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1. appurtenaunt adj. & n.

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(a) Belonging (to a country, a manor) as a possession or a right; (b) as noun: what belongs to or forms a subsidiary part (of a manor, etc.).

2. arreinen v.

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(a) To interrogate (sb.), ask (sb.) a question; ask (a question); (b) to rebuke (sb.), censure.

3. bille n.

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(a) A formal document (embodying a will, a permit, etc.); fig. a list or inventory; (b) a papal bull.

4. blẹ̄aunt n.

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(a) A costly silk fabric; (b) a garment of this fabric, a tunic; (c) a bedspread of this fabric.

5. bocche n.

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Any pathological swelling, eruption or lesion, such as a boil, a tumor, a (running) sore, an ulcer, a tubercle, a bubo.

6. cāble n.

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(a) A heavy rope or cable used on a ship; esp., the anchor cable; (b) a rope; (c) cable hok, instrument used in making cables; cable rop, a heavy rope; cable yarn, yarn for cables.

7. camerelle n.

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A small room.

8. cāne n.

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(a) A reed (esp., Arundo donax & Phragmites communis); (b) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum); (c) a Javanese reed; prob., bamboo; (d) a fragrant reed of India and Persia.

9. canevā̆s n.

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A fabric made from flax or hemp, canvas [see Rogers Hist.Agric. 2.511-6].

10. carcais n.

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(a) The body of an animal slaughtered for meat or for sacrifice, a carcass; flesh, meat [quot.: 1448]; (b) a dead body (of man or beast), cadaver, corpse; (c) the living human body [used…

11. carfǒuk n.

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(a) A crossroads or intersection; also, a place name [see Smith PNElem. 1.81]; (b) fig. the meeting place of the four liberal arts, the quadrivium.

12. castelain n.

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(a) The governor of a castle, a castellan; (b) the mistress of a castle, chatelaine; (c) a surname.

13. caudē̆l n.

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(a) A hot fortified drink, esp. one containing spiced wine or ale; also, a broth; (b) a pudding, meat loaf, or the like; (c) a mess.

14. caudrǒun n.

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(a) A kettle or pot (as for heating water or cooking), a caldron; (b) fig. uses; (c) caudroun bọ̄ter, one who mends or makes kettles [cp. boten (1)].

15. chullen v.

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To kick or throw (a ball); fig. to treat (sb.) as one pleases, kick or chase about.

16. clei(e n.

Additional spellings: cleie
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A movable, rectangular frame of interwoven slats or twigs, a hurdle.

17. cōparsonẹ̄r n.

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A joint heir, coheir.

18. cǒuntẹ̄ n.(3)

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(a) The territory ruled by a count; also, an English earldom; also fig.; (b) ?country, territory.

19. cǒuntes(se n.

Additional spellings: countesse
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(a) The wife of a count or an earl; also, the female heir of an earl (a countess in her own right); (b) the wife of a nobleman in ancient times; (c) a viscountess; (d) as a surname.

20. cǒuntǒur n.(1)

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(a) An accountant; esp., an official who oversees the collecting and auditing of taxes for a shire, a kingdom, etc.; (b) one who calculates, an arithmetician; (c) a pleader in court, a lawyer; (d) as…