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1. affō̆rcen v.

35 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To force or constrain (sth.), compel (sb. to do sth.); (b) to violate (a woman).

2. alaien v.

23 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To alloy (a noble metal) with a base metal; (b) fig. to debase, contaminate.

3. allīen v.

54 quotations in 5 senses
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To form an alliance, join, associate: (a) to ally (oneself with, to sb.), join as an ally, form an alliance; get together, join; -- refl. or intr.; (b) ben allied, be allied or associated; associated…

4. araisen v.

66 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) To raise (sth.) upright or to a higher level; set on high, bear aloft; lift up, rear; araisen up; (b) to rise to an upright position or to a higher level; -- intr. or refl.

5. armen v.

116 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) To equip oneself with weapons and armor, to arm oneself; don armen, leten armen, to cause (sb.) to arm himself, to have (oneself) armed; (b) refl. to put on one's battle gear, arm oneself; to…

6. aunǧel n.

155 quotations in 9 senses
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One of the celestial servants of God, an angel.

7. avence n.

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(a) A plant of the genus Geum; prob., the wood avens Geum urbanum; (b) med.; (c) cook.

8. barri adj.

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(a) Cook. Decorated with strips of metal foil; (b) Her. divided equally by horizontal stripes of two alternating colors; also as noun: blazon so constituted.

9. bastā̆rd n. as adj.

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(a) Born out of wedlock, illegitimate; bastard sone (doughter) bastard, etc.; (b) false, counterfeit, defective.

10. bāsten v.(2)

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To permeate (sth.) with liquid, perfuse: (a) cook. to soak (bread); to baste (a fowl); (b) med. to apply a moist compress to (a wound); (c) in tanning leather: to soak (a hide) in a solution of alum…

11. batiling ger.

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(a) A parapet or battlement; (b) cook. a notched design or edge.

12. berandiles n.

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Cook. A dish made of chicken and beef.

13. bī̆nden v.

371 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) To tie (sth.) up, as with a cord; bind (sheaves); gather or hold together, as with a girdle; tie (a bag, purse) shut; tie off, as with a tourniquet; (b) to tie or fasten (sb., sth. to sth. else)…

14. blaunchen v.

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To make white; whitewash (a building), blaunchen whit.

15. blaunk adj.

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(a) White; -- frequent in surnames; (b) blaunk almaundes, blanched almonds; blaunk alum [see alum]; blaunk fever [see fever]; blaunk plum, q.v.; blaunk poudre, ?finely powdered white sugar and ginger…

16. blouen v.(1)

187 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Of the wind: to blow; also fig.; (b) of the wind: to blow against, beat upon; drive (sth.) by blowing; also fig.; blouen awei, blow (sth.) away; also fig.; blouen doun, blow down, destroy; blouen

17. broilen v.(1)

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(a) To burn (sth.), burn up; singe, scorch; (b) cook. to broil (sth.), grill.

18. brǒuet n.

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(a) Cook. A broth or sauce for meats, fish, etc.; in brouet, served in such a broth or sauce; (b) a stew or fricassee; (c) a stew with strips of bread soaked in wine [cp. broues].

19. burnen v.

22 quotations in 2 senses
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To polish (metal, armor, weapons), burnish; burned, polished, shining, radiant.

20. butte n.(4)

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(a) The end of a spear or pike opposite the head, butt; (b) naut.?the end of a plank in a ship's side; ?also, one of the planks.

21. calle n.

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(a) A net for the hair, a kind of headdress; (b) comeli under calle, beautiful in one's headdress; uncomeli under calle; maken (sb.) a houve aboven a calle, to make a fool of (sb.); (c) ?a hood, ?a…

22. camelīn adj.

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Cook. A kind of sauce.

23. charǧeaunt adj.

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Burdensome, troublesome; oppressive (taxes); exacting (task); pressing (need).

24. charǧeauntlī adv.

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(a) (Think) carefully, hard; (b) cook. (as) thick (as possible).

25. charǧen v.

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(a) To load (a ship, a vehicle, a pack animal with, of sth.); stock (a ship with provisions); (b) to load (goods, etc., as on a vehicle).

26. choppen v.(1)

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(a) To strike (sb.) with a sharp weapon, slash; choppen of cut off with a blow; (b) to hack or strike (at, to sb.); cut (through sth.); (c) to hit (at sth.); choppen adoun, fig. strike (sb.) down.

27. clat n.

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Cook. A dish; -- see quot.

28. cofī̆n n.

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A basket; a hamper.

29. cōl n.(1)

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Cabbage, kale, colewort, rape, mustard, or some other plant of the genus Brassica; also, any cultivated leafy vegetable, garden greens, pot-herbs.

30. comade, comadore n.

Additional spellings: comadore
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Cook. A delicacy of one kind or another; a filling for a pie, etc. [see quots.].

31. comedīe n.(2)

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Cook. Some kind of dish.

32. cǒuche n.

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(a) Couch, bed; in couche, in bed; (b) a small portable bed, pallet; small mattress; (c) a bed of litter for an animal; a resting place for cattle; (d) a thing on which something else rests, rest…

33. cǒurs n.

188 quotations in 14 senses
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Running (of man or beast); a run; riden a cours, make a run.

34. cǒu-shō̆te n.

Additional spellings: coushote
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The European wood-pigeon Columba palumbus or ring-dove, cushat; ?also, a wild pigeon, stock-dove Columba oenas [quot. ?a1300.]; cook. coushotes (steue, a stew prepared with the stuffed bird and pieces…

35. crēmī adj.

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(a) Full of cream; (b) cook. made of a creamy, custardlike substance.

36. cristal adj.

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Made of crystal.

37. dēfaut(e n.

Additional spellings: defaute
186 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Lack, insufficiency, absence; short weight [quot.: a1400]; at defaut, incomplete (as to antlers), lacking; for defaut, for lack of something; in your defaut, in your absence, because of your…

38. dorrẹ̄, dōrī adj. & n.

Additional spellings: dori
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(a) Golden or reddish-yellow; (b) cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s dorre, sopes dorre.

39. dǒuce adj. & n.

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(a) Dear, beloved; douce amour, sweetheart; (b) douce Fraunce, beloved France; (c) douce vie, luxurious life; (d) as noun: paramour; foul douce, filthy harlot; (e) in surnames.

40. dǒucen v.

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Cook. To sweeten (sth.).

41. drauen v.

766 quotations in 21 senses
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(a) To pull, tug, draw; pull in harness; (b) to pull (sb. or sth.), drag, tug at; pull up (a drawbridge); (c) to draw or withdraw (a part of the body); (d) to pull (a vehicle), tow (a ship), turn…

42. dressen v.

239 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) To place (sth.), lay, put, set; seat (sb.); dressen up heved, raise (one's) head; (b) fig. to put (sb. in doubt or danger); (c) refl. to place oneself, take up a position; of juice: appear or be…

43. droppinge ger.

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(a) The process of falling or shedding in drops; dripping, precipitation, draining; (b) act or process of dipping.

44. dubben v.

60 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To create (a knight); confer knighthood on (sb.); give the accolade to (sb.); also, beat (sb.) [1st quot.]; neudubbed, of a knight: newly created; (b) dubben (to) knight, to make (sb.) a knight…

45. embainen v.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. To baste (meat), soak (bread), or steep (vegetables) with or in a liquid to improve the flavor.

46. enarmen v.

26 quotations in 6 senses
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To equip (someone) with armor or weapons; to arm.

47. endōren v.

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Cook. To cover or coat (a roast or other dish) with a glaze (usually made from the yolks of eggs).

48. endōring ger.

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Cook. A glaze (put on a roast).

49. enfarcen v.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. To stuff (a pig or fowl before roasting).

50. enfō̆rcen v.

67 quotations in 7 senses
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To exert force, to press: (a) to constrain, compel, or cause (someone to do something), to impose or cause (continence); (b) to drive or force (someone somewhere), to cause (an arrow to fly); (c) to…

51. entraille(s n.

Additional spellings: entrailles
45 quotations in 8 senses
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The organs enclosed in the trunk of man or animals, the viscera; also, the viscera excluding one or another of the inner organs;-- (a) coll. sg.; (b) pl.

52. ēven adv.

203 quotations in 22 senses
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Smoothly, evenly.

53. fā̆rs(e n.

Additional spellings: fars
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Cook. Seasoned stuffing.

54. fā̆rsen v.

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Cook. (a) To stuff (game, fowl, hollowed loaves, etc.) with seasoned stuffing; ppl. farsed as adj., stuffed; (b) = forcen 5: to add spices, etc., to (a dish) for seasoning or embellishment.

55. farsūre n.

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Cook. A mixture of meat or eggs, spices, etc., used either as stuffing, as seasoning or embellishment for other dishes, or as a dish by itself.

56. fatten v.

28 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To grow fat or obese; to become fattened for food; (b) to make (a person, the body) fat or obese; to fatten (animals) for food.

57. filet n.

23 quotations in 5 senses
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A ribbon or band of cloth worn around the head as an ornament or to keep the hair in place; a headband, chaplet; also, a frontal band worn as a badge of maidenhood.

58. flat adj.

32 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Level, flat; even, smooth; flattened (face); of sculpture: not in relief; of a roof: low-pitched; (b) of dishes, etc.: shallow; smooth-surfaced; (c) of a sword: flat side foremost.

59. flaumen v.

46 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To emit flames, to be afire, to blaze; ppl. flaumbed, blazing, intense; (b) flaumen of (on, with) fir, to blaze; (c) to give off (fire, light, sparks); flaumen doun, to shed (light) downward.

60. florishen v.

89 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To put forth flowers or leaves or shoots, to bear flowers, to bloom, to burgeon; (b) ppl. florished, florishing, full of blossoms or shoots, adorned with flowers or leaves, in bloom, blossoming…

61. foil n.

33 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A leaf (of a plant); (b) a leaf or folio of a book.

62. fō̆rce n.

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(a) Physical strength; force of hond; (b) spiritual strength, courage, the cardinal virtue of fortitude.

63. fō̆rcẹ̄ ppl.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Cook. With ground meat added; gruel force.

64. fō̆rcen v.(1)

34 quotations in 5 senses
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To exert force: (a) to press upon (an adversary), make war upon (a people); (b) to compel or constrain (someone to do something); (c) to violate (a woman), to rape; (d) ppl. forced as adj.: coercive…

65. fō̆rt adj.

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(a) Strong, powerful; (b) in proper names: Sampsoun (the) fort, Sampson the strong, etc.

66. fō̆rth adv.

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(a) Of motion or direction: forward, onward, ahead; forth and forth, on and on; (b) holden (nimen, taken) forth wei (sti, gate), to make (one's) way; (c) with modal verb: to go forward, advance; right

67. fǒunden v.(3)

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(a) Cook. To mix or mingle (ingredients); (b) to cast (sth.) in molten metal within a form; (c) founding pot, a mixing pot, ?a melting pot.

68. fǒundren v.(2)

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Cook. To mix or mingle (ingredients).

69. Frē̆nsh adj.

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(a) Pertaining to France [as constituted at various times], or to Frenchmen; consisting of Frenchmen; associated with France or Frenchmen; Frensh fare, courtly behavior; Frensh flour, the…

70. frēten v.(1)

138 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To devour (something), to eat up; (b) to eat (something); esp., to eat hungrily or greedily; freten fil, to eat (one's) fill; freten of, to partake of, eat of; freten up, to eat up, devour; (c) to…

71. froid adj.

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Cook. Cold.

72. gaderen v.

213 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Of people: to come together, assemble, congregate; meet, have a meeting; gaderen abouten, gaderen unto, crowd around (sb.), surround; (b) refl. to come together, assemble; gaderen samen, gaderen

73. gailede n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Cook. A dish of some kind.

74. galingāle n.

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The roots of various plants of the genera Alpinia (esp. A. galanga or A. officinarum), Kæmpferia (esp. K. galanga), Aristolochia (esp. A. rotunda), and Cyperus (esp. C. longus); also, any of these…

75. gamelīn adj.

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Cook. A kind of sauce.

76. gaunselī n.

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Cook. A garlic sauce often used with fowl.

77. ǧelẹ̄ n.

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(a) Cook. A spiced jelly made from broth of meat or fish; a dish consisting of chopped meat or fish in such a jelly; gele cloth, a cloth for straining the broth to make a jelly; (b) med. a medicinal…

78. ǧelīne n.

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Cook. Hen, chicken.

79. ǧin-gaudrẹ̄ n.

Additional spellings: gingaudre
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Cook. A dish; a stew or thick soup made of entrails (also heads) of fish.

80. gut n.

72 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) An abdominal organ; the digestive tract of a whelk; -- usually pl., entrails, viscera; rein guttes, the viscera under the loins or the flanks; (b) the anus, the omentum; long gut, the spleen.

81. herbelāde n.

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(a) Cook. A dish consisting of broth, eggs, herbs, etc., baked in a pastry shell; (b) ?a medicinal herb.

82. hocchẹ̄ n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Cook. chikenes in hocche, ?chickens boiled in a mixture of ingredients.

83. hoche-pot n.

Additional spellings: hochepot
9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Law The blending together of property belonging to different persons for equal division; (b) cook. a kind of stew; esp. one made with goose, herbs, spices, wine, and other ingredients; gos (ges)

84. hough n.(2)

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Of man: (a) the heel; (b) the hollow or bend of the knee, hough; ?also, the knee; (c) ?haunch, ?groin, ?hip; hough bon, hipbone.

85. ipanced ppl.

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Cook. Smoothed (with a powder).

86. irchǒun n.

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(a) A small, spine-bearing, Old World mammal belonging to the genus Erinaceus; a hedgehog; also fig. [quot.Pilgr.LM]; (b) a heraldic representation of a hedgehog.

87. kervelettes n. plural

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Cook.?Choice bits, the finely divided ingredients of the sauce called camelin.

88. laien v.

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To dilute (wine); cook. laien with, augment (a dish) by mixing in (another ingredient).

89. lā̆rd n.

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Cook. (a) Fat pork cured in brine or by smoking; salt pork, bacon; lard of pork; (b) salt pork or bacon cut in small pieces for larding a roast; (c) a slice of the cured fat flesh of deer or bear.

90. lā̆rden v.

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(a) Cook. To prepare (meat, fowl, etc.) for roasting by the insertion of pieces of salt pork, bacon, condiments, etc., in the outer surface; (b) to smear (a surface) with grease.

91. lardon n.

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Cook. A piece of salt pork or bacon inserted in the substance of other meats before roasting; lardon of swin.

92. lē̆che n.(2)

63 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. (a) A strip, slice; (b) any of a number of jellylike dishes prepared from various ingredients and usually cut into strips or slices; (c) in names of specific dishes; (d) as adj.

93. leien v.(3)

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(a) Cook. To bind (ingredients) together; soak (bread); leien up, thicken (a mixture); (b) to mix (liquids).

94. līen v.(3)

11 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. (a) To thicken (a soup, etc.) by mixing; mix (an ingredient with another); blend (ingredients together); (b) to bind (ground meat, etc., with eggs, sauce, etc.), coat (a solid ingredient with…

95. līǒur(e n.

Additional spellings: lioure
23 quotations in 2 senses
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Cloth in narrow strips used for binding the edges of cloth, garments, hangings, etc.; tape.

96. līren v.

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(a) To bind the edges of (a garment) with tape; (b) cook. to thicken (a dish).

97. lorei n.

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Cook. Any of several dishes similar to a puree or gelatin; leche lorei [see leche n. (2) (c)].

98. losenǧe n.

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(a) A rhombus or diamond-shaped object or pattern, frequently used as an ornamental motif; (b) her. a lozenge [some quots. in (a) may belong here]; (c) cook. a diamond-shaped cake or wafer; a dish…

99. lǒv-āche n.

Additional spellings: lovache
31 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Lovage (Levisticum officinale), a garden plant used in med. & cook.; ?also, one of a number of similar plants; (b) herbe lov-ache, some part of lovage used in cooking; jus of lov-ache, juice of…

100. makke n.

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Cook. A jelly-like dish made principally of ground beans.