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21. scoffer n.

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(a) One who mocks, a mocker; a deceiver; (b) a railing controversialist; (c) as surname.

22. 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…

23. 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…

24. shūr n.

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A shed, lean-to.

25. skrī̆ke n.

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(a) A scream of pain, fear, or grief; (b) a scream of anger; a loud shout, an uproar, a battle cry; (c) a child's crying; (d) the song of a bird.

26. skrithe n.

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A loud cry.

27. sling(e n.

Additional spellings: slinge
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(a) A hand-held weapon for throwing stones or similar missiles, a sling; also fig.; honde sling; sling slaughte, game killed with a sling; sling ston, a stone used as a missile to be thrown from a…

28. spī̆le n.(2)

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(a) Play, sport, revelry; spile cok (querne), a top or other spinning toy; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2. 138].

29. spindel n.

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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…

30. 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].

31. stern(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: sterne
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(a) The rear section of a ship, the stern; stern post; stern shete, the rear portion of a ship; stern skegge, a wooden projection aft of the stern; leven at stern, to outdistance another ship; (b)…

32. stiffelere n.

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One who arranges matters, a moderator, mediator.

33. stilt(e n.

Additional spellings: stilte
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(a) The handle of a plow; (b) a wooden crutch; an artificial leg, peg leg; also, a stilt; stilt bond, a strap for attaching a stilt or a peg leg; (c) ?one of the uprights of a ladder; (d) in surname.

34. tāpe n.

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A ribbon or band for a woman's cap or headdress, a tape; also, ?a hairband [last quot.].

35. tū̆tel n.

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The mouth; also in fig. context; also, the devil's mouth.

36. Wednes-dai n.

Additional spellings: Wednesdai
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(a) The fourth day of the week, Wednesday; also the name of the fourth day of the week [quot. ?c1450]; asshe Wednes-dai, q.v.; pulver Wednes-dai, q.v (b) in adv. usage: on Wednesday(s; the

37. wither-laue n.

Additional spellings: witherlaue
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A ruffian, thug, villain.

38. yēman n.

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(a) A free-born male attendant in a royal or noble household holding a rank above that of groom and page but below that of squire, a household official; an attendant or assistant to someone of higher…