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1. amobre, amobreship n.

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Welsh law: amobre, commutation fee, maiden fee [paid to the lord upon marriage of a girl]; amobreship, the office or privilege of collecting this fee.

2. bat n.

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(a) A war club or mace; a cudgel or flail; (b) a (shepherd's) staff; a (fuller's) bat; (c) a crosier.

3. bauded ppl.

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Soiled, filthy, dirty.

4. bragot n.

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A beverage made of ale and honey, bragget.

5. cā̆der n.

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A cradle; cader cloutes, baby clothes.

6. cammed adj.

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(a) Pug-nosed; of the nose: turned up, pug, retroussé; (b) curved.

7. commorth n.

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A gathering for the purpose of collecting contributions.

8. commǒut n.

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A territorial and administrative division in Wales.

9. corī n.

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A shepherd's hut.

10. crag n.

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(a) A precipitous rock, a cliff, a mountain peak; (b) a headland, promontory, sea cliff; crag in (of) the se; (c) a projecting point of rock; (d) crag ston, a cliff, a rock.

11. crannok n.

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A measure of grain (apparently varying from two to sixteen bushels).

12. creag n.

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(a) Some kitchen utensil; (b) a game of some kind.

13. crǒud n.(2)

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A stringed instrument of the Celtic peoples, the crowd.

14. flānen n.

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Sackcloth.

15. genou n.

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The mouth.

16. glāveren v.

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(a) To speak loudly or deceitfully; (b) to speak deceitfully about (sb.), deceive (sb.); (c) ppl. glaveringe, glaverande, of words: deceitful; of a person: loud-speaking; for glaveren, because of loud…

17. gog(e)len v.

Additional spellings: gogelen
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To stagger; fig. wander (from God's law); of the ground: shake, quiver; goglen with, nod with (one's head), wag (one's head).

18. gulle n.

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A gull, water bird.

19. hagh interj.

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An exclamation, either of grief or mirth.

20. irk(e adj.

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(a) Tired; irk of, weary of (sb. or sth.), bored with; tired (of doing sth.); (b) lax, slow; irk of, averse to (sth.), unwilling (to do sth.), reluctant, loath.

21. kaire n.

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?The European rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia).

22. kenning n.

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A small ulcer in the eye, a white cloudy spot on the cornea like a thin film; kenning wort, the greater celandine (Chelidonium majus); -- confused in quot. with scarlet pimpernel (Anagallus avensis).

23. kībe n.

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A chilblain; specif. one on the foot; ?also, a pathological swelling or protuberance.

24. kid n.

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A bundle of twigs, brushwood, or the like; a faggot; also, pl. firewood or kindling in bundles; crop kid [cp. crop 2. (c)], a bundle of top twigs or branches; kid berer, a servant or laborer who…

25. lough n.

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(a) A lake; also, any body of water, ?a river [1st quot.]; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.27].

26. mīles n. plural

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Animals; esp. wild creatures.

27. Molmutīne adj.

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Of Dunwallo Molmutius, British king and law-giver; laues (leges) Molmutine.

28. mǒunthe n.

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(a) A mountain; (b) pl. the Alps.

29. ou interj.

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Oh, ah; ?alas.

30. pēte n.(2)

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(a) A peat, piece of peat; counten at on pete, to respect (sb.), give a straw for; (b) pete gardin, an area of land used for cutting peat; pete hous, a building for storing peats; pete hous dore; pete

31. pil n.

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(a) A pool; a pool in a stream; ?also, a tidal stream; pil or pounde [see pound(e n.(2)]; (b) in surnames; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.75].

32. piln n.

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A little cushion used in horseback riding, a pillion.

33. ?porthien-keis n.

Additional spellings: porthienkeis
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The food accorded an official by right of his office.

34. ?raglōre n.

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The office of the chief official in a Welsh commot, raglership.

35. raglotīe n.

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= raglore n.

36. ringildīe n.

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The office of a sergeant or bailiff.

37. ringildship n.

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The office of a sergeantry, a bailiffship.

38. suwing n.

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A kind of salmon trout, prob. the bull trout (Salmo cambricus).

39. tunk n.

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A food rent or payment in kind rendered to the king by Welsh customary tenants, a money payment substituted for the foodstuffs owed; tunk pounde, money paid in lieu of payment in kind.

40. wolc n.

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A hawk.

41. wratbihe n.

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A fish of the Labridae family, a wrasse.

42. yarme n.

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(a) A loud noise, an outcry; (b) ?as surname.

43. yarmen v.

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To wail; also, bellow.