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21. lẹ̄ǧe adj.

40 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Of a feudal superior: entitled to feudal allegiance and service; of a sovereign: entitled to a subject's allegiance; lege lord, lege ladie, lege soverain, etc.; (b) fig. lege lord, religious Lord……

22. likerǒus adj.

60 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Of persons: lascivious; amorous; (b) of actions, desires: lascivious; likerous tail, a lecherous sex organ; (c) inciting to lechery; bawdy in speech [quot.: a1475]; likerous eie, an eye which……

23. ǒuele adj.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Equal. …

24. ǒundẹ̄ adj.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Her. Wavy, undé; (b) decorated with undulating streaks of color; (c) of hair: wavy, curly. …

25. pecūnier adj.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Consisting of money; peine pecunier, pecuniary penalty, a fine. …

26. pendaunt adj.

12 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Hanging, suspended, pendent; also, hanging down, slung low [quot.: c1475]; also, draping, flowing; (b) sloping, steep; (c) overhanging, jutting; (d) surg. of an infected wound: protruding……

27. plenē̆r(e adj.

Additional spellings: plenere
41 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Full, complete, total; of an account: fully told; of plener age, of legal age, full-grown; plener pes, general peace; plener time, appropriate time, fullness of time; (b) plener remissioun……

28. plunket adj.

14 quotations in 1 sense
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Of a blue color; esp. light or grayish blue; also, made of light blue or blue-gray wool; plunket medle, cloth made of varying shades of blue-gray or light blue threads. …

29. povre adj.

313 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Lacking money or material possessions, destitute; needy, indigent; also, less wealthy in comparison with somebody else; (b) povre and nedi, povre nedi, etc.; povre and riche, riche and povre……

30. prenāble adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Capable of being taken by force, pregnable; also fig. obtainable; (b) of words: weighty, convincing [confused with preignaunt]. …

31. prēterit adj.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Before the present, past; preterit time; (b) having to do with the past; (c) gram. of tense in Latin: denoting action in the past; preterit imparfit tens, the imperfect tense. …

32. prī̆mer adj.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) First in time or succession; (b) first in rank, foremost; (c) as surname. …

33. purseint adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Surrounding, encircling, adjacent; yerd purseint, precincts of a church, the consecrated ground surrounding a church. …

34. pursī̆f adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Asthmatic, short-winded, pursive. …

35. purveiaunt adj.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Foresighted, prudent. …

36. queisī(e adj.

Additional spellings: queisie
10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Of food: unsettling to the stomach, queasy; (b) of humors: ?associated with nausea; (c) of events or the state of affairs: unsettled, uncertain. …

37. quisheld adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Of thigh boots or leggings: fitted with cuisses, armored. …

38. rēal adj.(1)

154 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Of a king, one of the royal family, his power, dignity, etc.: majestic, royal, kingly; real blod, blod real [see also blod n. 6a.(a)]; real estat, estat real [see also estat n. 11d.]; real……

39. Rīnish adj.

25 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Of or pertaining to the Rhine river or the regions near it, Rhenish; Rinish fat, ?a vessel manufactured in, or of a type common to, the Rhine region; Rinish gilder, a coin current in Germany……

40. Sarasī̆neis adj.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Of Saracen manufacture or style; brouet Sarasineis blaunk, a milk-based sauce; (b) of Saracen birth; (c) as noun: the territory of the Saracens [cp. Sarasinesse n.(a)]. …

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