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21. brẹ̄ch n.

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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.

22. brēde n.(1)

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Roasted or grilled meat; also, a roast.

23. brēme n.

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(a) A freshwater fish, the bream (Abramis brama); (b) breme de mere, some seafish, perh. the sea bream (Pagellus centrodontus).

24. breu n.

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An eyebrow; eie breu; above-bregh, over-brei [cp. L super-cilium].

25. bush n.(1)

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(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth.

26. caiser n.

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A Roman emperor, a Caesar; caiser of Rome.

27. cāke n.

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(a) A flat cake or loaf; also, an unbaked cake or loaf, a lump of doug; haver (ote, oten) cake, a cake of oaten bread; therf cake, a cake of unleavened bread; barli cake, flouren cake, spiced cake

28. chā̆fer n.

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

29. chelle n.

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A vessel of some kind.

30. chēp n.

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(a) Bargaining, dickering; (b) a (good) bargain or purchase; (c) price asked or offered; þurh non chep, at no price; for negard chep, because of niggardliness; (d) value set (upon a person)…

31. cheves(e n.

Additional spellings: chevese
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Concubine, paramour (of a noble); cheves-boren, born of a concubine, bastard.

32. chippe n.

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(a) A chip, splinter, shaving (of wood); also, kindling, trash (usu. pl.); (b) peg; (c) share-beam (of a plow).

33. chit(te n.

Additional spellings: chitte
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The young of an animal.

34. cholle n.

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(a) Throat, gullet; (b) the front of the neck; jowl, double chin, dewlap, etc.; (c) forehead, head; balled cholle bald head.

35. chough(e n.

Additional spellings: choughe
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One of several birds of the crow family: chough, jackdaw, jay; Cornish chough; co-brid.

36. clēt n.

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(a) A wedge, cleat; clet nail, a cleat nail [?error for clout nail]; (b) a lump, bit, small portion; ne counten at o clet, to regard (sth.) as worthless; yeven nought a clet of, not to give a damn…

37. clift n.

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(a) A crack, fissure, rift, notch, cleft, slash; helle clift, the chasm of hell; (b) a break in the skin, crack, fissure; a cut, gash; (c) a tear in a muscle, rupture; (d) a surgical cutting or…

38. clǒugh n.

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(a) A narrow valley or dell; a ravine or gorge; (b) the steep side of a gorge; a bluff or cliff.

39. clōve n.(1)

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(a) A bulbil or clove, esp. of garlic; (b) as surname.

40. n.

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A jackdaw; co-brid.