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41. cọ̄ling ger.(1)

12 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Cooling off, refreshing; also, a condition or place for refreshing oneself; (b) coling fat, coling led, a vessel for cooling liquids; coling stede, a cold larder, cooling room.

42. cọ̄lnesse n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Low temperature, coldness; (b) physiol. predominance of 'cold' primary quality [see cold adj. 7]; or a morbid condition caused by it; (c) predominant 'cold' quality (of a planet).

43. conǧelatīf adj.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Physiol. Producing 'cold' quality.

44. congregāt ppl.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Of people: banded together; (b) physiol. accumulated (liquid); closed up (wound); contracted (muscle).

45. conjuncciǒun n.

31 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The act or process of joining, combining, or uniting two or more things; the fact of being joined or united, a union; (b) sexual union or intercourse; (c) a juncture or joint.

46. constreinen v.

106 quotations in 8 senses
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Of a person: (a) to compel or force (sb. to do sth.), make (sb. do sth.); also, oblige, induce; (b) constreinen herte, constreinen wil, to exert pressure or compulsion on (someone's) heart or will…

47. construcciǒun n.

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Gram. & rhet. (a) Formation or construction of a sentence; rightful (order of) construccioun, normal order of syntactic elements; (b) a rhetorical figure; figure of construccioun.

48. consūmen v.

64 quotations in 7 senses
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Of physical agents: (a) of fire: to reduce (sth.) to ashes, consume, destroy; also fig.; (b) of heat: to dispel moisture; consumen awei; hence also, destroy life, reduce a corpse (to bones); (c) of…

49. dẹ̄de, dēde n.

293 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) An action, a deed; god dede, ivel dede, etc.; see also almes dede, est dede, man dede, mis dede; (b) a marvelous act, miracle; also, a feat of magic; (c) a favor, kindness, service; (d) ?an…

50. dēfīen v.(2)

61 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To digest (food, drink); carry on digestive processes; defien with teth, masticate; god to defien, beneficial to digestion; ppl. defiing, promoting digestion, digestible; (b) to be digested; (c)…

51. dēfīing ger.(2)

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(a) The digestive process; act of digesting (food, etc.); defiing of stomak, the ability of the stomach to digest; (b) being digested, digestion.

52. derk adj.

137 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Of a room, the underworld, the grave, etc.: lacking illumination; dark, dusky, dismal; also fig.; (b) of the atmosphere, the weather, etc.: dark (night); lowering, threatening (clouds, weather)…

53. dēth n.

329 quotations in 12 senses
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Loss of life; dying, death as an event; deth of the bodi, deth of lif; dout (dred) of deth, fear of dying; paien the dette of deth, to die as man must die; dethes cares, throes of death.

54. dīǧesten v.

29 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To digest (food, drink); carry on digestive processes; (b) to make (one's stomach) digest; (c) of wine: to cause (food) to be digested; (d) of plants: to transform and assimilate (fluids).

55. dīǧestī̆f adj. & n.

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As adj.: (a) med. able to break down pathological matter, humors, etc.; medecin digestif, a digestive medicine, a drug that prepares pathological matter for evacuation; (b) physiol. having to do with…

56. dīǧestiǒun n.

40 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The digestion of food and drink; first digestioun, the digestive process carried on principally in the stomach and intestines; (b) the capacity for digesting food or drink; (c) digestibleness; of

57. dispensaciǒun n.

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(a) Power to dispose of wealth; (b) eccl. stewardship; (c) physiol. function.

58. displēsen v.

55 quotations in 4 senses
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To be displeased or annoyed, feel offended; -- (a) refl.; (b) intr.; (c) ben displesed.

59. dispōsen v.

119 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) To arrange (sth.); compose (a book, a chord); (b) ben disposed, to be arranged or designed (in a certain way); (c) refl. to prepare oneself, get or be ready; disposen redi, make ready.

60. dispōsiciǒun n.

107 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Preparation, planning, arranging; also, a plan or arrangement; taken disposicioun, to make arrangements; (b) construction or execution according to a plan; building (of a city); structure (of the…