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1. asshe n.(2)

98 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Ashes of combustible materials; brennen to asshe; turnen to asshe; (b) ashes as used in medicaments, for making lye, etc.; (c) hot ashes or coals, as for baking.

2. bath n.

68 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) The action of taking a bath; an instance of such action, a bath; (b) the water, usually heated, in which one bathes, or a quantity of such water; maken bath, prepare a bath; bath water.

3. blā̆k n.

61 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The color black, a black or dark color; (b) her. sable; (c) (the) broun and (the) blak, persons of all kinds, everyone.

4. blọ̄d n.(1)

297 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Blood; drauen blod, to draw blood; leten blod, sheden blod, spillen blod, shed blood; cause bloodshed, take life; as red as blod; (b) leten blod, to bleed (a person), phlebotomize; fig. to wound…

5. bō̆dī n.

336 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) The whole physical frame of a living being; physique, body; bodi-lich, body [cp. līch body]; assaien bodi, test (one's) physique or physical prowess; (b) build, stature, figure; (c) bodi and

6. brēd n.(1)

141 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Bread as a staple food; any food baked from dough or paste, such as leavened or unleavened bread, rolls, biscuit, cake, and pastry; (b) bred and water (milk), the diet of fasting or penance; (c) c

7. brid n.

164 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A bird of any kind; briddes and bestes; (b) brid of prai, a bird of prey; brid of gentris, a noble bird; brid of plesaunce, a bird used in the sport of hunting; feld brid, wild fowl; (c) a bird as…

8. brọ̄ther n.

207 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A brother or half-brother by blood relationship; (b) pl. brothers; (c) brotheres doughter (sone, wif), a brother's daughter (son, wife); brotheres love, love for (one's) brother; brotheres slaier

9. croue n.

70 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The carrion crow Corvus corone; also, the rook Corvus frugilegus; (b) the raven Corvus corax.

10. dēth n.

329 quotations in 12 senses
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Loss of life; dying, death as an event; deth of the bodi, deth of lif; dout (dred) of deth, fear of dying; paien the dette of deth, to die as man must die; dethes cares, throes of death.

11. drīenes(se n.

Additional spellings: drienesse
46 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The state of being dry or dried out; (b) dryness of weather, drought; (c) dry land (as opposed to sea); (d) desert; (e) dead wood.

12. ei n.(1)

86 quotations in 7 senses
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The edible egg of a domesticated fowl, esp. a hen's egg.

13. ē̆rthe n.(1)

291 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) The physical earth as part of God's creation, often as contrasted with the heavens above and hell below; (b) the earth as a sphere.

14. fīr n.

283 quotations in 16 senses
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(a) Fire as a physical phenomenon;--without article; (b) the fire of hell; helle-fir, eche fir.

15. flīen v.

198 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To fly with wings; flien with winges; flien in (bi) the lift (air); flien on heigh (upon height); flien (one's) wei; fleing kind, flying creature, birds; (b) comen flen, flien fleing, to come…

16. gī̆lden v.

53 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To overlay (sth.) with gold, cover with gilding, gild; (b) fig. to conceal (sth. bad) under a fair exterior or appearance; (c) to decorate (sth.) with gold; inlay (sth.) with gold, embroider or…

17. gōld n.

285 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) The metal gold; of gold, consisting of gold, made of gold; (b) gold and silver, etc.; (c) clene gold, cler gold, fin gold, pure gold, refined gold; parti gold, gold with considerable alloy; red

18. grẹ̄ne adj.

208 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Green, of the colour of grass; (b) of the skin or complexion: green; also, pale, colorless, livid; gul and grene, pale and grene; (c) as symbolic of inconstancy or envy; (d) grene cloth, the…

19. hēd n.(1)

616 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) A human or animal head; (b) a representation of a head in heraldry, carving, painting, etc.; (c) of a bed or grave: the end at which the head lies; shete for the hed = hed shete; (d) hair…

20. hē̆ven n.

326 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The abode of God, heaven, paradise; -- also in pl.; (b) to (til, in) heven ward, to heaven; as to heven ward, as regards heaven; heven(es of heven(es, the highest heaven; hevenes kingdom, kingdom