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1. bleshen v.

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(a) To put out (a fire); of a fire: go out; (b) to wipe out (sin).

2. bǒndel n.

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A bundle or pack; a bunch (of figs, grapes); a bale (of skins); a raft (of logs).

3. brand-gọ̄s n.

Additional spellings: brandgos
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A wild goose: brant.

4. brẹ̄ n.

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(a) Porridge, pulse; (b) broth (of meat), liquor (of vegetables); (c) ?a type of ale or beer; ?some sort of broth, juice, or liquor;bre mongere, a seller of such a commodity; ale bre, a drink made…

5. buil n.

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A curved handle.

6. buk-hīde n.

Additional spellings: bukhide
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A game: blindman's buff, ?hide-and-seek; pleien buk-hide.

7. bulder n.

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A stone worn round, boulder, cobblestone; bulder ston.

8. chā̆fer n.

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An insect pest that damages plants, probably a beetle of some kind.

9. chēsel n.

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(a) A pebble; chesel ston; (b) a mass of pebbles; gravel, coarse sand; sand chesel.

10. chiken n.

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A young chicken; chick, pullet; prob. also any chicken.

11. chiterling n.

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(a) Entrails, esp. the small intestines; (b) chitlings, souse; (c) as a nickname [?or cp. chiteren, vr. of chateren].

12. chīth n.

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A fibrous sprout of some kind emerging from a plant: (a) of unspecified character; (b) a small bulb by which plants of genus Allium propagate; (c) any threadlike structure in a flower, applied…

13. chopin n.

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A liquid measure: ?half a pint.

14. codel n.

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(a) Cuttlefish; (b) the calcareous shell of the cuttlefish [used in powdered form as an abrasive and medicinally as an antacid].

15. cok n.(3)

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A cock (of hay); hei cok; a shock (of grain).

16. cōl-fox n.

Additional spellings: colfox
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(a) A kind of fox with black feet, ears, and tail; (b) as surname.

17. colkenen v.

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To gasp or gulp.

18. crul adj.

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(a) Of the hair or head: curly; (b) as surname.

19. dashen v.

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(a) To strike (sb., sth.) violently, as with a weapon; dash to pieces, shatter; dashen to peces, dashen a two; dashen doun, strike or knock (sb., sth.) down; dashen out, knock or dash out (teeth, the…

20. dok n.

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Trimmed hair (of tail and forelock).

21. dō-weche, -wǒrt n.

Additional spellings: doweche, do-wort, dowort
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A plant of the genus Solanum: nightshade.

22. drāke n.(2)

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(a) The male of the duck, drake; ?also, a gander; (b) a representation of a drake.

23. elringe n.

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A small fish of some kind. [See OD eldring.]

24. feien v.(1)

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(a) To put or join (things) together, combine; feien togederes, feien samed, feien in fere; (b) to put together, unite; pass. to be composed (of constituent parts); be constituted or disposed (in a…

25. fleǧǧe adj.

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(a) Of young birds: ready to fly, fledged; flegge-rip, full-fledged; (b) of persons: as if winged, ?ready for action; wordes flegge, winged words.

26. fleithing ger.

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?Pleading; ?flattery.

27. fǒmelen v.

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To make a groping movement (with the fingers), to grope.

28. fop(pe n.

Additional spellings: foppe
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Stupid person, fool.

29. fremed adj.

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(a) Strange, foreign, remote, unfamiliar; as noun: an alien, a stranger; of a happening: strange, unheard of; of speech: distant and formal; fremed and frend, stranger and friend; fremed and kouth

30. ȝ n.

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(a) The letter ȝ in ME script [see Paues in MLR 6.441-54]; (b) as abbrev. for a name; (c) an error for the Tironian sign for and or et.

31. hei interj.

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(a) Implying challenge, rebuttal, anger, derision; (b) indicating sorrow or concern; hei weilawei; (c) an exclamation of encouragement to dogs, esp. in hunting; (d) as a burden in songs and carols…

32. hīl n.

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(a) A mound, bank, small hill; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.274].

33. keble n.

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A bucket; bord keble [see bord 1. (c)].

34. knag(ge n.

Additional spellings: knagge
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A peg, fastener; hongen on knag, to hang (sb.) on a peg or hook; --?also intrans.

35. knal n.

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A blow, knock.

36. lāthe n.(2)

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(a) The movable batten of a handloom; (b) some kind of supporting frame or scaffold; (c) a device used by coopers, ?a turning lathe; lathe stok, ?the framework of such a device; lathe oke, ?error for…

37. mashen v.

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(a) To brew (ale, beer); mix malt and hot water to form wort; (b) to reduce (sb.) to a pulp, beat into a mash.

38. pā̆t(e n.

Additional spellings: pate
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(a) The head or skull; pat of the hed, the back of the head; bi pat and bi polle, ?head by head, one by one; rum pat, by my head [Corn.]; (b) in surnames.

39. pikel n.(2)

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A facial blemish.

40. plump n.(2)

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A pump.

41. plumpen v.

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(a) To plunge into water, dive; (b) to immerse (sth.) in liquid quickly, plunge.

42. pǒublī adj.

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Of cherries: plump, well filled out.

43. runten v.

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To rebuke (sb., one's own body).

44. skleir(e n.

Additional spellings: skleire
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(a) A veil, headdress; also, a cloak or an overgarment [last quot.]; ?also, an ornament for the head [quot.: a1425, 1st]; (b) ?as surname.

45. snaperen v.

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(a) To stumble, stagger; trip; also fig. and in fig. context; also, fall in battle; snaperen on hors hed, fall forward on one's horse; (b) to fall into error; (c) snaperen in snare, to fall into a…

46. snik snak phr.

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?A quick or sudden blow, snap.

47. spelt adj.

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= spelked adj.

48. spiche-coke n.

Additional spellings: spichecoke
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A name given to a large eel, with ref. to the method for cooking it.

49. spiȝten v.

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To incite (sb. to do sth.); ppl. ispiȝt, stimulated, motivated.

50. sprēth adj.

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?Spiritually weak or inadequate.

51. spurcate n.

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Naut. A kind of timber in a ship, prob. used to strengthen the frame; spurcate nail, a nail used to fasten such a timber.

52. sulpen v.

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To defile (one's soul), pollute; ben sulped, of a person: be defiled; of sins: be foul or offensive (to oneself or God); ppl. sulpande as adj.: polluting; ppl. sulped, defiled; also [quot. c1480]…

53. talou(e n.

Additional spellings: taloue
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(a) The fatty tissue of an animal; fatty tissue from around the kidneys or other internal organs of an animal; also fig. and in fig. contexts [some fig. quots. could also be construed as other senses…

54. thrumblen v.

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(a) To stumble, trip, lose one's footing; (b) thrumblen togeder, to crowd together, press together.

55. thucke n.

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A mischievous or nasty trick, harm;—used in fig. context.

56. tissen v.

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To hiss.

57. ?tọ̄̆shideren v.

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To break into small pieces, splinter, shatter.

58. trollen v.

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(a) To roll (sth.), turn; move (the head) to and fro, rock; (b) cook. to roll (dough) into a ball; trollen togeder.

59. warī̆angle n.

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A bird of the genus Lanius, a shrike or butcherbird; also used as a term of abuse.

60. weimer n.

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?A mourner; ?mourning, lamentation, woe.