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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. bī̆nden v.

372 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) To tie (sth.) up, as with a cord; bind (sheaves); gather or hold together, as with a girdle; tie (a bag, purse) shut; tie off, as with a tourniquet; (b) to tie or fasten (sb., sth. to sth. else)…

3. blouen v.(1)

189 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Of the wind: to blow; also fig.; (b) of the wind: to blow against, beat upon; drive (sth.) by blowing; also fig.; blouen awei, blow (sth.) away; also fig.; blouen doun, blow down, destroy; blouen

4. 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.

5. 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…

6. 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.

7. 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…

8. drauen v.

766 quotations in 21 senses
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(a) To pull, tug, draw; pull in harness; (b) to pull (sb. or sth.), drag, tug at; pull up (a drawbridge); (c) to draw or withdraw (a part of the body); (d) to pull (a vehicle), tow (a ship), turn…

9. dubben v.

60 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To create (a knight); confer knighthood on (sb.); give the accolade to (sb.); also, beat (sb.) [1st quot.]; neudubbed, of a knight: newly created; (b) dubben (to) knight, to make (sb.) a knight…

10. ēven adv.

203 quotations in 22 senses
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Smoothly, evenly.

11. 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.

12. fō̆rth adv.

213 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Of motion or direction: forward, onward, ahead; forth and forth, on and on; (b) holden (nimen, taken) forth wei (sti, gate), to make (one's) way; (c) with modal verb: to go forward, advance; right

13. Frē̆nsh adj.

100 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Pertaining to France [as constituted at various times], or to Frenchmen; consisting of Frenchmen; associated with France or Frenchmen; Frensh fare, courtly behavior; Frensh flour, the…

14. frēten v.(1)

138 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To devour (something), to eat up; (b) to eat (something); esp., to eat hungrily or greedily; freten fil, to eat (one's) fill; freten of, to partake of, eat of; freten up, to eat up, devour; (c) to…

15. gaderen v.

213 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Of people: to come together, assemble, congregate; meet, have a meeting; gaderen abouten, gaderen unto, crowd around (sb.), surround; (b) refl. to come together, assemble; gaderen samen, gaderen

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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…

20. plaunten v.

105 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To plant or set (a tree, an herb, a vine, etc.); also fig.; also, transplant (a tree, etc.); plaunten over; plaunted thing, a plant; (b) to plant (a vineyard, a garden); (c) to plant or sow a…

21. 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…

22. 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.

23. 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…

24. 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)

25. 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

26. stoppen v.

235 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) To obstruct (a street, lane, passage, an entrance, etc.) with a physical barrier, block; close (a port), prevent access to; blockade (the sea), close to traffic; block (someone's way); also fig.

27. strīen v.

12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To spread (sth. on the soil); scatter (seeds) in sowing; sprinkle (salt in sth.); (b) cook. to sprinkle (sugar or garnish) on prepared food; strien aboven; to strien, for sprinkling, to be…

28. 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)…

29. swẹ̄t(e adj.

Additional spellings: swete
375 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) Sweet to the taste, having the quality of sweetness; sweetened; also fig. and in fig. context; (b) swet almaunde, an almond used as food, as opposed to the bitter almond used medicinally; swet

30. 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…

31. tēsen v.

20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To separate and clean (the fibers of raw wool, flax, etc.) by drawing a comb or other instrument through them, card; (b) tesen upon, to use (a fuller's perch) in order to raise the nap on (cloth)…

32. 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.

33. 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

34. 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.

35. throuen v.(1)

245 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) To hurl (sb. or sth.), fling, throw, cast;—also refl.; also fig. and in fig. contexts; of a whale: spew (water), spout; drop (a substance into another substance); also, with adverbs: throuen awei

36. tọ̄ adv.(1)

166 quotations in 11 senses
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In expressions of motion: (a) to a place; to this place, here; to that place or person, there; also used redundantly following prep. phrase with to [last 2 quots.]; hard in goinge to, hard to get at…

37. tọ̄̆ prep.

2479 quotations in 47 senses
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In phrases with verbs of motion expressed or implied: (a) onward to and into (a place, structure, the body or a part of the body, etc.); also with adv. or clause as obj. [quots. c1275 (2nd) & ?c1425]…

38. 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…

39. unēthe adv.

102 quotations in 4 senses
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As an adverb of manner [often difficult to distinguish from the adverb of degree] (a) with difficulty, not without effort, not easily; swithe (wel) unethe, with great difficulty; (b) unreadily,…

40. wā̆tren v.

78 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) To provide (a garden, a tree, an orchard, etc.) with water, irrigate, water; also fig. and in fig. context; (b) to moisten (a seed).

41. wellen v.

118 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Of water, a spring or well of water, a spring-fed stream, etc.: to rise to the surface and flow, well up, spring, bubble forth; also in fig. context; of blood, tears: pour down, gush forth, flow…

42. 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…

43. 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…

44. 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…

45. whīten v.

27 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To become white, turn white; also in fig. context; of the eastern horizon: grow light at the approach of dawn, lighten (b) to make (sth.) white, whiten; whitewash (sth.), paint white; whiten…

46. 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…

47. 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…

48. 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…

49. 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 …