anoy (A.N.) _annoyance_ +anuel (A.N.) 475, _an annuity_: a yearly salary paid to a priest for keeping an anniversary apayen (A.N.) 123, _to satisfy, to please_ apeiren (A.N.) 80, 111, 125, 127, 141, _to lessen, diminish, impair_ apertli (A.N.) _openly_ appenden, apenden (A.N.) 17, _to belong, appertain to_ apposen (A.N.) 18, 43, 252, 318, _to raise questions, to object_ arate (A.S.) 208, 283, _to rate, scold, correct_ (the A.S. aretan?) arayen (A.N.) _to array_ arere (A.N.) _backwards, back_ arwe, _pl._ arewes (A.S.) 438, _an arrow_ arst (A.S.) 287, _first, erst_ ascapen (A.N.) _to escape_ askes (A.S.) _ashes_ asondry (A.S.) 358, _separated_ aspare (A.N.) 303, _to spare_ aspien (A.N.) to _espy_. _part. s._ aspied, 350 assaien, assaie (A.N.) 334, 336, _to assay, try_ assetz (A.N.) 362, _assets sufficient to pay the debts or legacies of a testator_. A law term assoille (A.N.) 57, 188, 407, 419, _to assoil, absolve, to explain or solve_ astronomien (Lat.) _an astronomer_ a-thynken (A.S.) 374, _to repent_ attachen (A.N.) 40, _to attach, indict_ atte (A.S.) _at the_. atte nale, 124, _at the ale_, a corruption of the Saxon, æt þan ale attre (A.S.) 243, _poison, venom_ a-tweyne (A.S.) _in two_ aught (A.S.) _something, anything, everything_ auncer (A.N.) 90, _a small vessel or cup_. In Low-Latin it is called _anceria_. See Ducange, s. v., who quotes from a charter of the date of 1320 the words, Una cum cuppis, _anceriis_, tonis, et aliis utensilibus auntren (A.N.) _to venture, adventure_, _pret. s._ auntrede, 382, auntred, 435 auter, _pl._ auteres (A.N.) _altar_ avarouser (A.N.) _more avaricious_ aventrous (A.N.) 370, _adventurers, adventurous persons_ aventure (A.N.) _an adventure, an accident_. an aventure, 47, _by adventure, by chance_ avoutrye (A.N.) _adultery_ avowen (A.N.) _to make a vow_ avowes (A.N.) _vows, promises_ awaiten (A.N.) 346, _to watch, wait_. a-wayte, 193, _to see or discover by watching_ awaken (A.S.) _to awake_. _pret. s._ awaked, 396, awakned, 424, a-wook, 147, _part. past_, awaked, 425 awreken (A.S.) _to avenge, revenge_. _part. pas._ a-wroke, 129 +awyrien (A.S.) 490, _to curse, execrate_ axen (A.S.) 71, _to ask_. _pret. s._ asked, 81 ay (A.S.) _ever, always_ B. bakstere (A.S.) 14, 47, _a woman who bakes_ bale (A.S.) 70, 209, 381, 371 (?), evil, mischief, punishment +bale (A.S.) 490, _a bon-fire_ (_rogus_) baleis (A.N.) 184, 229, _a rod_ baleisen (A.N.) 87, _to beat with a rod_ balled (A.S.) 436, _bald_. _balled reson_, 176, _a bald reason, a bare argument_ ballok-knyf (A.S.) 302, _a knife hung from the girdle_ bannen, banne (A.N.) 18, 143, 167, 310, _to ban, curse, banish_. _pret. s._ banned, 173 banyer (A.N.) 321, _a banner-bearer, standard-bearer_ barn (A.S.) 353, _a child_ baselarde (A.N.) 61, 302, _a kind of large dagger, carried in the girdle_ batauntliche (A.N.) 286, _hastily_. Cotgrave gives the Fr. phrase, il arriva tout batant, _he came very hastily_