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21. hẹ̄rd(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: herde
114 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A herdsman; a keeper of cattle, hogs, horses, goats, or any kind of livestock; asse herd, aver herd, calf herd, colt herd, cou herd, gelde herd, gos herd, got herd, hog herd, hors herd, lomb herd,

22. hē̆ring n.

70 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A herring Clupea harengus; (b) red hering, smoked herring; whit hering, herring salted but not smoked; (c) hering barel, a cask for herring; hering breder (carter), one who roasts (hauls) herring…

23. hervest n.

89 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The season of autumn, fall (variously dated, sometimes from mid-September to November or December, sometimes including August); holi rode dai (tide) in hervest, the feast of the Exaltation of the…

24. heu n.

134 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Color; also, brightness or freshness of color; of on heu, in solid color(s; clothen in heu, to take (a lady's) colors, become her servant; (b) paint, dye, pigment; fig. a rhetorical color; (c) fig

25. hīne n.

97 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A household, servants collectively; (b) a religious familia, monastic community; -- only in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.247].

26. hīred n.

73 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A household; the familia of a cathedral; an eccl. court [last quot.]; the heavenly retinue of the Virgin Mary, the Devil's retinue; fig. the senses and desires of man; hiredes alder (lord), the…

27. hornet n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A hornet; (b) a beetle.

28. imæhte n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Might, power.

29. ithaght n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Counseling, deliberation.

30. Kentwærre n. plural

2 quotations in 1 sense
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The men of Kent; Kentwærre burgh, Canterbury.

31. knāve n.(1)

155 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A male infant; male offspring, son; (b) a boy, lad; (c) a young man, man, male; -- also as a familiar term of address [quot.: ?a1300].

32. lāte n.

12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Lateness, fact of being late or recent; for late, on account of lateness in the day; for late of the night; of (on, upon) late, of late agon, of late, recently, lately; not of late; to late, at…

33. latteu n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Guide, leader, director.

34. lẹ̄che-craft n.

Additional spellings: lechecraft
45 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The art or science of medicine and/or surgery; -- also used in pl.; also, magic [quot.: a1225]; (b) the practice or profession of medicine and/or surgery.

35. lēp n.(1)

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act of jumping; a jump, leap; a spring of a fish from the water; at a (o) lep, in one jump; at lepes, ?quickly; lepen (taken, nimen, yeven) lep, to take a leap; maken lepes, leap about, play…

36. lō̆t n.(1)

117 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) An object used to make a decision by chance, a lot; drauen (casten, leien, senden) lot, drauen (casten, senden, werpen) lotes, to cast lots; casten lot bitwene, senden lot bitwixe, leien lot

37. lǒve n.(1)

643 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Love (either the emotion itself or the manifestation of it in action or conduct); friendship, friendly behavior; (b) actual love, a specific feeling or expression of love; brenninge love, hot love

38. main n.

126 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Physical strength, vigor; might and main, main ne (no) might; muchel of main; (b) royal or political power, authority; (c) military might; also, troops, reinforcements; (d) force, application of…

39. man n.

694 quotations in 21 senses
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(a) A person, a man or woman; (b) erest men, the first men, Adam and Eve; cristen man, ded man, fals man, god man, haveles man, hethen man, ivel man, povre man, riche man, rightwis man, unilered man,

40. matte n.

38 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A mat made of rushes, straw, etc., used on the floor or as a seat cover; (b) a pad or underlay for a bed; ?also, bedcover, quilt; (c) a piece of coarse fabric or matting; naut. ?piece of coarse…