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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. avence n.

24 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A plant of the genus Geum; prob., the wood avens Geum urbanum; (b) med.; (c) cook. …

3. brǒuet n.

22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Cook. A broth or sauce for meats, fish, etc.; in brouet, served in such a broth or sauce; (b) a stew or fricassee; (c) a stew with strips of bread soaked in wine [cp. broues]. …

4. 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……

5. cofī̆n n.

29 quotations in 3 senses
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A basket; a hamper. …

6. comade, comadore n.

Additional spellings: comadore
6 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. A delicacy of one kind or another; a filling for a pie, etc. [see quots.]. …

7. cǒuche n.

38 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Couch, bed; in couche, in bed; (b) a small portable bed, pallet; small mattress; (c) a bed of litter for an animal; a resting place for cattle; (d) a thing on which something else rests, rest……

8. cǒurs n.

188 quotations in 14 senses
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Running (of man or beast); a run; riden a cours, make a run. …

9. dēfaut(e n.

Additional spellings: defaute
186 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Lack, insufficiency, absence; short weight [quot.: a1400]; at defaut, incomplete (as to antlers), lacking; for defaut, for lack of something; in your defaut, in your absence, because of your……

10. dorrẹ̄, dōrī adj. & n.

Additional spellings: dori
25 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Golden or reddish-yellow; (b) cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s dorre, sopes dorre. …

11. dǒuce adj. & n.

23 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Dear, beloved; douce amour, sweetheart; (b) douce Fraunce, beloved France; (c) douce vie, luxurious life; (d) as noun: paramour; foul douce, filthy harlot; (e) in surnames. …

12. entraille(s n.

Additional spellings: entrailles
45 quotations in 8 senses
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The organs enclosed in the trunk of man or animals, the viscera; also, the viscera excluding one or another of the inner organs;-- (a) coll. sg.; (b) pl. …

13. fā̆rs(e n.

Additional spellings: fars
5 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. Seasoned stuffing. …

14. farsūre n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. A mixture of meat or eggs, spices, etc., used either as stuffing, as seasoning or embellishment for other dishes, or as a dish by itself. …

15. filet n.

23 quotations in 5 senses
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A ribbon or band of cloth worn around the head as an ornament or to keep the hair in place; a headband, chaplet; also, a frontal band worn as a badge of maidenhood. …

16. foil n.

33 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A leaf (of a plant); (b) a leaf or folio of a book. …

17. fō̆rce n.

167 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) Physical strength; force of hond; (b) spiritual strength, courage, the cardinal virtue of fortitude. …

18. galingāle n.

28 quotations in 2 senses
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The roots of various plants of the genera Alpinia (esp. A. galanga or A. officinarum), Kæmpferia (esp. K. galanga), Aristolochia (esp. A. rotunda), and Cyperus (esp. C. longus); also, any of these……

19. gaunselī n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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Cook. A garlic sauce often used with fowl. …

20. ǧelẹ̄ n.

21 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Cook. A spiced jelly made from broth of meat or fish; a dish consisting of chopped meat or fish in such a jelly; gele cloth, a cloth for straining the broth to make a jelly; (b) med. a medicinal……

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