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1. adden v.

34 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To join or combine (sth. with sth. else), add (sth.); (b) to say or write (sth.) in addition, add (sth.) as an amplification or a supplement; also, to speak further, continue; (c) adden to don, to…

2. addiciǒun n.

31 quotations in 2 senses
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Math. The act of adding numbers together; the arithmetical process of addition.

3. additament n.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Something added; an increase, an increment, a supplement; (b) a projection or protuberance; (c) anat. a process or appendage; esp., an apophysis.

4. annulet n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) a small ring; (b) Med. and anat. the 'cartilage of the windpipe' [Norri]; (c) her. a cadency mark in the shape of a ring.

5. ansa n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A ring-shaped device [see quot.]; (b) anat. the zygomatic arch.

6. appel n.(1)

130 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Any kind of fruit growing on a tree, shrub, or vine, such as an apple, crab apple, pear, peach, citron, banana, haw, berry, cucumber; also, a nut, a tuber; (b) a fruit-bearing tree; (c) appel of

7. arm n.

112 quotations in 7 senses
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The human arm.

8. article n.

66 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A separate item (in a set of rules, doctrines, provisions, etc.); one of the statements of the Apostles' Creed; article of the feith (beleve, crede, creaunce, trouthe); (b) a specific religious…

9. articūlāciǒun n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Anat. & surg. (a) A joint or joining (of bones); (b) setting (of bones or fractures).

10. bladdre n.

43 quotations in 3 senses
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Anat. (a) The urinary bladder; (b) a containing organ or bag; esp., the gall bladder; (c) the crop of a bird.

11. bodī̆lī(ch adj.

Additional spellings: bodilich
59 quotations in 5 senses
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Of human beings, their behavior, and their wants: pertaining to or affecting the body (as distinct from the 'spirit'); physical, corporeal; bodili wittes, the senses; bodili eie, bodili ere; bodili

12. box n.(2)

60 quotations in 4 senses
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A jar (for salves, cosmetics, spices, etc.), usually cylindrical.

13. calle n.

38 quotations in 4 senses
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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…

14. cāne n.

26 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A reed (esp., Arundo donax & Phragmites communis); (b) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum); (c) a Javanese reed; prob., bamboo; (d) a fragrant reed of India and Persia.

15. cardiac n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Anat. A vein associated with the heart; prob. the median vein in the arm.

16. clāvā̆le adj.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Anat. Nail-like, nail-shaped; clavale bones, certain small bones or bony projections near the ear.

17. clībāne n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Anat. Chest, thorax.

18. clif n.(2)

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A crack, fissure; (b) ?a narrow valley; (c) anat. the crotch; (d) med. a fissure in the skin or mucosal lining.

19. clōth n.

289 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) A piece of woven or felted fabric; a cloth; (b) cloth of gold (silver), a piece of gold (silver) brocade; also, a garment, hanging, etc., made of cloth of gold (silver); (c) cloth of Arras

20. clōthing ger.

73 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Clothes, wearing apparel; dress, garb; (b) in phrases and proverbs: seculer clothing, garb of a layman; clothing maketh man, clothes make the man.