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1. clōthing ger.

73 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Clothes, wearing apparel; dress, garb; (b) in phrases and proverbs: seculer clothing, garb of a layman; clothing maketh man, clothes make the man.

2. cǒveringe ger.(1)

55 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Something that covers up or envelops, such as a bedspread, shroud, cover (of a book); (b) anat. a protective covering, integument; (c) something that shuts a vessel; cover, lid.

3. melting(e ger.

Additional spellings: meltinge
23 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Melting; liquefaction; also, the rendering of tallow; the dissolution of salt; maken..melting, to effect the disintegration (of the finite world); fig. wavering, vacillation; fallen into melting

4. mẹ̄ving(e ger.

Additional spellings: mevinge
152 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Moving, motion; a movement, motion, moving; also fig.; meving of, moving or movement of (the limbs, joints, etc.); trembling of (the lips); meving of the hed, an object of wonder or derision, a…

5. ō̆ning(e ger.

Additional spellings: oninge
42 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Oneness, union, unity; also, unification; ben in-to oning, to become one, be united; (b) oning to (in-to, with), union with (sb. or sth.), joining to; (c) the political unification of a kingdom…

6. ō̆pen-sheuing(e ger.

Additional spellings: open-sheuinge
6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A clear revealing, a readily perceived revelation or appearance; a clear indication; (b) anat. an easily visible part of the body; open-sheuing of the arm, ?the surface of the inner angle of the…

7. pissing(e ger.

Additional spellings: pissinge
17 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act of urinating, urination; pissing of blod, discharge of blood with the urine; difficulte (hardnesse) of pissing, hard (streit) pissing, pathological retention of urine; (b) urine; (c)…

8. putting(e ger.

Additional spellings: puttinge
77 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The action of striking or thrusting; (b) the action of pushing or shoving; the action of poking [quot.: Palladius]; putting of hete, pressure of heat; o peine of putting oute of eien, on pain of…

9. rīsing(e ger.

Additional spellings: risinge
89 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The act of rising to one's feet, standing up; (b) the act of rising from sleep, getting out of bed; also, the act of awakening; rising shetes, ?bedsheets; (c) the act or fact of arising from the…

10. setting(e ger.

Additional spellings: settinge
125 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) The act of placing something in a place or position; setting led, the act of laying a lead roof; setting of fet, fig. steadfastness, stability; (b) the act or process of laying stone; setting

11. sitting(e ger.

Additional spellings: sittinge
54 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The act of sitting down; also, the fact of being seated or an instance of it; sitting place (stede), place of sitting, a place where one sits, a seat; kepen the same stondinges and sittinges, to…

12. stopping(e ger.

Additional spellings: stoppinge
36 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) The act or fact of obstructing a road or lane; also, prohibiting access to a lane; the act or fact of obstructing the flow of water, blocking or damming a river or ditch; maken stopping, to make…

13. sustẹ̄ning(e ger.

Additional spellings: susteninge
24 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Physical support; (b) the ability to bear weight or the power of independent movement; (c) anat. a supporting structure in the body; surg. a supporting bandage, binding, etc. used to stabilize a…

14. turning(e ger.

Additional spellings: turninge
116 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) Movement about an axis or central point, rotation, revolution; also, a whirling about; also, the circular passage of time; an annular cycle; turning abouten; turning up and doun; (b) in cpds. and…

15. wapping(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: wappinge
2 quotations in 1 sense
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A covering of some sort; also, anat. ?a cavity or an enclosure.

16. werking(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: werkinge
192 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The doing of an act or action; acting (in a certain way), (one’s) behavior; also, that which one does or has done, (one’s) acts or doings; an act, a deed; werking togeder; a merveillous werking

17. wēving(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: wevinge
25 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The craft of producing fabric by interlacing yarn or other fibrous material, weaving; also fig. [quot. c1443]; weving craft (werk); weving hous, a building where weaving is done; weving sleie, a…

18. wrapping(e ger.

Additional spellings: wrappinge
8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The process of winding or wrapping a bandage around something; also, a single turn or circumvolution of a bandage (b) the act of wrapping up or covering something; pl. coverings, veils;—used fig.

19. wrēching(e ger.

Additional spellings: wrechinge
3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) ?Distention, swelling; (b) anat. forcible dislocation.

20. wrīthing(e ger.

Additional spellings: writhinge
10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The action of twisting something, torsion; also, a turning or rotary motion; writhing abouten (b) convulsive or writhing motion; (c) anat. & physiol. partial dislocation; wrenching, a sprain;…