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1. belle n.(1)

188 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) A church bell; also, a warning or signal bell of any kind, a small bell held in the hand; (b) a bell used as a musical instrument, a gong; (c) a hand bell rung before a corpse on the way to…

2. knottishēde n.

Additional spellings: knottishhede
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Bot. lumpiness, frequency of nodes.

3. quinquinervīe n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Bot. Ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata).

4. quintefoil(e n.

Additional spellings: quintefoile
11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Bot. Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans); (b) a design in the shape of a leaf of the cinquefoil.

5. wẹ̄d(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: wede
85 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) An uncultivated, usu. undesirable, plant, a weed; also, a wild aquatic plant [quot. c1450] (b) fig. and in fig. context, applied to other undesirable things: a person of bad stock or noxious…

6. wem n.

89 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A material defect or spot; also fig. [quot. c1400 Bk.Mother]; also, an imperfection; withouten wem; (b) error; mistake, flaw; also, infringement [quot. a1387]; withouten wem.

7. wether n.

77 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A male sheep, ram; a castrated ram; ?also, an adult sheep; also, the flesh of a sheep or ram, mutton (b) a ram used as a sacrifice in religious ritual; (c) the ram which bore the Golden Fleece;…