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21. calle n.

38 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A net for the hair, a kind of headdress; (b) comeli under calle, beautiful in one's headdress; uncomeli under calle; maken (sb.) a houve aboven a calle, to make a fool of (sb.); (c) ?a hood, ?a……

22. camelīn adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Cook. A kind of sauce. …

23. charǧeaunt adj.

16 quotations in 2 senses
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Burdensome, troublesome; oppressive (taxes); exacting (task); pressing (need). …

24. charǧeauntlī adv.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) (Think) carefully, hard; (b) cook. (as) thick (as possible). …

25. charǧen v.

250 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) To load (a ship, a vehicle, a pack animal with, of sth.); stock (a ship with provisions); (b) to load (goods, etc., as on a vehicle). …

26. choppen v.(1)

21 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To strike (sb.) with a sharp weapon, slash; choppen of cut off with a blow; (b) to hack or strike (at, to sb.); cut (through sth.); (c) to hit (at sth.); choppen adoun, fig. strike (sb.) down. …

27. clat n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Cook. A dish; -- see quot. …

28. cofī̆n n.

29 quotations in 3 senses
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A basket; a hamper. …

29. cōl n.(1)

46 quotations in 3 senses
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Cabbage, kale, colewort, rape, mustard, or some other plant of the genus Brassica; also, any cultivated leafy vegetable, garden greens, pot-herbs. …

30. comade, comadore n.

Additional spellings: comadore
6 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. A delicacy of one kind or another; a filling for a pie, etc. [see quots.]. …

31. comedīe n.(2)

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Cook. Some kind of dish. …

32. cǒuche n.

38 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Couch, bed; in couche, in bed; (b) a small portable bed, pallet; small mattress; (c) a bed of litter for an animal; a resting place for cattle; (d) a thing on which something else rests, rest……

33. cǒurs n.

188 quotations in 14 senses
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Running (of man or beast); a run; riden a cours, make a run. …

34. cǒu-shō̆te n.

Additional spellings: coushote
8 quotations in 1 sense
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The European wood-pigeon Columba palumbus or ring-dove, cushat; ?also, a wild pigeon, stock-dove Columba oenas [quot. ?a1300.]; cook. coushotes (steue, a stew prepared with the stuffed bird and pieces……

35. crēmī adj.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Full of cream; (b) cook. made of a creamy, custardlike substance. …

36. cristal adj.

22 quotations in 3 senses
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Made of crystal. …

37. dēfaut(e n.

Additional spellings: defaute
186 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Lack, insufficiency, absence; short weight [quot.: a1400]; at defaut, incomplete (as to antlers), lacking; for defaut, for lack of something; in your defaut, in your absence, because of your……

38. dorrẹ̄, dōrī adj. & n.

Additional spellings: dori
25 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Golden or reddish-yellow; (b) cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s dorre, sopes dorre. …

39. dǒuce adj. & n.

23 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Dear, beloved; douce amour, sweetheart; (b) douce Fraunce, beloved France; (c) douce vie, luxurious life; (d) as noun: paramour; foul douce, filthy harlot; (e) in surnames. …

40. dǒucen v.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. To sweeten (sth.). …

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