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1. bǒnche n.

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(a) A bundle or bunch; (b) a hump; (c) a swelling; (d) ?a knob.

2. cambric n.

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A kind of fabric [orig. made at Kamerijk (Cambrai) in Flanders].

3. clammī adj.

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Viscous, sticky, slimy.

4. doder n.

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(a) Flax dodder (Cuscuta epilinum), a greenish-yellow parasitic plant growing on flax; (b) ?hemlock (Conium maculatum).

5. ?grīm n.(2)

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Dirt, grime; fig.?foul weather, a dark or gloomy sky; ?a contemptible person, wretch.

6. grīmen v.

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To blacken (sth.), cover with soot; make (sth.) dark or gloomy; fig. make (robbers) unhappy, punish.

7. gulpen v.

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To gulp down (drink).

8. hake-bōt n.

Additional spellings: hakebot
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A kind of small ship [perh. orig. a boat with a broad stern or counter; cp. Arngart in EStudies 25.164].

9. Henauder n.

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A native of Hainaut.

10. hissen v.

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(a) Of serpents, geese, etc.: to emit a sharp sibilant sound, hiss; (b) hissen on, to make this sound as a sign of contempt, hiss at (sb. or sth.); (c) to whistle; (d) hissen to, to call (sb.) by…

11. husk(e n.

Additional spellings: huske
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(a) The outside covering of nuts, and certain fruits; (b) the cup of an acorn; (c) husk or chaff of grain; (d) a cocoon; (e) the carapace of a beetle.

12. knobbe n.

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(a) A knot, a knob; (b) a knot in a tree; (c) a bulge, a convexity; a swelling; a hump; (d) a lump in the skin or flesh; (e) thickened and hardened skin, a callus; also, the bark of a tree.

13. leu n.

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Only in leu of flaundres, a Flemish gold piece minted under the authority of the Counts of Flanders.

14. leuwin n.

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A kind of cloth made in, or associated with, Louvain; ?also, linen waste for the wick of a candle or torch.

15. marlen v.(2)

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To ensnare, entrap; ppl. marled, entangled; ensnared.

16. pīles n.(2) plural

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(a) Hair; (b) feathers, plumage.

17. quẹ̄̆k(e n.

Additional spellings: queke
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A kind of board game; the board on which it was played; quek borde, the game.

18. runken v.

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To speak secretively, whisper; runken or rounen.

19. spelked adj.

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Of beans: bruised, crushed, pounded.

20. squil(le n.(1)

Additional spellings: squille
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(a) A woven basket; ?also, a bucket; (b) a hollow stem or cane.

21. swalperen v.

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(a) To struggle in the water, splash about; (b) ben swalpird, of bodily humors: to be disturbed, be disordered.

22. wain n.(3)

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?An ornamental hem on a garment.

23. wrimplid adj.

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Marked with lines, wrinkled.