| abye | trans. To buy, purchase (something); to pay a price for (something); to obtain (something)… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| bedlam | The town of Bethlehem in Judea. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| befong | trans. To encompass, enclose, comprehend. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| besench | trans. To cause to sink, submerge, plunge down, overwhelm. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| beswike | trans. To betray, cheat, deceive. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| bind | To make fast (any one) with bonds or fetters; to deprive of personal liberty, make a captive or prisoner. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| bitter | Of anything that has to be ‘tasted’ or endured: Attended by severe pain or suffering; sore… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| bitter | = bitterly adv. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| bitterness | intensity of frost or cold wind. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| blindness | fig. Want of intellectual or moral perception; delusion, ignorance; folly, recklessness. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| bliss | physical, social, mundane: passing at length into 2b. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| blithe | Of men, their heart, spirit, etc.: Joyous, gladsome, cheerful; glad, happy, well pleased.… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| blossom | An individual flower (with pl.) | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| blowing | Blossoming, in bloom. | 917 | Go To Quotation |
| boot | Expiation of sin, an offering by way of atonement; sin-offering; repentance by act… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| bosom | transf. The womb. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| broad | Wide open; fully expanded. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| brydthing | Wedding, marriage, nuptials. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| burden | A load of labour, duty, responsibility, blame, sin, sorrow, etc. the white man's burden… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| catacomb | Representing the Latin catacumbas (catecumpas), or (?) ad catacumbas, used as early as the… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| clam | Anything that holds tight; bond, chain; pl. bonds, bondage. Obs. (In Old English.) | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| deathly | Subject to death, mortal. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| down | A hill. Obs. (exc. as blending with 2). | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| eld | Old age, advanced period of life; usually with regard to its effects upon man. Also personified. arch. and poet. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| eleventh | That comes next in order to the tenth. eleventh hour: the latest possible time, in allusion… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| else | In the same sense, referring to a n., chiefly preceded by an adj. correlative to one… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| evil | Badly, unfortunately, unhappily, unsuccessfully. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| fare | intr. To journey, travel, make one's way. Now arch. or poet. †In early use occas. with… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| fast | intr. To abstain from food, or to restrict oneself to a meagre diet, either as… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| firen | Consisting of or containing fire; flaming with fire. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| forsee | trans. To disregard, despise, overlook. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| forthbring | To bear (offspring, fruit); to bring to pass. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| forthe(n | Even. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| foryield | trans. To repay, recompense, requite. With personal obj. in dat., and direct obj. of… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| freeze | impers. it freezes: the local temperature of the atmosphere is such that water becomes… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| gele | intr. To tarry, linger. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| glassen | Made of glass. Also fig. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| gospeller | One of the four evangelists. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| greedy | Having an intense desire or inordinate appetite for food or drink; ravenous… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| grimly | In a grim fashion; with stern or cruel action, intention, or feelings; fiercely, cruelly… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| grimness | The quality or condition of being grim; fierceness; sternness; formidable aspect. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| groan | intr. To breathe with a deep-toned murmur; to utter a low deep sound expressive of grief or pain. | 700 | Go To Quotation |
| hairen | Made or consisting of hair; hair-. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| halidom | Holiness, sanctity. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| hall | A large place covered by a roof; in early times applied to any spacious roofed place… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| hard | A primary adjective expressing consistency of matter: That does not yield to blows or… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| headly | Chief, principal; capital; (of sins) deadly. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| heaven king | God or Christ, viewed as the king of heaven. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| helpend | A helper. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| herself | Dative, and objective with preposition. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| hight | Hope, glad expectation; gladness, joy. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| hip | The projecting part of the body on each side formed by the lateral expansions of the… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| hue | Form, shape, figure; appearance, aspect; species. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| hungering | That hungers; hungry. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-bete | trans. To make good, amend, mend. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-bid | intr. To pray. (In Old English with refl. dative.) | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-cunde | Nature; kind. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-do | trans. and intr. To do. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-mune | trans. To bear in mind, remember. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-nehleche | To draw near, approach. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| into | Also with verbs in which the idea of motion is not explicitly expressed. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-schield | trans. To shield, protect. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-send | trans. To send. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-set | trans. To set; to set up, establish. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-stand | intr. To stand, stand firm. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-telle | trans. To number, reckon, tell. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-thee | intr. To thrive, prosper. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| itself | Accusative or direct object. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-wende | intr. To turn, wend one's way, go. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-win | intr. To struggle, contend, fight. (Only in Old English.) | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| i-wite | intr. To go away, depart; to decease, die. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| ladder | An appliance made of wood, metal, or rope, usually portable, consisting of a series… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lane | A narrow way between hedges or banks; a narrow road or street between houses or walls… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| last | A footstep, track, trace. After Old English only in Sc. phrase not a last: nothing, not at all. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| laure | The laurel or bay-tree; also, the leaves of the same woven into a chaplet. Also laure tree. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lave | of things. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lede | A people, nation, race. Also, persons collectively, ‘people’. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| leth | Hatred, ill-will. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lew | intr. To become warm. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| leye | Flame, blaze, fire. (on) a leye: on fire. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lie | intr. To tell a lie or lies; to utter falsehood; to speak falsely. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| light | Power of vision, eyesight (now poet. or rhet.). Also pl. = the eyes (now slang). | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| light | Brightly, clearly. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lily | Any plant (or its flower) of the genus Lilium (family Liliaceæ) of bulbous herbs bearing at… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| limb | A part or member of an animal body distinct from the head or the trunk, e.g. a leg, arm, wing. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| longing | The action of long v.; yearning desire; an instance of this. Const. for, after, †to, †of; also with inf. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lore | Loss, destruction. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| loud | Loudly, with a loud noise or voice; aloud. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lustfully | In a lustful manner; †with pleasure or delight; voluptuously (obs.); libidinously. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lustly | With pleasure or delight; gladly, willingly. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| lutter | Pure. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| Magnificat | Christian Church. The hymn of the Virgin Mary in Luke 1:46–55; this hymn used liturgically… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| maiden | A maidservant, a female attendant (cf. maid n. 3a); maiden of honour n. Obs. = maid of honour n. 1a. Now regional. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| Mary | The mother of Jesus. Cf. Virgin Mary n. at virgin n. adj. 4a. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| mass-day | A feast day, esp. that of a particular saint. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| mislich | Diverse, unlike, various; variable. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| nardus | = nard n. 1. Also fig. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| nethen | Below; from below. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| north end | The northern end of something; (in quots. 1641 and 1902) spec. the north side of the altar in a church. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| nut | Useful, advantageous, helpful. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| nutly | Useful, advantageous, profitable. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| on- | trans. and intr. to befall, happen. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| onheave | trans. To lift, to raise up or carry aloft. Also fig. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| onsell | trans. To give, grant, bestow. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| opening | A manifestation, revelation, uncovering; (also) a disclosure, publication. Cf. open v. 6. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| openly | In a manner that is easy to see or understand; clearly, plainly. Obs. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| overhow | trans. To despise, scorn, disdain. | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| overshine | trans. To shine over or upon, to illuminate. Now rare (chiefly poet.). | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| right-doing | That does what is right or proper. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| rimy | Frosty; covered with or characterized by rime or hoar frost; (also) resembling or of the nature of rime. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| rope | Outcry, clamour; cries of distress or lamentation. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| shielded | Bearing a shield. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| shride | trans. To clothe, provide with clothes. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| shuttle | A bolt or bar, as of a door. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| stathel | trans. To place on a foundation (lit. and fig.); to fix, establish, found. Also (in quot.… | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| stepchild | An orphan. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| St Mary | = Mary n. 1a. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| stopel | A step of a flight of stairs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| strew | trans. To scatter, spread loosely; to scatter (rushes, straw, flowers, etc.) on the… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| swith | Qualifying a finite verb or a participle: Strongly, forcibly; very greatly, very… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| sword | A weapon adapted for cutting and thrusting, consisting of a handle or hilt with a… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| tear | A drop of the limpid fluid secreted by the lachrymal gland appearing in or flowing from… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| teen | Harm inflicted or suffered; injury, hurt, mischief; damage. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| teen | To vex, irritate, annoy, anger, enrage. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| therein | As rel. adv.: In which; into which; = wherein adv. Obs. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| there-nigh | Near that place or thing. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| thereright | Straightway, forthwith; there on the spot. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| thick | In a thick, dense, or crowded state; closely, densely, compactly; in crowds or… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| thing | trans. To plead the cause of, supplicate or intercede for, make intercession for; to bring to reconciliation. Also intr. | 1000 | Go To Quotation |
| through- | v. (trans.) to shoot through, pierce through. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| to-bear | trans. To carry in different directions; to carry off, take away; also fig. to… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| umbewhile | After a time. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| wareness | Cautiousness, vigilance. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| watch | To remain awake for purposes of devotion; to keep vigil. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| whiteness | The quality or condition of being white; white colour or appearance. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| wide | Having a specified or particular transverse measurement indicated by a numerical quantity or by a comparison; (so much) across. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| withsake | = withsay v. 1 2 3. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| wonder-work | A marvellous or miraculous act; = miracle n. 1. Also gen. a wonderful achievement. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| wong | A plain, field; a piece of meadow land; spec. a portion of unenclosed land under… | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| yclense | To cleanse. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| y-falle | intr. To fall; to befall. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| yfalle(n | Fallen; also fig. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| yfast | fasted. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| yfell | trans. To strike down, fell. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| yomer | intr. To murmur, complain; to lament, mourn. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| youthhood | = youth n. 1 – 3. | 971 | Go To Quotation |
| ywrought | Worked, wrought, made. (In quots. as past participle.) | 971 | Go To Quotation |
