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1. 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…

2. filet n.

23 quotations in 5 senses
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A ribbon or band of cloth worn around the head as an ornament or to keep the hair in place; a headband, chaplet; also, a frontal band worn as a badge of maidenhood.

3. gaderen v.

213 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Of people: to come together, assemble, congregate; meet, have a meeting; gaderen abouten, gaderen unto, crowd around (sb.), surround; (b) refl. to come together, assemble; gaderen samen, gaderen

4. lā̆rd n.

23 quotations in 5 senses
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Cook. (a) Fat pork cured in brine or by smoking; salt pork, bacon; lard of pork; (b) salt pork or bacon cut in small pieces for larding a roast; (c) a slice of the cured fat flesh of deer or bear.

5. maue n.

82 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The human stomach, organ of digestion in man; also, appetite for food; (b) the stomach of a fish; gizzard of a bird; (c) cook. the stomach of an animal used as a casing for a stuffing; (d) anat.

6. plaunten v.

105 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To plant or set (a tree, an herb, a vine, etc.); also fig.; also, transplant (a tree, etc.); plaunten over; plaunted thing, a plant; (b) to plant (a vineyard, a garden); (c) to plant or sow a…

7. setting(e ger.

Additional spellings: settinge
125 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) The act of placing something in a place or position; setting led, the act of laying a lead roof; setting of fet, fig. steadfastness, stability; (b) the act or process of laying stone; setting

8. sitting(e ger.

Additional spellings: sittinge
54 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The act of sitting down; also, the fact of being seated or an instance of it; sitting place (stede), place of sitting, a place where one sits, a seat; kepen the same stondinges and sittinges, to…

9. tọ̄ adv.(1)

166 quotations in 11 senses
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In expressions of motion: (a) to a place; to this place, here; to that place or person, there; also used redundantly following prep. phrase with to [last 2 quots.]; hard in goinge to, hard to get at…

10. werk n.(1)

563 quotations in 23 senses
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(a) A discrete act performed or undertaken by someone, (someone’s) deed; coll. & pl. (one’s) individual acts, deeds, or actions, the things one does or has done in one’s life, (one’s) doings; also…

11. whīt adj.

655 quotations in 18 senses
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(a) Of a substance, structure, an object: white in color; whitish, pale-colored, light-colored; of the moon, a star: silvery-white; of a book or register: bound in a white or light-colored binding; of…

12. wing(e n.

Additional spellings: winge
132 quotations in 10 senses
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An organ of flight, usu. paired: (a) a wing of a creature whose sole or primary means of locomotion is flight (a bird, an insect, a bat, etc.);—occas. with sg. for pl.; also in fig. context; also, fig