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1. blọ̄dī adj.

57 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Of blood, consisting of blood, full of blood; of the eyes: bloodshot; (b) physiol. the four blodi humoures, the four humors, formed from the blodi lompe and flowing in the bloodstream; blodi

2. bocchines(se n.

Additional spellings: bocchines
2 quotations in 1 sense
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Pathol. 'Hump due to dislocation' [Norri].

3. compǒuned ppl.

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(a) Mixed, blended; (b) complex, complicated; compounded; (c) consisting (of parts).

4. condilon(e n.

Additional spellings: condilon
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Pathol. (a) A 'rounded swelling near anus or genitals; in some texts likened to a closed fist (condylones may aggregate and form large cauliflower-like masses)' [Norri]; (b) a 'similar growth in other…

5. dēdnes(se n.

Additional spellings: dednesse
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Pathol. (a) 'Numbness, lack of physical sensation' [Norri]; (b) 'mental torpor' [Norri].

6. dispōsiciǒun n.

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(a) Preparation, planning, arranging; also, a plan or arrangement; taken disposicioun, to make arrangements; (b) construction or execution according to a plan; building (of a city); structure (of the…

7. dūretẹ̄ n.

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(a) Hard-heartedness, obduracy; (b) pathol. pl. 'Hardness, induration of body part' [Norri].

8. flāwenhēd(e n.

Additional spellings: flauenhede, flawenhed
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Med. and pathol. peeling, flaking, or sloughing off of skin or mucosal lining.

9. flawinghēd(e n.

Additional spellings: flauinghede, flawinghed, flauinghed
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Med. and pathol. peeling, flaking, or sloughing off of mucosal lining.

10. flawning(e ger.

Additional spellings: flawninge, flauning, flauninge
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Pathol. peeling or flaking of skin.

11. flēn v.(2)

76 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To strip the skin from (a person, a part of someone's body); also, to tear the skin to shreds (by blows, scourging, etc.); to strip (the skin from the flesh); flen of, to flay off (the skin); flen

12. forscolkered ppl.

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Pathol. Of blood or other humor: entirely and pathologically altered by unnatural heat, scorched, burnt up.

13. grāpe n.(1)

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(a) A grape, an individual berry of the vine; also fig.; grape cluster; grape kirnel, a grape seed, pip; (b) coll.sg. grapes in general, the fruit of the vine; (c) a bunch of grapes, a cluster; (d) a…

14. horripilāciǒun n.

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Bristling of the hair, hair standing on end, as from fear.

15. lọ̄sing(e ger.(2)

Additional spellings: losinge
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(a) Untying of knots, bonds, etc.; (b) freeing from prison, adversity, sin, etc.; (c) letting fly an arrow; (d) separation, divorce.

16. plain(e adj.

Additional spellings: plaine
265 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Flat, level, even; of geographic areas: low in elevation, lowland; broad, flat; also, of an engraving: worked in low relief; plain contre (ground, place, thing), a plain, plateau, or lowland…

17. prēparāciǒun n.

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(a) A preliminary act or operation, a previous setting in order; also, a precautionary measure; (b) med. & surg. the action or process of preparing a wound, an injury, etc., for treatment; the action…

18. profǒundnesse n.

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(a) The bottom of the sea; an abyss; (b) the inner part of the body; the deepest part of a sore; (c) of wounds: the condition of being in the inner part of the body or bodily organ; pathol. hollowness…

19. prūne n.

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(a) A plum; also, a dried plum, a prune; drie prune, a prune; prune (of) damascene, a damson plum; (b) a plum tree; also, in place name; (c) pathol. a carbuncle, malignant pustule.

20. rēd adj.

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(a) Red, of various shades of purple, crimson, scarlet, pink, etc.; also fig. [last quot.]; (b) red colour, red color; also, red dye, red ink, red pigment, or red paint; (c) in fixed comparisons: red

21. relaxen v.

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(a) To loosen (a bandage, compress, stitches), ease tension or pressure on (sth.); diminish (swelling), soften (hardness of a bodily part); relax (muscles), ease (rigidness in the body); (b) to…

22. relaxing ger.

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(a) A loosening of bandages or compresses; (b) pathol. a morbid loosening or slackening of tissues; relaxing of palpebres, drooping of the eyelids, ptosis adiposa.

23. relẹ̄f(e n.

Additional spellings: relefe
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(a) That which is left over or left behind, remains, remnants, residue; -- often pl.; also, a legacy, charitable bequest; also, dregs; relef of brucus, what the bruchus leaves; (b) rabble, ruins; (c)…

24. replēten v.

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(a) Med. & pathol. To fill (a wound) with new flesh, cause tissue to generate in (a wound); also, of humors, fat: fill or distend (part of the body); ppl. repleting as adj.: regenerative of tissue…

25. rīsen v.

422 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) To stand up, rise to one's feet from a sitting, kneeling, or reclining position; get up from table; of an animal: get to its feet; of a toad: rear up (from a crouching position); risen ayen

26. rosāt(e adj.

Additional spellings: rosate
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Med. Containing a distillate of rose petals; mel rosat [see also mel n.(1)(b)]; oile rosat, oil of roses, a medicinal oil made by steeping rose petals in olive oil [cp. oile rose (rosete), s.v. oil(e

27. scolkeren v.

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Pathol. to alter the nature of (a humor) by unnatural heat.

28. scolk(e)ring ger.

Additional spellings: scolkering
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Pathol. Pathological alteration of a humor by unnatural heat, singeing, scorching.

29. scorklen v.

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(a) To singe (sb. or sth.), scorch; pathol. to alter the nature of (a humor) by unnatural heat; (b) to heat so as to parch (sb.).

30. scorklinge ger.

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Singeing, scorching; pathol. pathological alteration of a humor by unnatural heat.

31. sharpnes(se n.

Additional spellings: sharpnesse
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(a) Sharpness, keenness; also fig.; also, prickliness; (b) the sharp point of a spear, knife, etc.; the sharp edge of a sword, an ax, or a surgical instrument; the tapered end of an egg or the heart…

32. singulē̆r(e adj.

Additional spellings: singulere
90 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Pertaining or belonging to oneself; private, personal; selfish; singuler availe (biyete, profite, etc.), personal or selfish gain; singuler preiere, a prayer formulated by an individual or a…

33. spīce n.(2)

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(a) A type or kind of person, flavor, etc.; (b) the human species; mannes spice, mankind; (c) a species of plant; a genus of animals, fish, trees, etc.; (d) med. & pathol. a type or variety of…

34. stẹ̄p(e adj.

Additional spellings: stepe
32 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) High, elevated; of a river or stream: running high; (b) of fighting men: strong, vigorous; of might: great; of the voice: loud; (c) of eyes: large, prominent; step oute, ?bulging, protuberant; (d)…

35. stǒning(e ger.(2)

Additional spellings: stoninge
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(a) Astonishment, amazement; a state of amazement; (b) fear, consternation, dismay; a state of consternation, state of fear [2nd quot.]; (c) the disablement of mental faculties; a state of…

36. strǒuting(e ger.

Additional spellings: stroutinge
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(a) Dispute, strife, contention; (b) swelling, protruding; a swelling, protrusion; strouting oute; strouting of the navele, pathol. umbilical hernia; (c) proud or vain display of clothes; (d) walking…

37. superflū̆ence n.

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(a) Overabundance; (b) immoderation; (c) pathol. mortification.

38. swei n.(1)

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(a) Sound, noise, din; (b) pleasing sound, melody, song; (c) pathol. a ringing in the ears, tinnitus.

39. testūde n.

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(a) Pathol. A hard swelling on the head suggestive of a snail's or turtle's shell; (b) pathol. a soft and sometimes suppurating swelling on a part of the body; (c) a covered battering ram resembling a…

40. tọ̄̆brēken v.

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(a) To break up, break into pieces, shatter; of a ship: suffer shipwreck; also fig.; tobreken in peces; (b) to shatter (sth.), smash; cause (sth.) to be smashed; also, crush (sb.) [quot. c1275, 1st]…

41. tortū̆re n.

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Contortion, twisting; distortion; also, pathol. a disorder characterized by contortion and twisting.

42. trespā̆s n.

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(a) Transgression or violation of civil law, a set of regulations, etc. punishable by civil authorities, officers of an organization, etc., criminal misconduct, illegal activity; wrongful behavior…

43. unobēdient adj.

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(a) Disobedient; unwilling to subject oneself to a higher authority, law, rule, etc., not submissive; of a patient: unwilling to undergo or persist in medical treatment; ?also, as noun: one who is…

44. vehement adj.

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(a) Severe, grievous; fierce; pathol. virulent, serious; (b) intense, powerful, awesome.

45. veil n.(1)

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(a) A fabric headdress, usually covering the forehead and the sides and back of the head and hanging down to the shoulders or below;—worn chiefly by women; also, a cloth worn to conceal the face or…

46. vulpī̆n adj.

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Having foxlike characteristics; lepre vulpin, pathol. one of the four forms of leprosy.

47. warrī adj.

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(a) Made from the type of wood known as warre [see warre n. (c)]; (b) pathol. of veins: abnormally swollen or knotted.

48. washing(e ger.

Additional spellings: washinge
98 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) The act or process of cleansing something in or with water or some detergent liquid; washing bolle (tubbe), a wash basin (wash tub); washing stok, a trough or tub for washing; washing ston, a…

49. web n.

83 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Woven fabric; a piece of woven fabric; also fig. & in fig. context; web bem, q.v.; web garn (threde), weaver’s yarn (thread); web lome, q.v.; web werk, the activity of weaving; spunne web, ?spun…

50. wei n.(1)

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(a) An established road, a main thoroughfare, highway; a principal road between cities; a city street; also, the surface of a road, roadbed; brod wei; commune (private) wei; pleine wei, level roadway…

51. weiing(e ger.

Additional spellings: weiinge
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(a) The action or process of ascertaining the weight of an object, a commodity, etc.; ?also, a balance; weiing scales, a balance (b) a weight, sum, an amount; (c) fig. estimation, appraisal,…

52. wem n.

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(a) A material defect or spot; also fig. [quot. c1400 Bk.Mother]; also, an imperfection; withouten wem; (b) error; mistake, flaw; also, infringement [quot. a1387]; withouten wem.

53. wẹ̄pen v.

295 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) To shed tears, weep, sob aloud, cry; also fig.; of an infant: cry instinctively, wail, squall; of Christ: weep as a sign of his humanity; wepen with eien; al wepinge, weeping copiously; bresten

54. whelk(e n.

Additional spellings: whelke
17 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Pathol. An eruption of the skin, a pimple, pustule; also, the head of a boil or abscess; pl. pustules; also, a rash; the rash, hives, inflammation, etc. resulting from the sting or bite of an…

55. whīt n.

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(a) The color white, white as the color opposite to black; also, a pale or whitish color; also, whiteness, whiteness as the opposite of blackness; her. ?the color argent; bright (shininge) whit, a…

56. whīt adj.

655 quotations in 18 senses
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(a) Of a substance, structure, an object: white in color; whitish, pale-colored, light-colored; of the moon, a star: silvery-white; of a book or register: bound in a white or light-colored binding; of…

57. whītnes(se n.

Additional spellings: whitnesse
47 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The quality of whiteness; the condition of being white; the color white, a white color; also, an off-white or whitish color, the white or whitish color (of teeth, hair, a bodily fluid, morbid…

58. wǒrm n.

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(a) A dragon or dragonlike creature (b) a serpent, snake; also fig.; also, a sacred serpent serving as an object of cult worship, a temple snake [1st quot.]; one of the serpents of Greek or Roman…

59. wresting(e ger.

Additional spellings: wrestinge
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(a) Twisting, turning; also [2nd quot.], ?turning in a certain direction, proceeding; ?error for westringe ger (b) the action of pulling something forcibly; also, the action of attempting to grasp…

60. wrọ̄ten v.

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(a) Of an animal: to dig in the earth with its snout, root around; wroten in, Fig. of a military formation: attack in a wedge (b) of a worm: to slither about, wriggle; (c) of a person: to dig, work…

61. wrọ̄ting(e ger.

Additional spellings: wrotinge
8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Digging in the earth with the snout; also fig. in conventional comparison [1st quot.] (b) the trench or furrow made by a pig’s digging; swine(s wroting; (c) ?something that sweeps, a broom or…

62. yelwe n.

41 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The color yellow or one of its hues; her. the heraldic tincture or, often represented in emblazonment by yellow [quot. 1449]; whit yelwe, a light yellow color (b) ?a grayish color [transl. of AL …

63. yelwe adj.

142 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Of an object, a substance, color, etc.: yellow, yellowish; of any of the various shades of yellow, golden, saffron-colored, amber-colored, yellowish brown; also in conventional comparisons; yelwe

64. yelwish adj.

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(a) Somewhat yellow, tinged with yellow, yellowish (b) in combs.: yelwish hided, sallow-complexioned; goute yelwish, pathol. a disease characterized by discoloration of the face: ?gutta rosacea;…

65. zirbōse adj.

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As noun: pathol. a swelling or rupture of the peritoneal fold that envelops the bowels.