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61. pī̆ken v.(1)

196 quotations in 10 senses
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To work with a pick or other digging implement; --also refl.; dig (sth.); break up (land, a field); dig up (weeds); piken awei, dig up (weeds); undermine (a foundation); piken oute, dig out (stones…

62. pirling ppl.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Revolving.

63. prǒud adj.

228 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Guilty of the sin of Pride; haughty, arrogant; also, obstinate, rebellious; (b) proudest of pride, supremely proud; proud as lucifer; proud herte, proud heart; -- also as surname or epithet; maken

64. rag(e-man n.

Additional spellings: ragman, rage-man, rageman
23 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) An accuser; the title of the statute of Edward I appointing justices to hear and determine certain specified offenses by the king's officials and others during the twenty-five years prior to…

65. rās(e n.

Additional spellings: rase
40 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A forward movement, course, progress; also, a sea current; also, a rush of water; (b) a course of life or conduct; a period of time; rennen the develes ras, rennen oute of god ras, to pursue an…

66. rāth n.

10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Advice, counsel; what shal me to rath, what plan shall I adopt?; outmost rath, last counsel; (b) a counselor, friend; (c) rathes-men, advisers.

67. raun-trẹ̄ n.

Additional spellings: rauntre
1 quotation in 1 sense
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A rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia).

68. rein-dẹ̄r n.

Additional spellings: reinder
9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The European reindeer (Rangifer tarandus); (b) her. rein-der hed, a stag's head with two sets of antlers (double attires), the front pair turned down.

69. rẹ̄nish(e adj.

Additional spellings: renishe
2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Strange, uncouth; (b) of an emperor: stern, awful.

70. reuth(e n.

Additional spellings: reuthe
142 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Pity, compassion, sympathy; also, mercy; alas for reuth; (b) haven reuth of (on, upon), to have pity or mercy on (sb., a soul, etc.); nimen (taken) reuth of, take pity on (sb.); (c) haven reuth

71. rift(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: rifte
14 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Splitting, breaking, rending; (b) a cleft in the earth or in a rock, a crevice, fissure; (c) a crack in a wall, door, etc., a chink, cranny.

72. rō-bō̆nd n.

Additional spellings: robond
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. A rope attaching the head of a sail to the yard.

73. rō̆-mōngǒur n.

Additional spellings: romongour
8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A dealer; ro-mongour of hors, a horse trader; (b) in surnames.

74. rō̆t n.

20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Decay, corruption, putrefaction; (b) a disease of sheep; (c) a wasting disease in man; also fig.; (d) in place name.

75. rō̆ten adj.

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(a) Of an animal substance: in a state of decomposition or putrefaction; of a corpse or part of a dead body: putrid, rotted; of a hide: in a state of disintegration, rotten; (b) of a vegetable…

76. ruggī adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Hairy, shaggy, bristly; (b) rugged in form, unshapely.

77. rūnian n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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?A term of affection for a farm servant, a favorite.

78. rūthen v.(2)

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Of weather: to become stormy.

79. sā̆k-abor n.

Additional spellings: sakabor
2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A prosecutor in an action for theft; (b) a surety paid for the right to prosecute an action.

80. scab(be n.

Additional spellings: scabbe
60 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Any of various skin diseases characterized by itching, pustules, ulceration, etc.; also, the pustule characteristic of such diseases [quot.: a1398, 1st]; also, scabby or scaly condition of the…