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1. accidentāllī adv.

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(a) On account of superficial or temporary circumstances, not essentially and permanently, incidentally; for minor or temporary reasons, not inevitably; (b) phys. not in the normal course of nature…

2. accidentlī adv.

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(a) By chance; (b) impermanently, temporarily; (c) phys. not in the course of nature, abnormally, unnaturally.

3. actī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. as n.

Additional spellings: active
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A person who is active in a cause.

4. actī̆f, -ī̆ve adj.

Additional spellings: active
32 quotations in 4 senses
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Of human actions: done (as opposed to suffered), voluntary; actif cursing, self-excommunication.

5. adustiǒun n.

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(a) Treatment with heat or burning, calcination of a substance; (b) surg. cauterization; (c) phys. the corruption of bodily humors, ulcers, etc., by heat; the process by which humors, etc., become adu

6. an(n)exen v.

Additional spellings: annexen
35 quotations in 4 senses
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annexed (to), joined (onto), adjoining; connected (with), constituting a part (of).

7. aquǒus, -ọ̄se adj.

Additional spellings: aquose
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Phys. & physiol. Moist (said of one of the four qualities attributed to matter and to organisms); aquous aposteme, a swelling filled with serous fluid; aquous hernia, such a swelling in the scrotum.

8. attempra(u)nce n.

Additional spellings: attempraunce
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The observance of proper measure or the 'golden mean'; moderation, temperateness.

9. attempren v.

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To keep (emotion, oneself) under control; control, restrain; attempren herte, courage, smelling, etc.; attempred, moderately [quot. 1500].

10. bēm n.

133 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) A tree [cp. fike bem, note bem, etc.]; (b) the Cross; bote of bem, relief from suffering or misfortune; (c) bem of cloud, a pillar of cloud; (d) a specific kind of tree, probably one or more…

11. bō̆dī n.

336 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) The whole physical frame of a living being; physique, body; bodi-lich, body [cp. līch body]; assaien bodi, test (one's) physique or physical prowess; (b) build, stature, figure; (c) bodi and

12. bodī̆lī(ch adj.

Additional spellings: bodilich
59 quotations in 5 senses
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Of human beings, their behavior, and their wants: pertaining to or affecting the body (as distinct from the 'spirit'); physical, corporeal; bodili wittes, the senses; bodili eie, bodili ere; bodili

13. boistǒus adj.

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(a) Of persons or their behavior: lacking in polish, learning, skill, or experience; crude, unmannerly, awkward; unlearned, unskilled, ignorant; artless, simple, humble; of an animal: simple; (b) of…

14. chaunǧen v.

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(a) To suffer alteration; change, vary; chaungen fro, diverge from; chaungen lowe or heighe, descend or ascend; (b) to alter (sth.), make different, change; chaungen colour, chaungen heu, change in…

15. cōld n.

79 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Coldness of atmosphere, season, climate, or habitat; in hot and cold, at all times, always; neither in hot ne cold, never; (b) a cold spell of weather; (c) coldness of an object, esp. as felt.

16. cōld adj.

207 quotations in 8 senses
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Low in temperature: (a) cold, chilly (weather, season, climate); (b) cold or cool (dwelling); chilly (grave); (c) cold to the touch; cold as is, cold as a ston; (d) of food and drink: cold, cooled…

17. cōldnesse n.

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Coldness (of air, climate, an object); actual coldnesse.

18. compǒuned ppl.

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(a) Mixed, blended; (b) complex, complicated; compounded; (c) consisting (of parts).

19. conjuncciǒun n.

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(a) The act or process of joining, combining, or uniting two or more things; the fact of being joined or united, a union; (b) sexual union or intercourse; (c) a juncture or joint.

20. dispōsen v.

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(a) To arrange (sth.); compose (a book, a chord); (b) ben disposed, to be arranged or designed (in a certain way); (c) refl. to prepare oneself, get or be ready; disposen redi, make ready.

21. dispōsiciǒun n.

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(a) Preparation, planning, arranging; also, a plan or arrangement; taken disposicioun, to make arrangements; (b) construction or execution according to a plan; building (of a city); structure (of the…

22. dissenciǒun n.

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(a) Disagreement in sentiment or opinion; esp., overt dissension, quarreling, civil strife; maken (meven, setten)dissencioun; fallen at (upon) dissencioun, to start to quarrel; (b) a disagreement…

23. drast n.

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(a) Dregs, lees; sediment, scum; -- usually pl.; (b) the refuse of grapes after the juice has been pressed out; drastes of honi, wax; (c) dirt, refuse; also, garbage (?or mast) fed to hogs; (d) fig.

24. drīe n.(1)

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(a) Dry or clear weather; in wet and drie, in all kinds of weather, rain or shine; also, the dry heat of the sun, dryness, drought; (b) dry land, land (as opposed to sea); (c) dead wood.

25. drīe adj.(1)

207 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Not humid, moist, or drenched; dry; (b) of land: not flooded or submerged; also, not wet or sodden; comen (driven) to drie lond, to come (drive) ashore; (c) not moistened or soaked; mid (with)

26. drīenes(se n.

Additional spellings: drienesse
46 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The state of being dry or dried out; (b) dryness of weather, drought; (c) dry land (as opposed to sea); (d) desert; (e) dead wood.

27. drīing ger.(1)

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(a) The act or process of drying; (b) phys. & med. desiccation, or the property of stimulating desiccation.

28. drǒught(e n.

Additional spellings: droughte
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Dry weather or season; a dry spell; drought.

29. enǧendren v.

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Of progenitors: to beget or have (offspring); of offspring: to be begotten, born, or descended.

30. ēquāten v.

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Phys. To make similar or the same in qualities; to balance or harmonize (the 'elements' or 'humors').

31. ē̆rthī adj.

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(a) Belonging to man's physical and transitory existence on this earth; worldly; (b) terrestrial; (c) pert. to the earth in its astrological aspect.

32. ē̆rthīnesse n.

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Phys. and biol. The properties characteristic of the 'element' earth.

33. extrānē adj.

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Phys. Derived from without, i.e. not produced by the natural functioning of the body.

34. fast adj.

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(a) Firmly fixed or secured (in place or position); (b) stable, enduring, invariable (state); sound (sleep); stubborn (disease).

35. ficūlence n.

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Phys. Waste matter.

36. fīr n.

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(a) Fire as a physical phenomenon;--without article; (b) the fire of hell; helle-fir, eche fir.

37. fīrī adj.

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Fiery, flaming, blazing; also fig.; firi levene or thonder, lightning.

38. flọ̄r n.

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(a) The floor of a room or building; i(n the flor, on the floor, to the floor; bar flor, paved flor, etc.; bour flor, dortour flor, temple flor, etc.; the bottom of a coffin [quot.: c1250]; (b) flor

39. fọ̄n v.

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(a) To grasp or seize (something), take hold of, pick up; fon on, fonto; (b) fon armes, to take up arms, become a knight; fon rest, find rest; fon the cross, take the cross, go crusading; fon to

40. formāciǒun, -tiōn n.

Additional spellings: formation
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(a) Act of creating or making, creation, production; (b) fig. creator.

41. franǧī̆ble, -ī̆bil adj.

Additional spellings: frangibil
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(a) Breakable, brittle; (b) soluble; (c) phys. [see quot.].

42. frẹ̄̆ndlī adj.

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Of persons: (a) amicable, friendly, devoted; (b) favorably disposed.

43. frẹ̄sen v.

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Of the weather: to be cold enough to freeze water, to be severely cold; it freseth, the frost freseth, it is freezing weather, it freezes.

44. grẹ̄ n.(1)

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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.

45. grẹ̄ne adj.

208 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Green, of the colour of grass; (b) of the skin or complexion: green; also, pale, colorless, livid; gul and grene, pale and grene; (c) as symbolic of inconstancy or envy; (d) grene cloth, the…

46. hēte n.(1)

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(a) Heat; warmth from the sun, a fire, etc.; in chele and in hete, in hete and in cold, in all circumstances; (b) fig. of emotions, virtue, sin, devotion, etc.: intensity, ardor; (c) excessive heat…

47. hō̆t n.(1)

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(a) Hotness of the atmosphere, hot weather; heat as perceptible to the touch; (b) in hot and cold, through thick and thin, at all times; neither in hot ne cold, never; for hot ne cold, for any reason…

48. hō̆t adj.

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High in temperature (ranging in degree from pleasantly warm to excessively hot): (a) of sunshine, air, weather, the day, etc.: warm, balmy; also, hot, torrid; hotteste, the hottest part; of a country…

49. hōtnes(se n.

Additional spellings: hotnesse
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(a) High temperature, heat; the sensation of heat; (b) phys., med. dominant hot quality; also, of a medicine: the degree of hot quality.

50. līvī adj.

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(a) Living, live; (b) livi deth, living death; -- oxymoron; (c) phys. necessary to life; livi vertues, the physiological forces needed to maintain life.

51. maistrī(e n.

Additional spellings: maistrie
232 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Control, dominance, rulership; geten maistri unto, to grant (the kingship) to (sb.); haven maistri; (b) preeminence, status, prestige; (c) authority, warrant; (d) the upper hand, victory in a…

52. mēne adj.(2)

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(a) In a middle state between two extremes; (b) phys. & physiol. of color, temperament, food, etc.: of a mixed quality or character; (c) moderate in size or quantity; mene assise [see assise n. 6]…

53. moist(e adj.

Additional spellings: moiste
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(a) Moist, wet; moistened with tears, blood, saliva, etc.; moist issue, vapor; moist fruit, fig.?luscious fruit; (b) of a land or region: well-irrigated; of a plant: well-watered; maken moist, to…

54. moisting(e ger.

Additional spellings: moistinge
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(a) The act of moistening, wetting; watering (of land); also, a place of moistening; (b) phys. & med. the production or imparting of the quality of moistness.

55. moistūr(e n.

Additional spellings: moisture
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(a) Moisture, wetness; something moist or wet; the moist part of something; dampness, humidity; grutti moistur, mud; (b) of trees and plants: the moistness, wetness; juiciness; sap; (c) a bodily…

56. obēdient adj.

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(a) Obedient; willing to serve someone; also, willing to fulfill an obligation; obedient to, obedient unto; (b) as noun: obedient person; (c) obedient to (unto), subject to the rule of (sb. or sth.)…

57. quā̆litẹ̄ n.

114 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Character, nature, state, or condition; an inherent attribute; innere qualite, ?inner state; [quot.: Barth., last, may belong with sense 3.(a)]; outre qualite, outer state; qualite of the colour

58. remissiǒun n.

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(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant…

59. sight(e n.

Additional spellings: sighte
497 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) The faculty of sight, ability to see; also fig.; also in proverb; spirit (vertu) of sight; (b) sight as one of the five senses; sight eie, eyesight; sight of bodi (eie), bodilich sight, physical…

60. simple adj.

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(a) Blameless, innocent; upright; guileless, artless; (b) of the eyes:?innocent, not sinful; ?sound, healthy; -- used fig.

61. simplī adv.

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Sincerely, honestly; without suspicion, guilelessly.

62. wē̆t n.

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(a) Water as a naturally occurring substance; water as a medium for preparing recipes, soaking, etc.; also, a fluid with properties similar to those of water (b) a naturally occurring body of water,…

63. wē̆t adj.

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(a) Consisting of moisture, flowing, fluid, wet, liquid;—freq. used pleonastically of liquid substances: wet se (teres), reines (teres, wateres, etc.) wet (b) full of moisture; of cheese: ?fresh;…

64. wē̆tnes(se n.

Additional spellings: wetnesse
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(a) Moisture, dampness, wetness; also fig. and in fig. context; haven wetnes, to endure a dousing (b) phys. & astron. the primary quality of wetness inherent in all things; (c) the moisture or…