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1. balgh adj.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Bulging, stout (chest, haunches); (b) bulging, round (knoll); ?smooth; (c) stout, big (tree, pole, stone).

2. bẹ̄ld(e, bēld(e adj.

Additional spellings: belde, belde
11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Of persons: bold, brave, doughty; (b) of actions or words: bold, daring; (c) encouraging, helpful.

3. bōld adj.

126 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Of persons: brave, courageous, daring, fearless; bold of herte; bold in blod; bold brained; maken bold, encourage (sb.); (b) of animals: fearless, ?ferocious; (c) of actions: courageous, bold…

4. bright adj.

147 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Of the sun, moon, stars, fire: giving off much light, shining brightly, bright; of light: intense, brilliant; also fig. [quot. 1421]; (b) of God, angels, saints, heaven: characterized by intense…

5. cōld adj.

207 quotations in 8 senses
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Low in temperature: (a) cold, chilly (weather, season, climate); (b) cold or cool (dwelling); chilly (grave); (c) cold to the touch; cold as is, cold as a ston; (d) of food and drink: cold, cooled…

6. dẹ̄re adj.(1)

218 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Of God, of persons: excellent, noble, honored, valiant; dere of degre, high in rank; often in direct address; dere God, dere ladi, dere lord, dere sire; (b) as noun: noble one(s, valiant man, etc…

7. dē̆rne adj.

77 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Secluded, solitary (place); secret (passage, etc.); (b) in names: derne-clive, derne hus, derne love, derne place [see also Smith PNElem. 1.131].

8. dīȝel adj., n., & adv.

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(a) Hidden, secret; of words: cryptic; (b) as noun: on diȝel, in secret; (c) as adv.: secretly.

9. dīȝelīche adj. & n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Secret, mysterious; (b) as noun: a hidden meaning, a secret.

10. flẹ̄me n.(1) & adj.

15 quotations in 1 sense
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An exile, a fugitive, an outlaw; crien (greden) fleme, to proclaim (someone) an outlaw, to banish; don (maken) fleme, to outlaw or exile (someone); as adj.: exiled, outlawed.

11. glā̆sen adj.

26 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Made of glass; (b) yeven a glasen houve, to delude (sb.); glasen glose, a deluding or sophistical interpretation; (c) glasen wright, a glazier.

12. grẹ̄dī adj.

44 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Greedy, gluttonous, overeager to eat; (b) hungry, unsatisfied; also fig.; (c) of animals: ravening, ravenous, voracious; also fig.; gredi on, hungry for (prey).

13. grei adj. & n.

119 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Ash-colored, flint-colored, dull, gray; of cloth: gray, drab; of a man: gray-haired; grei hered, grei hore, grei hored, gray-haired, hoary; grei her, an old man; grei tauier, one who taws pelts…

14. grēt adj. & adv. & n.

696 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Large in size or quantity, big; gret and smal, large and small, all; gret ne smal, big or little, of no kind; althergrettest, largest of all [cp. alder- pref.]; gret belle, large bell; (b) much…

15. half adj.

197 quotations in 11 senses
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Constituting the half part of an object, an aggregate, a unit of numbering, coinage, measurement, time, area, etc.; half: (a) immediately preceding a noun; (b) separated from a noun by the definite…

16. halt adj.

34 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Crippled as to walking, limping or uneven in gait, lame; halt and (or) lame; halt foted, having crippled feet; (b) as noun: one who limps or is lame; the halt, the lame; (c) fig. deficient…

17. heigh adj.

758 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) High, lofty, big, tall; heigh der, stag; heigh got, he-goat; heigh halle (hous, bold), large house [often connoting pride and ostentation]; heigh hors (stede), fine tall horse [also, like heigh

18. hẹ̄rdlēs adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Without a shepherd.

19. hēren adj.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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Made of hair; woven or braided of hair; heren clout, a rag of haircloth; heren sarge, a curtain of woven hair; heren sherte, a hair shirt; heren sive = her(e-sive.

20. hẹ̄rsum adj.

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(a) Obedient, compliant; (b) ?of worship: devout.