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1. annulet n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) a small ring; (b) Med. and anat. the 'cartilage of the windpipe' [Norri]; (c) her. a cadency mark in the shape of a ring.

2. appel n.(1)

130 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Any kind of fruit growing on a tree, shrub, or vine, such as an apple, crab apple, pear, peach, citron, banana, haw, berry, cucumber; also, a nut, a tuber; (b) a fruit-bearing tree; (c) appel of

3. box n.(2)

60 quotations in 4 senses
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A jar (for salves, cosmetics, spices, etc.), usually cylindrical.

4. clif n.(2)

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A crack, fissure; (b) ?a narrow valley; (c) anat. the crotch; (d) med. a fissure in the skin or mucosal lining.

5. clōth n.

289 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) A piece of woven or felted fabric; a cloth; (b) cloth of gold (silver), a piece of gold (silver) brocade; also, a garment, hanging, etc., made of cloth of gold (silver); (c) cloth of Arras

6. cō̆ste n.

80 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Anat. A rib; fals coste, false rib; (b) the side of the body, flank; the side of a building; the face of a solid figure; (c) her. cotise.

7. cǒveringe ger.(1)

55 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Something that covers up or envelops, such as a bedspread, shroud, cover (of a book); (b) anat. a protective covering, integument; (c) something that shuts a vessel; cover, lid.

8. dalk n.(1)

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A glen or gully; (b) a groove or notch; dalk in the nekke, the jugular notch (the hollow at the base of the neck above the collar-bone); (c) a cavity, hollow; anat. the concavity or socket…

9. dǒun-ward adv.

Additional spellings: dounward
69 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) With verbs of motion: downward in space, from higher to lower; upward and doun-ward; (b) used fig.; (c) with verbs implying rest: at a lower place, down; turnen doun-ward, setten doun-ward, to…

10. eie n.(1)

490 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) The organ of vision, the eye; (b) bodili (erthli, fleshes, fleshli, outer) eie.

11. epatī̆k adj.

11 quotations in 2 senses
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Med. and anat. (a) Affected with disease of the liver; (b) epatik veine the basilic vein; = epatica n., sense 1.

12. 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

13. gibbositẹ̄ n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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Anat. & med. (a) A bulge, convexity; (b) a pathological swelling or bulge; (c) humpback; curvature of the spine.

14. gnauen v.

105 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To gnaw (sth.) with the teeth or other biting organs; bite, chew, nibble; freten and gnauen; gnauen sharp, chew (sth.) to a point; (b) to gnaw; gnauen at (on, upon), gnaw on (sth.); of horses…

15. grẹ̄ n.(1)

91 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A step in a stairway or flight of steps; also, a flight of steps; song (canticle) of gres, one of the Gradual Psalms; gre bi gre, from gre to gre, step by step; (b) a rung of a ladder; also fig.

16. hūmiditẹ̄ n.

22 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Moistness, dampness; (b) anat. & med. the primary quality of moistness.

17. kẹ̄pen v.

912 quotations in 36 senses
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(a) To care about (sb.), wish for (sth.), desire (sb. or sth.); kepen no bettre, want nothing better; kepen no more, desire nothing more; kepen of, care about (sb.); (b) kepen nought (nothing, not) of

18. kirnel n.

81 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A seed; esp. the seed of a fruit, pip of an apple, etc., stone or pit of a date, etc.; date kirnel, q.v.; (b) the kernel of a nut; also the soft inner part of a fruit stone, a seed in a pine cone…

19. lap(pe n.

Additional spellings: lappe
98 quotations in 8 senses
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A part of a garment that is loose enough to admit of being raised, folded, or seized: (a) the lower part of a shirt, skirt, or habergeon; the front or back skirts of a divided garment; mantel lap,

20. līf n.

595 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Animate existence, vitality, life; also, the vegetable and animal life effected in a human being by the natural or vital spirit [cp. ld.]; also personified; lif and deth, the entire fate (of sb.)…