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1. axel-tọ̄th n.

Additional spellings: axeltoth
3 quotations in 1 sense
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A molar.

2. balled adj.

34 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Of the crown of the head: hairless, bald; of a person: having a bald head; balled cholle, bald-head; (b) of other parts of the body: hairless, smooth; (c) in names.

3. balteren v.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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To move about clumsily; totter, hobble, tumble about.

4. bī̆sten v.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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To buffet (sb.), pummel, flog, beat; also without obj., of waves: to dash, rage.

5. bọ̄th n.

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A stall at a market or fair, a merchant's shop; ?also, house of prostitution [L meritorium]; (b) a temporary dwelling, arbor of branches, tent, hut; also a poor dwelling, a hovel; (c) in personal…

6. bǒun adj.

114 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Of persons: ready, prepared; also, armed; boun in, clothed in (sth.); expert in (astronomy); of things: in readiness, prepared; of a weapon: drawn; of parts of buildings: made, built; of wages or…

7. cai adj.

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Left; cai fot, left foot.

8. hō̆lm(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: holme
22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An island; a peninsula; (b) a meadow on a river bank; (c) a hill; (d) in surnames & place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.258-9, 268].

9. intak n.

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A piece of enclosed land taken from a moor or from a common; -- only in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.304].

10. leske n.

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That part of the sides of the body of a man or quadruped between the ribs and thighs; the flank.

11. lodden v.

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To stick (together), cleave.

12. lūne n.

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Peace, quiet.

13. napand ppl.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Grasping, greedy.

14. quert(e adj.

Additional spellings: querte
19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Of a person, an animal: healthy, sound; alive; uninjured, safe; (b) of a thing: intact, undamaged; (c) spiritually sound or healthy; quert from, safe from (sin); (d) at ease, untroubled.

15. raft n.

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A beam; also, a spear [last quot.].

16. rag(ge n.

Additional spellings: ragge
45 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A scrap of cloth, rag; (b) a strip of cloth, bandage; a streamer on a banner or pennon; (c) a flap or lappet of a garment; (d) sg.& pl. tattered or ragged clothing; also fig.; (e) ?a shred of…

17. rein n.(2)

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(a) A strip of land forming a boundary; also, a strip of land marked out as lists; (b) a furrow; (c) a barrier, an embankment; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2. 82].

18. reisen v.(1)

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(a) To lift up (sb. or sth.), hold up; engage in lifting and carrying [quot.: 1446]; reisen up; reisen eien, reisen up eie-sight, look up; reisen eres, of an elephant: stretch out the ears; reisen up

19. rudnen v.

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To become flushed from strong emotion.

20. rungen v.(1)

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In phrase: rungen up, to stand up, rise up; also, fig. become roused.

21. rushe-wāle n.

Additional spellings: rushewale
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Walrus hide.

22. rusken v.

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(a) To start (game); (b) rusken up, to root up (sth.); (c) of a bird: ?to ruffle (its feathers); (d) in surname.

23. scof(fe n.

Additional spellings: scoffe
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(a) Something trivial or ridiculous, a bagatelle; in bourde and scof, as a joke; maken no scof, to be serious; (b) an expression of contempt, a jibe; a mockery; (c) as surname.

24. scoffen v.

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(a) To jest, make light of something; (b) to make fun of (sb.), mock.

25. sẹ̄men v.(2)

426 quotations in 15 senses
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With adjectives, adjectival phrases, etc. in the pred.: (a) of persons, their countenance, speech, etc.: to appear to be (sick, honest, of great age, etc.); ppl. seminge as adv.: outwardly…

26. shāme n.

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(a) The feeling of having offended against propriety or decency; the feeling of having done something disgraceful; an instance of such feeling; embarrassment or revulsion caused by awareness of one's…

27. shrub(be n.

Additional spellings: shrubbe
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(a) A low-growing bush, shrub; pl. shrubs, bushes; also, shrubland [quot.: c1400(?a1387)]; water shrub; (b) a branch or sprig of a bush; (c) in surnames; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.115].

28. skairen v.

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To scatter (a tribe, one's enemies), disperse; also, ?make an attack [quot.: c1425]; skairen oute, set out (a watch), post (sentries).

29. sling(e n.

Additional spellings: slinge
33 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A hand-held weapon for throwing stones or similar missiles, a sling; also fig.; honde sling; sling slaughte, game killed with a sling; sling ston, a stone used as a missile to be thrown from a…

30. snibben v.

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(a) To rebuke, reprove; reprove (sb.), rebuke; also, abuse (sb.); censure (sinful behavior); (b) to rebuke (sb.) for (just criticism); snibben of (for), reprove (sb.) for (sinful or improper conduct)…

31. sniffen v.

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To sniffle, sniff.

32. snifteren v.

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To sniffle.

33. sniftinge ger.

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Sniffling.

34. stalk(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: stalke
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(a) The stalk of a plant; the trunk of a tree; also fig.; -- also coll.; a shoot of a vine [quot.: ?a1425(c1380)]; a piece of straw [quot.: c1390 CT.Rv.]; ?a reed [quot.: 1440]; on stalk and ston, at…

35. stāver n.

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(a) An upright bar in a rack for hay or fodder; hacche staver; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.141, 142].

36. stēn(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: stene
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(a) A large stone; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.150].

37. stuth n.

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A customary rent [see quots.]; shir-reve stuth, ?a payment to a sheriff for the expenses of his office [the combs. shir-reve toth & shir-reves teth s.v. shir-reve n. (d) should be changed to shir-reve

38. sum conj.

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(a) As; ?also, error for soth adj. [quot. a1225]; sum that, where [cp. as conj. 10.]; as fer sum, so fer..sum, insofar as; so (as) sum, as, just as; also, as though [quot.Orm .3694]; swich (al-swich)

39. sweien v.(2)

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(a) To move, go, go quickly, hasten; also, of a current: move (sb.) along, carry; (b) to move in a swaying or sweeping motion; also, stoop, bend; ppl. sweande as adj., of a sail: billowing, swelling…

40. thei pron.

169 quotations in 5 senses
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As anaph. or pers. pron.: (a) the persons referred to, they; (b) used pleonastically or for emphasis; (c) with antecedent in apposition following; (d) as obj. of verb or prep.: them, those; (e) with…

41. thī̆r(e pron.

Additional spellings: thire
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(a) Used anaphorically, pointing to previously mentioned persons, things, actions, etc.: these, they; also, these, them [quots. 1st & c1450(?a1400)]; alle thir; also, pointing to one of two previously…

42. umbetrīn adv.

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Round about, around; ?set around, placed around.

43. weght n.(1)

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(a) The physical property of heaviness, mass; weight as an attribute of objects, living creatures, or substances; also, the abstract quality of weight as a component of due proportion in nature; also…

44. wẹ̄k(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: weke
179 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The calendrical unit consisting of a cycle of seven successive named or numbered days and beginning or ending with a particularly specified day, the week of the Jewish or Christian calendar (b)…

45. whē̆then adv. & conj.

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As interrog. adv. in direct questions: (a) from what place?, whence?; also in interrog. adv. phrase with prep. from [last quot.]; (b) by what means?, how?; for what reason?, why?

46. wīpe n.

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(a) The lapwing (Vanellus vanellus); also, in conventional comparison: wrethe as a wipe; (b) ?as surname.

47. wrēth(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: wrethe
40 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Anger, wrath; animosity, hostility; also, the deadly sin of wrath; also in fig. context [quot. ?a1475]; ?also, wrathful behavior [quot. a1500(?c1450)]; brother wreth, anger against one’s fellow…

48. wrēthen v.(1)

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(a) To be or become angry, rage; be angry (with sb.); of God: be or become righteously wrathful (b) of anger: to be kindled (against sb.); (c) to become angry with (sb.); (d) refl. to be or become…

49. yēven v.

1371 quotations in 35 senses
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(a) To give alms, gifts, etc., give something voluntarily, make a gift; give generously (to sb.); give alms, gifts, etc. (to sb.) in response to a request; also, in partitive construction: yeven of