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21. bōde-wǒrd n.

Additional spellings: bodeword
30 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A commandment (of God); the bode-word(es, the (ten) Commandments; forbeden bode-word, impose a prohibition; (b) a command or edict.

22. brant ppl. adj.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Steep, high; brant up, straight up, erect; brant upright, perpendicular; (b) arched (eyebrows) [cp. OI bretta brȳrnar raise the eyebrows]; (c) ?smooth (forehead); (d) in place names [see Smith PN

23. brẹ̄ch n.

55 quotations in 5 senses
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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.

24. brid n.

164 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A bird of any kind; briddes and bestes; (b) brid of prai, a bird of prey; brid of gentris, a noble bird; brid of plesaunce, a bird used in the sport of hunting; feld brid, wild fowl; (c) a bird as…

25. brim n.(1)

7 quotations in 1 sense
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A body of water, such as the sea, a pool, spring, river.

26. can v.

22 quotations in 1 sense
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A modal verb stressing the fact of an act or event: (a) did (do sth.); also, began (to do sth.); heo hem can lede, it did lead them, it led them; (b) with present meaning: do, does, dost, etc.

27. chest(e n.

Additional spellings: cheste
74 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A trunk, chest, casket, box, etc., (for storing or safekeeping); a strongbox (for valuables, documents, money); the Ark (of the Covenant); (b) common chest, public chest or treasury; (c) chest

28. chois n.

53 quotations in 3 senses
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The action of selecting, electing, choosing, deciding, or an instance of it; selection, election, choice, decision; after chois, at (someone's) discretion; according to preference, to (one's) liking…

29. clēthen v.

73 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To put clothing on (sb., the body, the flesh), dress; clethen in (with), to clothe (sb., one's body) in (a particular garment or kind of garments); (b) refl. to put on one's clothes, get dressed…

30. clēven v.(1)

95 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To stick or adhere (to sth.); be sticky or adhesive; ppl. sticky, viscous, adhesive; -- often with on, to; (b) to stick together, cohere; be cohesive; -- often with togeder; (c) to be fastened or…

31. cod n.(1)

61 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A seed pod or capsule; husk, shell, skin; [see also bene cod in ben(e n.(1), 1c.(a), hors-cod n., & pese-cod n.]; (b) cod ware, vegetables that grow in pods, legumes.

32. crōt(e n.

Additional spellings: crote
7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A lump; a clod (of earth); ?a knob (on the cover of a pot); (b) the residue of rendered fat, cracklings; (c) ilk (a) crot, every bit.

33. crud n.

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(a) Coagulated milk, clabber; curds, cottage cheese; -- usu. pl.; (b) a curd; (c) rennet or junket [as in L].

34. dēceivandlī adv.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Deceitfully.

35. dēceiven v.

74 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To deceive (sb.), lie to, be false to; defraud (sb.), cheat, rob; mock (sb.), play tricks on; (b) deceiven of, to defraud (sb.) of (sth.), rob (sb.) of (sth.); also fig.

36. deffūse n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Forbidding, prohibition.

37. derf adj.

41 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Bold, daring, courageous; valiant, doughty, noble (knight, king); (b) audacious, forward; impudent, wicked.

38. dēth n.

329 quotations in 12 senses
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Loss of life; dying, death as an event; deth of the bodi, deth of lif; dout (dred) of deth, fear of dying; paien the dette of deth, to die as man must die; dethes cares, throes of death.

39. dọ̄ke n.

25 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A duck of any kind (male or female, wild or tame, young or old); drinken with the doke, to drink only water; (b) donghil doke, barnyard duck; wilde doke, (c) the likeness of a duck.

40. drēm n.(2)

60 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or