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1. akennen v.(2)

19 quotations in 2 senses
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Produce, give rise to (sth.); pass. develop, arise.

2. alighten v.(1)

64 quotations in 6 senses
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To descend from a position: (a) get off, dismount; alighten (doun) of; descend (from the cross, from heaven); (b) of light or lightning: descend, issue (from the sky); (c) of the sea: alighten lou

3. angin n.

12 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Of a period of time: the beginning; (b) the onset (of a disease); (c) activity, behavior.

4. answēre n.

59 quotations in 5 senses
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A reply to an inquiry or request; maken answere, yeven answere (ayain), to reply, give an explanation; quethen to answere, say in reply; final answere, definite answer or decision.

5. answēren, -ien v.

Additional spellings: answerien
119 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Intransitive To give a reply; answeren ayain, reply; answeren and sain (quethen); (b) transitive with the reply as direct object: to reply (sth.); -- with obj. or obj. clause; (c) intransitive

6. aredden v.

16 quotations in 2 senses
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To deliver or save (a person, a country, etc., as from bondage, captivity, a siege, an enemy); liberate, set free, relieve; -- also without obj.; often with of (with) phrase.

7. arēren, arẹ̄ren v.

132 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) To raise (sth.) to a vertical position; to set upright; areren up; (b) of a horse: to rear.

8. bāle n.(1)

75 quotations in 5 senses
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Evil-doing; a misdeed.

9. bidel n.

39 quotations in 3 senses
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One who makes announcements or carries messages and performs other services on the authority of a lord, court, guild, etc.; herald, town crier, summoner; bidel hod, a beadle's hood; bidel land (a…

10. bīen v.

163 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) To purchase (sth.), acquire by purchase; buy (a slave, etc.); bien raunsum, pay for (the release of a prisoner); bien ayen, buy back, reclaim; (b) bien bargain, bien of light chepe, to buy (sth.)…

11. bifōre(n prep.

Additional spellings: before, biforen, beforen
148 quotations in 8 senses
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Of position or location: (a) in front of; ahead of, at the head of; (b) along (the coast); (c) in advance of.

12. bihōten v.

Additional spellings: behoten
200 quotations in 6 senses
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To promise (sth.); promise (to do sth.); -- (a) with obj.; (b) with clause; (c) with inf. phrase.

13. blessen v.

146 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Of God, Christ: to bestow divine favor upon (sb., sth.), confer divine blessing upon (sb.); endow with (sth.); make (a nation, the earth) flourish or prosper, grant well-being or success; bless…

14. blis(se n.

Additional spellings: blisse
122 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A happy condition of existence; well-being, prosperity, good fortune; ?happiness caused by well-being or prosperity; blis and bale, good fortune and misfortune, happiness and misery; sone of blis

15. blọ̄d n.(1)

297 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Blood; drauen blod, to draw blood; leten blod, sheden blod, spillen blod, shed blood; cause bloodshed, take life; as red as blod; (b) leten blod, to bleed (a person), phlebotomize; fig. to wound…

16. bọ̄k n.(1)

229 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Any collection of sheets or leaves, bound or unbound, making up a volume of writings; a book as a material object; (b) bok bindere, one who binds books; bok haspe, a clasp for the covers of a…

17. brīd-āle, brīdal n.

Additional spellings: bridale, bridal
42 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Wedding feast; (b) brid-ale cloth, festive wedding dress; brid-ale hous, bridal chamber.

18. brīd(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: bride
34 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A young woman about to be married or just married, bride; also, a woman recently married, young wife; wife; (b) brid bed, nuptial couch, marriage bed; (c) brid clothes, festive wedding dress.

19. brīd-gǒme, -gọ̄me n.

Additional spellings: bridgome, bridgome
16 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A young man about to be married or recently married; bridegroom, husband; (b) theol. of Christ: spouse in mystical union with Christendom or with a saint.

20. chẹ̄sen v.

327 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) To select or choose (sth. or sb.) as suitable or agreeable; chesen out; chesen the best, make the best (of sth.); chesen at wille, choose freely; to dethe icoren, destined to die; (b) to choose or…