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1. blẹ̄ n.

50 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Color, hue; bright, wan of ble, vivid, dull in color; (b) brightness, brilliance, luster.

2. blēt adj. & n.

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(a) Bare (boughs); (b) bareness, lack of cover.

3. bōthe num. (as n., adj., & conj.)

369 quotations in 6 senses
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As noun: Two together, both; -- in various constructions: (a) alone; (b) the two of them; the bothe; (c) both here (theire) hedes, the heads of both of them; etc.; (d) here bother (baþre, bothe,

4. chẹ̄ke n.

90 quotations in 6 senses
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Jaw, jawbone, esp. the lower one; nether (over) cheke, lower (upper) jaw.

5. chōke n.

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Cheek.

6. colk n.

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(a) The core (of an apple); the heart (of an onion); sparen neither appel ne colk, to do all one can, go as quickly as possible; (b) the center or bottom (of the heart).

7. crib n.

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(a) A manger; (b) a stall for a cow or ox; (c) a beehive.

8. cunte n.

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(a) A woman's private parts; cunte-beten, impotent (man); (b) the corresponding organ(s) of a female animal; (c) sexual intercourse; (d) in place names and surnames; grope cunte lane [see gropen v.]…

9. ēves n.

24 quotations in 3 senses
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The projecting lower edge of a roof, eaves, eave.

10. first n.(1)

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A (limited) period of time; yere first, a period of years; yeven first, to grant time (for a certain purpose).

11. flight n.(1)

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(a) The act of fleeing, flight, escape; also fig.; (b) avoidance; (c) departure; also fig.; (d) ability to flee.

12. forȝǣȝednisse n.

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Transgression.

13. frẹ̄dọ̄̆m n.

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(a) Liberty (as opposed to servitude), the social status of a freeman; --also fig.; (b) national sovereignty, independence; (c) spiritual liberty, the state of not being in subjection to sin or the…

14. họ̄p n.

36 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A circular band of wood or metal, used for barrels, wheels, candelabra; a hoop, ring; welle hop, q.v.; (b) a circular band used to support the sign outside a house or inn; (c) one of the ribs of a…

15. lak n.

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(a) Lack, absence, want; shortage, deficiency; default of payment; lak of sacramentes, failure to receive the sacraments; no lak (of, no shortage (of, no deficiency (of; pens lak, q.v.; (b) for lak of

16. quēd(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: quede
93 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Evil, wickedness; (b) an evil thing or event; a wicked act or sin; harm or trouble; sickness or injury; (c) boden qued, to foretell evil; don (to) qued, do evil, do wrong; don (spien, waiten,

17. shīve n.

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(a) A slice, piece, usu. of bread or other food; also in proverb; also, a portion of food; shive (of) bred; step-moder shive, a thin slice, an insufficient portion; (b) ?a slab or length of wood; ?a…

18. shrēde n.

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(a) A scrap or fragment of food or of the Host; a piece of a body; heuen everi a shrede, to cut (sb.) to pieces; (b) a strip of material; an ornamental strip of material hanging from the edge of a…

19. spindel n.

47 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A spindle for spinning thread; nokke of a spindel, a notch cut in a spindle to hold the yarn in place; slippen spindel, to take yarn off a spindle; (b) the amount of yarn collected on a spindle…

20. stēne n.(2)

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(a) In cpd.: stene kin [OE stān-cynn], a kind of building stone; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.141].