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1. al limiting adj. & n.

239 quotations in 8 senses
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Denoting the total number of entities in a class or group: all (persons, creatures, things, units); all without exception: (a) with a noun: al(le men, al(le the knightes, the knightes al(le, etc.; (b)……

2. alma(u)ndīn, -en adj.

Additional spellings: almaundin, almanden, almaunden
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Of the almond tree or fruit; almandin milk. …

3. alod predicate adj.

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?Miserable, in a wretched condition; ?scattered, widespread. …

4. amāt adj.

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Overcome (as with fatigue or surprise); exhausted, confounded. …

5. ampullous adj.

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Bubbly, frothy. …

6. anī limiting adj.

123 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) With concrete nouns: any (person (s), thing (s), etc.); often emphatic: any whatever, any at all; ani other, anyone else; best of ani man = better than ani; (b) with mass nouns, action nouns……

7. anī-kin(nes phr. (used attributively) & adj.

Additional spellings: anikin, ani-kinnes, anikinnes
19 quotations in 1 sense
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Any kind(s) of, any; also, every kind of [quot.Cursor 276]; for ani-kin aughte, by every means, all he could; on (in) ani-kin wise, in any way or manner; bi ani-kin wei, anyway; for ani-kin thing, for……

8. applicātī̆f adj.

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Suitably applied, applicable, predicable. …

9. arveð adj. & adv. (also in adjectival compounds.)

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(a) Difficult, hard; it is arveð, it is hard (to do); him is arveð, it is hard for him (to do); (b) arveð finde, hard to find, rare; arveð forþe, hard to achieve or do; arveð healde, arveðihialde……

10. aswǒue(n, aswoune predicate adj. & adv.

Additional spellings: aswouen, aswoune
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In a swoon or faint; ben, lien, fallen, tomblen aswoue. …

11. auncien(t adj.

Additional spellings: auncient
29 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Of great age or antiquity, old; of wine: well aged; (b) having existed in a certain state from early times; auncien demene, ancient demesne, property held by a tenant and by his ancestors; also……

12. austēre, austē̆rne adj.

Additional spellings: austerne
16 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Of persons, speech, manner: harsh, severe, stern; (b) rigorously moral, austere; (c) grim, fierce. …

13. baber-lipped adj.

Additional spellings: baberlipped
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Thick-lipped. …

14. baināble adj.

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Compliant, obedient. …

15. bained adj.

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Split or crushed by or after soaking. …

16. barri adj.

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(a) Cook. Decorated with strips of metal foil; (b) Her. divided equally by horizontal stripes of two alternating colors; also as noun: blazon so constituted. …

17. bẹ̄chen adj.

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Consisting of beech trees; of a beech tree, of beech wood. …

18. bede adj.

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Of a dog: ?hunting, to hunt. …

19. bed-rēde(n adj. & n.

Additional spellings: bedrede, bed-reden, bedreden
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(a) Confined to bed, bedridden; (b) one who is confined to bed. …

20. biglī adj.

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(a) Comfortable, stately (mansion); (b) perfect (happiness). …

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