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141. weght n.(2)

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(a) A farm implement used in winnowing grain, a winnowing tray or basket; (b) such an implement used as a measure of grain [could also be construed as weght n.(1)].

142. weik adj.

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Lacking physical rigidity, flexible, pliant [glossing L flexibilis, lentus]; also, thin, slender.

143. weinen v.

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(a) To lament or wail; (b) ?to complain about (sth.); ?error for weiven v.(1) 1.(c).

144. weiven v.(1)

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(a) To fail (to do sth.); decline (to do sth.); also, disobey a command (that one do sth.) (b) to eschew (joy, a vice, etc.); refuse (a gift, food, etc.); also, decline (an office); (c) to resist…

145. weiven v.(2)

28 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To move to and fro, sway; flutter, flap; also, swing, dangle; of a ship: be tossed about; of smoke: be blown about, swirl; wind-waiving, swaying in the wind (b) to wander, stray; fig. go without…

146. whatkin(ne adj.

Additional spellings: what-kin, whatkinne, what-kinne
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As indefinite adj. modifying inanimate nouns; any sort of, every sort of.

147. whatkinnes adj.

Additional spellings: what-kinnes
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As interrog. adj. in direct questions: what?, what sort of?: (a) modifying inanimate nouns; also in elliptical construction [quot. a1400, 1st]; (b) modifying animate nouns; whatkinnes a.

148. wratthnesse n.

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Anger.

149. yẹ̄̆tling n.

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A cooking vessel of cast metal, often brass; yetling pote.

150. yolster n.

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A willow tree.