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1. baffen v.

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To bark or bay. …

2. bidraveled ppl.

Additional spellings: bedraveled
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Dirtied; beslobbered. …

3. blēre-eied adj.

Additional spellings: blereeied
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Having watery or rheumy eyes, bleary-eyed; of the eyes: rheumy, bleary. …

4. blēren v.(1)

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(a) To have watery or rheumy eyes; (b) blered eies, watery or bleary eyes. …

5. blusteren v.

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To blow violently; of persons: shout loudly and angrily. …

6. bǒu(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: boue
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(a) The bow of a ship; (b) in name of ship. …

7. bǒunsen v.

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To beat (sb.), thump. …

8. bugge n.

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Bogy, hobgoblin, black-man; scarecrow; slotir bugge. …

9. chopin n.

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A liquid measure: ?half a pint. …

10. clammī adj.

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Viscous, sticky, slimy. …

11. drabelen v.

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(a) To soil (sth.); (b) to trail in the mud or on the ground. …

12. drāke n.(2)

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(a) The male of the duck, drake; ?also, a gander; (b) a representation of a drake. …

13. drǒm n.

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A drum. …

14. drōten v.

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To stammer. …

15. dudde n.

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A cloak or mantle (?made of coarse, woolen cloth); also, a kind of cloth. …

16. dwẹ̄re n.

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(a) Doubt, perplexity, uncertainty; in (a) dwere, in doubt; without dwere, without question, certainly; (b) ?disagreement, dissension; ?distress, trouble; (c) amazement, awe; dread, fear. …

17. fleǧǧe adj.

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(a) Of young birds: ready to fly, fledged; flegge-rip, full-fledged; (b) of persons: as if winged, ?ready for action; wordes flegge, winged words. …

18. graspen v.

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(a) To grope, feel around; graspen about; (b) to reach with the hand(s; graspen after (on, to), reach for (sth.); (c) ppl. grasping, petting, caressing, cajoling. …

19. grippel n.

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A small ditch or drain. …

20. grūselien v.

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To munch (sth.). …

21. hodelnesse n.

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Secrecy, concealment; oblivion. …

22. hoderen v.

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(a) To cuddle (sb.), hug (sb.); (b) ppl. hodered, heaped together, huddled; covered up. …

23. -k(e suf.

Additional spellings: -ke
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A derivational suffix in words from OE and borrowings from ON, MLG, and MDu.: (nouns) balk(e, larke, etc.; (verbs) lurken, runken, sanken, skulken, etc. It occasionally occurs in ME or possibly ME……

24. knag(ge n.

Additional spellings: knagge
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A peg, fastener; hongen on knag, to hang (sb.) on a peg or hook; --?also intrans. …

25. knarre n.

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(a) A crag, twisted rock; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.102]. …

26. knobel n.

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(a) A small knot or knob on a root; (b) a swelling, a hump; (c) a thickening of the skin, a callus. …

27. knọ̄st n.

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A lump; ?a swelling, ?a tumor. …

28. lē̆ng(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: lenge
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The European ling Molva molva; also, any fish of the genus Molva; gret leng, a full-grown ling; leng fish, a ling; whit leng, ?white ling [?error for whiting]; leng drie, dried lings. …

29. merlin n.

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Naut. Small line of two strands, used for seizings; marline. …

30. mirtlen v.

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To crumble; mirtlen in (to) peces, fall to pieces. …

31. misse-mashe n.

Additional spellings: missemashe
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A jumble, hodgepodge. …

32. mop(pe n.

Additional spellings: moppe
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(a) A fool, simpleton; a worthless person; (b) as adj.: foolish; (c) ?a derisive gesture; (d) a little child, baby; also, a doll; (e) as surname. …

33. nok(ke n.

Additional spellings: nokke
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(a) The tip of a bow, spindle, etc., often made of horn; the notch of an arrow; nok streng, ?a bowstring; (b) nok line, part of the rigging of a ship. …

34. prō̆k(i)en v.

Additional spellings: prokien
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(a) To prod, poke; provoke (the heart); incite (sb. to do sth.); of temptation: assail; (b) to demand, make demands. …

35. quidel n.

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Some sort of raised inflammation of the skin, a pimple or pustule; pl. ?a rash. …

36. raga-muffin n.

Additional spellings: ragamuffin
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A ragged lout, tattered oaf; -- only as name. …

37. rubben v.

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(a) To apply friction on a surface, rub; sharpen a tool by filing or scrubbing; rubben on the rote of the red galle, touch on a sore spot; (b) of a boat: to rub against the bank; of an animal: rub……

38. sheueles n.

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A scarecrow. …

39. sippen v.

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To drink in small mouthfuls, taste, sip. …

40. slappen v.

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To deliver a blow to (sb. with the back of the hand), slap (sb.). …

41. snakeren v.

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To sneak, slink. …

42. snō̆ken v.

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(a) To snuffle about, esp. as a hound on a scent; also fig.; (b) in cpd.: snoke-horn, ?one who snuffles into a horn, one who blows a horn, i.e., a worthless person [cp. blouen in an horn, etc., s.v. h……

43. spelter n.(1)

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Some kind of metal used to make or plate armored headgear: ?an alloy of zinc. …

44. squirten v.

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To squirt water from the mouth. …

45. swam n.

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(a) A mushroom or other fungus; (b) swam water, ?a stagnant pool, swamp water; ?a bog or marsh; (c) in surname. …

46. tippen v.(3)

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To occur suddenly, strike. …

47. tọ̄̆murten v.

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To break apart, split. …

48. tramplen v.

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To stamp (with one's foot or feet); tread; ppl. tramplid, well trodden. …

49. vēren v.(1)

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Naut. To let out or slacken (a rope). …

50. weimer n.

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?A mourner; ?mourning, lamentation, woe. …

51. wragelinge n.

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(a) Struggling, struggle; (b) contentiousness, quarreling. …

52. wranglen v.

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(a) To contend (with sb.) in a test of strength;—used in fig. context; also, engage in captious dispute (with the law); (b) as surname. …

53. wrikken v.

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To move to and fro, flit back and forth; also in fig. context. …

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