| abide | intr. To stop; to come to a halt. Freq. imper. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| affrighted | Struck with fear; frightened, alarmed. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| ahang | trans. To hang on a gallows, etc., to fasten to a cross; to put to death by such means, esp. to crucify. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| akenness | = akennedness n. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| almous | = alms n. (in various senses). | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| angel | A ministering spirit or divine messenger; one of an order of spiritual beings superior to… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| angit | Perception, understanding, intelligence. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| ankenned | Only begotten (Latin unigenitus). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| answer | A reply (spoken, written, or otherwise given) to a question. (The most common use.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| answer | simply. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| any | pronominally. = Any one, anybody; in pl. any persons. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| apostle | (As in Greek) One sent on an errand, a messenger. (A verbalism of translation.) Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| aquell | To slay, destroy, put an end to. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| arne-morwe | Early morn. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| ash | Dust of the ground. (Hence used to express man's mortal constitution.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| aslay | To strike off, strike. (Only in Old English.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| asty(e | To go up, ascend. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| attern | Venomous, poisonous; malignant. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| awin | intr. To labour. (Only in Old English.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| barely | Openly, without disguise or concealment, clearly, plainly. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| barm | A bosom, a lap. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| barn | A covered building for the storage of grain; and, in wider usage, of hay, straw, flax, and other produce of the earth. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| barrow | A castrated boar; a swine. Still dial. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| barton | A threshing-floor. Obs.; only in Old English. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| beacon | A sign, a portent. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bear | Barley: the original English name, in later times retained only in the north, and esp.… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| beckon | intr. To make a mute signal or significant gesture with the head, hand, finger, etc.; now esp. in order to bid a person approach. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| Beelzebub | The Devil; a devil; also transf. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| behovely | Of use; useful, profitable; needful, necessary. Const. to, orig. dat. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| belirt | trans. To deceive, cheat, fool. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| belly | A bag, skin-bag, purse, pod, husk. Freq. in comb. as béan bælg ‘bean-pod,’ blást-bælg bellows… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bemer | A trumpeter. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bin | The receptacle in a stable for the provender of the beasts; the manger or crib; loosely (?) a stall. Obs. exc. ? dial. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bin | Within, inside. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bir | impers. To fall to, pertain, belong; to behove, be proper. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bisson | Destitute of sight; blind. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bless | spec. To sanctify or hallow by making the sign of the cross; usually as a defence… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| boosy | An ox- or cow-stall, a crib; = boose n. Also attrib., as boosey close n. the close in… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bowl | esp. as a drinking vessel; whence the bowl, drinking, conviviality. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| brand | A piece of wood that is or has been burning on the hearth; also poet. a torch, a match or linstock (see quot. 1810). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| brat | contemptuously. A rag, or article which is ‘a mere rag’. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bread | A well-known article of food prepared by moistening, kneading, and baking meal or… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bridelope | The oldest known Teutonic name for ‘Wedding’: lit. ‘the bridal run’, or ‘gallop’, in… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| brightness | The quality of being bright; brilliancy, clearness; vivacity, quickness of intellect, etc. (see bright adj.). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bring | by carrying or bearing in one's hand, etc. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| brook | To make use of (food); in later usage, to digest, retain, or bear on the stomach. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| brothership | A fraternity or gild-brotherhood. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| business | Anxiety, solicitude, care; distress, uneasiness. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| by | A place of habitation; a village or town. Also, an instance of a place-name in -by. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| bysen | An example, a pattern. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| byspel | A parable. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| camel | A large hornless ruminant quadruped, distinguished by its humped back, long neck… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| carr | A rock: now especially applied to insulated rocks off the Northumbrian and Scottish coasts. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| cheap | trans. To buy. (German kaufen.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| chicken | The young of the domestic fowl; its flesh. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| child | The unborn or newly born human being; fœtus, infant. App. originally always used in… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| childhood | The state or stage of life of a child; the time during which one is a child; the time from birth to puberty. (Formerly with pl.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| Christ | The Messiah or ‘Lord's Anointed’ whose advent was the subject of Jewish prophecy… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| cilice | Hair-cloth; a rough garment made of hair-cloth, generally worn as a penitential robe. Also attrib. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| clothe | trans. To cover with a garment or with clothing; to provide with clothing; to dress. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| coble | Sc. A short flat-bottomed rowing-boat used in salmon-fishing and for crossing rivers or… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| cold | of the atmosphere, and meteoric conditions. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| cold water | Water at its natural temperature, which is always many degrees below that of the human… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| conner | One who tries, tests, or examines; an examiner, inspector; esp. in ale conner n., q.v. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| cop | A drinking-vessel, a cup. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| cripple | One who is disabled (either from birth, or by accident or injury) from the use of his limbs; a lame person. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| crown | Christ's crown of thorns. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| cursing | The utterance of words which consign to spiritual and temporal evil, the vengeance of… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| day | The time occupied by the earth in one revolution on its axis, in which the… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| dead | from the dead: from among those that are dead; hence nearly = from death. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| dead | lit. To die. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| deal | trans. To divide. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| deemer | A judge. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| deer | A beast: usually a quadruped, as distinguished from birds and fishes; but… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| depe | To immerse, submerge, plunge deeply, dip. See also deep v. 4. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| doorward | A door-keeper, porter, janitor. An official title under the early Scottish monarchy; = warder of the palace. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| dow | To be of use or profit to any one; to avail. Chiefly impers. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| draw | trans. To cause (anything) to move toward oneself by the application of force; to pull. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| drinker | One who drinks. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| drunken | Drunkenness, intoxication. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| drunken | intr. To become swallowed up or sunk in water; to suffer drowning, be drowned. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| drysne | intr. To fall down, sink. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| dwale | Error, delusion; deceit, fraud. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| early | In the first part of the morning. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| earthly | In pl. Earthly things, as opposed to heavenly things. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| eftersoons | Soon after, presently. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| ele | = oil n. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| enlight | trans. To enlighten, esp. to shed light on, illuminate (freq. fig.). Also intr. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| esne | The Old English designation of a class of domestic slaves. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| even | The latter part or close of the day; evening. Also in phrases even and (nor) morn; at even and at… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| even | To liken, compare. Obs. exc. dial. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| farthing | The quarter of a penny; the coin representing this value. (Until 17th c. chiefly a… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| fas | A border, fringe. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| fast | To fix in something else; to fix firmly; to establish, settle, in material or immaterial sense; and with sentence as obj. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| fat | In early use gen. A vessel. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| feed | trans. To give food to; to supply with food; to provide food for. Often followed by †of, on, with (a specified food). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| find | To discover or obtain by searching. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| fish-pool | A pool of water to contain fish; a fishpond. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| flowing | The action of flow v. in various senses. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| fly | Any winged insect; as the bee, gnat, locust, moth, etc. Obs. Cf. 2 – 4 below, and butterfly n. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| foal | The young of the equine genus of quadrupeds; properly, one of the male sex, a colt; but… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| foam | intr. To emit foam; esp. to froth at the mouth; also with out. Often as a… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| follow | To go after or along with (a person) as an attendant or companion; to accompany, serve, or attend upon. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| forgo | intr. To go away, go past, pass away. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| forthmost | = foremost adj. adv. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| forty | The cardinal numeral equal to four tens, represented by the symbols 40 or xl. Also in… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| fourteen | In concord with n. expressed. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| fourth | In concord with the n. expressed. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| freck | In bad sense: Greedy, gluttonous; also, keen for mischief. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| fremd | Strange, unknown, unfamiliar. Also ellipt. or absol. quasi- n. the fremd: strangers. Of an incident: Remarkable, surprising. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| friendless | Destitute of friends. friendless man n. in Old English law a frequent designation for an outlaw. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| from | Denoting privation, separation, abstention, freedom, deliverance, etc. (from a state, condition, action, etc.). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| frumth | Beginning. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| gang | intr. To walk, go. (Chiefly lit.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| gird | trans. To surround, encircle (the waist, a person about the waist) with a belt or girdle… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| gleed | A live coal; an ember. Now only arch. or dial. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| gospel | ‘The glad tidings (of the kingdom of God)’ announced to the world by Jesus Christ. Hence… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| grieve | A governor of a province, town, etc. Now hist. = sheriff n. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| grind | intr. or absol. To perform the operation of grinding, esp. of preparing meal or flour from grain. Said also of a mill, etc. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| grip | trans. To grasp or seize firmly or tightly with the hand; to seize with the mouth, claw, beak or other prehensile organ. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| gristbiting | Gnashing of the teeth. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| guest | A stranger. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| headling | In Old English, Equal, fellow, mate; in quot. 1300, Chieftain: cf. German häuptling. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| hean | trans. To treat with contumely; to insult, humiliate, debase, lower. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| heavenly | In pl. Heavenly things, as opposed to earthly things. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| hen | The female of the common domestic or barn-door fowl, the male of which is the cock n. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| holiday | A consecrated day, a religious festival. Now usually written holy-day n., q.v. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| hote | A promise; a vow: = hight n. 2. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| hundred | In singular. Usually a hundred (also arch. an hundred), emphatically one hundred; in phrases expressing rate, the hundred. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| hunger | impers. as in it hungers me (= Gothic huggreiþ mik, ON. mik hungrar, Old High German mih hungrit… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| hungry | Having the sensation of hunger; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food; having a keen appetite. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| i-dree | trans. To do, perform, endure, suffer. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| i-fare | intr. To go, proceed, fare. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| i-fast | trans. To make fast, confirm, settle. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| inlead | trans. To lead in, bring in. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| inward | Within, in, or in relation to, the mind or soul; mentally or spiritually; = inwardly adv. 3. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| i-queme | Pleasing, acceptable, agreeable. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| i-vee | trans. To hate; to make an enemy, put at enmity, render hateful or hostile. | 975 | Go To Quotation |
| i-wede | A garment, a weed. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| knell | trans. To strike with a resounding blow, to knock; also absol. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| lade | trans. To draw (water); to take up or remove (water or other fluids) from a river, a… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| latch | To take with force; to capture, seize upon (a person or his goods). Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| latemost | Last. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| lather | trans. To cover with or as with a lather; to wash in or with a lather. Also fig. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| Latin | Pertaining to, characteristic of, or composed in the language of the ancient Latins or Romans.… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| leafful | Faithful, believing. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| lean | intr. To recline, lie down, rest. Obs. exc. Sc. in reflexive construction. †Formerly conjugated with the verb to be. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| leaser | A liar. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| leasing | Lying, falsehood. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| leasow | Pasture; pasturage; meadow-land. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| leasow | trans. and intr. To pasture, graze. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| least | Lowest in power or position; meanest. (arch.) †With agent-noun: Having very little practice or scope. Also ellipt. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| leesing | Loosening. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| leighton | A garden. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| lesness | Absolution, redemption, forgiveness (of sins). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| leve | Belief, faith; occas. trust. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| liar | One who lies or tells a falsehood; an untruthful person. I'm a liar, (in trivial use) I am mistaken. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| likeness | That which resembles an object; a like shape or form, a semblance. Hence gen. form, shape… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| listen | trans. To hear attentively; to give ear to; to pay attention to (a person speaking or what is said). Now arch. and poet. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| loaf | Bread. Obs. exc. dial. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| lore | That which is taught; (a person's) doctrine or teaching. Applied chiefly to religious… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| losing | Perdition, destruction; the being lost or destroyed (obs.). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| lot | That which is assigned by lot to a person as his share or portion in an inheritance, or… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| Mammon | Originally: inordinate desire for wealth or possessions, personified as a devil or… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| manslaghe | A man-slayer. Also fig.: a person who destroys the soul. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| maslin | A shiny yellowish alloy of copper resembling brass (perh. a form of the copper-zinc… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| mere | A boundary, a border; = mereing n. 1. Formerly also: †a border district; an object… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| might | Possible. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| misspeak | intr. To murmur, grumble. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| miswin | intr. Perh.: to toil wrongly. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| mixen | A place where dung and refuse are put; a dunghill, a midden; a heap of dung, compost… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| moth | Any of several small nocturnal insects that attack fabrics; a clothes moth… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| nail | With on, upon. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| nest | A structure made or a place chosen by a bird in which to lay and incubate its eggs… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| new-come | That has newly or recently arrived. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| nimming | The action of taking (in various senses of the verb); an undertaking; an exaction. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| ofshame | trans. To put to shame (in Old English with object in the dative). Chiefly in pa. pple. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| olivet | In full Mount (of) Olivet. The Mount of Olives on the east side of Jerusalem, the scene… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| onwriting | That which is written on something; an inscription. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| or | Early, at an early hour; = ere adv. 1a. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| ore | A beginning. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| ought | trans. ought (something) to yield: had (something) to pay. Cf. owe v. 2. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| overleave | intr. To be left over, remain. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| overplant | trans. To transplant. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| overslop | A loose overgarment; a cassock, a surplice. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| owe | trans. to owe (something) to yield: to have (something) to pay. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| own | To have or hold as one's own; to have belonging to one, be the proprietor of, possess. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| palming | A branch or shoot of a vine. Obs. rare. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| palm tree | A tree of the palm family (Arecaceae (Palmae)); = palm n. 1. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| piner | A tormentor, a torturer. Also fig. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| place | An open space in a town, a public square, a marketplace. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| port | A town; spec. a walled town, a market town. Now hist. exc. in portreeve n. and in place and street names (cf. port-way n.). | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| port | A gate, a gateway; spec. (from the 14th cent.) that of a city or walled town. Now Sc. (hist.… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| prickle | An instrument for making or inflicting a prick, or for piercing something; †a goad (obs.).… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| quern | A simple, typically hand-operated, device for grinding corn, etc., consisting of two… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| quernstone | One of the two stones forming a quern (quern n.); a millstone. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rain | intr. Of the heavens, clouds, etc.: to send or pour down rain. Also fig. and in extended senses. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rakenteie | A chain. In later use spec. one from which cooking vessels may be suspended over a fire. Cf. reckon n. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| reaching | The action of reach v. (in various senses); an instance of this. Also with out, up. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| read | An act of reading or perusing written matter; a spell of reading. Hence, something… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| read | To inspect and interpret in thought (any signs which represent words or discourse); to… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| reaf | Clothing; a garment, esp. a cloak or mantle; (also) an ecclesiastical vestment. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| reapman | A reaper. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| reeking | Of something burning or smouldering: producing or giving off smoke. Now rare. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| reif | That which is taken by force or robbery; spoil, plunder, booty. In early use also in pl. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| reird | intr. To speak, discourse. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rekene | = rekenly adv. 1. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rekenly | Quickly, immediately; promptly, readily. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rend | To tear, pull, or rip (something) away from its proper place or current position; to… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rese | A rush or run; a swift course or rapid onward movement; the act of running or moving rapidly or with great force. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rich man | A man who is rich; a wealthy man. In early use also: †a man who is powerful; a powerful man (obs.). | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| ripe | intr. To engage in robbery. Obs. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| roar | Of a large (typically wild) animal (esp. a lion): to utter a loud deep cry. Also with out. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rood | The cross upon which Jesus suffered; the cross as the symbol of the Christian faith. Cf. Holy cross… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| roomly | Liberally, largely, abundantly. Also: benignly, graciously. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| row | Of a person: to propel a boat through the water with oars, originally as a means of… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rowing | The action (or †occupation) of propelling a boat, canoe, etc., by means of oars. Also in figurative contexts. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rueing | Penitent, remorseful. Also: regretful. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| rueness | Penitence, repentance, contrition; sorrow, grief. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| running | Of a person or animal: that runs or is running. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| Sabbath | In the original use: The seventh day of the week (Saturday) considered as the day of… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sackless | Secure from accusation or from dispute; unchallenged, unmolested. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| salt | (the) salt of the earth (after Matt. v. 13): the excellent of the earth; formerly, in… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| salt | To season with salt. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| salt-well | A salt spring, well, or pit; now, a bored well from which brine is obtained for salt-making. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| samening | Intercourse, communion. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| seam | A pack-horse load. Obs. exc. dial. In early use also gen., †a load, burden. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| seam | trans. To put a burden on, load, weigh down; also intr., to weigh heavily. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| seath | A pit, hole, well, or pool. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| seeder | One who sows seed; a sower. Also fig. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| seine | A fishing net designed to hang vertically in the water, the ends being drawn together to enclose the fish. (See quot. 1874.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sele | Good. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sell | trans. To give v., in various senses; esp. to hand over (something, esp. food, a… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| setness | Constitution; establishment; imposition (of a law). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| seventh | In concord with a n. expressed or understood. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| shake | Of things having more or less freedom of movement: To move irregularly and quickly to and… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sheath | A case or covering into which a blade is thrust when not in use; usually… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| shed | Distinction, discrimination, separation (of one thing from another). Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| shench | A cupful, drink (of liquor). Cf. noneschenche nuncheon n. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| shim | intr. To shine. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| shiness | Light, brightness. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| shower | A fall of rain, of short duration and (usually) comparatively light. Also, a similar fall… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| showing | The action of displaying, exhibiting, manifesting, etc.; the fact of being displayed, etc.; with pl., an instance of this. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| shredding | A fragment; a shred. Now rare. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| shrench | trans. To cause to shrink or shrivel with heat. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| shrunken | in predicative use. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sib | Related by blood or descent; akin. Now chiefly Sc. or arch., but also used spec. of canaries (see quot. 1882). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sight | A thing seen, esp. of a striking or remarkable nature; a spectacle. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sinny | Sinful, wicked. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sith | Then, thereupon; afterwards, subsequently. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| small | A smack, a slap; a blow, a stroke. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| smith | One who works in iron or other metals; esp. a blacksmith or farrier; a forger, hammerman. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| smolt | Of weather: Fair, fine, calm. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| snoter | Wise, learned, skilful. Also absol. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| soot | Sweet to the smell or taste; sweet-smelling, fragrant. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| soothe | trans. To prove or show (a fact, statement, etc.) to be true; to verify, demonstrate. Also const. on (a person). Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| soothsaw | The or an act of speaking the truth; (one's) truthfulness, truth. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| soul | trans. Freq. in pass. To endow or invest with a soul (lit. or fig.). Chiefly poet. in later use. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| spill | trans. To destroy by depriving of life; to put (or bring) to death; to slay or kill. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| spit | To eject saliva on (a person) as a sign of contempt. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| stale | Theft, stealing. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| stand | A pause, delay. (Old English rare.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| staple | A post, pillar, column (of wood, stone, metal). Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| steen | trans. To stone (a person); to put to death by stoning. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| stench | intr. To have an ill smell, to stink. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| stirring | Moving; that is in motion, or capable of motion; moving about or along; moving lightly or tremulously. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| stock | Old English A trumpet. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| stole | In translations from or allusions to passages of the Vulgate or patristic texts. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| strain | Gain, acquisition; treasure: = i-streon n. 1. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| straw | A small particle of straw or chaff, a ‘mote’. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sunder | trans. To dissolve connection between two or more persons or things; to separate or… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| sundry | Separately, apart; severally, individually. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| swench | In Old English, affliction, trial; in Middle English, labour, toil. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| swither | The right (hand, side, etc.). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| tale | Numerical statement or reckoning; enumeration, counting, numbering; number. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| tear | intr. To shed tears, to weep. Obs. or dial. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| teat | The small protuberance at the tip of each breast or udder in female mammalia… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| temse | trans. To sift or bolt (flour, etc.) with a temse. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| tharf | Of bread, etc.: Not prepared with leaven, unleavened. Obs. exc. in tharf-cake n. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| thild | Patience, endurance. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| third | with n. understood. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| thirty | The cardinal numeral equal to three tens, represented by the symbols 30 or xxx. In concord with n. expressed or implied. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| this world | The present world; the present state or stage of existence, as distinguished from another… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| thong | A narrow strip of hide or leather, for use as a lace, cord, band, strap, or the like. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| thought | As a function or attribute of a living being: thinking as a permanent characteristic… | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| thrall | One who is in bondage to a lord or master; a villein, serf, bondman, slave; also, in vaguer… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| threat | A throng, press, crowd, multitude of people; a troop, band, body of men. Obs. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| thrie | Three times; thrice. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| thrimsa | An erroneous name for the Old English trimes or trims, a coin (or money of… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| ticchen | A kid, a young goat. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| title | An inscription placed on or over an object, giving its name or describing it; a… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| to-carve | trans. To cut to pieces, cut up; to cut off. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| to-drive | trans. To drive asunder, disperse, rout, scatter; to drive away, dispel; to dissolve. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| to-gains | Towards, forward to, so as to meet; = against prep. 1. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| to-name | A name or epithet added to an original name; a cognomen, surname, nickname; now in Sc.… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| to-rend | trans. To rend in pieces. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| to-shene | trans. To break or dash to pieces; also, to disperse, break up (an army). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| to-while | During the time that, while. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| truefast | Faithful. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| twig | A slender shoot issuing from a branch or stem. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| unbind | trans. To free from a band, bond, or tie; to make loose or free by undoing a band, etc. Also absol. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| unbought | Not bought; unpurchased. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| under-king | A prince or ruler subordinate to a chief king. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| unshamefulness | Shamelessness. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| unspeed | Poverty. (Old English only.) | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| untine | trans. To open. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| unweather | Bad, rough, or stormy weather. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| unworth | trans. To treat (a person or thing) disparagingly or with disdain; to slight, despise. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| wapman | A man as distinguished from a woman, a male human being. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| waterless | Destitute of water; containing no water; unsupplied with water. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| Wednesday | On Wednesday; last Wednesday; next Wednesday. Now chiefly N. Amer. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| well(-)born | Of good birth or lineage, of gentle blood. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| westy | That is a wilderness or waste; desolate, deserted. | 965 | Go To Quotation |
| wetness | The fact or condition of being wet; also concr., moisture, wet. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| whisper | intr. To speak softly ‘under one's breath’, i.e. without the resonant tone produced… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| whistle | A tubular wind instrument of wood, metal or other hard substance, having a more or… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| whitherso | = whithersoever adv. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| whon | Few, a few. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| whon | interrog. and rel. In dependence on a prep. = What, which; esp. in for whon = because of what or which, why, wherefore. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| wine-tree | A vine. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| witie | To prophesy. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| witieng | Prophecy. Also attrib. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| wlo | A hem or fringe; a nap on cloth. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| wone | Accustomed, used, wont (to do something). | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| woning | Moaning, lamentation. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| wurp | A (stone's) throw. Also fig. in eie wurp, a glance of the eye. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| yedding | A song; a speech, discourse; spec. a ‘gest’ or romance in verse. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| yesterday | On the day immediately preceding the present day. Also, in reported speech, on the day… | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| yfind | To find. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| yfret(ed | eaten, worn away or into holes. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| ygladed | made glad. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| yhewe(d | hewn. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| yleft | As past participle: left. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| ylive | To live. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
| yong | intr. To go. | 950 | Go To Quotation |
