| abrede | trans. To open wide (the mouth or eyes). | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| adder | Any of various venomous reptiles of the Mediterranean area, including both real snakes (esp.… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| afferre | trans. To take away, remove. Also: to snatch away, seize and carry off. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| after | The rear or hinder part of a person or thing, spec. the stern of a ship. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| arise | To rise from inaction, from the peaceful, quiet, or ordinary course of life; esp. to… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| arist | Rising, rise from a seat or from bed; sunrise. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| ark | spec. in Jewish Hist. The wooden coffer containing the tables of the law, kept in the… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| awarie | To curse, damn. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| awe | Something which inspires fear; a cause of dread; a restraint. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| beard | The hair that grows upon the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of an adult man's face… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| bee-bread | orig. In Old English as in the other Teutonic languages: Honey-comb with the honey in it. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| belouke | To enclose, encompass. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| blessing | The bestowal of divine favour and prospering influence; favour and prospering influence of God. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| bright | trans. To make bright, illumine. | 799 | Go To Quotation |
| burn | fig. Of the passions, as love, wrath, etc.; also poet. of a battle: To be fierce, furious; to glow, rage. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| chalice | A drinking-cup or goblet. (Now only in poetic or elevated language.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| cheek | The jaw, jaw-bone; later called ‘cheek-bone’. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| cherub | In certain Biblical expressions describing the seat or dwelling of the Deity. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| chill | The former equivalent of the modern cold n., used, e.g., of the coldness of the weather, frost. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| church | The assembly of the Israelites, esp. in the wilderness; = congregation n. 5a. Now rare. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| clee | A hoof; one of the parts of a cloven foot; = claw n. 2. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| clepe | intr. To cry, call; to call on, appeal to (a person), for or after (a thing). Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| cleve | A room, chamber, sleeping-place, closet. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| clip | trans. To surround closely, encircle, encompass, ‘hug’. Also with about, in. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| coal | A piece of carbon glowing without flame. (Now arch. or blending with 4 5.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| cocker | A case for arrows; a quiver. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| come | To move towards, approach. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| culver | A dove, a pigeon; now the name of the wood-pigeon in the south and east of England. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| cymbal | One of a pair of concave plates of brass or bronze, which are struck together to produce… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| deaf | Lacking, or defective in, the sense of hearing. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| deaf adder | In Biblical translation or allusion: an asp or other snake, regarded as deaf or… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| dean | now, usually, the deep, narrow, and wooded vale of a rivulet. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| deed | That which is done, acted, or performed by an intelligent or responsible agent; an act. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| delve | To make (a hole, pit, ditch, etc.) by digging; to excavate. arch. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| deme | A judge, arbiter, ruler. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| dimness | The quality of being dim; want of clearness, brightness, or distinctness; dullness of vision or perception, dimsightedness. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| do | To perform duly, carry out, execute. (With obj. expressing command, duty, etc.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| doom | A statute, law, enactment; gen. an ordinance, decree. Obs. exc. Hist. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| door | fig. A means of entrance or exit (in quot. 1526 a means of closing); esp. in phr. to open a door to… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| drop | The smallest quantity of liquid that falls or detaches itself, or is produced, in a… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| eadi | Happy, fortunate, well-omened. Also, Blessed, saintly; said of persons and their actions. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| ear | With reference to its function: The organ of hearing. to speak in the ear: to… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| eat | trans. To take into the mouth piecemeal, and masticate and swallow as food; to consume as food. Usually of solids only. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| eche | Everlasting, eternal. Also quasi- n. in phrase in eche. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| echelich | Everlasting, eternal. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| echeness | Eternity; only in phrase on or in echeness. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| edwit | Reproach, rebuke, taunt; taunting speech. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| edwite | trans. To taunt, blame, reproach. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| eft | A second time, again; back. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| eighty | The cardinal numeral equal to eight tens, represented by the symbols 80 or lxxx. Also… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| empt | intr. and refl. To be at leisure. Only in Old English. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| end | The extremity or outermost part (in any direction) of a portion of space, or of… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| erendrake | A messenger, ambassador. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| evil | to do evil, say evil. (In post-inflectional English hardly distinguishable from use of evil adv.)… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| far | To a great distance; to a remote place. far and wide: see wide adv. 1b. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| father | One by whom a child is or has been begotten, a male parent, the nearest male ancestor. Rarely applied to animals. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| fele | quasi- n. Much, a great number or quantity. Chiefly with partitive genitive. Often qualified by how, like, so, too. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| few | predicatively, freq. in phr. few and far between. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| finger | Viewed as ‘the instrument of work’ (Johnson); esp. (after Hebrew use) as attributed to God. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| fire | The natural agency or active principle operative in combustion; popularly conceived as… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| fish | In popular language, any animal living exclusively in the water; primarily… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| flood | A body of flowing water; a river, stream, usually, a large river. Obs. exc. poet. against the flood: against the stream. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| flow | To become liquid; to stream down, melt; lit. and fig. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| foot | under or beneath a person's foot or feet: fig. in subjection to him, at his mercy or at his absolute disposal. Cf. 33. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| forego | intr. To go before, precede in place or time. Also quasi- trans. with cognate obj. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| foreset | To set in front, put to the front. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| forlornness | The state of being forlorn (see the adj.). | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| forthrast | trans. To crush, shatter. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| fox | An animal of the genus Vulpes, having an elongated pointed muzzle and long bushy… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| freely | Of one's own accord, spontaneously; without constraint or reluctance; unreservedly, without stipulation; readily, willingly. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| gall | The secretion of the liver, bile. Now applied only (exc. in Comb.) to that of the… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| gang | pl. Steps, goings, journeyings. (Old English only.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| gem | A precious stone of any kind, esp. when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| glad | trans. To make glad, to cause to rejoice. arch. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| god | A superhuman person (regarded as masculine: see goddess n.) who is worshipped as having… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| gold-hoard | A hoard of gold; treasure. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| goodwill | The state of wishing well to a person, a cause, etc.; favourable or kindly regard; favour, benevolence. attrib. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| grasshop | A grasshopper, locust. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| grin | A snare for catching birds or animals, made of cord, hair, wire, or the like, with a running noose. Obs. exc. dial. or arch. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| grope | intr. To use the hands in feeling, touching, or grasping; to handle or feel something. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| guilt | intr. To commit an offence or trespass, to sin. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| guilting | That offends or trespasses. In quots. absol. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| gum | Used in Old English and early Middle English sing. or pl. indifferently for the inside of the mouth or throat. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hail | Ice or frozen vapour falling in pellets or masses in a shower from the atmosphere. (In… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| haire | Cloth made of hair, haircloth; esp. a hair shirt worn next the skin by ascetics… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| halse | trans. To call upon in the name of something divine or holy; to exorcize, adjure, conjure; to implore, entreat, beseech. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| halsing | Supplication, entreaty. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| halt | intr. To be lame, walk lame, limp. arch. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hand | The terminal part of the arm beyond the wrist, consisting of the palm and five digits… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| harp | A stringed musical instrument, which, in its usual form, consists of a framework of… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hart | The male of the deer, esp. of the red deer; a stag; spec. a male deer after its fifth year. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hate | An emotion of extreme dislike or aversion; detestation, abhorrence, hatred. Now chiefly poet. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| haulm | collective sing. The stems or stalks of various cultivated plants, as peas, beans… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hay | Grass cut or mown, and dried for use as fodder; formerly (as still sometimes) including… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| head | In man, the upper division of the body, joined to the trunk by the neck. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| heal | fig. To restore (a person, etc.) from some evil condition or affection (as sin… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hean | Mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| heart | Considered as the centre of vital functions: the seat of life; the vital part or… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| heat | The quality of being hot; that quality or condition of matter which produces… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| heave | To raise, exalt, lift up, elevate (in feeling, dignity, station, etc.); to extol. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| heaven | In pl. (now only with the). Originally esp. in biblical language; now the usual form. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| heavy | Of persons: Oppressive; troublesome, annoying; angry; severe, violent. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| heavy | trans. To make heavy, burdensome, or oppressive. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hele | trans. To hide, conceal; to keep secret. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hell | In the Christian tradition. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| hen | = hence adv.: of place, time, or inference. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| her | As genitive case of the 3rd plural personal and reflexive pronoun: Of them (Latin eorum); of themselves. (In quot. 1230 with of.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| her | For names of things grammatically feminine, or (in later use) feminine by personification. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| her | Of things personified or spoken of as female; esp. the earth, the moon, countries… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| here | In this place; in the place (country, region, etc.) where the person speaking is, or places himself. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hi | 3rd singular feminine objective personal pronoun; = her pron. (acc.); also refl. herself.… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| high | Of great or considerable upward extent or magnitude; extending far upward; ‘long upwards’ (Johnson); lofty, tall. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| highest | The superlative of high adj. in its various senses, q.v. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| highness | concr. Something that is high; a high place, region, or part; a height; top, summit. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| holy | As applied to deities, the development of meaning has probably been: Held in religious… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| horse | A solid-hoofed perissodactyl quadruped (Equus caballus), having a flowing mane and… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hot | intr. To be or become hot. Also fig. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| hunger | The uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also, the exhausted condition caused by want of food. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hymn | A song of praise to God; any composition in praise of God which is adapted to be chanted… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| hyssop | In Biblical translations and derived use: A plant, the twigs of which were used for… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| idle | Empty, vacant; void (of). Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| idleness | Vanity: in (or on) idleness, in vain (cf. idle n. 1b). Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| idly | Vainly, in vain; uselessly; frivolously, carelessly, ineffectively (cf. idle adj. 2 3). | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| ilk | Followed immediately by a substantive: = each adj. pron. 1a; every. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| iron | Of iron; consisting or formed of iron. (Latin ferreus.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| irre | Anger, wrath. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| irre | Enraged, angry. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| keel | trans. To cool; to cause to lose heat; to refresh by cooling. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| ken | trans. To generate, engender, beget; to conceive; to give birth to. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| kin | A group of persons descended from a common ancestor, and so connected by… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| knee | The joint, or region about the joint, between the thigh and the lower leg; by extension… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| lady | The female head of a household; a woman who has authority over servants, attendants, or… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| lattew | A leader. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| laugh | intr. With at. To mock, deride; to make fun of. In early use also with †of, †on, †over, †upon. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| lead | To bring or take (a person or animal) to a place. Also with away, down, etc. Obs.… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| leaf | An expanded organ of a plant, produced laterally from a stem or branch, or springing… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| light | Bright, shining, luminous. Of a fire: Burning brightly. Phrase, on (of, in) a light fire… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| lion | A large carnivorous quadruped, Felis leo, now found native only in Africa and southern Asia… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| live | To be alive; to possess life (see life n. 1d), either as an animal or as a plant; to be capable of vital functions. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| living | Predicatively, or attrib. following the n.: Alive, or when alive. †Also in… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| lout | intr. To bend, bow, make obeisance; also, to stoop. Occas. refl.; also with down. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| love | A feeling or disposition of deep affection or fondness for someone, typically arising… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| love | trans. To have or feel love towards (a person, a thing personified) (for a quality… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| man | As a general or indefinite designation, esp. with determiners such as every, any, no, etc.… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| manifoldly | In the proportion of many to one. Obs. rare. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| me | As direct object of a verb (originally accusative). | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| meat | fig. A means of support or strength; a fundamental, core, or customary requirement, a… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| mete | trans. To mark the boundary or course of, to delimit; = measure v. 7b. Freq. with out. Now rare. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| mickle | trans. To magnify, extol. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| micklely | Splendidly, magnificently, grandly. rare. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| mickleness | Greatness, magnificence, excellence. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| mighty | Of God: possessing transcendent power. Of a ruler, leader, nation, etc.: pre-eminent… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| milce | Mercy, clemency, forbearance; pity; favour, grace. Often coupled with ore n., mercy n.… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| milce | trans. To have mercy on, or show mercy to; to forgive; to be kind, compassionate, or gracious to. Also (occas.) intr. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| mild | A person who is gentle or conciliatory in character or disposition. Cf. sense A. 1d. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| mo | In or to a greater degree, extent, or quantity. Also: more energetically, conscientiously, or diligently. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| more | A mulberry tree. Also more-beam, more tree. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| morn | Phrases. at (also on) morn and (at, on) even, at eve and morn, and variants: at… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| myrrh | A bitter, aromatic gum resin exuded by various Arabian and African trees of… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| nap | intr. To sleep lightly or for a brief time; to take a short sleep. Formerly also: †to be… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| napping | The action of taking a nap; sleeping; (formerly also) †drowsiness (obs.). Also fig. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| nasethirl | A nostril. Freq. in pl. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| neat | A bovine animal; an ox or bullock; a cow or heifer. Also fig. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| need | Violence, force, constraint, or compulsion, exercised by or upon a person. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| need | trans. To exercise constraint or compulsion upon; to harass or trouble (a person). | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| nest | To make or have a nest in a particular place. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| net | fig. A means of catching or securing a person or thing; esp. a moral or mental snare, trap, or entanglement. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| neten | An animal, esp. an ox or a horse. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| nether | Designating what lies, or is imagined as lying, beneath the earth; of, belonging to, or… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| new | Not previously existing; now made or brought into existence for the first time. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| next | One who, or that which, is last. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| nigh | With verbs of dwelling, standing, etc. Now rare. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| night | The period of darkness occurring between one day and the next; that part of a… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| nim | trans. = take v. in various senses, esp. to get into one's hands, to get hold of, pick… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| nithe | Envy, malice, hatred; enmity, ill will. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| nither | trans. To thrust down or oppress; to abase, humble; to straiten, constrict. Also: †to bend… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| no | Preceding a finite verb (or auxiliary) and without do -construction. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| noll | The top or crown of the head; the head itself. Now Eng. regional. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| nought | Nothing, not anything; = naught pron. 1. Now arch. and regional. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| noughtly | Wickedly, wrongly; badly, poorly. Cf. naughtly adv. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| now | At the present time or moment. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| offer | trans. To present (something) to God, a god, a saint, etc., as an act of devotion; to… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| oflete | An offering, sacrifice, oblation. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| old | With pl. concord. In later use freq. with the: old people as a class. Freq. contrasted with young. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| old | intr. To grow old; to deteriorate through age. Also in pa. pple.: grown old. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| onrese | intr. To rush, make an attack; to rise up. Also with on or in. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| onsand | Something sent out, esp. a disaster, affliction, or plague sent by God. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| onset | trans. To set or place (on, over); to bestow, confer. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| organ | Any of various ancient musical, esp. wind, instruments. Chiefly in translations of… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| outgang | A going out, departure, exit; spec. the giving up of the occupancy or tenure of a property. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| outgo | intr. To go out, go forth. Now poet. and regional. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| out-lead | trans. To lead or bring out. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| outsend | trans. To send out or forth; to emit. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| over | Upper, higher in position. Also occas. as n. Now rare (regional in later use). | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| overshadow | trans. To shelter or protect with one's influence or power. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| oversit | trans. To sit over or upon; to occupy or possess. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| overwry | trans. To cover over; to overspread; to clothe; to conceal. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| ox | A large cloven-hoofed, often horned ruminant mammal, Bos taurus (family Bovidae), derived… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| palm | Any of the numerous trees and shrubs constituting the monocotyledonous family Arecaceae (Palmae… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| plant | A young tree, shrub, vegetable, or flower newly planted, or intended for planting; a… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| plant | trans. To set or place (a seed, bulb, or growing thing) in the ground so that it may take… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| play | intr. To clap with the hands. Also trans.: to clap (the hands). Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| plight | Peril, danger, or risk; (also) a struggle or battle. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| psalm | gen. (esp. in biblical use). A sacred song that is or may be sung in religious… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| quake | intr. Of a thing, esp. the earth: to shake or tremble as a result of an external or internal impulse, natural instability, etc. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| quaking | The action of quake v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| queath | Without direct speech. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| queen | The wife or consort of a king. Freq. with the, as a title. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| quelm | trans. To torment; to kill, destroy. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| quetch | trans. To shake or brandish (an object). Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| quick | As a complement to the subject of intransitive and passive verbs, or to the object (and… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rain | Condensed moisture of the atmosphere falling to the ground visibly in separate drops; the fall of such drops; rainwater. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rake | The throat; the jaws. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| ram | An adult male sheep; spec. (in domestication) one kept for breeding purposes, a tup (opposed to wether n. 1a). | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rathe | Quickly, rapidly; esp. immediately, without delay, promptly. Obs. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rathely | Quickly, swiftly, etc.; = rathe adv. 1a. In later use arch. and poet. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| reap | A bundle or handful of unthreshed wheat or any similar crop; a sheaf, or the quantity sufficient to make a sheaf. Cf. rip n. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| reap | intr. To cut and (usually) gather a grain or similar crop, orig. (and typically) using a… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| reave | To take forcible possession of (something belonging to another person); to steal. Now chiefly Sc. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| reek | Smoke produced by burning or smouldering material; a cloud or column of such smoke. Cf. peat-reek n. 2. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| reose | intr. To fall or fall down; to fall (in battle), perish; to descend, drop. Also: (of hair) to fall out. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rese | trans. To shake; to cause to shake or tremble. Also refl. Occas. intr. with object implied. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rest | Sleep, repose; the feeling of having been refreshed or restored through this. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| right | Of a person, disposition, etc.: disposed to do what is just or good; upright, righteous. Cf. sense A. 7d. Now rare. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| righteous | Of a person: acting or disposed to act rightly or justly; conforming to the precepts of… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| righteousness | The state or quality of being righteous or just; conformity to the precepts of divine… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rime | Number; reckoning. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rime | trans. To count, reckon, enumerate. Also occas. intr. Now only with up. Formerly also: †to recount (obs.). | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rindle | A small stream or watercourse; a brook; a runnel; (occas.) a trickle of liquid. Also: a gutter, a drain. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rine | trans. Of personal or other objects: to send or pour down like rain; = rain v. 1b. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| riping | The process or fact of becoming ripe, ripening; (also) †ripeness (obs.). | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| room | Spacious, roomy, ample in dimensions; wide, extensive. Also fig. Now Sc. (Shetland). | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| run | To pass or move quickly from point to point; to spread in this way. In later use usu. with a preposition. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| rune | Course, onward movement, esp. of a celestial object; (also) rapid movement, running, esp. of a person. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| saltness | The property or state of being salt; the condition of being impregnated with salt. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sea | pl. Different parts or tracts of the ocean. (Often merely poet. or rhetorical, like waters.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| see | The imperative is often employed exclamatorily, either with obj. a n. or a clause… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| seed | That which is or may be sown (often as cognate obj. to sow v.); the ovules of a plant… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| seek | To pursue with hostile intention (a person; also, in Biblical phrase, his soul or life); to… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| seld | A seat, throne. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| send | Of God, fate, chance, etc.: ‘To grant as from a distant place’ (Johnson); to cause to… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sevensithe(s | Seven times. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| shamble | A stool, footstool. Chiefly in fig. context. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sharn | Dung, esp. dung of cattle. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sharp | Having a keen cutting edge. Also said of the edge. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sharp | transf. and fig. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sheep | Any animal of the ruminant genus Ovis (sometimes horned), closely allied to the goats; esp.… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| shend | trans. To put to shame or confusion; to confound, disgrace. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| shield | In ancient and medieval warfare, and subsequently in that of pre-industrial peoples: an… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| shield | trans. To protect (a person or object) by the interposition of some means of defence… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sib | Peace, amity, concord. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| silver | One of the precious metals (in general use ranking next to gold), characterized in a pure… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sin | An act which is regarded as a transgression of the divine law and an offence against… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sin | intr. To commit sin; to do a sinful act. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sing | To articulate or utter words or sounds in succession with musical inflections or modulations… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sit | Of persons: To be or remain in that posture in which the weight of the body rests upon the posteriors; to be seated. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sithe | With cardinal numerals (or equivalent term), denoting frequency of occurrence, etc. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| slay | trans. To smite, strike, or beat. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sleep | The unconscious state or condition regularly and naturally assumed by man and… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sleep | To take repose by the natural suspension of consciousness; to be in the state of sleep… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| smear | trans. To anoint with oil, chrism, etc., as a symbolic ceremony. In later use only with contemptuous force. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| snow | The partially frozen vapour of the atmosphere falling in flakes characterized by… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| so | With the verbs do, say, think, etc., latterly assuming the function of an object and passing into the sense of ‘that’. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| somne | trans. To assemble, gather, collect, unite. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| song | A metrical composition adapted for singing, esp. one in rhyme and having a regular verse-form; occas., a poem. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| soon | With reference to a definite past or future time. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sooth | In predicative use. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| soothfast | Of persons: Speaking or adhering to the truth; veracious, truthful; true, faithful, loyal. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| soothfastness | The fact, condition, or quality of being soothfast in various senses; truth… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| soothly | In or with sooth or truth; truly, verily; as a matter of fact; assuredly, certainly, really; indeed. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sore | Bodily pain or suffering. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| southdeal | The southern part or district (of a place); the south. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| sow | intr. or absol. To perform the action of scattering or depositing seed on or in the ground… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| spare | trans. To leave (a person) unhurt, unharmed, or uninjured; to refrain from inflicting… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| speak | Said of the mouth, tongue, etc. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| stand | said of the feet. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| staniel | The kestrel, Tinnunculus alaudarius. Also applied contemptuously to a person, in allusion… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| star | Any one of the many celestial bodies appearing as luminous points in the night sky.… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| step | A flat-topped structure, normally made of stone or wood and some six or seven inches… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| stight | trans. To set in order, arrange, place. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| still | Quiet, gentle in disposition; meek. still and bold (absol.), men of whatever temper. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| stitch | A fragment, piece. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| stone | A rock, cliff, crag; a mass of rock; rocky ground. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| stonewall | A wall built of stones; now esp. of rough stones without mortar, as a fence between fields, etc. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| storm | A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, manifested by high winds, often accompanied… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| strengh | The quality of being strong, whether in physical or immaterial senses. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| strong | absol. (and as postfixed epithet, the strong). | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| strong | intr. To become strong. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sty | intr. To ascend, mount up, rise or climb to a higher level. Said of persons and things. Also fig. Often with up, upwards. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| summer | In general use. (Also personified.) Often in in summer (Old English on sumera, Middle English o, a or in sumere). | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| sweet | In similative and other proverbial phr. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| temple | In a general sense. (Often, as in quot. 825, going back to a specific use.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| that | Introducing a clause defining or restricting the antecedent, and thus completing its… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| thee | As indirect object (originally dative); ‘to thee’. Also as object of an impersonal verb, or… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| thick | (from A. 1) = thicket n. Now rare. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| this | a person. Now indicating a person actually present, or a person speaking or… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| tho | As antecedent pronoun followed by a relative clause or its equivalent: = those pron. adj. 4. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| those | Plural of this pron. adj. I. = these pron. adj. I. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| thou | As subject or subject complement. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| timber | A building, structure, edifice, house. Also fig. Obs. (? only Old English.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| turtur | = turtle n. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| tympan | A drum or similar instrument, as a timbrel or tambourine. arch. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| unbearing | Unfertile, unproductive, barren. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| under | In general use. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| unrighteous | Of persons. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| unrighteousness | The quality of being unrighteous; an instance of this, an unrighteous action. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| untrum | Weak, ailing, ill. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| unwisdom | Lack or absence of wisdom; ignorance, folly, stupidity. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| unwise | Lacking or deficient in (practical) wisdom, discretion, or prudence; indiscreet, imprudent, foolish. Also const. in. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| unwry | trans. To reveal or expose to sight by the removal of a covering; to uncover, lay bare. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| up | From a lower to a higher status in respect of position, rank, or affluence. (Cf. to set up 10 at set v. 2.) | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| us | As direct object of a verb (originally accusative). | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| utmost | That which is most outward, distant, or remote; the farthest part, district, limit, etc., of an extent or area. Now only arch. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wake | To stay awake for the purpose of watching or tending; to keep watch while others sleep, be… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wall | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly pl., fortifications. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wane | Lacking, absent, deficient. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| weapon | Down to the end of the 16th c., the plural, when used in the collective sense = ‘arms’… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| weary | Having the feeling of loss of strength, languor, and need for rest, produced by… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| weigh | pl. (sometimes construed as sing.). Obs. exc. dial. †Also, the zodiacal constellation Libra. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| welkin | A cloud. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| well | A spring of water rising to the surface of the earth and forming a small pool or flowing… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| well | With the dative of the personal pronouns, esp. in the formula well is me, thee, him… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| well | In accordance with a good or high standard of conduct or morality; in a way which is morally good. Chiefly with do vb. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| westdeal | The western part or district (of a place); the west. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| weste | Of a place: uninhabited and uncultivated; wild, desolate, waste. See also weste land n. | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| wet | To suffuse with tears, bedew with weeping. Also said of the tears. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wheat | The grain of a cereal (see sense 2), furnishing a meal or flour which constitutes the chief breadstuff in temperate countries. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| whelp | The young of various wild animals, esp. and now only (chiefly as a literary archaism) of… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| where | in direct questions. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| whom | as indirect object or as object of a preposition. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| widow | A woman whose husband is dead (and who has not married again); a wife bereaved of her husband. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wild deer | A wild animal. Chiefly collect. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| will | Qualified by possessive, esp. in such phr. as if his will be, if it be his will (= if it… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| will | trans. with simple obj.: Desire, wish for, have a mind to, ‘want’ (something); sometimes implying also ‘intend, purpose’. Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| will | trans. To wish, desire; sometimes with implication of intention: = will v. 1, 2, 5. Obs. or rare arch. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| winnow | To separate or drive off (lighter or refuse particles) by the process described in sense 1; fig.… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wite | Punishment; penalty; pain inflicted in punishment or torture, esp. the torments of hell. (Cf. Old English helle-wíte, etc.) Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wlite | Beauty; splendour. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| womb | The abdomen or abdominal cavity of a person or animal; the belly; the paunch. Also… | 850 | Go To Quotation |
| work | Action involving effort or exertion directed to a definite end, esp. as a means of… | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| work | To do (something evil or harmful); to commit (a sin, wrong, or crime). arch. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| worm | A human being likened to a worm or reptile as an object of contempt, scorn, or pity; an abject, miserable creature. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| worse | intr. To become or grow worse, deteriorate. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| worst | Most grievous, painful, unlucky, uncomfortable, unpleasant, unfavourable, etc. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wort | A plant, herb, or vegetable, used for food or medicine; often = pot-herb. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| worth | Pecuniary value; †price; †money. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wrake | Suffering that comes or is inflicted as a retribution or penalty; retributive punishment, vengeance, revenge. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wriels | A covering; a veil. Also fig. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| wulder | Glory; honour. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| yhere | To hear. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
| yield | To perform (a promise), pay (a vow). Obs. | 825 | Go To Quotation |
