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21. aǧet adv.

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In style, fashionably. …

22. ai adv.

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Of continous actions or states: (a) all the time, always, constantly, unceasingly; (b) eternally, forever. …

23. ā̆korn n.

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(a) An acorn; akorns of okes; cup of an akorn; (b) mast, such as acorns and nuts. …

24. al n.

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(a) A tool or instrument with a sharp point; a stylus; (b) a shoemaker's awl; (c) a spike (on armor); (d) a quill (of a hedgehog or porcupine); an awn. …

25. al limiting adj. & n.

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Denoting the total number of entities in a class or group: all (persons, creatures, things, units); all without exception: (a) with a noun: al(le men, al(le the knightes, the knightes al(le, etc.; (b)……

26. -āl suf.

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(a) In numerous adjs. taken from Latin, either directly or by way of Old French, as annu-al, -el, cordi-al, formal, -el, funer-al, gener-al, mort-al, natur-al, tempor-al, -el; (b) in a number of……

27. alder n.(1)

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(a) Alder (Alnus glutinosa); alder tre; (b) alder kerre, alder kyr, alder was, alder swamp; alder shawe, alder thicket. …

28. Aleman(n)es n. (plural)

Additional spellings: Alemannes
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The Germans, the German nation; also, the Teutons. …

29. ā̆l-gē̆r n.

Additional spellings: alger
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Eel spear, fish spear. …

30. alma(u)ndīn, -en adj.

Additional spellings: almaundin, almanden, almaunden
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Of the almond tree or fruit; almandin milk. …

31. alod predicate adj.

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?Miserable, in a wretched condition; ?scattered, widespread. …

32. alōe(s n.

Additional spellings: aloes
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Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c) med. the drug aloes; aloe caballinum (cicotrine, epatik). …

33. alsō adv.

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Connecting sentences: (a) as a simple additive: in addition, moreover, also; and also, and ek also; nought onli..but also; usu. also, rarely as; (b) introd. a sequel to, or an inference from, a……

34. amāt adj.

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Overcome (as with fatigue or surprise); exhausted, confounded. …

35. amid(de, amiddes adv. & prep.

Additional spellings: amidde, amiddes
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Of an area: (a) adv. in or near the center, in the center, in the middle; amid of (sth.); even amid, right in or through the middle; (b) prep. in or near the center of (sth.). …

36. amōciǒun n.

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Removal (from office), discharge. …

37. ampullous adj.

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Bubbly, frothy. …

38. an- pref.(2)

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(a) In several nouns: an-sene appearance, an-velt anvil, an-wald power; (b) in the adj. an-lich 'like, similar' and its derivatives anlicnesse & anlicni. …

39. an- pref.(3)

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(a) In words inherited from OE: an-biden, an-elen kindle; (b) in words not attested in OE with this prefix, but occurring in early ME up to c1225: an-belȝen, an-bursten; also an-ēlen kindle, an-hongen……

40. an- pref.(4)

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Examples: an-amelen, anclosen, an-egren, an-ointen, anjoinen, anvie. …

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