To permeate (sth.) with liquid, perfuse: (a) cook. to soak (bread); to baste (a fowl); (b) med. to apply a moist compress to (a wound); (c) in tanning leather: to soak (a hide) in a solution of alum……
(a) Of persons: gracious, gentle, kind, generous, merciful; showing good will (toward sb.); of an inferior: meek, submissive; (b) as noun: a gracious person; (c) of an animal: friendly, gentle, tame.
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(a) To tie (sth.) up, as with a cord; bind (sheaves); gather or hold together, as with a girdle; tie (a bag, purse) shut; tie off, as with a tourniquet; (b) to tie or fasten (sb., sth. to sth. else)……
(a) Of a black color, black; (b) blak and blo, black and livid, black and blue [see blo adj.]; blak or whit, black or white, of any color or kind; blak as col (blacche, croue, inde, molde, pich, slo),……
(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……
(a) The blowing of the wind; also fig.; (b) breathing, exhaling; blowing with the breath; med.blouing in, insufflation; (c) blowing a fire (with bellows); also fig.; (d) smelting; blouing hous; (e)……
Name given to several minerals; prob. borax, malachite, sodium carbonate, verdigris, and possibly others: (a) an ingredient in preparations for soldering metals and for fastening gold leaf; also, a……
(a) To be broken, fall apart, break, shatter; bresten atwo, bresten atwinne, bresten in peces, bresten in sunder; (b) to break (sth.), shatter, crush; break (one's arm); ppl.brosten, of grain or……
(a) A flat cake or loaf; also, an unbaked cake or loaf, a lump of doug; haver (ote, oten) cake, a cake of oaten bread; therf cake, a cake of unleavened bread; barli cake, flouren cake, spiced cake……
