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1. acōr(i)en v.

Additional spellings: acorien
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To experience or suffer (pain, punishment); to suffer for (sth.), pay the penalty of (guilt, sin, etc.); to suffer, be punished.

2. acoveren v.

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(a) To regain (sth.), recover; (b) to remedy (an omission); (c) to revive, regain consciousness; (d) acoveren up, to rise again.

3. akimed ppl.

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Overcome, dumbfounded.

4. ampte n.

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(a) An ant; (b) ampte eiren, the pupae of ants; ampte hil, ant hill; empt hors [cp. OE æmetan hors, O. Cockayne, Leechdoms 2.42], the pupae of ants.

5. ān-sǣte n.

Additional spellings: ansæte
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A recluse.

6. anvelt n.

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(a) Anvil; (b) anfel-stock, the block or base of an anvil.

7. anwāld n.

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Power; power to rule, authority; the rule (of a lord, etc.); habben on anwalde, have in (one's) power, be able; setten on anwald, put (sb.) in power or authority.

8. asterten v.

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to rush (at sb.); run away (into a safe place).

9. atter n.

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Poison, venom (as of reptiles); -- also attrib. [quots.Bod.Hom. & Cursor].

10. bǣwen v.

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(a) To cleanse (of sin, as by baptism or penance); (b) to make clean.

11. bal n.

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(a) A round body; sphere, globe, orb; turnen as a bal, to turn as does Fortune's ball; (b) the orb borne together with a scepter as an emblem of sovereignty; (c) a rounded protuberance or boss for…

12. bearde n.

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Bearing, conduct; niþinges bearde, cowardly conduct; uppe niþinges bearde, on pain of being branded as a coward.

13. bī-live n.

Additional spellings: bilive
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The means of subsistence, a livelihood (as of food, clothing, shelter); beggen, finden, winnen bi-live.

14. bī̆-smār(e n.

Additional spellings: bismar, bi-smare, bismare
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Ridicule, mockery, derision, disdain, or an instance of it; on (a) or for bi-smar, by way of mockery or ridicule, tauntingly, derisively; driven to bi-smar, engage in mockery, make fun of, be amused…

15. biso(u)nt n.

Additional spellings: bisount
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The European bison.

16. blẹ̄d, blēd n.

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(a) Vegetation; produce, crop; (b) progeny; a scion (esp., of Christ).

17. bō̆dī n.

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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

18. bōthe num. (as n., adj., & conj.)

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As noun: Two together, both; -- in various constructions: (a) alone; (b) the two of them; the bothe; (c) both here (theire) hedes, the heads of both of them; etc.; (d) here bother (baþre, bothe,

19. bǒugh n.

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(a) A branch of a tree or bush; a main branch, a limb; also, a small branch or twig; (b) a branch of any kind of plant; a spray of an herb or shrub, a shoot, a branch of a vine, a palm frond; (c) a…

20. brẹ̄ n.

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(a) Porridge, pulse; (b) broth (of meat), liquor (of vegetables); (c) ?a type of ale or beer; ?some sort of broth, juice, or liquor;bre mongere, a seller of such a commodity; ale bre, a drink made…

21. brẹ̄ch n.

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(a) The undergarment covering the lower part of the body; underpants, drawers, or tights; brech and sherte, sark and brek; (b) brech, brek, as pl.; a pare brech, a pair of breeches.

22. brēde n.(1)

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Roasted or grilled meat; also, a roast.

23. 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).

24. breu n.

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An eyebrow; eie breu; above-bregh, over-brei [cp. L super-cilium].

25. bush n.(1)

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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.

26. caiser n.

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A Roman emperor, a Caesar; caiser of Rome.

27. cāke n.

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(a) A flat cake or loaf; also, an unbaked cake or loaf, a lump of doug; haver (ote, oten) cake, a cake of oaten bread; therf cake, a cake of unleavened bread; barli cake, flouren cake, spiced cake

28. chā̆fer n.

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An insect pest that damages plants, probably a beetle of some kind.

29. chelle n.

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A vessel of some kind.

30. chēp n.

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(a) Bargaining, dickering; (b) a (good) bargain or purchase; (c) price asked or offered; þurh non chep, at no price; for negard chep, because of niggardliness; (d) value set (upon a person)…

31. cheves(e n.

Additional spellings: chevese
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Concubine, paramour (of a noble); cheves-boren, born of a concubine, bastard.

32. chippe n.

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(a) A chip, splinter, shaving (of wood); also, kindling, trash (usu. pl.); (b) peg; (c) share-beam (of a plow).

33. chit(te n.

Additional spellings: chitte
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The young of an animal.

34. cholle n.

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(a) Throat, gullet; (b) the front of the neck; jowl, double chin, dewlap, etc.; (c) forehead, head; balled cholle bald head.

35. chough(e n.

Additional spellings: choughe
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One of several birds of the crow family: chough, jackdaw, jay; Cornish chough; co-brid.

36. clēt n.

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(a) A wedge, cleat; clet nail, a cleat nail [?error for clout nail]; (b) a lump, bit, small portion; ne counten at o clet, to regard (sth.) as worthless; yeven nought a clet of, not to give a damn…

37. clift n.

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(a) A crack, fissure, rift, notch, cleft, slash; helle clift, the chasm of hell; (b) a break in the skin, crack, fissure; a cut, gash; (c) a tear in a muscle, rupture; (d) a surgical cutting or…

38. clǒugh n.

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(a) A narrow valley or dell; a ravine or gorge; (b) the steep side of a gorge; a bluff or cliff.

39. clōve n.(1)

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(a) A bulbil or clove, esp. of garlic; (b) as surname.

40. n.

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A jackdaw; co-brid.

41. cō̆ker n.

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(a) A case for arrows, quiver; (b) a covering for the legs, leggings; ?also, a kind of shoe or boot; (c) in a name: coker-hose, leggings.

42. cōl n.(2)

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(a) Charcoal, or a piece of it; wode and col(es; prob. also, fuel; -- sg. or pl.; (b) mineral coal [some late quots. in (a) may belong here].

43. cōmes n. (plural)

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The rootlets or sprouts (of malt).

44. cop n.

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(a) The summit or peak (of a hill or mountain); also, the height of a mountain pass; (b) the top (of a tower), the ridge (of a house); (c) cop of hevene, the top of the firmament [but cp. cope n…

45. cot n.

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Wool matted together in the fleece.

46. cǒupe n.(1)

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(a) A large wicker basket; pannier, dosser; coupe ful; (b) a coop or house for chickens; henne coupe; (c) a cart or sled with a wicker box (as for carrying manure); coupe bodi, wicker body (of a…

47. cracchen v.

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(a) To scratch (sth.); esp., scrape with claws or fingernails; -- also without object; (b) to scratch oneself to relieve itching; scrape (sth.) lightly with claws or nails; (c) to comb (cloth) to make…

48. crā̆k n.(2)

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(a) A bursting or splitting sound, a crash; (b) a fart; (c) the sound of a trumpet.

49. crā̆ken v.

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(a) To make a splitting or bursting sound; also, let a fart; of bones, sinews: crack, creak; of burning salt: crackle; of thunder: crash; (b) to knock (sb. on the head); of spears: knock together…

50. cresse n.

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(a) A plant of the mustard family, a cress; esp., the common water cress (Roripa nasturtium aquaticum, Nasturtium officinale); also, the garden cress or garden peppergrass (Lepidium sativum); cresse

51. crēte n.(1)

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A child's crib, cradle.

52. crib n.

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(a) A manger; (b) a stall for a cow or ox; (c) a beehive.

53. crọ̄nen v.(2)

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To speak or sing softly, croon; hum (a song).

54. croue n.

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(a) The carrion crow Corvus corone; also, the rook Corvus frugilegus; (b) the raven Corvus corax.

55. crucche n.

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A crutch or walking stick.

56. crushel-bōn n.

Additional spellings: crushelbon
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Cartilage, gristle; a cartilage.

57. daue n.

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(a) A jackdaw; (b) ?a stupid fellow.

58. dauen v.

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To dawn, grow light; dauen clere, dauen light, dauen (to) dai; (a) with subj. it; (b) with subj. dai.

59. dē̆rne adj.

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(a) Secluded, solitary (place); secret (passage, etc.); (b) in names: derne-clive, derne hus, derne love, derne place [see also Smith PNElem. 1.131].

60. dē̆rnen v.

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To keep (sth.) secret, conceal.

61. derth(e n.

Additional spellings: derthe
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(a) A period of scarcity or high prices, a famine; derth of scarcite, a famine caused by scarcity; (b) derth of, a shortage of (sth.), lack, scarcity; high price of (sth.), expensiveness.

62. deuen v.

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(a) To shed dew or rain; also fig.; (b) of dawn or daylight: to come with refreshing dew, bring relief.

63. dīȝenlīch(e adj. & adv.

Additional spellings: diȝenliche
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(a) Secret, mysterious; (b) secretly.

64. dimpel n.

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(a) A dimple; (b) in place name: ?a pool [see Smith PNElem. 1.137-8]; (c) ?as surname.

65. dingle n.

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A deep dell or hollow: (a) se dingle, a deep in the bed of the sea; (b) in names [see Smith PNElem. 1.133].

66. dǒng n.(2)

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The pit of hell, an abyss.

67. drāke n.(2)

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(a) The male of the duck, drake; ?also, a gander; (b) a representation of a drake.

68. draught n.

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(a) The action of pulling, a pull, pulling in harness; (b) pulling or drawing a net to catch birds or fish; (c) the drawing of water from a well; drawing of liquor from a cask, etc.; (d) one cut of a…

69. Drihten n.

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(a) The Lord [said of God and of Christ]; (b) almighti Drihten, alwelding Drihten, hevenli Drihten, Drihten in trinite, Drihten in heven, etc.; drihtnes dom, God's Judgment; crist our Drihten, Drihten

70. drīpen, drippen v.

Additional spellings: drippen
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(a) To fall in drops, drip; dripen of, drip from (sth.); ppl. driping, dripping, misty; (b) dripen on, to drop or dab (a liquid or salve) on (sth.); (c) dripen mid, to moisten or daub (sth.) with…

71. dusk adj.

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Dark, not bright, dim; dark-colored, dull, dingy; also fig. of visual perception: dull; of words: obscure.

72. ēden n.(1)

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Thrashing floor.

73. elringe n.

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A small fish of some kind. [See OD eldring.]

74. ender adj. or n.

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Only in set phrases: this ender(s) dai, recently, the other day; this ender(s) night, one night not long ago; this ender(s) yer, formerly, in recent times.

75. ēr(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: ere
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(a) The grain-bearing head of a cereal plant, as wheat, barley, or the like; also fig.; (b) a fruit-cluster, as of olives.

76. fẹ̄ n.(1)

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(a) Livestock; a herd of livestock; (b) fe-hous, a shed for livestock; (c) fe-man a herdsman; (d) fe-rod, ?the product of a rood of land as a perquisite for herding livestock.

77. fei(e adj.

Additional spellings: feie
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(a) Doomed to death; fated to die; (b) mortally wounded; dying, dead; (c) (the) doomed; (the) mortally wounded; (the) dead.

78. feied ppl.

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(a) At enmity, hostile; fig. on bad terms (with God); (b) ben feied with, to be an enemy of (someone); (c) treated or regarded as an enemy, hated.

79. feien v.(1)

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(a) To put or join (things) together, combine; feien togederes, feien samed, feien in fere; (b) to put together, unite; pass. to be composed (of constituent parts); be constituted or disposed (in a…

80. fēr n.(1)

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(a) The emotion of fear; a state of being afraid; haven fer, to have fear, be afraid; (b) for fer, because of fear; for fer of, for fear of (something); in fer, in fear, afraid; putten in (into) fer

81. fert n.

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(a) Wind or gas expelled through the anus, a fart; (b) leten (maken) a fert, leten flien a fert, to break wind; (c) not a fert, nothing at all; not worth a fert, completely worthless.

82. ferten v.

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

83. first n.(1)

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A (limited) period of time; yere first, a period of years; yeven first, to grant time (for a certain purpose).

84. firsten v.

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(a) To delay, postpone; (b) to grant a delay; (c) to lend (money) on credit.

85. fitel-fọ̄t n.

Additional spellings: fitelfot
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An epithet of the hare.

86. fithele n.

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A stringed instrument, "the medieval fiddle, popular in the 12th to 15th centuries, played with a bow, in a variety of tunings with between three and five gut strings, having a monoxyle main body…

87. fixen n.

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A female (fox), she-fox; fixen of the fox.

88. flaun n.

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A sort of pie or cake [see quots. 1381, c1425].

89. flē n.

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(a) A flea; (b) flen, flies, and freres, fleas, flies, and friars; fle in ere, exciting story or report.

90. fleil n.

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(a) Instrument used for threshing grain, a flail; (b) cap of a fleil, fleil cap, one of the bands of wood or leather (fastened about the end of the flail staff or the end of the swingle) through which…

91. flēn v.(3)

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Of the mouth: to speak flatteringly or deceptively.

92. fletting ger.

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A tangled mass of hair, an elflock.

93. flīe n.(2)

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Flying, flight.

94. flight n.(1)

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(a) The act of fleeing, flight, escape; also fig.; (b) avoidance; (c) departure; also fig.; (d) ability to flee.

95. flight n.(2)

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(a) The act of flying with wings, flight through the air; comen in (with) flight, to come flying; foules flight, the flight of a bird; fig. spiritual soaring; (b) flight-foul, bird of the air; flight

96. -fōld suf.

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Forming adjs. (used also as advs., and occas. as nouns) on cardinal numerals and on indefinite numerals, and having such meanings as 'consisting of or comprising x parts, units, specimens, etc.'…

97. fǒnke n.

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(a) A spark of fire;--also fig.; (b) something worthless or contemptible; not worth a fonke.

98. frẹ̄ adj.

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(a) Of a person: free in rank or condition, having the social status of a noble or a freeman, not a slave or serf; holding one's land in free tenure (i.e., a more or less permanent tenure depending…

99. frē̆k adj.

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(a) Eager (to do something), zealous; (b) bold, brave, fierce; (c) ?greedy; (d) quick, fast.

100. fremed adj.

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(a) Strange, foreign, remote, unfamiliar; as noun: an alien, a stranger; of a happening: strange, unheard of; of speech: distant and formal; fremed and frend, stranger and friend; fremed and kouth