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1. clift n.

36 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A crack, fissure, rift, notch, cleft, slash; helle clift, the chasm of hell; (b) a break in the skin, crack, fissure; a cut, gash; (c) a tear in a muscle, rupture; (d) a surgical cutting or…

2. hā̆ver n.(2)

33 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The cereal grain, oats; (b) haver bern, haver gerner, a storehouse for oats; haver bred, oaten bread; haver cake, a loaf made from oaten flour; also as surname; haver mele, oaten flour; (c) haver

3. rō̆t n.

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(a) Decay, corruption, putrefaction; (b) a disease of sheep; (c) a wasting disease in man; also fig.; (d) in place name.

4. scurf n.

23 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A scaly or scabby disease of the skin, esp. of the head; also, a similar disease in sheep [quot.: Palladius]; (b) the dry slough or scab produced by a caustic medicine, the bursting of a…

5. sprekle n.

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A speck, speckle.

6. tit-mōse n.

Additional spellings: titmose
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A small songbird of the family Paridae, esp. one of the genus Parus.

7. wāse n.

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(a) A bundle, bunch, or wisp, as of straw, pea plants, etc.; ?also, a clump of seaweed [glossing L alga; may belong to wose n.(2)]; ?also, flax [glossing L stuppa] (b) a torch; a bundle of straw…

8. weght n.(1)

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(a) The physical property of heaviness, mass; weight as an attribute of objects, living creatures, or substances; also, the abstract quality of weight as a component of due proportion in nature; also…

9. wī̆ke n.(2)

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A corner of a part of the body; the wike of the eie; the thinne wikes, the temples; share wikes, ?the groin.