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1. articūlāciǒun n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Anat. & surg. (a) A joint or joining (of bones); (b) setting (of bones or fractures).

2. cāne n.

26 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A reed (esp., Arundo donax & Phragmites communis); (b) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum); (c) a Javanese reed; prob., bamboo; (d) a fragrant reed of India and Persia.

3. dēf adj. (& n.)

79 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Unable to hear; of a person, an ear, hearing: deaf; blind and def, def and blind, def and doumb, doumb and def; (b) as noun: deaf person(s, the deaf; (c) def boren, born deaf.

4. gaderen v.

213 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Of people: to come together, assemble, congregate; meet, have a meeting; gaderen abouten, gaderen unto, crowd around (sb.), surround; (b) refl. to come together, assemble; gaderen samen, gaderen

5. ǧenerātī̆f n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Anat. The power which produces bodily tissues or organs; (b) surg. a medicine that promotes the regeneration of lost tissue.

6. grōs adj.

40 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Large; gros glot (spiking), a kind of large nail or spike; (b) anat. of bodily parts, organs, structures: large, thick.

7. hūmiditẹ̄ n.

22 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Moistness, dampness; (b) anat. & med. the primary quality of moistness.

8. husk(e n.

Additional spellings: huske
19 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The outside covering of nuts, and certain fruits; (b) the cup of an acorn; (c) husk or chaff of grain; (d) a cocoon; (e) the carapace of a beetle.

9. involven v.

18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To cloud (writing with obscurities), envelop (sb., the soul, in darkness, vice, etc.); encumber (sb. with care, adverse fortune, church censure); surround (sb. with goods); refl. concern oneself…

10. kẹ̄pen v.

912 quotations in 36 senses
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(a) To care about (sb.), wish for (sth.), desire (sb. or sth.); kepen no bettre, want nothing better; kepen no more, desire nothing more; kepen of, care about (sb.); (b) kepen nought (nothing, not) of

11. līk adj.

121 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Similar, alike, analogous; (b) lik to (of, til, unto, with), like (sb. or sth.); lik after, like (sb.); lik toward, like (sth.); (c) of the same level, equal; lik to, equal to (sb. or sth.), lik

12. mọ̄n(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: mone
240 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) The moon as a luminous heavenly body; the seventh 'planet' of Ptolemaic astronomy, the planet of the sphere nearest the earth; (b) the moon as the cosmological divider between the earth and the…

13. nē̆she adj.

132 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Physically soft in texture; pliant or yielding, not hard or stiff; of beds: well-cushioned and comfortable to lie on; of wool, cloth, or clothing: smooth and soft to the sense of touch; of hair…

14. ō̆ning(e ger.

Additional spellings: oninge
42 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Oneness, union, unity; also, unification; ben in-to oning, to become one, be united; (b) oning to (in-to, with), union with (sb. or sth.), joining to; (c) the political unification of a kingdom…

15. ō̆rifice n. singular & plural

18 quotations in 1 sense
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Anat. & surg. (a) The opening of a wound; (b) the aperture or cavity of an ulcer, fistula, or festering sore; (c) aperture(s(s in an organ, vein, or duct of the body; orifice of the emoroides, the…

16. pī̆lē̆r(e n.

Additional spellings: pilere
120 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A pillar or column, either weight-bearing or free-standing; a pedestal; tre piler, piler of tre, a wooden pillar or post; (b) fig. a source of support, a supporter; the beam in the eye as referred…

17. pit n.

200 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is…

18. plain(e adj.

Additional spellings: plaine
265 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Flat, level, even; of geographic areas: low in elevation, lowland; broad, flat; also, of an engraving: worked in low relief; plain contre (ground, place, thing), a plain, plateau, or lowland…

19. plasmāciǒun n.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A forming or fashioning, creation; (b) anat. & surg. the form, shape, or structure of a bodily organ; also, the form or shape of a wound.

20. posiciǒun n.

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(a) A statement of belief; proposition; bi grace of posicioun, for the sake of argument; (b) location; anat. and surg. with reference to a part of the body: location, positioning.