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201. tǒurte n.

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(a) A kind of coarse brown bread; tourte bakere; (b) a tart of some sort [cp. tart(e n. (a)]; (c) veter. a disease of horses characterized by the formation of an abscess beneath the epidermis; (d) her

202. tǒurtelet n.

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(a) A small meat, cheese, or fruit dumpling or rissole; (b) her. a device resembling a small round cake or loaf of bread.

203. tǒurtelle n.

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(a) A small round cake or bread roll; (b) her. a stylized wafer or round cake used as a heraldic device.

204. trāce n.(1)

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(a) A course, path, way; taken trace, to make (one's) way (to a place); (b) fig. a course of action; a way of life; gon trace, to follow a course of action; retournen trace, come back, return; (c) in…

205. tract(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: tracte
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(a) In phrase: a tract of time, a drawn-out space of time; also, as adv.: for a drawn-out space of time; (b) her. a line, tressure.

206. tres(se n.

Additional spellings: tresse
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(a) A lock or length of hair, esp. when bound or braided, a coil, braid;—usu. pl.; also, the hair of the head; ?tres wir, a net for confining the hair, headdress [? = tressour n. (a)]; (b) in fig.

207. tressǒur n.

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(a) A net, an arrangement of ties, a binding, etc. for the hair, a headdress; also, an ornamented arrangement of the hair into plaits, coils, etc.; also, = tres(se n. 1.(a) [quots. ?c1475 & a1500]…

208. trunk(e n.

Additional spellings: trunke
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(a) The main stem of a tree considered apart from its roots and branches, trunk; (b) a lifeless human body, corpse, specif. a mutilated or dismembered body; (c) her. the representation of an animal's…

209. vermid ppl.

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Her. ?Ornamented with worms or snakes or with wormlike or sinuous shapes.

210. verrẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Of a coat of arms: having a field tinctured with two or more alternating colors, usu. a metal and a color.

211. vert n.

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(a) Under forest law, all forest trees, underwood, or brush bearing green leaves; vert and venesoun, vert…venesoun, all forest vegetation and game (b) the color green; (c) her. green as one of the…

212. vert adj.

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(a) Her. Tinctured with the color green; (b) cook. in combs.: vert desir, a dish made with parsley for coloring; sauce vert, = vert-sauce n.; (c) sauge vert, fresh sage, as opposed to the dried herb.

213. void(e adj.

Additional spellings: voide
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(a) Without contents, empty; also fig. and in fig. context; of a river: empty of water, etc.; of a pen: empty of ink (b) of the stomach or part of the intestinal tract: without food, empty; of the…

214. voider n.

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(a) A tray or other vessel for removing trenchers, pieces of broken food, etc. from a table (b) her. a type of ordinary, consisting of a segment of a large-diameter circle projecting from a rim of…

215. wastel n.

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(a) A variety of white wheaten bread or cake of superior quality, generally considered second only to simenel in fineness;—also pl. [quot. 1381]; wastel bred, bred of wastel (b) an individual loaf or…

216. wā̆ter-bǒuǧe n.

Additional spellings: waterbouge
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(a) A bag used to carry water, water jug; (b) her. a representation of a pair of water bags joined and attached to a yoke;—used metonymically to indicate the bearer of a badge or coat of arms.

217. welk(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: welke
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(a) An edible marine gastropod of the family Buccinidae, a whelk; also, ?a periwinkle or other marine snail; ?a cockle, mussel, or other shellfish; welk bot, a boat used in fishing for whelks or…

218. whēte n.

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(a) The plant wheat or any plant of the genus Triticum, esp. T. aestivum or T. sativum; also, a wheat crop; wheat considered as seed (b) the grain of the wheat plant, harvested wheat; grain…

219. whēte-ēre n.

Additional spellings: wheteere
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(a) An ear of wheat; also fig.; (b) her. a stylized ear of wheat used as a heraldic device.

220. whēten adj.

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(a) Made of wheat or wheat products, wheaten (b) pertaining to the wheat plant, of wheat; (c) wheten ere, her. a stylized ear of wheat used as a heraldic device; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.