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1. as(s)emblẹ̄ n.

Additional spellings: assemble
39 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A getting together or gathering (of people or parties, on a particular occasion or by chance); maken asemble; (b) a meeting (of a constituted body, or called by an official); (c) hunt. the…

2. assignẹ̄ n.

14 quotations in 3 senses
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One (not an heir-at-law) to whom a property or right is bequeathed; heires and assignes.

3. bērner n.

16 quotations in 2 senses
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Hunt. An attendant in charge of running or scenting hounds.

4. bēst(e n.

Additional spellings: beste
197 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) One of the animal kingdom (including man), any living creature (non-vegetable); (b) best doumb, a dumb animal; dedli best, mortel best, mortal creature; devine best, spiritual or Godlike creature…

5. chaunǧe n.

66 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Alteration, variation, change (as of character, attitude, circumstances), or an instance of it; chaunge of fortune, chaunge of herte; ben in chaunge, be mutable or unstable; (b) the changing of…

6. cǒuntre n.(1)

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The contrary of something; a remedy; (b) the opposite half of a tally ( = countretaille); (c) ?a circular parry in fencing [cp.OD sb.(5)]; (d) hunt. the direction opposite that taken by the game…

7. daunǧẹ̄r n.

114 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Domination, power, control, or possession (as exercised by a ruler, lord, or adversary); abiden daunger, to submit to control; ben in (under) daunger, be in (someone's) power or hands, be a…

8. 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.

9. dī̆visiǒun n.(1)

78 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) The act or processes of splitting or breaking up; branching (of arteries, streams); (b) separability, divisibility; (c) math. the process of dividing numbers, division; (d) hunt. the ceremonious…

10. drit n.

52 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Excrement, droppings; dung; feces; (b) hunt. the dung of certain animals; (c) cattes drit, dove drit, gandres drit, gotes drit, hors drit, mannes drit, mous drit, swines drit.

11. eie n.(3)

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. (a) A brood (of pheasants); (b) ?a young hawk.

12. fen n.(2)

14 quotations in 2 senses
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Dung, excrement; filth [cp. fen n.(1), sense 2., which here overlaps with this word].

13. fimẹ̄ n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Hunt. The excrement of certain game animals, such as the deer; (b) med. excrement, dung; (c) alch. mud or clay (for sealing a retort).

14. fīndere, -are n.

Additional spellings: findare
24 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) One who finds (a lost object); (b) one who attains to knowledge; (c) hunt. a dog used to track game; also, one who has charge of such dogs.

15. fō̆rme n.

249 quotations in 17 senses
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(a) The physical shape of something, contour, outline; the figure or shape (of a person), body; also fig.; (b) forme and shape, shape or forme, forme and shafte, etc.

16. fǒurche n.

8 quotations in 4 senses
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The fork formed by the legs and the trunk of the body, the crotch.

17. gorǧeaunt n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Hunt. A gorger, a boar in his second year.

18. gō̆ter n.(1)

81 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Any device for leading water down from a roof; an eaves trough; a channel where two slanting roofs (or parts of a roof) meet; a rain pipe; a gutter; (b) ?a ready-made gutter, ?material used in…

19. herberwer n.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) One who entertains guests; (b) an innkeeper; (c) a servant in charge of providing quarters for a nobleman's guests; (d) hunt. the huntsman in charge of tracking the hart to his lair; (e) as…

20. hert n.

92 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A male of the red deer (Cervus elephas), a hart; also, the female; she hert; (b) hunt. hert of ten, hert at the first hed, a hart having ten tines in all on his antlers, a hart in his sixth year…