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1. dēceivāble adj.

57 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Of persons or animals: deceitful, lying, treacherous; -- also as noun; (b) disloyal, seditious.

2. erraunt adj.

25 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) baili(f erraunt, an itinerant bailif or sheriff; (b) bailifes-man erraunt, ?the servant of a bailif erraunt; (c) erraunt Jew, the Wandering Jew (used as a term of opprobrium); (d) justice erraunt

3. streit adj.

242 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Of sewing, a binding, bond, etc.: tight, tightly pulled or bound; (b) of a garment, ring, clothing, etc.: tight-fitting; streit clothed (gloved), wearing tight-fitting clothing (gloves); streit

4. suspeciǒus adj.

27 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Inclined to believe ill, jealous; full of suspicions, mistrustful; ben suspecious to, to have suspicions of (sb.); (b) regarded with suspicion, distrusted; liable to excite suspicion, exciting…

5. tempre adj.

19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Of a person: restrained in conduct; of a person's behavior: temperate, moderate; (b) of sleep, diet: moderate; of a bath: of moderate warmth; of the quality of heat in food, drink, or a bodily…

6. void(e adj.

Additional spellings: voide
243 quotations in 14 senses
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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…