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1. aunǧel n.

155 quotations in 9 senses
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One of the celestial servants of God, an angel. …

2. butte n.(4)

10 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The end of a spear or pike opposite the head, butt; (b) naut.?the end of a plank in a ship's side; ?also, one of the planks. …

3. 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……

4. cōl n.(1)

46 quotations in 3 senses
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Cabbage, kale, colewort, rape, mustard, or some other plant of the genus Brassica; also, any cultivated leafy vegetable, garden greens, pot-herbs. …

5. cǒu-shō̆te n.

Additional spellings: coushote
8 quotations in 1 sense
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The European wood-pigeon Columba palumbus or ring-dove, cushat; ?also, a wild pigeon, stock-dove Columba oenas [quot. ?a1300.]; cook. coushotes (steue, a stew prepared with the stuffed bird and pieces……

6. gut n.

72 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) An abdominal organ; the digestive tract of a whelk; -- usually pl., entrails, viscera; rein guttes, the viscera under the loins or the flanks; (b) the anus, the omentum; long gut, the spleen. …

7. hough n.(2)

19 quotations in 2 senses
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Of man: (a) the heel; (b) the hollow or bend of the knee, hough; ?also, the knee; (c) ?haunch, ?groin, ?hip; hough bon, hipbone. …

8. maue n.

82 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The human stomach, organ of digestion in man; also, appetite for food; (b) the stomach of a fish; gizzard of a bird; (c) cook. the stomach of an animal used as a casing for a stuffing; (d) anat.……

9. pellican(e n.

Additional spellings: pellicane
32 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) One of the Eurasian pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus or Pelecanus crispus); also, a porphyrio (?Porphyrio cærulens); as a symbol of Christ [quot.: Symb.Pass.]; (b) in representations as a heraldic……

10. prik(e n.

Additional spellings: prike
161 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A pointed object, something that punctures or stabs; spike; prik wise, the fashion of a prick or point; (b) a tapering end, point; the point of a spear; (c) the sting of an insect or a scorpion……

11. quiste n.(2)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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The European wood pigeon Columba palumbus or ringdove; cook. quistes (steue), a stew prepared with the stuffed bird and pieces of beef or mutton. …

12. sak n.

150 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) A sack, bag; also fig.; sak and ston, completely; (b) a sack for grain or flour; (c) a sack for money or valuables; also, a purse; (d) cook. a sack or bag used in kneading dough; pl. a culinary……

13. sop(pe n.(1)

Additional spellings: soppe
37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A piece of bread dipped or soaked in wine, water, milk, or some other liquid; pl. sops; also, cook. a dish containing pieces of toasted bread on which a broth or syrup is poured; soppes dorre(s)……

14. 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……

15. sturǧeǒun n.

45 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The sturgeon (Acipenser sturio); -- also coll.; ?also, another fish or aquatic animal [quot. ?c1475]; (b) cook. a sturgeon used as food; maken a sturgeoun, to prepare a sturgeon for the table; (c)……

16. sword n.

195 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A bladed weapon designed for cutting and thrusting, a sword; also fig. & in fig. context; pleien at the sword and bokeler, to fence; (b) death by the sword; don to (the) sword, to put (sb.) to the……

17. tharm n.

41 quotations in 6 senses
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An internal organ of a human or an animal, esp. one of the organs of the abdominal cavity;—usu. pl.: entrails, viscera. …

18. thīgh n.

91 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The upper leg of a human being, devil, etc. from the knee to the hip, thigh; also, the thigh of an image or idol; gret thigh; thigh bon, the femur; thigh hole, bouing (folding, plicature) of the……

19. thorn n.

136 quotations in 5 senses
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A sharp-pointed spine or prickle on a plant, a thorn; also fig.; also in proverbs; ?also coll., glossing L sentes; cacchen a thorn, fig. to suffer a love pain. …

20. tǒur n.(1)

223 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) A building characterized by height, often free-standing; a tower; also fig.; heigh tour; water tour; (b) such a building used as a fortress, stronghold, or defensive structure; also fig.; also……

21. werk n.(1)

563 quotations in 23 senses
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(a) A discrete act performed or undertaken by someone, (someone’s) deed; coll. & pl. (one’s) individual acts, deeds, or actions, the things one does or has done in one’s life, (one’s) doings; also……

22. wēsel(e n.

Additional spellings: wesele
21 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A small carnivore of the genus Mustela, a weasel; also glossing AF fwyne marten [quot. a1450]; also in fig. context [quot. a1500(c1340)]; feld wesel (b) pl. cook. a dish consisting of ground pork……

23. wīn(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: wine
141 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) An alcoholic drink, usu. made from crushed whole grapes or from grape juice; also fig. and in fig. context; couchen win, to place a stock of wine in storage; fillen the win, give (sb.) the wine……

24. winter n.

194 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Winter, the coldest of the four seasons of the year (variously dated); a winter; also person.; also fig. and in fig. contexts; time of winter; solstice (solsticioun, tropik) of winter, the……

25. wōmb(e n.

Additional spellings: wombe
294 quotations in 16 senses
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(a) The human stomach; also fig. and in fig. context; womb skin, the lining of the stomach (b) the stomach of an animal, a fish, etc.; the belly of the whale that swallowed Jonah; also, one of the……

26. yelwe n.

41 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The color yellow or one of its hues; her. the heraldic tincture or, often represented in emblazonment by yellow [quot. 1449]; whit yelwe, a light yellow color (b) ?a grayish color [transl. of AL ……

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