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1. axel-tọ̄th n.

Additional spellings: axeltoth
3 quotations in 1 sense
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A molar.

2. bọ̄th n.

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A stall at a market or fair, a merchant's shop; ?also, house of prostitution [L meritorium]; (b) a temporary dwelling, arbor of branches, tent, hut; also a poor dwelling, a hovel; (c) in personal…

3. hō̆lm(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: holme
22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An island; a peninsula; (b) a meadow on a river bank; (c) a hill; (d) in surnames & place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.258-9, 268].

4. intak n.

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A piece of enclosed land taken from a moor or from a common; -- only in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.304].

5. leske n.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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That part of the sides of the body of a man or quadruped between the ribs and thighs; the flank.

6. lūne n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Peace, quiet.

7. raft n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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A beam; also, a spear [last quot.].

8. rag(ge n.

Additional spellings: ragge
45 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A scrap of cloth, rag; (b) a strip of cloth, bandage; a streamer on a banner or pennon; (c) a flap or lappet of a garment; (d) sg.& pl. tattered or ragged clothing; also fig.; (e) ?a shred of…

9. rein n.(2)

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(a) A strip of land forming a boundary; also, a strip of land marked out as lists; (b) a furrow; (c) a barrier, an embankment; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2. 82].

10. rushe-wāle n.

Additional spellings: rushewale
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Walrus hide.

11. scof(fe n.

Additional spellings: scoffe
8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Something trivial or ridiculous, a bagatelle; in bourde and scof, as a joke; maken no scof, to be serious; (b) an expression of contempt, a jibe; a mockery; (c) as surname.

12. 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…

13. shrub(be n.

Additional spellings: shrubbe
33 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A low-growing bush, shrub; pl. shrubs, bushes; also, shrubland [quot.: c1400(?a1387)]; water shrub; (b) a branch or sprig of a bush; (c) in surnames; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.115].

14. sling(e n.

Additional spellings: slinge
33 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A hand-held weapon for throwing stones or similar missiles, a sling; also fig.; honde sling; sling slaughte, game killed with a sling; sling ston, a stone used as a missile to be thrown from a…

15. stalk(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: stalke
33 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The stalk of a plant; the trunk of a tree; also fig.; -- also coll.; a shoot of a vine [quot.: ?a1425(c1380)]; a piece of straw [quot.: c1390 CT.Rv.]; ?a reed [quot.: 1440]; on stalk and ston, at…

16. stāver n.

16 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An upright bar in a rack for hay or fodder; hacche staver; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.141, 142].

17. stēn(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: stene
24 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A large stone; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.150].

18. stuth n.

13 quotations in 1 sense
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A customary rent [see quots.]; shir-reve stuth, ?a payment to a sheriff for the expenses of his office [the combs. shir-reve toth & shir-reves teth s.v. shir-reve n. (d) should be changed to shir-reve

19. weght n.(1)

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(a) The physical property of heaviness, mass; weight as an attribute of objects, living creatures, or substances; also, the abstract quality of weight as a component of due proportion in nature; also…

20. wẹ̄k(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: weke
179 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The calendrical unit consisting of a cycle of seven successive named or numbered days and beginning or ending with a particularly specified day, the week of the Jewish or Christian calendar (b)…