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1. baptēme, -esme, -isme, -īme n.

Additional spellings: baptesme, baptisme, baptime
34 quotations in 5 senses
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The act, ceremony, or sacrament of baptism; the fact of being baptized; also fig.; bapteme water, water of bapteme, water used in baptism; ben hight in bapteme, be given a Christian name; name of……

2. 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……

3. whīt n.

118 quotations in 12 senses
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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……

4. brim-stōn n.

Additional spellings: brimston
34 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The mineral sulphur; (b) quik brim-ston, native or virgin sulphur; ded brim-ston, sulphur which has been rendered inert; poudre of brim-ston, flowers of sulphur; brim-ston water, water containing……

5. quik-silver n.

Additional spellings: quiksilver
34 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Metallic mercury, quicksilver; alch. an agent used in the alchemical process and associated with the planet Mercury; med. as a medicine or component of medicines; (b) deth of quik-silver……

6. sulphur-vīve n.

Additional spellings: sulphurvive
11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Native or natural sulfur, used as a component of medicines and incendiary mixtures; (b) alch. ?sophic sulfur [cp. sulphur n. (c)]. …

7. whīt adj.

656 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……

8. sprī̆t n.

49 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The principle of life; sprit of lif, vital sprit; (b) the human soul, esp. at the point of death; yelden sprit, to die; (c) an immaterial being; an angel, a demon; also, an apparition, a ghost……

9. asshe n.(2)

98 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Ashes of combustible materials; brennen to asshe; turnen to asshe; (b) ashes as used in medicaments, for making lye, etc.; (c) hot ashes or coals, as for baking. …

10. crosselet n.(2)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Alch. A crucible. …

11. brid n.

164 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A bird of any kind; briddes and bestes; (b) brid of prai, a bird of prey; brid of gentris, a noble bird; brid of plesaunce, a bird used in the sport of hunting; feld brid, wild fowl; (c) a bird as……

12. mēne n.(3)

209 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A course of action, method, way; a means of attaining an end; (b) bi mene of, with menes of; bi no (manere of) mene; bi al menes; bi god menes, with great skill; menes and weies; weies and menes……

13. flīen v.

198 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To fly with wings; flien with winges; flien in (bi) the lift (air); flien on heigh (upon height); flien (one's) wei; fleing kind, flying creature, birds; (b) comen flen, flien fleing, to come……

14. stōn n.

682 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) A discrete piece of rock, esp. one of small or medium size; a stone, pebble; also, a large discrete piece of rock, a boulder; a standing stone, monolith; (b) a ston(es cast, the throuinge of a……

15. ē̆rthe n.(1)

291 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) The physical earth as part of God's creation, often as contrasted with the heavens above and hell below; (b) the earth as a sphere. …

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