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41. gloumen v.

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(a) To look glum or sullen; look displeased; scowl, frown; gloumen on, scowl or frown at (sb.); (b) of the weather: to become dark, lower.

42. glǒuten v.

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To scowl, look glum.

43. graspen v.

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(a) To grope, feel around; graspen about; (b) to reach with the hand(s; graspen after (on, to), reach for (sth.); (c) ppl. grasping, petting, caressing, cajoling.

44. halk-essing n.

Additional spellings: halkessing
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Naut.?A beam used to reinforce the gunwales at an angle of the ship.

45. hals n.

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(a) The neck; hongen bi the hals, to hang (sb.) with a rope around the neck; fro hals to croupoun, from neck to rump; hals gund [OE heals-gund], a neck tumor; also in asseveration: bi mi hals; (b) the…

46. harsk adj.

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(a) Rough-textured, coarse; (b) harsh-tasting, sour, astringent.

47. harwe n.

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(a) A harrow for cultivating land, a drag; gon at harwe, to drive a harrow; (b) fig. the Old or New Testament; the power of Love (with pun on arwe); also, in proverb; (c) harwe tind (toth), a tooth of…

48. hā̆ver n.(2)

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(a) The cereal grain, oats; (b) haver bern, haver gerner, a storehouse for oats; haver bred, oaten bread; haver cake, a loaf made from oaten flour; also as surname; haver mele, oaten flour; (c) haver

49. 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…

50. hilder n.

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(a) The European elder (Sambucus nigra); hilder tre; (b) hilder tre, ?the European alder [see alder n. (1)]; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.274].

51. insprǒut n.

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A blowing in.

52. -k(e suf.

Additional spellings: -ke
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A derivational suffix in words from OE and borrowings from ON, MLG, and MDu.: (nouns) balk(e, larke, etc.; (verbs) lurken, runken, sanken, skulken, etc. It occasionally occurs in ME or possibly ME…

53. kē̆r n.

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(a) Low, swampy ground; a marsh, bog, fen; ker miln, a mill by a marsh; ker side, the side of a marsh; (b) a marsh overgrown with alders or other small trees or shrubs; alder ker.

54. kerven v.

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(a) Of an edged or pointed weapon, a sharp implement, a stroke, etc.: to cut or pierce, make a cut or incision, inflict a stroke that cuts or pierces; have the property of cutting or piercing; also fi

55. kide n.

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(a) The young of a goat; kide lomb; (b) the meat of a young goat; -- often pl.; also, a carcass of a kid slaughtered for meat or prepared as a dish; (c) kides blod, the blood of a young goat; kide

56. kinsen v.

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(a) To wince, shy away; (b) to kick or rear back (against sth.).

57. ladde n.(1)

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(a) A young male attendant; one of a king's or nobleman's retinue; a servant; (b) a foot soldier; fot ladde; (c) ladde cf kichene, an attendant in the kitchen of a noble household, a kitchen boy.

58. lag-mon n.

Additional spellings: lagmon
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In phrase leden bi lag-mon, to lead (sb.) astray [in which 'lag-mon' probably denotes the last or hindmost person; see Menner PQ 10.163-168 and early Modern English 'lag-man' (OED s.v. lag, n.1 and…

59. lit-mose n.

Additional spellings: litmose
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A blue pigment, litmus; ?also, lichens from which the pigment is obtained.

60. lodden v.

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To stick (together), cleave.