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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.

371 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)

187 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…