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1. aunen v.

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(a) To show (sth.), disclose; (b) refl. to show oneself, appear; (c) ?point the way. …

2. blēren v.(2)

9 quotations in 1 sense
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To cry, bellow, wail; of goats: bleat; bleren on, cry out at (sb.), mock, insult. …

3. 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……

4. bush n.(1)

73 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth. …

5. caiser n.

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A Roman emperor, a Caesar; caiser of Rome. …

6. clot n.

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(a) A lump; esp., a lump of earth, clod; clot of erthe, clei; erthe clot; stoni clot; (b) earth, ground; in clot, under clottes. …

7. dile n.

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(a) The plant dill (Anethum graveolens); also, its seed; (b) dile man, ?a seller of dill; dile sed, the seed of dill; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.133]. …

8. dǒng n.(2)

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The pit of hell, an abyss. …

9. dǒuken v.

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To dive or plunge (into sth.); ben douked, be immersed (in sin, hell). …

10. draie n.

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(a) A wheelless vehicle for hauling, a sledge; also, a cart with wheels; (b) draie lode, as much of a load as is normally hauled on a dray, a cartload. …

11. drift n.

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(a) Driving cattle to pasture; (b) a drove or herd; a group of persons; drift of fisheres. …

12. dwẹ̄re n.

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(a) Doubt, perplexity, uncertainty; in (a) dwere, in doubt; without dwere, without question, certainly; (b) ?disagreement, dissension; ?distress, trouble; (c) amazement, awe; dread, fear. …

13. ē̆rd n.(2)

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Character, nature, disposition. …

14. ferten v.

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To break wind, fart; also, to make indecent or unseemly sounds. …

15. fīndī adj.

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(a) Capable of understanding (what is said); apt or effective (language); (b) capable or able (person); (c) ?suitable or proper for a certain purpose. …

16. gristel n.

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(a) Cartilage, gristle; of gristel kinde, cartilaginous; gristel ring, one of the rings of cartilage of the trachea; (b) a cartilaginous part or structure of the body; (c) gristel bon, a cartilaginous……

17. hacchen v.

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(a) To bring forth young from eggs, hatch; (b) to hatch (young birds, spiders, serpents); also, hatch or incubate (eggs); (c) fig. …

18. hechel(e n.

Additional spellings: hechele
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An instrument for carding flax, a flax comb, a hatchel; hechel maker. …

19. hippen v.

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(a) Of persons, animals, things: to leap, spring, hop, bounce; hippen ayen, spring back, rebound; -- also refl.; (b) to leap downward; of a thing: fall; hippen adoun, hippen to ground; (c) to travel……

20. kindel n.

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(a) The offspring of any animal, a young one; also fig.; (b) ?a human child; wommen kindelin, female babies. …

21. lenchen v.

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?To stoop with age. …

22. lumpe n.

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(a) A mass of material, usually of no special shape; a piece, lump; lumpe ston, ?an unfinished stone; lumpe of a wal, ?a buttress; in (on) a lumpe, in one piece, in a heap; fallen as it were a lumpe……

23. renles n.

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Rennet. …

24. sheueles n.

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A scarecrow. …

25. shirten v.(2)

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Refl. To amuse oneself, enjoy oneself. …

26. shreue n.

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(a) A rascal, rogue; a wicked person, an evildoer; also, an unruly or ill-disciplined child; also iron. [quot.: Idley]; maister shreue, the greatest rogue; (b) cursed (ebere, fals, mansed, olde, etc.)……

27. slēuīe n.

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Languor, heaviness, weariness. …

28. spǒuten v.

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(a) To spit out saliva; ?splash (sth. on a place); -- used without obj. [quot. a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking]; of a lake: send out sprays of water; of a dragon: spit fire; also, spit (fire or sparks), spew; of……

29. sprekle n.

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A speck, speckle. …

30. sterten v.

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(a) To leap, jump; cavort, caper, prance; also fig.; also, jump up and down in joy or fear; sterten up, leap up in the air; also fig.; ppl. stertinge, leaping, bounding, skipping; (b) with prep……

31. thucke n.

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A mischievous or nasty trick, harm;—used in fig. context. …

32. tiken v.

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To touch or pat a person as part of a game, dally frivolously. …

33. ?tọ̄̆shellen v.

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To break (a thumb, finger), shatter. …

34. tọ̄̆tag(ge n.

Additional spellings: totagge
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Fig. An attendant circumstance that can obscure the nature of a sin; an attendant circumstance affecting the gravity of a sin. …

35. twinken v.

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(a) To wink; ?also, blink [last quot.]; (b) to twinkle, flash. …

36. walten v.

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(a) To turn over, be overturned [quot. ?a1450, 1st]; also, turn (sb. or sth.) over, upend, invert; fig. turn (sth.) over in one’s mind, consider [1st quot.]; walten over (b) to topple, fall in……

37. warī̆angle n.

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A bird of the genus Lanius, a shrike or butcherbird; also used as a term of abuse. …

38. warmeth n.

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Heat, warmth;—used in fig. context; ?also, protection from the elements [1st quot.]. …

39. weoðelen v.

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To become unsteady, waver. …

40. wī̆ndī adj.(1)

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Devoid (of sth.); set free (of sb.), quit. …

41. yoȝelinge ger.

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Wretched crying, outcry; also, the hooting or shrieking of an owl. …

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