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1. a indef. art.

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Referring to an unspecified, or as yet unspecified, member of a class or representative of a type; -- (a) as the first unit in a noun phrase [the usual construction]; (b) before an adj. modifying a…

2. aberdē̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: aberdene
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Sun-dried or salt codfish.

3. abolke ppl.

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?Boastful; ?puffed up, inflated.

4. accīten v.

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To summon (sb.).

5. acheken v.

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(a) To choke, strangle, or suffocate (sb.); (b) to obstruct (sth.).

6. adọ̄ n.

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(a) Dealings, intercourse, traffic; (b) sexual intercourse; (c) conflict, fighting.

7. adoyle adv.

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Askew, awry.

8. agāte adv.

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Straightway.

9. āker n.(2)

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A turbulent current (of the sea), ?a tidal wave.

10. āl-ēgre, aleger n.

Additional spellings: alegre, aleger
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Soured ale, malt vinegar.

11. ā̆l-gē̆r n.

Additional spellings: alger
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Eel spear, fish spear.

12. alī̆rī adv. or adj.

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leiden legges aliri, ?crossed their legs or thighs; ?made their legs lame, acted as if paralyzed.

13. alpe n.

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A songbird of some kind; ?a bullfinch, ?a thrush.

14. al-wight n.

Additional spellings: alwight
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An uncanny creature.

15. āme n.(2)

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A liquid measure (of varying capacity).

16. appelllable adj.

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Theol. rightly so named, capable of being so designated.

17. arsmeche n.

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Culrage (Polygonum hydropiper).

18. aske n.

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Lizard, newt.

19. assignẹ̄ n.

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One (not an heir-at-law) to whom a property or right is bequeathed; heires and assignes.

20. a-þrēp adv.

Additional spellings: aþrep
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As a horde or gang.

21. ?atprenchen v.

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?To trick, get the better of (sb.); ?get away, escape.

22. atter-cop(pe n.

Additional spellings: attercop, atter-coppe, attercoppe
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(a) A spider, esp. a venomous one; (b) atter-cop ei, the cocoon of a spider; atter-cop weft, spider web, cobweb; (c) ?some other arachnid.

23. autēle n.

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A small duck of some kind.

24. baǧǧen, baggen v.(3)

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(a) To slant; (b) to deviate (from a rule); (c) to leer, squint.

25. balgh-staf n.

Additional spellings: balghstaf
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A stout stick; quarterstaff, cudgel.

26. balteren v.

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To move about clumsily; totter, hobble, tumble about.

27. bammen v.

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?To hit or strike.

28. banne-nǒte tre n.

Additional spellings: bannenote tre
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Prob. the English walnut tree (Juglans regia).

29. bāre n.(2)

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A wave, billow; se bare.

30. barlay interj.

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Used to confirm a pledge.

31. bās n.(1)

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A fish of the perch family; perch, bass.

32. bataunt n.

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A finished board or bar (as used in paneling).

33. bat-fǒulen, -fǒulere, -fǒuling v., n., & ger.

Additional spellings: batfoulen, bat-foulere, batfoulere, bat-fouling, batfouling
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To hunt birds (at night) by knocking them from the roost with a 'bat' or pole and netting them; etc.

34. batildōre n.

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A beetle or bat used in washing clothes; ?also, some other implement of similar shape or function.

35. bedocke n.

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An iron hook, perh. used as a seaman's weapon.

36. bek(ke n.

Additional spellings: bekke
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A tool resembling a mattock.

37. ?berten v.

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?To snort, snore.

38. bēthen, -ien v.

Additional spellings: bethien
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(a) To bathe or foment; (b) to soak (wood) in hot water to make it pliable.

39. beuir adj.

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Shaky, feeble.

40. bidagged ppl.

Additional spellings: bedagged
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Splashed, bespattered.

41. bididren v.

Additional spellings: bedidren
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To delude, deceive.

42. bigull n.

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?Corn marigold.

43. biker n.(1)

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(a) An ornate covered bowl for mixing wine; (b) a drinking vessel; goblet, beaker; biker cuppe; biker maker.

44. bimodered ppl.

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Covered with mud.

45. bīre n.(2)

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A shelter for cattle, cow house; bire tening, fencing of a cow house; bire hous.

46. birkonen v.

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To beat or flog [orig., flog with a birch rod].

47. birlen v.(2)

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To strike (?as with a missile).

48. bismorched ppl.

Additional spellings: besmorched
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Bespattered, soiled.

49. bismotered ppl.

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Bespattered, soiled.

50. blatten v. (past plural)

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blatten out tonge, stuck out the tongue.

51. blenchen v.

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(a) To move suddenly or sharply; jerk, twist; flinch, wince, dodge; blenchen aside; blenchen low, duck; blenchen broues, raise (one's) eyebrows or eyelids; blenchen of slepe, wake up suddenly; (b) of…

52. bǒm n.

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The anus.

53. bǒnī n.

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A swelling, boil; a bump, hump.

54. bǒnten v.

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To sift (meal, flour).

55. ?boren v.(2)

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?Of the sun: become covered; ?of clouds: surround or cover the sun.

56. bossing, bǒssing ger.

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Kissing.

57. bothel n.

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(a) Rosemary Rosemarinus officinalis; (b) corn marigold Chrysanthemum segetum; yelwe bothel; (c) blue cornflower Centaurea cyanus; bleu bothel; (d) whit bothel, ox-eye daisy Chrysanthemum leucanthemum

58. bǒude n.

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A beetle or weevil; used specif. of the dung beetle, the rose chafer, the ladybug, the corn or malt weevil [see gold boude (s.v. gold adj., sense 3.(b)), malt boude, sharn boude, somer boude].

59. brag n.(2)

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A kind of large nail or spike.

60. brāke-mōl n.

Additional spellings: brakemol
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?A rent paid for salt, saltsilver.

61. braket nail n.

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Some kind of nail.

62. branded ppl.

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Brindled.

63. brẹ̄de n.(3)

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(a) Growth; (b) ?ancestry; ?breeding, manners.

64. brēminge ger.

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The process of cleaning a ship's bottom with burning broom or reeds; also, material so used [first quot.].

65. ?brẹ̄s n.

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A wind.

66. bugge n.

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Bogy, hobgoblin, black-man; scarecrow; slotir bugge.

67. buil n.

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A curved handle.

68. bulberie n.

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?The fruit of the common barberry Berberis vulgaris; ?bilberry.

69. bul-rish n.

Additional spellings: bulrish
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Used as gloss to L papirus.

70. chep(pe n.

Additional spellings: cheppe
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One side of the jaw, chap.

71. chevender n.

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A fresh-water fish: the chub.

72. chīmb n.

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The rim (of a barrel, formed by the joined ends of the staves).

73. chokelen v.

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To quaver or warble.

74. chop n.(2)

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Jawbone, jaw.

75. choppen v.(2)

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To bargain; choppen and chaungen.

76. chǒumbe n.

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Said to be a nickname of the hare.

77. chuffe n.

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A rustic, boor.

78. clagged adj.

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?Besmeared, bedaubed, covered.

79. claggen v.

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(a) to clump or grow viscous; (b) ppl. clagged, ?besmeared, bedaubed, covered.

80. clap-holt n.

Additional spellings: clapholt
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Small boards of split oak, board cut to make barrel staves.

81. clōen v.

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To claw or beat.

82. clǒmprī adj.

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Full of clots, thrombotic.

83. clǒnch n.

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(a) A lump; (b) as surname.

84. clop-stert n.

Additional spellings: clopstert
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The stoat, European ermine Mustela erminea.

85. clōve n.(1)

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(a) A bulbil or clove, esp. of garlic; (b) as surname.

86. clyet-līne n.

Additional spellings: clyetline
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A line attached to an auxiliary sail or bonnet.

87. ?cobart n.

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Some kind of bird, possibly an aquatic bird such as teal Anas crecca, or possibly the passerine yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella.

88. cod-wǒrm n.

Additional spellings: codworm
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The larva of the caddis fly, caddis worm.

89. cokei n.

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A stream, drain, or gutter.

90. coket ?n.(4)

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Only in set on coket, set at a rakish angle.

91. cōlder n.

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Stone or coal in small pieces; rubble.

92. cowl n.

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A swelling raised by a blow, a lump.

93. crōnen v.(1)

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Lit., to cull old sheep (from a flock); here, to weed out or discharge (aged officers).

94. crop-mader n.

Additional spellings: cropmader
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Madder.

95. croteles n. pl.(1)

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Small lumps or particles.

96. crǒude-barow n.

Additional spellings: croudebarow
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A pushcart, wheelbarrow.

97. cubbel n.

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(a) A block of wood tied to an animal to keep it from straying, a clog; (b) a surname.

98. dable-wīf n.

Additional spellings: dablewif
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Only as surname: ?dabbler, ?meddler.

99. dadel n.

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Tattling, gossip.

100. daggen v.(3)

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To jog or tag along.