Old English | sp | English |
I | . | Used to form collective nouns, derivative adjs, advs and verbs, esp.easy pa ppls. |
I-athel | vb | To make noble or renowned |
I-be | vb | To be |
I-bedde | n | A bedfellow |
I-bedde | vb | To command, proclaim, offer |
I-beot | pp | Threatening |
I-bere | n | Comportment, bearing, conduct |
I-bere | vb | To bear, bring forth |
I-bete | vb | To make good, amend, mend |
I-bid | vb | To pray |
I-brethren | n | Brothers collectively or mutually |
I-bringe | vb | To bring |
I-bure | vb | To pertain to, behove, prosper |
I-burned | pp | Marked. Alternatively spelt: byrne |
I-by | pp | To purchase, to buy something, atone for |
Ice | n | |
Ice-bone | n | The share bone, or another bone of the pelvis or haunch |
Ice-fall | n | Cataract of ice, a glacier |
Ice-free | adj | free from obstruction or delay from ice |
Ice-hill | n | A hill or mound of ice; an elevated glacier, a slope covered with ice; also a floating iceberg |
I-cheose | vb | To chase |
I-cherre | vb | To return, turn, chare |
Icicle | adj | A diminitive; consider: "Shinicle" |
Ickle | adj | A hypercoristic form of "little", sometimes a childish use. 2. a small piece of ice. |
I-cunde | n | Nature, kind, inheritance, native-land, native. |
I-cundeliche | adv | Naturally, inherently. |
i-cusse | vb | To kiss mutually; i-kiss |
Idle | adj | |
Idleset | n | Condition of idleness, worthlessness, indolency |
Idleship | n | State of idleness |
I-do | vb | To do |
I-dow | adj | Profitable, advantageous |
I-erderd | vb | To dwell |
I-ethe | adj | Easy |
I-fang | vb | To lay hold of, take, grasp, sieze |
I-fare | vb | To go proceed, fare |
I-fast | vb | To make fast, confirm, settle |
I-feond | n | Fiends, enemies, collectively |
If | conj | |
Iffy | adj | Full of contingengy; doubtful |
I-freond | n | Friend; friends collectively |
If-so-ever | . | If in any circumstances; ever |
I-gain | vb | To reply, in turns again. 2. turn against; to meet |
I-gastliche | adv | Ighastly; fearfully, terribly |
I-gin | vb | To begin |
I-gripe | vb | To grip, lay hold of, |
I-grithe | vb | To pacify |
I-grure | vb | To horrify, terrify |
I-hente | vb | To grasp, hold |
I-hold | vb | Place of shelter, shelter, abode, hold |
I-ken | vb | To make known, to know, to mention. |
I-knit | vb | To tie, fasten, attach. |
Ile | n | A hedgehog; in OE. also the porcupine: The il, ile, i-spile, ispile. |
I-limp | vb | To happen, befall |
Ilk | n | Only of that ilk., of that kind, sort, name , place. |
I-mele | vb | To speak, say, voice out aloud. |
I-mene | adj | Common (to a number), 2. shared or owned in common, in common, together |
I-mennesse | n | Communion, fellowship, society, community |
I-meng | vb | To mingle, mix |
I-met | n | Measure, moderation |
I-metlich | adj | Moderation |
I-milse | vb | To have mercy; pardon |
Imp | n | A young shoot of a plant or tree; a sapling, a sucker, a scion, a child, an off-spring. |
Imp | vb | To graft, engraft. 2. to plant young shoots. 3. to extend, lengthen, enlarge, add to. 4. to strengthen, improve, better, mend, repair. 5. eke out, (that which is short or deficient). 6. to become part of a family by marriage. |
Imped | vb | To provide with feathers. |
I-mune | vb | To bear or keep in mind, to remember; i-myne |
I-munte | vb | To intend, determine, to think; myntan |
In-beaming | n | Illumination, irradiation |
In-bearing | adj | Intrusive, officious, meddlesome |
In-being | n | Inbeing: the fact of being, existence in something else, inherence, indwelling, immanence. 2. inward or essential nature; that what a thing is in itself. |
In-bending | adj | Bending or curving inwards |
In-between | n | An interval. 2. a person who intervenes; a mediator, intermediary. |
In-betweener | n | A person who takes up an intermediate part or role |
In-blow | n | To breathe or blow inwards, to inflate, to puff up. 2. to inspire in a bad or negative sense. |
Inboard | adj | |
Inbold | vb | |
Inborgh | n | In Anglo-Saxon times a security, bail, pledge 2. Security, bail, surety or guarantee. 3. inborrow |
Inborn | adj | Native, aboriginal, first-folk; one born in a place or country, 2. innate; of an attribute or condition: inherent or hereditary |
Inbound | adj | Bound inwards or homewards |
Inborrow | vb | To redeem from pawn |
In-bow | vb | To bend in a curved way; to concave, bend or bow inwards |
Inbowed | adj | Bented or bowed inwards, concavely. |
Inbowing | n | Concaveness. |
Inbreak | n | Forcible incursion, invasion; as the inbreak of the Viking |
Inbreathe | vb | To inspire or give inspiration; a soul inbreathe by St Francis of Assisi |
Inbreather | n | A person who inspires and lifts up others. |
Inbreathing | n | Inspiration |
Inbred | adj | |
Inbreeding | n | |
In-bring | vb | To introduce, adduce, cause to come, bring in by legal authority, innovate. |
Inbringer | n | One who brings in, an introducer, innovator, entrepreneur |
Inbringing | n | Introduction, innovation, |
Inburst | n | A bursting-in, irruption, invasion, incursion, sudden and violent attack. |
Inch | n | |
Inchmeal | n | By inches, inch-by-inch, by small portions, little-by-little. |
Indeed | adv phr. | In actual fact, in reality, in truth |
In-ditch | vb | To cast into a ditch; bury in a ditch; bury or commit to a ditch |
Indling | n | Var. of eynding: jealousy |
Indoors | n | Pertaining to the interior of a house, etc., situated or done within doors or under cover. |
Indraught | ||
Indraw | vb | |
Indread | vb | To feel an inward or secret dread; to dread inwardly |
Indrench | vb | To drown or drench someone or something. 2. to immerse |
Indwell | vb | To dwell in, occupy, inhabit asa dwelling 2. to dwell, abide, to have as one's abode. |
Indweller | n | One who lives or dwells in a place, an inhabitant. 2. a resident, a sojourner. |
Indwelling | vb. phr | The action of dwelling in a place, usu. fig. 2. the abiding of God or The Divine Spirit in the heart or soul. |
Indwellingness | n | The quality of dwelling. 2, that dwells within, occupies. inhabitation |
Inearth | vb | To inter, bury, entomb |
Ineye | vb | To put an eye or bud into (the bark of a tree); to inoculate. |
Infall | n | An inroad, attack, incursion, invasion or descent on or upon an army, town, or in or into a country. 2. the place where the water enters a reservoir, canal etc, - the opposite to outfall. 3. the falling of a stream, road into another; a junction, confluence. 4. the falling upon or into a planet from an outside source. 5. material that falls or has fallen. |
Infalling | n | Invasion, incursion, occupation, inroad |
Infang | vb | To haul, sieze, grasp, take in |
Infangthief | n | The right of the Lord of a manor to try, to fine and punish a thief caught within its limits. |
Infare | n | The act of going in or entering an entering. 2. an entrance. 3. a feast or entertainment on entering a new house-- a house-warming party; also at the reception of a bride in her house. |
Infeed | n | |
Infelt | adj | Felt within, expierenced or inwardly felt |
Infield | n | The field of a farm which surrounds the homestead or grange |
In-fighting | n | Fighting, esp. in boxing at close quarter. 2. argument, dispute and turmoil within an organization, such a business, sporting club, political party |
Infill | n | |
In-film | vb | to cover with a film; to cover or coat thinly. |
Infold | n | A convolution, the folding of a part, a fold, a small field 2. a fold or small field near a farm-house, farmstead. |
infold | vb | To envelope, to shut in, enclose. 2. to fold the edges. |
Infollowing | n | A reproving or censuring |
Ing | sp | Original function to form nouns of action: boding, gathering. In OE. often came to represent a completed action, a process or art. Sometimes it caused nouns to become concrete. In the 14th century a gerundial use developed. |
Ing | ppl | A particle termination "ing" is that of a present particle used as a verb or adjectively |
Ing | sf | a suffix forming derivative noun: atheling, flyming (fugitive). |
Ingall | vb | To fill or impregnate with gall |
Ingate | vb | |
Ingather | vb | To gather in, collect, amassed |
Ingathered | pp | Collected, drawn-in, curled in. |
Ingatherer | n | A collector |
Ingathering | n | he action of collecting or gathering. 2,. a congregation of churchmen, politicians, states eg, The Kent Ingathering: The County of Kent. . |
Ingiving | n | A handing-in, giving-in, donation, submission. |
In-giver | n | One who hands in, gives or donates. 2. a submitter. |
In'go | vb | To go in, enter |
In-god | vb | To deify, make divine. 2. to take into God or into the godhead. |
Ingodding | n | The action of, or the becoming of god-like qualities in man: the ingodding of man. |
Ingoing | vb.n | A going-in, an entrance, a way-in. 2.the sum paid by a tenant or purchaser for fixtures, etc. on taking over a business or other premises. |
In-going | pp | That goes in or inwards; that enters. 2, penetrating; thorough |
Ingem | vb | To set or adorn with jewels, gems or precious stones |
Ingrowing | pp | growing inwards or within something |
Ingrown | pp | That has or is growing within something, native, indigenous, innate. 2 of a nail that has grown into the flesh. |
Ingrowth | n | The action of growing inwards. 2. that which grows inwards. |
In-having | pp | Obtaining or getting in, procuring |
Inhearing | n | The hearing of things inauuible to the outside ear |
Inheche | n | The ploughing up of fallow for a crop of corn; a piece of land so ploughed. |
Inheld | adj | held within, repressed, bottled-up |
Inhell | vb | Put or confined in hell or a hell |
Inhold | vb | To hold within, to contain, to enclose. 2. to keep in, hold in, retain. 3. to contain oneself, to refrain, to keep from |
Inholder | n | A tenant. 2. that which holds or contain. |
in-house | adj | Something done internally without outside assistance |
Inhousehold | vb | To domesticate. |
In-it's selfness | n | The quality or state of being independent of any relation to other entities. Consider: In-one's selfness. |
Inker | prn | A genitive dual: Of you two - either inker- either of you two, inker both of you; of you both. Possessive form: belonging to you two: Inker mother: your mother. OE. Incer of you two |
Inkneed | adj | Having the legs bent inwards at the knees: knock-kneed |
Inknit | vb | To knit up, to draw close together |
Inknot | vb | To tie in a knot |
Inknow | vb | to take knowledge of. |
Inlaid | pp | The art or process of inlaying. 2.the encrusting of precious stones in jewellry. 3. the inlaying of plants in soil. |
Inland | n | |
In-landed | adj | Situated in or towards the interior of an area. |
Inlander | n | |
Inlandish | adj | Produced in the land itself; home, domestic, opposite to outlandish |
In-law | n | |
Inlaw | vb | To bring within the protection of and authority of the law. 2. to reverse the outlawry of a person; to rehabilitate from a life of crime and anti-social behavior. |
Inless | vb | To make less, diminish, |
Inlessness | n | The quality or state of less or diminishment. |
Inlet | n | A way of admission or entrance. 2. a piece or something let in or inserted. 3. the upper opening into a cavity, used originally of the the pelvis: (the share's inlet), thorax, larnyx - all cavities of the skeleton. |
Inlight | n | a revelation, an illumination, a revealing |
In-line | adj | |
Inlook | n | the action of looking inwards, fig. or lit. 2. introspection. 3. the opposite of outlook. 4. an investigation. 5. an introversion |
Inlooker | n | Inspector. 2. One who looks into or investigates a thing or matter. 3. an introspective person. 4. an introvert |
Inly | adv | Inwardly, inward, internal, internally, inwardly looking. Inwardly (as opposed to outwardly) within, internally within the heart, spirit or inner nature. In regards to the inner life or feeling. 2. In the way that goes to the heart and inmost parts: heartily, intimately, closely, fully, thoroughly, extremely. |
Inlying | n | Confinement, lying in at childbirth, accouchement |
Inlying | adj | Lying within or inside, situated in the interior. Nb: Inlyingness. |
Inmeat | n | Those internal parts of the viscera of an animal which are used for food: entrails. 2. offal |
In-mong | prep | Among, amongst |
Inmost | adj | situated farthest within, most remote fron the outside, most inward, that which is inmost, inmost |
Inn | n | A dwelling-place, habitation, lodging, abode, place of soujourn. 2. a public house for the lodging and entrtainment of travellers, wayfarers; a hostel, hostelry. 3. a tvern which does not provide lodgings. |
Inn | vb | To lodge, house, find lodging for. 2. to lodge oneself, find oneself lodging. |
Inne | adv & prep | Of position: in, within, indoors. |
Inner | adj | |
Innerer | n | |
Innerly | adv | Earnestly, interestingly, excitingly. 2. inwardly, internally, more within |
Innermore | adj | Situated more within, inner |
Innermost | adj | Inmost, the inmost part. |
Innerness | n | Inwardness, inner or inward quality. |
Inness | adj | The quality of being in or within something. |
Inneth | n | The interior of the body, the insides, spec. the womb. |
Inning | n | A putting or getting in, what is put or got in, contents. 2. land take or reclaimed. 3. in-gathering of harvest. 4. the time which a person, party, principle etc. is in possession or in power. 5. a term of opportunity for. 6. an activity of any kind, an activity. |
Innkeeper | n | |
Inn-less | adj | Without inns, hotels, motels, lodging-places etc. |
In-path | n | A way that is no way; an impassable way, an impasse. 2. an impasse |
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In-race | n | A rushing upon, an assault, incursion, attack, in-run, irruption, in-rush |
In-rede | vb | To interpret, explain the meaning of, clarify, read |
In-reding | n | Interpretation, explanation, clarification, reading |
In-righteous | vb | Make righteous |
In-rise | vb | to rise, esp. in opposition; to uprise |
In-rise | n | Opposition, rise-up, uprising, |
Inroad | n | A coming of an attacking body or group into a place. 2. the pushing over the edge of another's property- making inroads. |
Inroom | n | a chamber |
Inrun | n | An incursion, attack, fall-in, a rushing-upon, an inrunning. |
Inrush | n | An inflow, influx, pouring in. |
Insee | n | A look-upon, an insight, an inseeing, a look-see |
Insee | vb | To look upon, to see into, to have an insight into, to look-see, to insee. |
Inseer | n | An investigator, inspector, an examiner, one who looks into something to find explanation. |
Inseil | n | A seal. |
Inseil | vb | To seal, to impress or secure in a seal, to seal up. |
Insend | vb | To send in, to put in, submit |
Insending | n | Submission. 2. entry |
Inset | vb | To initiate, institute, render. 2. to appoint: set a person in office. 3. to insert, ingraft, set jewels in gold or the like. 4. to insert, fix in: as in a extra page in a book, grangerise. |
Inset | n | An innate or implanted idea. 2. an insetting, insertion |
Insetted | adj | Implanted, innate, native |
Insetter | n | An indweller, one who resides in a place. 2, an inhabitant |
Inshape | n | Internal form, inward shape. 2. structure, skeleton, frame. |
Inshed | vb | To shed or pour something upon. 2. dowse, sprinkle wei with liquid. 3. to infuse. 4. inshedding |
Inshielder | n | A protector |
Inshine | vb | Illuminate, clarify, explain. |
Inshine | n | An illumination, clarification, explanation. |
Inshore | n | |
Inshot | n | A piece shooting or projeting inwards. 2. applied to part of the sea running into the land |
Inside | n | |
Insight | n | |
Insighted | adj | Having or endowed with insight |
Insightful | adj | |
In-smite | vb | To strike inwards, attack, assault, incurse |
Insow | vb | To sow in, to set in as a seed, implant |
Inspeak | vb | |
Instand | vb | To be at hand. 2.to press slowly. 3. to be urgent or pressing. 3. to be importunate. |
Instanding | n | |
Instar | vb | |
Instead | prep | |
Insteadfast | adj | Unsteady, not steadfast, wavering |
Insteep | vb | To infuse, to immerse, to steep, to imbrue, to saturate |
Insteepness | n | |
Instreaming | vb | |
Instreye | vb | Instrie. 2.To strew or scatter in or upon something. |
Insunk | vb | |
Inswak | vb | |
Inswarming | vb.n | |
Inswept | adj | |
Intake | n | |
Intaking | vb.n | |
In-thring | vb | To press or crowd in; to throng. 2. to throng or inthrong. |
Inthrough | adj | In and through, through a place from the outside, 2. in towards the centre |
In'till | . | Of motion, direction, change of condition: into; also spelt: Intil. 2. of place, position, condition, state. |
Into | prep | |
Inward | adj | |
Inwardly | adv | |
Inwardmost | adj | |
Inwardness | n | |
Inwards | . | |
Inwarp | vb | |
Inwinding | adj | |
Inwinter | vb | |
Inwise | adj | Very wise |
Inwit | n | Inwid: deceit- not related to "inwit" meaning conscience, sense of right or wrong. |
Inwit | n | Conscience; as distinguish from outwit, knowledge, ability, information |
Inwith | adj | |
Inwone | vb | To inhabit, live at, occupy, to abide, dwell, reside. |
Inwoning | vb.n | Inhabiting, dwelling, residing, living at, occupying, abing at |
Inwork | n | |
Inworking | vb.n | |
Inworn | adj | Worn or pressed in; inveterate |
Inwriting | n | Inscription |
Inwritten | pp | Inscribed, written in or on. |
Inwrought | vb | |
Inyet | vb | to pour, infuse. |
Inyetting | vb.n | Infusion, a pouring. 2. also spelt: inyoating. |
Inyoke | vb | To bind or unite. |
I-queme | vb | |
I-quethe | vb | |
I-rad | pp | |
I-radliche | adj | |
I-rede | adj | |
I-riht | n | |
I-rise | vb | |
Irish | n | |
Irk | vb | |
Iron | n | |
Iron-grey | adj | Of the grey colour of freshly-broken iron. 2. Of dark hair when turning grey |
Iron-handed | adj | "To rule with a an iron hand" 2. despotic, dictatorial, tyranical, inflexible |
Iron-headed | adj | |
Iron-hearted | adj | |
Iron-lung | n | |
Iron-man | n | |
Iron-ness | n | Physical strength and hardness |
Iron-ore | n | |
Ironseed | n | The knapweed, Centaurea nigra. |
Ironsmith | n | An artificer in iron; a blacksmith |
Ironware | n | A hard kind of white pottery. 2. a general name for all kinds of articles made of iron; hardware. |
Irre | n | Erre, ire, wrath, anger. 2. gone astray, confusion, perversion, depravity. |
Is | vb | |
I-say-so | n | An assertion, ipse dixit; "Heed I-say-so even of authority."" |
I-schappe | vb | To create, form, shape |
I-schield | vb | to shield, to protect |
I-schirre | vb | To make clear, declare, make known, tell, say, speak |
I-scole | n | A troop, host, shoal, band |
I-seche | vb | to seek, seek after |
I-see | vb | To see, behold |
I-seggen | vb | To say, relate, confess, declare |
Isel | n | Izle, sparks, embers, ashes. 2. floating sparks from a fire or conflagation. 3. extinct sparks, particles of soot, smuts. |
I-sele | adj | Happy, silly |
I-seli | adj | Happy, fortunate, prosperous, isele. |
I-selth | n | Happiness, felicity, fortune |
I-seme | vb | To bring to agreement, to settle. 2. to reconcile, settle, to suit, beseem |
I-semeliche | adj | In a seemingly or becoming manner |
I-setnesse | n | Institution, ordinance, statue, law |
Ish | prf | |
I-sib | pp | Related, kin |
I-sight | n | Vision, sight |
Island | n | Iland |
Isness | n | The fact that a thing is. 2. that which a thing is in itself, essence |
I-sound | adj | Sound, sound in health, well, safe |
I-spile | n | Isepile. 2. Var. of Ilspile, Isespil |
I-stand | vb | To stand firm |
I-still | vb | To restrain, still, calm, stay |
I-stink | vb | To smell, to percieve by smell |
I-streon | n | Gain, acquisition, wealth. 2. begettinng, procreation. 3. Off-spring, progeny |
I-stretche | vb | To stretch, spread |
I-sunde | n | Wholeness, soundness. 2. safety |
I-sundful | n | Quite sound, well, prosperous, happy |
I-sundlen | vb | To heal, save, to sundle |
-sundling | n | Healing, salvation |
I-swike | vb | To fail, to cease, to cease from an act. |
I_swinke | vb | Swinch. 2. to toil, to labour, to swink |
It | pron | |
I-tachen | vb | To assign, to show. 2, to teach |
I-tase | adj | Convenient, suitable, handy |
Ivy | n | A climbing evergreen shrub, Hedera Helix. |
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