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41. shrift n.

142 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Confession to a priest, auricular confession; also person.; shrift in (o, of, with) mouth; shrift wind, oral confession; soth (sothfast, verrei) shrift; haven shrift on herte, to intend to……

42. skelf(e n.

Additional spellings: skelfe
14 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A shelf; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2. 125]. …

43. slā̆m(e n.

Additional spellings: slame
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Mud, slime. …

44. soul(e n.

Additional spellings: soule
672 quotations in 16 senses
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The spiritual and rational element in man, the Christian soul, understood: (a) to animate and control the body; (b) to have an eternal destiny as a moral agent; also person.; cure of soule(s……

45. stē̆kel n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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A lock, bar of a door; a barrier. …

46. stīme n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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?A ray of light, a glimmer; sen a stime, to see anything, see at all. …

47. stulth n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Stealing, theft. …

48. stultherīe n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Something stolen, stolen goods; (b) furtiveness, stealth. …

49. tor-fer(e n.

Additional spellings: torfer, tor-fere, torfere
18 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Hardship, misfortune, trouble, distress; also, a hardship, difficulty; (b) physical suffering, torment; also, a physical torment; (c) a disaster; (d) obstructiveness, ill will. …

50. traist(e n.

Additional spellings: traiste
14 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Confidence (in sb. or sth.), trust; taken traist, to take heart; (b) religious faith; confident expectation or hope of God's mercy or aid, salvation, etc.;—freq. translating L fiducia or spes; (c)……

51. twil(e n.

Additional spellings: twile
10 quotations in 1 sense
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A kind of woven fabric, twill; twil cloth. …

52. undērandnes(se n.

Additional spellings: underandnesse
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Innocence, blamelessness. …

53. vīl(e n.

Additional spellings: vile
17 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Offensive speech, idle or evil words (b) that which is of no value, a worthless thing; the vilest, the least fine thing or things; (c) the vilest, the foulest or most disgusting thing; also, the……

54. wā̆f n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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A scent or an odor; ivel waf, an unpleasant smell. …

55. waght n.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Pl. A set of counterpoises for use in weighing [cp. weght n. 6.(c)]; (b) in comb.: hal-peni waght, the weight of a halfpenny; (c) in waght, fig. in a state of uncertainty, in doubt, at risk. …

56. waith n.

19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Game taken in a hunt; the spoils of venery (b) the act of hunting, a hunt; ?also, good hunting [1st quot.]; (c) pl. prey, as of wild animals; (d) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.……

57. wandāle n.

12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A division of land; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.245]. …

58. weght n.(2)

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A farm implement used in winnowing grain, a winnowing tray or basket; (b) such an implement used as a measure of grain [could also be construed as weght n.(1)]. …

59. wratthnesse n.

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Anger. …

60. yẹ̄̆tling n.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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A cooking vessel of cast metal, often brass; yetling pote. …

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