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21. houe n.(2)

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A mattock, pickax; also fig.

22. isigrī̆nus n.

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A name for the wolf in beast fables.

23. kā̆kun n.

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One of the ends of a horse-shoe, turned down to prevent slipping; a calk.

24. lekere n.

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(a) A lascivious man, a lecher; (b) as name of the hare:?lecher; ?glutton.

25. mandrag(e n.

Additional spellings: mandrage
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Either of two Old World mandrakes (Mandragora vernalis or M. officinarum); also, a part of these plants used in medicine; mandrag lef.

26. maskel n.

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(a) Spot, mark; blemish; (b) pl. the strands or cords of a net; also, the openings between the strands or cords of a net; (c) gise of maskel, ?lozenge shaped.

27. mīte n.(2)

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(a) A coin [orig. Flemish] of very small denomination, variously valued at a farthing or half a farthing; a small sum; (b) a jot, a whit; half a mite; not a mite, not a bit, not at all; dere inough

28. mūle n.(2)

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A sore spot on the heel, a chilblain; ?also, gout.

29. picchen v.

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(a) To thrust (sth.), drive (a stake, etc.); picchen in (o, to, into), stick, thrust, or drive (sth.) into (sth.); surround (a wood) with a palisade [quot.: a1450, 1st]; (b) to pierce (sb. or sth.)…

30. pī̆k(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: pike
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(a) A spike; a pointed tip or spike on a staff, pole, weapon, instrument of torture, etc.; a spike affixed to a door or wall; also, a spike used to tear or wound someone; also fig.; → of iren, an iron…

31. pille n.

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(a) A pill containing a medicament; pille cochie (rasis, a pill containing a purgative; pille fetid, ?a foul-smelling pill; (b) a pellet found in a pigeon's gizzard.

32. pit n.

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(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is…

33. pumpe n.

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A mechanical device to raise and expel bilge water from a ship, a pump; pumpe yerde, ?a handle for a pump.

34. raspen v.

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To scratch, score; scratch (sth.), scrape, scrape away; raspen togeder, scrape (sth.) together, collect; raspen and raken, scratch and scrape away (food supplies), diminish, deplete.

35. rastelinge n.

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Railing or grating for a barge.

36. rat n.

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(a) A rat; rat trappe; rattes bait; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.79].

37. reis n.

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A journey; also, a military expedition.

38. rēm n.(2)

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A standard commercial measure for a large quantity of paper, ?= twenty quires.

39. romenei(e n.

Additional spellings: romeneie
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(a) A sweet red wine of Mediterranean origin, rumney; romenei (of) modoun, rumney from Modon in the Peloponnesus; (b) a rumney cask.

40. rǒupen v.

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To cry out, howl; roupen and roren.