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1. ālienāciǒun n.

18 quotations in 3 senses
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Law The transfer of one's title to property or rights; alienation or sale (of property); surrender or loss (of a right); also, alteration (of a will) [quot. 1458].

2. cā̆s n.

263 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) State of affairs, circumstances, situation; predicament; hard cas; the fortunes (of a person), lot, destiny; (b) senden cas, yeven cas, to grant fortune, rule destiny; grant (a certain kind of)…

3. casten v.

623 quotations in 27 senses
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(a) To throw (sth.) to a distance, fling, hurl; pour or sprinkle (water); (b) sift (sand); (c) scatter (seed), sow; (d) throw at (sb.).

4. commū̆nen v.

92 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) To distribute (sth.) in shares, deal out; communen to, give (sth.) to (sb.) as his share; communen with, share (sth.) with (others); (b) to have a share (in sth.), participate; enter into…

5. commū̆ning ger.

44 quotations in 5 senses
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The sharing of possessions.

6. constreinen v.

106 quotations in 8 senses
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Of a person: (a) to compel or force (sb. to do sth.), make (sb. do sth.); also, oblige, induce; (b) constreinen herte, constreinen wil, to exert pressure or compulsion on (someone's) heart or will…

7. dēceit(e n.

Additional spellings: deceite
82 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Trickery, deceit, treachery; lying; (b) act of deceiving; a deception, stratagem, trick; a lie; (c) an ambush; (d) a fowler's snare or trap; some device to impede the passage of ships.

8. dēd adj.

290 quotations in 16 senses
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(a) Of persons, animals, bodies, parts of bodies: dead, no longer alive; also fig.; ben ded, to be dead; (b) of trees, flowers, etc.: dead.

9. dēfenden v.

188 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) To fight in defense of (sth.), defend (sb.) by fighting; fight defensively; defenden from, defend against (sb.); (b) refl. to defend oneself; also, put up a fight; defenden ayen, defenden fro

10. dēfending ger.

23 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The act of defending; defense against physical harm, protection; the defending, defense of yourself, self-defense; (b) a means of defense; a covering; a fortification.

11. dēfens(e n.

Additional spellings: defense
122 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) Act of defending oneself (or sb. else) by fighting, defense; comen to defens, to come to someone's defense; don defens, maken defens, stonden at defens, to defend oneself; also, to fight; for (in)

12. dẹ̄ming ger.

40 quotations in 4 senses
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Law (a) The act of conducting a trial or of passing judgment; adjudication, arbitration; stonden to deming, to submit to arbitration; dai of deming, Judgment Day; (b) a judicial decision or verdict…

13. effect n.

115 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Execution or completion (of an act); attainment or consummation (of a desire, an aim); fulfillment or realization (of a wish, a prayer, a dream); (b) comen to effect, achieve or attain to; produce…

14. engrōssen v.

44 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To gather, collect, or acquire (something) in large quantity or numbers; (b) to accumulate or buy (goods) in such quantity as to cause scarcity, to forestall (the market), to corner (a commodity…

15. entenciǒun n.

66 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Purpose, intention, or design; aim or object; final entencioun, ultimate purpose or goal; (b) of entencioun, on purpose, intentionally; of on entencioun, with fixed purpose; unanimously.

16. entente n.

160 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Purpose or intention; aim or object; reason (for doing something); (b) of entente, intentionally, deliberately, voluntarily; double of entente, ?shifty; (c) for, in, til, to, with (the) entente

17. extincten v.

14 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To extinguish, put out (a fire, light); also fig.; (b) to suppress or put down (an uprising).

18. fō̆rme n.

249 quotations in 17 senses
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(a) The physical shape of something, contour, outline; the figure or shape (of a person), body; also fig.; (b) forme and shape, shape or forme, forme and shafte, etc.

19. liften v.

169 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) To raise (sb. or sth.) from the ground or other surface, pick (sth.) up; help (sb. on to a horse, to his feet); also fig. restore (a sinner) -- also without obj.; refl. of the sea: rise in waves…

20. mẹ̄ven v.

465 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) To move (sb. or sth.), shift; remove (sth.), dislodge; move (sth.) about, shake, disturb; stir (a liquid); apply (sth.); also fig.; meven hat ne hod, remove hat nor hood, uncover the head; meven