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1. abneveu n.

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?A great-great grandson or grandnephew. …

2. āche n.(1)

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Pain, esp. continuous or deep-seated pain; aching, suffering; ache of hed, headache; toth ake; aches of love, the woes of love. …

3. adọ̄ n.

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(a) Dealings, intercourse, traffic; (b) sexual intercourse; (c) conflict, fighting. …

4. affīe n.

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Reliance, trust; don affie, setten affie, to put (one's) trust (in sb.). …

5. ā̆korn n.

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(a) An acorn; akorns of okes; cup of an akorn; (b) mast, such as acorns and nuts. …

6. al n.

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(a) A tool or instrument with a sharp point; a stylus; (b) a shoemaker's awl; (c) a spike (on armor); (d) a quill (of a hedgehog or porcupine); an awn. …

7. al limiting adj. & n.

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Denoting the total number of entities in a class or group: all (persons, creatures, things, units); all without exception: (a) with a noun: al(le men, al(le the knightes, the knightes al(le, etc.; (b)……

8. alder n.(1)

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(a) Alder (Alnus glutinosa); alder tre; (b) alder kerre, alder kyr, alder was, alder swamp; alder shawe, alder thicket. …

9. Aleman(n)es n. (plural)

Additional spellings: Alemannes
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The Germans, the German nation; also, the Teutons. …

10. ā̆l-gē̆r n.

Additional spellings: alger
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Eel spear, fish spear. …

11. alōe(s n.

Additional spellings: aloes
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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). …

12. amōciǒun n.

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Removal (from office), discharge. …

13. anclẹ̄ n.

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(a) The ankle; ankle bone, esp. the inner projection [quots. c1150, c1440]; innermore ancle; utward ancle, outer projection of the ankle; (b) ancle bon, ankle bone; utter ancle, outer projection of……

14. andetnes(se n.

Additional spellings: andetnesse
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(a) Confession of sins; (b) profession (of faith, etc.). …

15. anelās n.

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(a) A two-edged stiletto or dagger; (b) a spike [see quot.]. …

16. angel-twacche n.

Additional spellings: angeltwacche
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Earthworm. …

17. ang-nail n.

Additional spellings: angnail
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A corn; ?also, a whitlow. …

18. annulet n.

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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. …

19. antē̆me n.

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A musical composition based upon a scriptural text, sung in the Church Offices before each psalm and often repeated after the psalm, or after each verse of the psalm [see Karl Young, The Drama of the……

20. antiphonē̆r(e n.

Additional spellings: antiphonere
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A book containing a collection of antiphones [cp. anteme] and, it seems, also other sacred songs; antiphoner noted, an antiphoner with musical notation. …

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