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1. ayẹ̄n-biing(e ger.

Additional spellings: ayenbiing, ayen-biinge, ayenbiinge
11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Redemption, salvation; (b) the buying back of one's inheritance; also, the right to buy back land which has been sold; (c) making amends, satisfaction; (d) Bibl. (in OT usage): the offering made……

2. commū̆n(e adj.

Additional spellings: commune
240 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) Owned or used jointly, shared; haven commun, own (sth.) jointly; commun to (til), shared by; (b) of characteristics, destiny, etc.: common (to all, etc.); haven commun with, have (sth.) in common……

3. eller(n n.

Additional spellings: ellern
44 quotations in 2 senses
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The European elder (Sambucus nigra); the dwarf elder (S. ebulus); Bibl. the tree on which Judas hanged himself;--sometimes confused with alder (Alnus). [The blossoms, the berries, and the bark were……

4. fā̆t adj.

75 quotations in 8 senses
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Made fat for slaughter; fattened, fatted. …

5. fatnes(se n.

Additional spellings: fatnesse
37 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Fat or grease as a substance; occas., the fatty substance from the outer parts of an animal as distinguished from tallow; (b) the fat part of an animal body; a layer or deposit of animal fat. …

6. 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. …

7. recording(e ger.

Additional spellings: recordinge
13 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The recalling of something, recollection; (b) remembrance of persons, events, or things; (c) ben in recording, to be remembered; taken recording of, remember (sth.); (d) Bibl. sacrifice of……

8. redempciǒun n.

48 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Theol. Salvation, redemption; maken redempcioun, to effect redemption (of sb.); (b) moral reformation; (c) liberation from captivity or hell; also fig.; (d) deliverance from captivity or restraint……

9. rēdī adj.(3)

361 quotations in 12 senses
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1a. (a) Prepared, ready; (b) prepared or ready (to do sth.); (c) redi to, prepared or ready for (sb. or sth.); also, ready to perform (sth.) [quot.: a1425]; redi for (til, unto), prepared for (sth.)……

10. Rēgum n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Bibl. The books of Kings, i.e., Samuel and Kings. …

11. remissiǒun n.

41 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……

12. residūe n.

50 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) What remains of a thing or group of things, what is left; the rest; -- also pl.; residue of eruke, what the caterpillar leaves; (b) the remaining part of an estate not specifically bequeathed; (c)……

13. skin n.(1)

176 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The outer covering of the human body, skin; skin of the smitinge, the skin at or near the location of a wound; maken skin, to cause skin to grow again; (b) a specific part or section of the skin……

14. smīting(e ger.

Additional spellings: smitinge
55 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The action of striking; beating [a few quots. in (a) may belong to (d)]; (b) the action of the beating of waves, the shaking of a sieve, the playing of a musical instrument, the plucking of a……

15. soul(e n.

Additional spellings: soule
672 quotations in 16 senses
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The spiritual and rational element in man, the Christian soul, understood: (a) to animate and control the body; (b) to have an eternal destiny as a moral agent; also person.; cure of soule(s……

16. straunǧe adj.

226 quotations in 5 senses
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Of persons: (a) foreign; (b) barbarian; (c) unknown, unfamiliar; -- also used of a dog; (d) ignorant; straunge unto, unfamiliar with; (e) from elsewhere, alien, not belonging to the place where found……

17. streng n.

93 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) A rope, cord, line; a thread, string; her streng, a cord made of horsehair (see her n.(1), sense 4.(b)); also, a strand of a rope; -- used fig. [quot. a1225]; gon right wei as streng, to go……

18. sufferen v.

474 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) To undergo physical, mental, or spiritual distress or affliction, suffer; sufferen o (of), suffer from (care, an affliction); also, have death inflicted upon one by (sb.) [quot. c1400(?a1387)]; pp……

19. tā̆r(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: tare
18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A wild or cultivated leguminous plant belonging to the genus Vicia, vetch, tare; tin tar, tinetare (Vicia hirsuta) [see also tin-tare n.]; wilde tar, a vetch of some kind; (b) a vetch seed; also……

20. thank n.

158 quotations in 9 senses
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Kindly regard felt toward another for a benefit received or services rendered, gratitude; also, a grateful thought. …

21. unclē̆nnes(se n.

Additional spellings: unclennesse
42 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Dirt, filth; also fig. [quot. a1500(a1415)]; also, filthiness; also, an impurity, a worthless residue (b) sickness, disease; also, a parasitical infestation; also, matter produced or ejected by……

22. vessel n.

203 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A small, portable container, esp. one for storage or serving of food or drink; a flask, pitcher, jug, cup, dish, pot, etc.; a piece of household tableware, a kitchen utensil, etc.; also, an……

23. wā̆riere n.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) One given to cursing or to scurrilous and abusive speech, a reviler, slanderer (b) one who anathematizes, excommunicates, or lays under ban, or is charged so to do; (c) pl. Bibl. the wicked……

24. weiling(e ger.

Additional spellings: weilinge
42 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The action of crying aloud; inarticulate moaning or wailing; also, a cry, groan, etc. produced by someone giving expression to sorrow or pain; weiling and wo, wepinge and weiling, etc.; in-ward……

25. wītī̆e n.

37 quotations in 2 senses
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Bibl. (a) One of the prophets, esp. those of the Old Testament; witegene bokes, the prophetical books of the Old Testament (b) as an epithet with a proper noun: the (se, than, thane, thas, tho) witie……

26. wit-word n.

Additional spellings: witword
10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A will, testament; (b) chiefly Bibl. the divine covenant with the faithful. …

27. wọ̄de n.(2)

469 quotations in 8 senses
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A living tree; coll. & pl. live trees; neue wode, new forest growth, fresh shoots, saplings, etc.; gon under wode, of the sun: to drop behind the trees. …

28. wǒmman n.

301 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) An adult female human being, a woman; also in fig. context;—also coll.; also, the first woman, Eve; first womman (b) a young woman [quot. ?c1475]; womman maiden, womman yong, womman of yong age,……

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