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1. aunǧel n.

155 quotations in 9 senses
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One of the celestial servants of God, an angel. …

2. avence n.

24 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A plant of the genus Geum; prob., the wood avens Geum urbanum; (b) med.; (c) cook. …

3. bastā̆rd n. as adj.

25 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Born out of wedlock, illegitimate; bastard sone (doughter) bastard, etc.; (b) false, counterfeit, defective. …

4. berandiles n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Cook. A dish made of chicken and beef. …

5. brǒuet n.

22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Cook. A broth or sauce for meats, fish, etc.; in brouet, served in such a broth or sauce; (b) a stew or fricassee; (c) a stew with strips of bread soaked in wine [cp. broues]. …

6. butte n.(4)

10 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The end of a spear or pike opposite the head, butt; (b) naut.?the end of a plank in a ship's side; ?also, one of the planks. …

7. 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……

8. clat n.

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

9. cofī̆n n.

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

10. 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. …

11. 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.]. …

12. comedīe n.(2)

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

13. 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……

14. cǒurs n.

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

15. 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……

16. 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……

17. 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. …

18. 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. …

19. entraille(s n.

Additional spellings: entrailles
45 quotations in 8 senses
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The organs enclosed in the trunk of man or animals, the viscera; also, the viscera excluding one or another of the inner organs;-- (a) coll. sg.; (b) pl. …

20. fā̆rs(e n.

Additional spellings: fars
5 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. Seasoned stuffing. …

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