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1. atluppen v.

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?Escape; ?undo.

2. aunen v.

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(a) To show (sth.), disclose; (b) refl. to show oneself, appear; (c) ?point the way.

3. bǣwen v.

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(a) To cleanse (of sin, as by baptism or penance); (b) to make clean.

4. bauderī̆k n.

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A sash or girdle, worn over the shoulder or around the waist, for carrying a sword, a hunting horn, a pouch; a baldric; also an ornamental sash or girdle.

5. blēren v.(2)

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To cry, bellow, wail; of goats: bleat; bleren on, cry out at (sb.), mock, insult.

6. bō̆dī n.

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(a) The whole physical frame of a living being; physique, body; bodi-lich, body [cp. līch body]; assaien bodi, test (one's) physique or physical prowess; (b) build, stature, figure; (c) bodi and

7. bōst n.

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(a) A brag, a boast; boastful speech, bragging, self-praise; (b) casten bost at, be boastful toward (sb.), insult; maken bost (of), brag (of, about); more bost is, etc., a pot of wine causes more…

8. brimme n.

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The shore (of the sea), the bank (of a river); water brimme, river brimme.

9. bush n.(1)

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(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth.

10. caiser n.

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A Roman emperor, a Caesar; caiser of Rome.

11. closh n.

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pleien at the closh(es, to play ball, i.e. bowl or play croquet.

12. clot n.

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(a) A lump; esp., a lump of earth, clod; clot of erthe, clei; erthe clot; stoni clot; (b) earth, ground; in clot, under clottes.

13. cracchen v.

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(a) To scratch (sth.); esp., scrape with claws or fingernails; -- also without object; (b) to scratch oneself to relieve itching; scrape (sth.) lightly with claws or nails; (c) to comb (cloth) to make…

14. crǒuser n.

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A Tyrolean silver coin imprinted with a double cross [issued 1271 by Meinhard II].

15. culpes of the sē phr.

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Sea plants; ?kelp.

16. damp n.

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In a coal mine: the choke-damp or fire-damp.

17. daue n.

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(a) A jackdaw; (b) ?a stupid fellow.

18. dile n.

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(a) The plant dill (Anethum graveolens); also, its seed; (b) dile man, ?a seller of dill; dile sed, the seed of dill; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.133].

19. dok n.

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Trimmed hair (of tail and forelock).

20. dǒng n.(2)

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The pit of hell, an abyss.

21. dǒuken v.

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To dive or plunge (into sth.); ben douked, be immersed (in sin, hell).

22. draie n.

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(a) A wheelless vehicle for hauling, a sledge; also, a cart with wheels; (b) draie lode, as much of a load as is normally hauled on a dray, a cartload.

23. drift n.

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(a) Driving cattle to pasture; (b) a drove or herd; a group of persons; drift of fisheres.

24. drǒm n.

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A drum.

25. Dū̆che-lōnd n.

Additional spellings: Duchelond
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Germany, the German-speaking area of contintental Europe, usually including the Low Countries; Lou Duche-lond, Northern Germany.

26. dwẹ̄re n.

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(a) Doubt, perplexity, uncertainty; in (a) dwere, in doubt; without dwere, without question, certainly; (b) ?disagreement, dissension; ?distress, trouble; (c) amazement, awe; dread, fear.

27. ē̆rd n.(2)

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Character, nature, disposition.

28. fērar n.

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A small German coin.

29. ferten v.

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To break wind, fart; also, to make indecent or unseemly sounds.

30. fīndī adj.

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(a) Capable of understanding (what is said); apt or effective (language); (b) capable or able (person); (c) ?suitable or proper for a certain purpose.

31. fitlok n.

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Fetlock (of a horse).

32. fōr(e-dēl n.

Additional spellings: fore-del
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Advantage, advancement, benefit; ben at for-del, to have the upper hand.

33. glimeren v.

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(a) To shine brightly; gleam, glitter; (b) to shine faintly; glimmer.

34. glimsen v.

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(a) To glisten, be dazzling; (b) to glance with the eyes.

35. gristel n.

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(a) Cartilage, gristle; of gristel kinde, cartilaginous; gristel ring, one of the rings of cartilage of the trachea; (b) a cartilaginous part or structure of the body; (c) gristel bon, a cartilaginous…

36. hacchen v.

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(a) To bring forth young from eggs, hatch; (b) to hatch (young birds, spiders, serpents); also, hatch or incubate (eggs); (c) fig.

37. hallard n.

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A small German coin worth 1/8 of an English penny, a heller.

38. hechel(e n.

Additional spellings: hechele
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An instrument for carding flax, a flax comb, a hatchel; hechel maker.

39. hippen v.

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(a) Of persons, animals, things: to leap, spring, hop, bounce; hippen ayen, spring back, rebound; -- also refl.; (b) to leap downward; of a thing: fall; hippen adoun, hippen to ground; (c) to travel…

40. hummen v.

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(a) To hum, buzz, murmur; (b) to make inarticulate sounds; (c) to make murmuring sounds to cover up embarrassment.

41. kindel n.

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(a) The offspring of any animal, a young one; also fig.; (b) ?a human child; wommen kindelin, female babies.

42. knakken v.

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To trill (a musical note); also, sing (divine service) with trills or other artifices.

43. knal n.

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A blow, knock.

44. lenchen v.

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?To stoop with age.

45. limpen v.(2)

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Phrase: limpen of the soth, to fall short of the truth.

46. lint(e-worme n.

Additional spellings: lintworme, linte-worme, linteworme
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A jewel shaped like a dragon.

47. lǒuren v.

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(a) To frown or scowl for anger or hate; louren on (up, upon), frown or scowl at (sb.); also, look scornfully at (sb.); louren at, look scornfully at (a gift); (b) louring chere (face, semblaunt), a…

48. lumpe n.

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(a) A mass of material, usually of no special shape; a piece, lump; lumpe ston, ?an unfinished stone; lumpe of a wal, ?a buttress; in (on) a lumpe, in one piece, in a heap; fallen as it were a lumpe

49. meis(e n.

Additional spellings: meise
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(a) A container (barrel, basket, or crate) holding 500 or 1000 herring, used as a measure in the fish trade; (b) the quantity of herring in such a container; (c) a container used as a measure for…

50. Ōst-rīch(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: Ostrich, Ost-riche, Ostriche
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The medieval duchy of Austria.

51. quil n.

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(a) A hollow stem or cane, small pipe; such a pipe used as a water conduit or as a tube by which to drain liquid from the body; also, a straw; (b) the shaft of a feather, quill; (c) a spool.

52. renles n.

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Rennet.

53. Rīnish adj.

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(a) Of or pertaining to the Rhine river or the regions near it, Rhenish; Rinish fat, ?a vessel manufactured in, or of a type common to, the Rhine region; Rinish gilder, a coin current in Germany…

54. sā̆t-wort n.

Additional spellings: satwort
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?A type of lichen.

55. scheffe n.

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A rowboat.

56. scratlen v.

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To scratch with the nails.

57. seter n.

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In cpds.: seter gras, the Christmas rose, black hellebore (Helleborus niger); also, ?another plant of the genus Helleborus, prob. bear's foot, stinking hellebore (H. foetidus); seter wort, a plant of…

58. sheueles n.

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A scarecrow.

59. shī̆den v.

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(a) To divide (sth.); ppl. shide as adj., of peas: separated from the pod, shelled; -- ?error for shilled, p.ppl. of shillen v.(2); (b) to shed (tears); -- ?error for sheden v.

60. shirten v.(2)

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Refl. To amuse oneself, enjoy oneself.

61. shou interj.

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An exclamation, shoö, used to scare or drive away hens.

62. shreue n.

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(a) A rascal, rogue; a wicked person, an evildoer; also, an unruly or ill-disciplined child; also iron. [quot.: Idley]; maister shreue, the greatest rogue; (b) cursed (ebere, fals, mansed, olde, etc.)

63. skelten v.

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(a) To come, go; skelten ther-at, apply oneself to something; (b) to raise (an alarm); cause (skirmishing), begin; (c) ?to cause (sb.) to go away, drive away; ?revile (sb.).

64. slēuīe n.

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Languor, heaviness, weariness.

65. slough n.(2)

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(a) A skin covering a body, the skin; fig. a covering; (b) the skin of a serpent, an eel, etc. [in the Titus & V. quot. the scribe who wrote the vr. slyme may have construed the slough of his exemplar…

66. smīlen v.

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(a) To assume an expression of amusement or pleasure, smile; smilen at (of), smile at (sth.), be pleased or amused by (sth.); (b) to assume a pleasant, kindly expression; wear a smile; smilen among

67. smotten v.

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To corrupt (sb.), debase, defile.

68. snegge n.

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(a) A snail; (b) some kind of fish; ?an eel.

69. snobben v.

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To sob; snobben and sighen, sighen and snobben; snobben after, weep in longing for (sth.); ppl. snobbinge, sobbing; also, accompanied by sobs [quot. a1450 Aelred, 2nd].

70. spīche n.

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?A spoke of a wheel; ?a pointed stud on a wheel; -- prob. based on misunderstanding of OF gante 'rim of a wheel, felloe 'or on a misplaced gloss in Gloss.Bibbesw., the probable source.

71. spǒuten v.

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(a) To spit out saliva; ?splash (sth. on a place); -- used without obj. [quot. a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking]; of a lake: send out sprays of water; of a dragon: spit fire; also, spit (fire or sparks), spew; of…

72. sprekle n.

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A speck, speckle.

73. sprekled adj.

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Speckled, spotted.

74. sterten v.

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(a) To leap, jump; cavort, caper, prance; also fig.; also, jump up and down in joy or fear; sterten up, leap up in the air; also fig.; ppl. stertinge, leaping, bounding, skipping; (b) with prep…

75. thǒuten v.

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To address (sb.) as 'thou.'

76. thucke n.

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A mischievous or nasty trick, harm;—used in fig. context.

77. tik n.

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A light touch, tap; also, a blow in combat.

78. tiken v.

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To touch or pat a person as part of a game, dally frivolously.

79. tọ̄̆murten v.

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To break apart, split.

80. ?tọ̄̆shellen v.

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To break (a thumb, finger), shatter.

81. tọ̄̆tag(ge n.

Additional spellings: totagge
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Fig. An attendant circumstance that can obscure the nature of a sin; an attendant circumstance affecting the gravity of a sin.

82. tramplen v.

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To stamp (with one's foot or feet); tread; ppl. tramplid, well trodden.

83. trennen v.(1)

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To separate (sth. from sth. else);— ?error for renden v.(2) or = torenden v.

84. trollen v.

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(a) To roll (sth.), turn; move (the head) to and fro, rock; (b) cook. to roll (dough) into a ball; trollen togeder.

85. twinken v.

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(a) To wink; ?also, blink [last quot.]; (b) to twinkle, flash.

86. wā̆delen v.

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To move or slide heavily (down the sides of a horse);—used of the two halves of the body of a rider split from head to saddle by a sword blow.

87. walten v.

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(a) To turn over, be overturned [quot. ?a1450, 1st]; also, turn (sb. or sth.) over, upend, invert; fig. turn (sth.) over in one’s mind, consider [1st quot.]; walten over (b) to topple, fall in…

88. warī̆angle n.

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A bird of the genus Lanius, a shrike or butcherbird; also used as a term of abuse.

89. warmeth n.

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Heat, warmth;—used in fig. context; ?also, protection from the elements [1st quot.].

90. weimer n.

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?A mourner; ?mourning, lamentation, woe.

91. wei-wort n.

Additional spellings: weiwort
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A plant, perh. burnet saxifrage Pimpinella saxifraga; ?also, variously and indistinguishably, scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis or great burnet Sanguisorba officinalis; ?also, one of the saxifrages…

92. weoðelen v.

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To become unsteady, waver.

93. wīnd-fal n.

Additional spellings: windfal
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That which has been blown down by the wind; specif. coll. or pl. trees or tree limbs blown down by the wind; wind-fal wode.

94. wī̆ndī adj.(1)

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Devoid (of sth.); set free (of sb.), quit.

95. yoȝelinge ger.

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Wretched crying, outcry; also, the hooting or shrieking of an owl.