protection; safety, security. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| frith | trans. To keep in peace, make peace with; to secure from disturbance, defend, help, preserve, protect. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| frumkenned | Firstborn. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| gnat | A small two-winged fly of the genus Culex, esp. Culex pipiens, the female of which has… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| gore | An angular point, a promontory. (Old English only.) | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| grame | Grieved, sorrowful. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| Greek | A native of Greece; a member of the Greek race. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| greme | trans. To anger, grieve; to vex. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| grim | (Old English grimme) or quasi- adv. In a grim manner or mood; fiercely, savagely… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| grimly | Grim-looking; grim in appearance or nature. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| hackle | A cloak, mantle, outer garment; a chasuble. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| hail | Impersonally: it hails = hail falls. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| half- | in the predicate. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| halt | Lame; crippled; limping. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| harry | intr. To make predatory raids or incursions; to commit ravages. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| hatelich | Malignant, hostile; hateful. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| he | The male being in question, or last mentioned: Used of persons and animals of the male sex. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| hear | intr. To be subject (to); to belong. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| heathenish | Of or relating to the heathen. Now rare. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| heavenish | Of or relating to heaven; celestial, heavenly. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| help | transf. Any thing or person that affords help; a source or means of assistance; an aid. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| hight | To call, to name. (Now only in pa. pple.). arch. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| himself | As emphatic dative and (later) objective. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| history | A written narrative constituting a continuous chronological record of important or… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| hold | Gracious, kind, friendly. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| hund | = hundred n. adj. (Old English and early Middle English). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| hure | Certainly, especially. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| i-bere | trans. To bear, bring forth. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| in | Expressing motion from a point without certain limits to a place within these; so as… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| i-queme | trans. To please, gratify. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| i-seme | trans. To reconcile, to settle. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| i-streon | Gain, acquisition; wealth. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| i-swike | trans. To cease from (an action, etc.). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| i-worth | To happen, come to pass, come into being; to be made. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| i-writ | Something written; a writing, a treatise. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| kine- | throne. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| kirtle | A man's tunic or coat, originally a garment reaching to the knees or lower, sometimes… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| knight | A boy, youth, lad. (Only in Old English) Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| lair | The action or fact of lying. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| Lammas | The 1st of August (Festum Sancti Petri ad Vincula in the Roman calendar; see also gule n.)… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| length | To the full extent of the body. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| let | trans. with compl. To regard as. Also with obj. and inf., or clause: To consider to be, that (a person or thing) is. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| lich | A dead body; a corpse. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| light | Of a vehicle or vessel: Lightly constructed; adapted for light loads and for… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| lither | Of persons, their actions, dispositions, etc.: Bad, wicked; base, rascally unjust. Also of an animal: Ill-tempered. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| little | Used spec. of young children or animals. little one (often pl.): child, offspring, young one. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| loathe | intr. To be hateful, displeasing, or offensive. Const. dat. or to. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| long | impers. with accus. me longs (longeth): I have a yearning desire; I long. Const. after, or to… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| lustful | Having a strong or excessive desire (for something); eagerly or inordinately desirous of or to do (something). Obs. or arch. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| maiden-child | A female child. Cf. maid-child n. (arch. in 19th-cent. use.) | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| maidenman | A maiden, a virgin. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| malm | A light loamy soil formed by the decomposition of malm rock. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| malmstone | = malm n. 1a. Also: a piece of this. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| manifold | Varied or diverse in appearance, form, or character; having various forms… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| martyring | The action of martyr v.; an instance of this. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Mede | A member of an ancient Indo-European people who established an empire in Media, south-west… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| methe | Measure, proportion. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| mid | Denoting association, connection, accompaniment, proximity, addition, conjunction, communication. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| midward | With partitive sense: (the) middle of; = mid adj. 1, middle adj. 3. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| mildly | In a mild manner, esp. without anger or severity. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| mile | Originally: the Roman unit of distance of 1000 paces (mīlle passus or passuum), reckoned… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| minotaur | Chiefly Greek Mythol. A monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| month | With unchanged plural. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| morth | Murder, slaughter; an instance of this. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| most | As a superlative of comparison: greatest in degree or extent; utmost; esp. (of an emotion… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| mount | Originally: a mountain, a high hill. Later also: a more or less conical hill of… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| mow | trans. To cut down the crop, grass, etc., of (a tract of land) with a scythe or (now… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| murk | intr. To complain, repine, murmur, grumble. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| must | In requests, clauses of purpose, wishes, etc.: might, should, might be permitted to. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| nar | In attributive use. That is the nearer of two things or people; (also, in Old English)… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| narrowness | Smallness from side to side, lack of breadth; †congestion, constriction (obs.). Formerly also: †a narrow place, a strait (obs.). | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| natheless | Nevertheless, notwithstanding. Cf. nautheless adv., netheless adv. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| nather | = neither adv. 1. Cf. nauther adv. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| need | With must or (chiefly in Old English and Middle English) mote or shall. Cf. needs adv. II. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| new | With past participles of transitive verbs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| newen | Newly, recently. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| newly | (Very) recently or lately; a very little time before; only just. Also: for the first time. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| nineteen | In combination with other numbers to express multiples of nineteen, as nineteen hundred, nineteen thousand, etc. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| northdeal | The northern part or district (of a place); the north. Cf. north half n. 1, north side n. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| north-east | Situated in, directed towards, or facing the north-east. Also fig. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| north half | The northern part or side of something; the north (cf. half n. 1). Cf. northdeal n., north side n., south half n. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| northland | The northern part of a country, region, etc. Also (in sing. and pl.): lands lying in or to the north. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| Northman | A native or inhabitant of northern Europe, esp. of Norway; a Viking. Freq. in pl. Now hist. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| northward | Situated in or directed towards the north; (also) characteristic of the north. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| north-west | Situated in or directed towards the north-west. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| note | Use, usefulness, profit, advantage. Now rare (Shetland in later use). | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| o | Ever; always; throughout eternity. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| of-fall | trans. To destroy, kill. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ofslay | trans. To slay, kill off. Also fig. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ofsting | trans. To pierce with a sword, etc.; to gore, or stab to death. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| oftread | trans. To tread or trample down; to injure or destroy by treading. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| oftsithe | Only in on oftsithes: on many occasions, frequently. Cf. oftsithe adv., oftsithes adv. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Olympus | More fully Mount Olympus. The home of the greater gods and goddesses in ancient… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| onbide | trans. To wait for, await. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| onbow | intr. To submit, yield. With dative of the person submitted to. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| onwald | Power, rule, authority. Also: realm of authority. to have on onwald: to have in one's power (to); to have (something) in mind. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ortrow | Despairing, without hope. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| otherkins | Of another kind; other, different. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ounce | A unit of weight equal to (a) (originally) one-twelfth of a pound in troy… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| outcome | That comes from or belongs to another country or place; foreign. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| out of | From inside (a containing space or thing). | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| over | With reference to motion or course: so as to pass across or above something, usually rising… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| over- | | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overbreak | trans. To transgress, violate (an agreement). | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overclimb | trans. To climb over; to get over by climbing; to surmount. Also fig. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overcome | trans. To get the better of, defeat, overpower, prevail over (an enemy, person or… | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overdrench | trans. To make to drink excessively; to make drunk, intoxicate. Obs. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overfreeze | trans. To freeze over the whole surface or from one side to another. Also fig. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overgo | intr. To go or pass by; to pass over or away; to go unheeded; to pass on to another part… | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overharry | trans. To overrun, ravage; to harry or worry excessively; to harass. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overhear | trans. Not to listen to; to disregard, disobey. Obs. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overheave | trans. To pass over, neglect, omit. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| overland | Over or across land; by land, as opposed to by sea; by an overland route. Also: †widely, far and wide (obs.). | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| oversty | trans. To rise over or above, to surmount; to cross over (a bridge, etc.) Also fig.: to transcend, surpass. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overwade | trans. To wade across (water). Also (occas.) intr. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| overwork | trans. To overlay, esp. with decorative work; to figure or decorate the surface of. Chiefly in pass. Obs. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| Parth | = Parthian n. 1. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Perse | A Persian. Chiefly in pl. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Pharaoh | A king of ancient Egypt; spec. any of those mentioned in the Old Testament and… | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| philosophe | gen. A philosopher, a thinker; a man of letters, an intellectual. Now rare. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| pine | trans. To afflict with pain or suffering; to cause to suffer; to torment, trouble… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Punic | A native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage in North Africa; a Carthaginian. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| purpure | A purple or crimson robe or garment, as traditionally worn by people of royal or imperial… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Pyrenees | Usu. with pl. concord and with the. A range of mountains extending along the border… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| reaving | The action of reave v.; robbery, plunder, depredation; an instance of this. Also fig. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| rede | intr. To take counsel together or (occas.) with another; to deliberate. Also occas. trans. with indirect question. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| redly | Advisable, expedient. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Roman | An inhabitant or native of ancient Rome; a citizen, soldier, etc., belonging to the ancient Roman Republic or Empire. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Rome | The city of Rome as the original capital of Western Christendom, and the seat of the… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| Romeward | With prepositions, esp. to: (the direction leading towards) the city of Rome (lit. and fig.). Obs. (arch. in later use). | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ruly | In a sorrowful manner; pitifully, wretchedly. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| rusty | Of metal or a metal object: covered, marked, or corroded with rust; rusted. Also: coloured… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| sail | Of persons: To travel on water in a vessel propelled by the action of the wind upon… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| Saracen | Among the later Greeks and Romans, a name for the nomadic peoples of the Syro-Arabian… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-flood | The sea, the tide. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| seal | A member of the family Phocidæ, sub-order Pinnipedia, of aquatic carnivorous mammals… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| seldseen | Seldom to be seen or met with; rare. (By 16th c. writers sometimes analysed as seld seen.) | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| seven | Multiplying another numeral. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| shoot | trans. To wound or kill with a missile from a bow or firearm (in early use, occas. with a… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| shortly | Briefly, concisely, in few words. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| shot | That which is discharged from a bow, an arrow or arrows; also in early use stone… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| siche | intr. To sigh. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| siȝe | Victory in battle or conflict. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| sixsome | Six in all; six together. Now rare or Obs. | 897 | Go To Quotation |
| sixth | In concord with n. expressed or implied (freq. occurring earlier in the context). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| sixty | In concord with n. expressed or implied. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| slade | A valley, dell, or dingle; an open space between banks or woods; a forest glade; a strip of greensward or of boggy land. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| sleight | Slaughter. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| smitch | Smoke arising from burning or smouldering matter; also dial., grime, dirt, dust, smut, etc. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| sound | The action or power of swimming. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| south half | The southern part or side of something; the south. Cf. half n. 1, north half n. 1, southdeal n., south side n. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| southmost | Most southerly. Cf. southermost adj., southernmost adj. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| southright | Due south. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| southward | With reference to direction, motion, or extent. Cf. southwards adv. 1. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| south-west | With reference to place, location, or relative position. Also followed by of. | 1025 | Go To Quotation |
| sowel | A stout stick or staff; a pole, cudgel, etc. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| staithe | The land bordering on water, a bank, shore. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| stake | A stout stick or post, usually of wood, with a pointed end for driving into the ground… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| starboard | The right-hand side of a ship, as distinguished from the larboard n. adj. or port n. side… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| stell | trans. To set (an example); to establish (a law). Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| stench | A foul, disgusting, or noisome smell, a disagreeable or offensive odour, a stink. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| stoop | intr. Of a person: To lower the body by inclining the trunk or the head and… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| strene | trans. To beget, procreate (offspring). Also with forth: To propagate (one's kind). Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| strengest | Strongest (see the senses of strong adj.). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| sweat | intr. To exude, or to gather, moisture so that it appears in drops on the surface. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| swike | Deceit, deception, treachery; an act of deception, a trick. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| swikedom | Deceit, fraud; treachery, treason. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| swoty | = sweaty adj. 2. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| talent | A denomination of weight, used by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, and… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| taw | fig. To treat (a person) abusively or with contumely; to vex, torment; to harass, afflict; to abuse, outrage, profane. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| Thames | The name of the river on which London is situated: also attrib. and Comb., as in Thames barge… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| thanking | The action or an act of giving thanks; the expression of gratitude; thanks. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| theowdom | The condition of a ‘theow’ or slave; slavery, bondage, thraldom. (In Old English also… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| thereout | Outside of that place, etc.; without. Now rare. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| think | intr. With adverbial complement: to intend to go; to direct one's course. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| thirst | fig. To have a longing, craving, or strong desire. Const. in Old English with gen., =… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| thitherward | Towards that place; in that direction; thither. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| thousand | In plural thousands (Old English þúsendu, -o, -a, Middle English -e, -es). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| thring | intr. To press or push forward, as against or through a crowd, or against obstacles; to… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| thunder | Regarded as the destructive agent producing the effects usually attributed to the… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| tintregh | Torment, torture. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| tithe | trans. To grant, concede, bestow. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-beat | trans. To beat to pieces, to destroy by beating (Old English); to beat severely… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-braid | trans. To wrench apart, pull to pieces, rend; also, to tear or snatch away. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-burst | intr. To burst asunder, to be shattered. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-fall | intr. To fall asunder or to pieces; to fall down, collapse; also, to fall to decay. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-lie | intr. To lie or extend in different directions. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-same | Together; into or in one body or company. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-tear | trans. To tear to pieces. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-tee | trans. To pull to pieces. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-tweme | trans. To separate, divide; also to distinguish, discriminate. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| toward | Of motion (or action figured as motion): In the direction of; so as to approach… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| to-wend | trans. To turn over; to overthrow, demolish; to turn upside down, disturb greatly. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| Troyanish | = Trojan adj. n. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| trume | A body of persons, esp. of troops, etc. in battle array; a troop; a company, band; a crowd, multitude. Cf. thrum n. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| truth | The character of being, or disposition to be, true to a person, principle… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| twenty | Combined with the numerals below ten (one to nine) to express the numbers between… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| uncouth | Of persons. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| underneath | Beneath or below (in local position). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| underyete | trans. To get to know, to become aware of, to ascertain, to observe (a fact). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| undo | A door, gate, or window. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| unne | To wish or like (one) to have (something). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| unrede | Lack of counsel or wisdom; evil counsel; folly. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| unspeedy | Poor, indigent. (Old English only.) Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| unthank | Absence of gratitude or good-will; unfavourable thought or feeling… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| untruly | Unfaithfully, dishonestly; guilefully, treacherously. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| untruth | Unfaithfulness; lack of fidelity, loyalty, or honesty. Now arch. and rare. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| unwarely | Incautiously; without taking heed. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| unweary | Not weary (of); free from weariness; unwearied. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| unwill | Used adverbially, in genitive (usually with possessive pron.): Against one's will; unwillingly. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| unwitting | Having no knowledge or cognizance of a particular fact, thing, etc.; not… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| unwrast | Of persons. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| wall | Of liquids: To bubble up; to well up, flow abundantly. Of the sea, waves: To boil up, rage. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| wanspeed | Ill-success; adversity, poverty. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| ware | Watchful care, heed; safe-keeping, defence, protection. Phr. on ware, on one's guard, cautious. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| water-flood | A moving flood or overflowing of water, a tempestuous sea. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| we | Used by a speaker or writer, in order to secure an impersonal style and tone, or to avoid the obtrusive repetition of ‘I’. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| wealy | Wealthy, prosperous, happy. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| wear | trans. To carry or bear on one's body or on some member of it, for covering… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| were | A husband. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| weste | trans. To lay waste to (a place). | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| west end | The western part of something; spec. the western end of a church. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| western | A desert, a wilderness. Also in fig. context. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| west half | The western part or side of something; the west. Cf. half n. 1. Now arch. and rare. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| westmost | Most westerly; westernmost. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| whale | Any of the larger fish-like marine mammals of the order Cetacea, which have fore-limbs… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| whether | adj. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| wield | Command, control; possession, keeping; occas. hold, grasp: chiefly in phr. at, in, on (one's) wield… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| wifely | Of or pertaining to a woman or women; womanly, feminine. Obs. rare (exc. Old English). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| wite | trans. To impute the guilt or lay the blame of (something) to or upon a person… | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| without | Outside of, on or at the outside of, in the space external to (a space, region, place, receptacle, enclosing boundary, etc.). | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| woman | An adult female human being. The counterpart of man (see man n. 4.). | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| wonderly | Wonderful. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| worldly | In a worldly manner; with a worldly intent or disposition. Freq. modifying an… | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| worm-kin | The race of worms or serpents, or a species of these. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| worth | To pay divine honours to (a deity); to worship. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| wroth | Of a fierce, savage, or violent disposition or character; stern, truculent. Obs. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| yeme | Care, heed, attention. in yeme, in one's care, in charge. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| yern | Eager, earnestly or keenly desirous; also, greedy, covetous. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| yeter | A caster of metal; a founder. Also in comb. bellyeter. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| yfele | To feel. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| yfet | As past participle: brought, carried, fetched; acquired. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| yflemed | put to flight; exiled. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| yhorsed | Horsed; on horseback. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| yisel | A hostage. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| ylike | trans. To please. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| ylike | Const. dative: In the same manner (as), like, as. Also with as (Old English swá), as conj. or conj. adv. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| ymete | To meet, meet with, encounter. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| ymong | Among, in the midst of. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| youngest | In sense 1 of young adj. n.: Of least age. Also absol. | 893 | Go To Quotation |
| you self | In emphatic use: = yourself pron. 1. Obs. | 925 | Go To Quotation |
| ywroken | Avenged; taken vengeance upon, punished. (In quots. chiefly as past participle.) | 893 | Go To Quotation |
