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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
239 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
36 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)

174 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.

224 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.