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41. grẹ̄ n.(1)

91 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A step in a stairway or flight of steps; also, a flight of steps; song (canticle) of gres, one of the Gradual Psalms; gre bi gre, from gre to gre, step by step; (b) a rung of a ladder; also fig.

42. hāre n.

113 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The common European hare (Lepus timidus); (b) any of the various species of the genus Lepus or related genera; Irish hare, the mountain hare (Lepus variabilis); (c) hare's meat used for food; (d)…

43. ?hōroscopum n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Astron. (a) That degree of the ecliptic or zodiac which is arising above the horizon at a given moment, the ascendant; in horoscopo, in the ascendant; (b) ?a system for casting a horoscope or…

44. Jūpiter n.

31 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The god Jupiter; (b) astron. the planet Jupiter; (c) alch. the metal tin.

45. lābel n.

19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A dangling strip of cloth or ribbon used as an ornament in dress; a tab, band; (b) a strip of parchment or paper appended to a document to contain supplementary matter; fig. a corollary; (c) a…

46. lā̆titūde n.

24 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Breadth as one dimension of an area or solid; (b) area, extent, wideness, cross-sectional area; taken latitude, to spread abroad; (c) cross section; after latitude, across; (d) allowable degree of…

47. līne n.(1)

237 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) A cord or rope; a leash, sounding line, etc.; drauen bi o line, to pull on the same rope, pull together; line wie, a towpath; (b) a fishline; also fig.; hok and line, etc.; ground line [see ground

48. līǒun n.(1)

216 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A lion; (b) in comparisons: fers (hardi, wod) as lioun; cruel (real, sterne) as a lioun; strongere than a lioun; proudere (wildere) than the lioun; etc.; (c) in phrases: fers (gredi, grim, lothli,

49. lonǧitūde n.

12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Length, height; after longitude, along the length (of a man), vertically; (b) geog. the angular distance from a meridian of reference to the meridian of any place; (c) astron. the angular distance…

50. maid(e n. & adj.

Additional spellings: maide
116 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) An unmarried woman, usually young; wif or (nor) maid, wif other maid, maid or wif, maid widwe or wif, wif ne maid ne widwe; (b) a woman, as distinguished from a man; (c) a girl, a young girl; maid

51. maiden n.

189 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) An unmarried woman, usually young; (b) maiden and (ne) wif, widwe wif or maiden, maidenes and wives, man maiden or wif, ne wepman ne womman ne maiden, men wives maidenes, etc.; child maiden, a…

52. mark(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: marke
222 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) The boundary or limit of a field, mountain, forest, etc.; a border between countries or regions; the shore or bank of a sea or river; mark wei [OE mearc-weg], a road that serves as a boundary…

53. Mars n.

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(a) The god Mars; Mars the red; also, in asseverations; (b) astron. the planet Mars; (c) alch. the metal iron.

54. Mart(e n.

Additional spellings: Marte
16 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The god Mars; also, in exclamations; (b) astron. the planet Mars; (c) warfare, fighting; force of arms.

55. merī̆diā̆n n.

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(a) Midday, noon; (b) the position of the sun at noon; (c) the south; as adv.: in the south.

56. mid-night n.

Additional spellings: midnight
113 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Midnight, 12 o'clock at night; houre (time) of mid-night, midnight; heigh mid-night, exactly midnight; (b) a the mid-night, at (the) mid-night, to (the) mid-night, at midnight; (c) abouten (the)

57. minū̆t(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: minute
28 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The sixtieth part of an hour, a minute; also, a moment, an instant; minut while, the space of a minute; a moment; (b) astron. the sixtieth part of a degree; (c) arith. one of sixty parts into…

58. mōbilẹ̄ n.

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Astron. The outermost of the concentric spheres of the universe, the primum mobile.

59. mọ̄der n.

331 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) A female, human parent; mother; -- also used of a goddess; (b) used of animals and birds; moder shep, a ewe; (c) in phrases, cpds., and combs.: at my moder, at my mother's house; fro his moder(es

60. mọ̄n(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: mone
240 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) The moon as a luminous heavenly body; the seventh 'planet' of Ptolemaic astronomy, the planet of the sphere nearest the earth; (b) the moon as the cosmological divider between the earth and the…