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1. dēceit(e n.

Additional spellings: deceite
82 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Trickery, deceit, treachery; lying; (b) act of deceiving; a deception, stratagem, trick; a lie; (c) an ambush; (d) a fowler's snare or trap; some device to impede the passage of ships.

2. paillet n.

18 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A bed or mattress of straw, pallet; small or simple bed; paillet shetes, sheets for a pallet; (b) med. a pad used in dressing or sewing a wound.

3. poket n.

21 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A bag, pouch, small sack; med. a cloth bag containing medicaments to be applied externally; pope poket, Pope Moneybag; poket of the testicles, the scrotum; (b) one of the divisions of a sack tied…

4. purpōs n.

186 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) One's intention, plan, or design; one's object, aim, or goal; also, the proper function or purpose for which something exists [quot.: a1398]; (b) purpos and ende (entente), purpos or entencioun

5. remenaunt n.

131 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The rest, remaining part or quantity; the residual portion of an estate; a remaining or reserved portion; also fig.; (b) the remaining part of a story, question, text, law, etc.; a remaining…

6. rē̆sǒun n.(2)

416 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) The intellectual faculty, intellectual power or capacity, reason; -- also pl.; light of resoun; (b) the exercise of the intellectual faculty, act or process of reasoning; mental processes…