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1. alōe(s n.

Additional spellings: aloes
23 quotations in 1 sense
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Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c) med. the drug aloes; aloe caballinum (cicotrine, epatik).

2. ampulle n.

14 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A small flask [of glass or metal]; (b) a small flask of consecrated water or oil [commonly carried by pilgrims returning from a shrine]; ampulla.

3. 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

4. bal n.

76 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) A round body; sphere, globe, orb; turnen as a bal, to turn as does Fortune's ball; (b) the orb borne together with a scepter as an emblem of sovereignty; (c) a rounded protuberance or boss for…

5. blọ̄d n.(1)

297 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Blood; drauen blod, to draw blood; leten blod, sheden blod, spillen blod, shed blood; cause bloodshed, take life; as red as blod; (b) leten blod, to bleed (a person), phlebotomize; fig. to wound…

6. box n.(2)

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

7. cappe n.

61 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A headdress, a hat; esp., a small head covering worn under the hood; (b) a priest's close-fitting cap, the coif covering the tonsure; also, any kind of head covering for ecclesiastics; (c) a…

8. clei n.

75 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Potter's clay; any argillaceous earth; clayey soil; pal as clei; drie as clei; walkeres clei, fuller's earth; ded clei, clay cured by baking, burnt clay; quik clei, raw, unburnt clay; werkes of

9. 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.

10. 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

11. cristal n.

61 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The transparent form of crystallized quartz, rock crystal; (b) some material resembling crystal; (c) fig. the clear part of the eye [see cristalline]; (d) in comparisons: bright as cristal, cler

12. cuppe n.

92 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A drinking vessel; a bowl, goblet, cup, etc.; also, a receptacle for fruit or confections; (b) stonding cuppe, a cup with a foot or base; trussing cuppe, ?a cup or chalice for traveling; (c) a…

13. 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…

14. dolh n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A cavity, hollow, void, or depression; also fig.; the hollow of the hand, the sole of the foot; (b) med. a morbid sinus, ulcer or sore; (c) dolh swaþe [OE dolg-swæþ], a scar.

15. drōpe n.(1)

92 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A drop of liquid; drope of blod (deue, rein, water, win, etc.); deues drope, reines drope, etc.; a drop of medicine; (b) on (a, an) drope, a single drop; no drope, not a drope, nought on (o)

16. 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.

17. fīr n.

283 quotations in 16 senses
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(a) Fire as a physical phenomenon;--without article; (b) the fire of hell; helle-fir, eche fir.

18. flē̆sh n.

411 quotations in 16 senses
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(a) The flesh of the human body; esp., the muscular, gristly, and glandular portions (as opposed to blood vessels, bones, fat, hair, ligaments, nerves, skin, etc.); (b) corresponding portions of an…

19. flint n.

45 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Any hard stone, such as flint, quartz, basalt, etc.; (b) a pebble, cobble, boulder, or cliff of such stone; (c) a cobblestone pavement; (d) a stone knife; vlint sex; (e) med. as an ingredient in…

20. fōm n.

46 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Saliva; the slaver (of a wild boar, mad dog, tired horse, etc.); (b) med. saliva (of animals used in medical recipes); (c) some other bodily semi-fluid.