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1. bauderī̆k n.

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A sash or girdle, worn over the shoulder or around the waist, for carrying a sword, a hunting horn, a pouch; a baldric; also an ornamental sash or girdle.

2. bō̆dī n.

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(a) The whole physical frame of a living being; physique, body; bodi-lich, body [cp. līch body]; assaien bodi, test (one's) physique or physical prowess; (b) build, stature, figure; (c) bodi and

3. bōst n.

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(a) A brag, a boast; boastful speech, bragging, self-praise; (b) casten bost at, be boastful toward (sb.), insult; maken bost (of), brag (of, about); more bost is, etc., a pot of wine causes more…

4. brimme n.

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The shore (of the sea), the bank (of a river); water brimme, river brimme.

5. bush n.(1)

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(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth.

6. caiser n.

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A Roman emperor, a Caesar; caiser of Rome.

7. closh n.

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pleien at the closh(es, to play ball, i.e. bowl or play croquet.

8. clot n.

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(a) A lump; esp., a lump of earth, clod; clot of erthe, clei; erthe clot; stoni clot; (b) earth, ground; in clot, under clottes.

9. crǒuser n.

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A Tyrolean silver coin imprinted with a double cross [issued 1271 by Meinhard II].

10. damp n.

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In a coal mine: the choke-damp or fire-damp.

11. daue n.

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(a) A jackdaw; (b) ?a stupid fellow.

12. dile n.

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(a) The plant dill (Anethum graveolens); also, its seed; (b) dile man, ?a seller of dill; dile sed, the seed of dill; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.133].

13. dok n.

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Trimmed hair (of tail and forelock).

14. dǒng n.(2)

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The pit of hell, an abyss.

15. draie n.

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(a) A wheelless vehicle for hauling, a sledge; also, a cart with wheels; (b) draie lode, as much of a load as is normally hauled on a dray, a cartload.

16. drift n.

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(a) Driving cattle to pasture; (b) a drove or herd; a group of persons; drift of fisheres.

17. drǒm n.

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A drum.

18. Dū̆che-lōnd n.

Additional spellings: Duchelond
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Germany, the German-speaking area of contintental Europe, usually including the Low Countries; Lou Duche-lond, Northern Germany.

19. dwẹ̄re n.

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(a) Doubt, perplexity, uncertainty; in (a) dwere, in doubt; without dwere, without question, certainly; (b) ?disagreement, dissension; ?distress, trouble; (c) amazement, awe; dread, fear.

20. ē̆rd n.(2)

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Character, nature, disposition.

21. fērar n.

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A small German coin.

22. fitlok n.

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Fetlock (of a horse).

23. fōr(e-dēl n.

Additional spellings: fore-del
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Advantage, advancement, benefit; ben at for-del, to have the upper hand.

24. gristel n.

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(a) Cartilage, gristle; of gristel kinde, cartilaginous; gristel ring, one of the rings of cartilage of the trachea; (b) a cartilaginous part or structure of the body; (c) gristel bon, a cartilaginous…

25. hallard n.

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A small German coin worth 1/8 of an English penny, a heller.

26. hechel(e n.

Additional spellings: hechele
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An instrument for carding flax, a flax comb, a hatchel; hechel maker.

27. kindel n.

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(a) The offspring of any animal, a young one; also fig.; (b) ?a human child; wommen kindelin, female babies.

28. knal n.

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A blow, knock.

29. lint(e-worme n.

Additional spellings: lintworme, linte-worme, linteworme
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A jewel shaped like a dragon.

30. lumpe n.

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(a) A mass of material, usually of no special shape; a piece, lump; lumpe ston, ?an unfinished stone; lumpe of a wal, ?a buttress; in (on) a lumpe, in one piece, in a heap; fallen as it were a lumpe

31. meis(e n.

Additional spellings: meise
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(a) A container (barrel, basket, or crate) holding 500 or 1000 herring, used as a measure in the fish trade; (b) the quantity of herring in such a container; (c) a container used as a measure for…

32. Ōst-rīch(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: Ostrich, Ost-riche, Ostriche
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The medieval duchy of Austria.

33. quil n.

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(a) A hollow stem or cane, small pipe; such a pipe used as a water conduit or as a tube by which to drain liquid from the body; also, a straw; (b) the shaft of a feather, quill; (c) a spool.

34. renles n.

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Rennet.

35. sā̆t-wort n.

Additional spellings: satwort
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?A type of lichen.

36. scheffe n.

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A rowboat.

37. seter n.

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In cpds.: seter gras, the Christmas rose, black hellebore (Helleborus niger); also, ?another plant of the genus Helleborus, prob. bear's foot, stinking hellebore (H. foetidus); seter wort, a plant of…

38. sheueles n.

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A scarecrow.

39. shreue n.

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(a) A rascal, rogue; a wicked person, an evildoer; also, an unruly or ill-disciplined child; also iron. [quot.: Idley]; maister shreue, the greatest rogue; (b) cursed (ebere, fals, mansed, olde, etc.)

40. slēuīe n.

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Languor, heaviness, weariness.

41. slough n.(2)

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(a) A skin covering a body, the skin; fig. a covering; (b) the skin of a serpent, an eel, etc. [in the Titus & V. quot. the scribe who wrote the vr. slyme may have construed the slough of his exemplar…

42. snegge n.

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(a) A snail; (b) some kind of fish; ?an eel.

43. spīche n.

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?A spoke of a wheel; ?a pointed stud on a wheel; -- prob. based on misunderstanding of OF gante 'rim of a wheel, felloe 'or on a misplaced gloss in Gloss.Bibbesw., the probable source.

44. sprekle n.

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A speck, speckle.

45. thucke n.

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A mischievous or nasty trick, harm;—used in fig. context.

46. tik n.

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A light touch, tap; also, a blow in combat.

47. tọ̄̆tag(ge n.

Additional spellings: totagge
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Fig. An attendant circumstance that can obscure the nature of a sin; an attendant circumstance affecting the gravity of a sin.

48. warī̆angle n.

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A bird of the genus Lanius, a shrike or butcherbird; also used as a term of abuse.

49. warmeth n.

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Heat, warmth;—used in fig. context; ?also, protection from the elements [1st quot.].

50. weimer n.

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?A mourner; ?mourning, lamentation, woe.

51. wei-wort n.

Additional spellings: weiwort
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A plant, perh. burnet saxifrage Pimpinella saxifraga; ?also, variously and indistinguishably, scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis or great burnet Sanguisorba officinalis; ?also, one of the saxifrages…

52. wīnd-fal n.

Additional spellings: windfal
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That which has been blown down by the wind; specif. coll. or pl. trees or tree limbs blown down by the wind; wind-fal wode.