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21. crud n.

22 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Coagulated milk, clabber; curds, cottage cheese; -- usu. pl.; (b) a curd; (c) rennet or junket [as in L].

22. 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.

23. dọ̄ke n.

25 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A duck of any kind (male or female, wild or tame, young or old); drinken with the doke, to drink only water; (b) donghil doke, barnyard duck; wilde doke, (c) the likeness of a duck.

24. drēm n.(2)

60 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or

25. ēken v.

87 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To increase (something) in number or amount; (b) to enlarge, extend, or expand (something), to extend (the borders of a country); (c) to lengthen (a period of time, a person's life); (d) to…

26. ē̆rd n.(1)

64 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A dwelling-place, esp. one's native land or region; homeland, abode; (b) a dwelling or home.

27. first n.(1)

28 quotations in 2 senses
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A (limited) period of time; yere first, a period of years; yeven first, to grant time (for a certain purpose).

28. fọ̄n num.

30 quotations in 1 sense
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Not many, few; also a fon(e; --(a) as noun; (b) as attrib. adj.; also with sg. of coll.; (c) in the pred.

29. gil n.(1)

31 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A deep and narrow valley; ravine, glen; gil strem, a torrent; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.199, 200, 212].

30. 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

31. hẹ̄ pron.(2)

108 quotations in 4 senses
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As anaphoric or pers. pron., subject: (a) the female person referred to, she; (b) used pleonastically, or for emphasis; (c) with appositional adjunct; (d) he that, he the, he..that, she who.

32. hẹ̄rd(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: herde
114 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A herdsman; a keeper of cattle, hogs, horses, goats, or any kind of livestock; asse herd, aver herd, calf herd, colt herd, cou herd, gelde herd, gos herd, got herd, hog herd, hors herd, lomb herd,

33. hē̆r(e pron. (possessive plural)

Additional spellings: here
202 quotations in 8 senses
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With reference to persons: (a) denoting possession in the broadest sense: their; (b) her ouen, their own; her two, their two, both of their; (c) with sg. antecedent.

34. his pron.(1)

350 quotations in 6 senses
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Referring to a male human antecedent: his, of him: (a) modifying a noun which denotes something owned or something in one's charge or keeping; (b) modifying a noun denoting a part; his arm, his soule,

35. hōd(e n.

Additional spellings: hode
27 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Quality, rank, condition, status; the order of knighthood; (b) holy orders, priest's or bishop's orders, etc.; also, an order as of monks, canons, etc.; (c) one of the orders or choirs of angels.

36. hōlī adj.(2)

282 quotations in 11 senses
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Divine, sacred, to be revered or worshiped: (a) of God, Christ, the Trinity; holi fader (god, lord), God; holi barn, the Christ Child; holi trinite (thrilihod, thrimnesse), the Holy Trinity; (b) of a…

37. ivel adj.

300 quotations in 7 senses
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Wicked, depraved, sinful: (a) of persons, the soul; ivel man, etc.; (b) of a spirit; ivel gost, an evil spirit, a devil; the Devil; (c) of an action; ivel dede, ivel werk; (d) of speech; ivel speche,

38. kinerīche n.

40 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A state or community ruled by a king, kingdom; (b) royal rule, sovereignty; (c) the territory ruled by a king; (d) the king's subjects.

39. knouen v.

844 quotations in 23 senses
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(a) To be aware of (sth.) as a fact; know (that sth. is true, has happened, etc.); (b) with that clause or pronoun and that clause; (c) with who, which, what, when, wher, hou, or whi clause; (d) with…

40. mān-swēring ger.

Additional spellings: manswering
2 quotations in 1 sense
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Perjury.