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1. cā̆s n.

263 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) State of affairs, circumstances, situation; predicament; hard cas; the fortunes (of a person), lot, destiny; (b) senden cas, yeven cas, to grant fortune, rule destiny; grant (a certain kind of)……

2. dēfaut(e n.

Additional spellings: defaute
186 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Lack, insufficiency, absence; short weight [quot.: a1400]; at defaut, incomplete (as to antlers), lacking; for defaut, for lack of something; in your defaut, in your absence, because of your……

3. figūre n.

127 quotations in 12 senses
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Shape, form, appearance: (a) visible or tangible shape or form; general appearance; bodili figure, figure of this world; of the face: expression; (b) of a living being: bodily form, appearance (often……

4. persō̆nā̆l(e adj.

Additional spellings: personale
23 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Pertaining to a person as an individual, individual, private; (b) of actions: performed by the individual himself; (c) with reference to the 'persons' of the Trinity. …

5. persǒun(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: persoune
202 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) An individual, a person; -- also with reference to Christ; coll. persons, people; (b) a persoun, per person; persoun or persounes, no persoun ne persounes; a persoun of eighte-tene, eighteen……

6. plāce n.

407 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) Space, extension in two or three dimensions, room, area; also fig.; biriden so muche place, to ride over so much area, cover so much ground; haven place, have room; occupien place, occupy space……

7. serven v.(1)

614 quotations in 21 senses
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(a) To be of service, be employed, work; labor (to do sth.); have a responsibility (to do sth.); serven at the barre, practice law; serven for, serve in order to get (sth., a wife); also, work (to do……

8. simple adj.

217 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Blameless, innocent; upright; guileless, artless; (b) of the eyes:?innocent, not sinful; ?sound, healthy; -- used fig. …

9. stāt n.

346 quotations in 21 senses
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(a) A moral or spiritual state or condition; stat of dampnacioun (grace, right, etc.); stat of penaunce (teres), a state of repentance; (b) a mental state, frame of mind; (c) the physical state or……

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