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1. amāt adj.

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Overcome (as with fatigue or surprise); exhausted, confounded.

2. auncien(t adj.

Additional spellings: auncient
29 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Of great age or antiquity, old; of wine: well aged; (b) having existed in a certain state from early times; auncien demene, ancient demesne, property held by a tenant and by his ancestors; also…

3. austēre, austē̆rne adj.

Additional spellings: austerne
16 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Of persons, speech, manner: harsh, severe, stern; (b) rigorously moral, austere; (c) grim, fierce.

4. baināble adj.

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Compliant, obedient.

5. bained adj.

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Split or crushed by or after soaking.

6. barri adj.

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(a) Cook. Decorated with strips of metal foil; (b) Her. divided equally by horizontal stripes of two alternating colors; also as noun: blazon so constituted.

7. boistǒus adj.

93 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Of persons or their behavior: lacking in polish, learning, skill, or experience; crude, unmannerly, awkward; unlearned, unskilled, ignorant; artless, simple, humble; of an animal: simple; (b) of…

8. dismā̆l n. & adj.

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(a) in the dismal, in days of misfortune or disaster, under inauspicious circumstances, at an unlucky time; (b) dismal dai, one of the two days in each month which were considered unlucky, a day of…

9. dissolū̆tī̆f adj.

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Of a medicine: producing dissolution or dissipation of a morbid condition; -- also as noun.

10. dǒuce adj. & n.

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(a) Dear, beloved; douce amour, sweetheart; (b) douce Fraunce, beloved France; (c) douce vie, luxurious life; (d) as noun: paramour; foul douce, filthy harlot; (e) in surnames.

11. encostī̆f adj.

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Constipated.

12. fēmē̆l(e, -āl(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: femele, femal, female
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(a) Of man and animals: female; a female; (b) femel complexioun, the physiological 'constitution' of a female (in accordance with the 'humor' theory).

13. fẹ̄rs adj.

84 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Of persons: proud, lofty, noble; arrogant, haughty; bold, valiant; (b) bold (hardi, stern, stout) and fers, brave and fierce, stern and proud, strong and brave; fers and fel (stout), brave and…

14. harāǧeǒus adj.

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Cruel, stern, obstreperous, violent.

15. hidǒus adj.

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(a) Terrifying, horrible, dreadful; (b) hideous to see or hear; frightening, horrible, repulsive; hidous til heringe, hidous til (bi) sight, hidous to biholden (sen, heren), hidous to loken (sen) on

16. jolī adj.

153 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Merry, cheerful, glad, joyful, happy; joli of (for), glad of (sth.), happy because of (sth.); joli as a pie (brid, ani jai), etc.; (b) of the heart, will, spirit: joyful; of song, birds…

17. likerǒus adj.

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(a) Of persons: lascivious; amorous; (b) of actions, desires: lascivious; likerous tail, a lecherous sex organ; (c) inciting to lechery; bawdy in speech [quot.: a1475]; likerous eie, an eye which…

18. losanǧẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Composed of lozenges of alternate colors, lozengy.

19. louāble adj.

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Praiseworthy, admirable.

20. marbrin adj.

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(a) Made of marble; (b) of cloth: mottled, variegated; (c) as noun: a kind of cloth with a particolored weave or design.