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1. anelās n.

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(a) A two-edged stiletto or dagger; (b) a spike [see quot.].

2. bagge n.(1)

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(a) A bag or sack, with or without its contents; traveling bag, wallet, satchel, pouch; bagge portatif; undo the bagge; (b) a bag as a unit of measure.

3. bāle n.(3)

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(a) A package or bale (of merchandise), perh. specif. of a certain weight or size; (b) without of: ii bale(s flax, two bales of flax; etc.

4. ban n.

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(a) A proclamation or edict of an overlord; also, a summons by proclamation; crien (blouen) the ban; (b) one of the banns of marriage; asken (crien, greden, spiren) the ban(n)es; (c) a proclamation of…

5. batte n.

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A type of Flemish ship.

6. bidel n.

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One who makes announcements or carries messages and performs other services on the authority of a lord, court, guild, etc.; herald, town crier, summoner; bidel hod, a beadle's hood; bidel land (a…

7. blister n.

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A blister.

8. blok(ke n.

Additional spellings: blokke
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(a) A large piece of wood, a block; also fig. or (as a type of something inert) in quasi-proverbial comparisons; blok bord, rough, unpolished board; also, specifically: (b) the executioner's block…

9. bǒket n.

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(a) Water bucket, well bucket; (b) a vessel used for other purposes.

10. brēme n.

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(a) A freshwater fish, the bream (Abramis brama); (b) breme de mere, some seafish, perh. the sea bream (Pagellus centrodontus).

11. bride n.(2)

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Bridle.

12. brọ̄ n.(2)

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(a) Meat broth, gravy; (b) a liquid for dyeing cloth; (c) a disagreeable business, a mess or pickle.

13. brǒun adj.

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(a) Dark, dull; of the human body: black-and-blue [quot.: a1425]; (b) cheerless, frowning, gloomy; (c) with names of colors: dark, deep; ?also, mixed with brown, brownish; broun bai, dark bay; broun

14. carpe n.

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(a) The carp (Cyprinus carpio); (b) a heraldic representation of this fish.

15. crampe n.(1)

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(a) Violent contraction of muscles, a spasm; a disease characterized by contortion or spasms; the crampe; (b) crampe ring, a ring to ward off or cure such afflictions; crampe wort, a medicinal plant…

16. crap n.

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Chaff, siftings of grain; ?also, weed seeds; -- often in pl.

17. crāsen v.

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(a) To shatter (sth.), crush, break to pieces; (b) to perforate (sth.); make (a hole); (c) to crack (sth.), fill with cracks; also, become cracked; (d) ppl. crasing as adj., liable to crack or craze.

18. criket n.

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(a) A cricket; esp., the European house cricket (Gryllus domesticus); also, the mythical salamander; (b) a surname.

19. crūet n.

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(a) A small vessel for sacramental wine, holy water, or chrism; (b) a jug, bottle, or bowl (as for water); (c) fig.

20. dart n.

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A metal-pointed missile, such as a javelin or spear, hurled by hand (perhaps also by the arbalest); [see esp. *Vegetius(1)]; casten dart, sheten dart; fishers dart, hunters dart.