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1. bēm-fellen v.

Additional spellings: bemfellen
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Arch. To provide (a building) with bemfilling (q.v.). …

2. bēm-filling ger.

Additional spellings: bemfilling
10 quotations in 1 sense
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Arch. The process of filling the spaces between the timbers of a building; also, the masonry or other structures or materials filling such spaces. …

3. bench-tāblestōn n.

Additional spellings: benchtableston
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Arch. A stone used in laying a projecting horizontal course along the base of a building. …

4. bǒutel n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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Arch. A kind of molding. …

5. cā̆sement n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Arch. A hollow molding. …

6. cater num.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Four; (b) a four in dice; cateres, a double four; (c) Arch. a quatrefoil-shaped stone; cater mise, ?a quatrefoil window [second element may be mise n.(1), = AF mise n.. 'location, position']; (d)……

7. cintre n.

22 quotations in 1 sense
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Arch. The temporary wooden framework on which an arch or vault is constructed; a centering. …

8. cǒurs n.

188 quotations in 14 senses
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Running (of man or beast); a run; riden a cours, make a run. …

9. crē̆ste n.(1)

78 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The crest of a bird or dragon; a tuft of feathers; the comb of a cock or hen; also, a mane; (b) the tail of a comet; the sun's rays at dawn. …

10. crochet n.

17 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A hook; (b) a staff with a hook at the end. …

11. eǧeve n.

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Arch. A diagonal rib of an arch or vault, an ogive. …

12. embouing ger.

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Arch. The vaulting or arches. …

13. finiāl n.

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Arch. An ornament which forms the top of a buttress, pinnacle, spire, or the like; a decorative crown. …

14. fīning ger.

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(a) Ending, death; (b) arch. the uppermost part of a pinnacle or spire; ?a finial. …

15. ǧenelas n. plural

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Arch.?Cusps. …

16. inbǒuen v.

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(a) To make (sb.) stoop, bring low; (b) ppl. inboued, crooked; (c) refl. to bend oneself, stoop; (d) inbouen ere, to turn or bend down (one's) ear, give ear, listen; (e) arch. of beams, etc……

17. inbǒuing ger.

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Arch. ?Trimming or hollow-molding timber for rafters, posts, and the like. …

18. join-tāble n.

Additional spellings: jointable
2 quotations in 1 sense
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Arch. Pieces of stone fitted together to form a molding. …

19. keie n.(1)

143 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A key; lok and keie; also fig.; kinges keies, crowbars and hammers used to force locks or doors; (b) a representation of a key in a heraldic device; keie of rome, a key as a sign of Roman……

20. lās n.

89 quotations in 8 senses
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Cord made of braided or interwoven strands of silk, threads of gold, etc.; also, a length of such cord; also, the thread of life controlled by the Fates. …

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