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1. blāse n.

22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A flame, a blaze; blase of fire; tenden blase, setten on blase, set on fire; ben on blase, be on fire, burn; (b) a firebrand, torch, beacon; (c) a blaze of light.

2. brẹ̄ch n.

55 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The undergarment covering the lower part of the body; underpants, drawers, or tights; brech and sherte, sark and brek; (b) brech, brek, as pl.; a pare brech, a pair of breeches.

3. brid n.

164 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A bird of any kind; briddes and bestes; (b) brid of prai, a bird of prey; brid of gentris, a noble bird; brid of plesaunce, a bird used in the sport of hunting; feld brid, wild fowl; (c) a bird as…

4. brim n.(1)

7 quotations in 1 sense
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A body of water, such as the sea, a pool, spring, river.

5. chest(e n.

Additional spellings: cheste
74 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A trunk, chest, casket, box, etc., (for storing or safekeeping); a strongbox (for valuables, documents, money); the Ark (of the Covenant); (b) common chest, public chest or treasury; (c) chest

6. cod n.(1)

61 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A seed pod or capsule; husk, shell, skin; [see also bene cod in ben(e n.(1), 1c.(a), hors-cod n., & pese-cod n.]; (b) cod ware, vegetables that grow in pods, legumes.

7. crud n.

22 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Coagulated milk, clabber; curds, cottage cheese; -- usu. pl.; (b) a curd; (c) rennet or junket [as in L].

8. dēth n.

329 quotations in 12 senses
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Loss of life; dying, death as an event; deth of the bodi, deth of lif; dout (dred) of deth, fear of dying; paien the dette of deth, to die as man must die; dethes cares, throes of death.

9. dọ̄ke n.

25 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A duck of any kind (male or female, wild or tame, young or old); drinken with the doke, to drink only water; (b) donghil doke, barnyard duck; wilde doke, (c) the likeness of a duck.

10. drēm n.(2)

60 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or

11. ē̆rd n.(1)

64 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A dwelling-place, esp. one's native land or region; homeland, abode; (b) a dwelling or home.

12. first n.(1)

28 quotations in 2 senses
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A (limited) period of time; yere first, a period of years; yeven first, to grant time (for a certain purpose).

13. gil n.(1)

31 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A deep and narrow valley; ravine, glen; gil strem, a torrent; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.199, 200, 212].

14. hā̆ver n.(2)

33 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The cereal grain, oats; (b) haver bern, haver gerner, a storehouse for oats; haver bred, oaten bread; haver cake, a loaf made from oaten flour; also as surname; haver mele, oaten flour; (c) haver

15. hẹ̄rd(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: herde
114 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A herdsman; a keeper of cattle, hogs, horses, goats, or any kind of livestock; asse herd, aver herd, calf herd, colt herd, cou herd, gelde herd, gos herd, got herd, hog herd, hors herd, lomb herd,

16. hōd(e n.

Additional spellings: hode
27 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Quality, rank, condition, status; the order of knighthood; (b) holy orders, priest's or bishop's orders, etc.; also, an order as of monks, canons, etc.; (c) one of the orders or choirs of angels.

17. kinerīche n.

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(a) A state or community ruled by a king, kingdom; (b) royal rule, sovereignty; (c) the territory ruled by a king; (d) the king's subjects.

18. shāme n.

295 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) The feeling of having offended against propriety or decency; the feeling of having done something disgraceful; an instance of such feeling; embarrassment or revulsion caused by awareness of one's…

19. shank(e n.

Additional spellings: shanke
48 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The leg of a human or an animal; under shankes, below the legs; with (the) long shankes, with the shankes long, an epithet for Edward I; werpen shank over shench, to throw one leg over the other…

20. shau(e n.

Additional spellings: shaue
51 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A wood or forest; a grove; a thicket; at a shau side, at the edge of a forest; shau of (the) wod, a wodes shau; under (the) shau, beneath the foliage of a wood, in the shade; in thickets; also…