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1. ā̆sūr n.(1) & adj.

46 quotations in 3 senses
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The blue stone lapis lazuli; enamel made of powdered lapis lazuli. …

2. cok n.(1)

81 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) The male of the common domestic fowl: cock, rooster; cok chike(n, ?a young cock; cok tord, a cock's excrement; (b) the male of other birds; culver cok; fesaunt cok; mor cok (q.v.); po cok (q.v.)……

3. cros n.

251 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

4. endenten v.

53 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To make notches, dents, or indentations in (something); give (something) a toothed, serrate, or jagged character or appearance; (b) fig. heckle. …

5. osprai n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An osprey (Pandion haliaetus); (b) her. a representation of an osprey. …

6. ostrich(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: ostriche
34 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) An ostrich; (b) in comparisons: foltish as ostrich, cruel as an ostrich; also, in prov.; (c) ostrich (ostriches) ei, an ostrich egg; ostrich ruf, an ostrich 'ruff' [see ruf n.(3)]. …

7. pēce n.

210 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) A fragment of an object, a bit or piece of a whole; a piece cut or torn from a cloth, garment, etc., scrap, patch, tag; a slice or piece of meat or fish; bi peces, in pieces; bresten (heuen) to……

8. pelot(e n.

Additional spellings: pelote
63 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A spherical or circular object; a gob, lump, or piece; (b) a pellet or cannon ball of various sizes, made of metal or stone, used as a missile to be discharged from a catapult, cannon, crossbow……

9. pīlen v.(2)

4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To fasten (sb.) to (sth.) with nails; (b) to establish (sth.) firmly in position; (c) to drive piles into (the ground) as support for a structure; (d) her. piled armes, a coat of arms containing……

10. plā̆t(e n.

Additional spellings: plate
218 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A flat piece of metal or other substance; esp. a sheet of metal, a metal plate or disk; (b) plat of bras (coper, gold, iren, led, silver); plat of lether (ston, tre); iren plat, an iron plate……

11. quartẹ̄̆r(e n.

Additional spellings: quartere
232 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) One of four parts or divisions of a thing; also, a one-fourth proportional part of a mixture [quot.: a1398]; (b) one of four parts into which a chicken or other edible animal is cut, each……

12. rāsen v.(1)

112 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To scrape (sth.); also, shave (sb., somebody's crown); (b) to make erasures; erase (writing, a passage of writing, etc.); scrape (a page, book) clean; emend (a document) by erasure; rasen awei……

13. sāble n.

32 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The European sable (Martes zibellina); (b) the fur or pelt of the sable; (c) the color black; blak sable; blak as (blakker than) sable; (d) a black garment, black clothing, mourning clothes; (e) h……

14. sautǒur n.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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Her. An ordinary in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, a saltire; sautour engreled. …

15. sparre n.

45 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A piece of timber used in building; a rafter, beam; a board; -- also coll.; firre sparre; hilinge of sparres, a roof; joininge of sparres, a roof or building; maister sparre, a main beam or……

16. 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)……

17. tǒurte n.

15 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A kind of coarse brown bread; tourte bakere; (b) a tart of some sort [cp. tart(e n. (a)]; (c) veter. a disease of horses characterized by the formation of an abscess beneath the epidermis; (d) her……

18. tǒurtelle n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A small round cake or bread roll; (b) her. a stylized wafer or round cake used as a heraldic device. …

19. trunk(e n.

Additional spellings: trunke
13 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The main stem of a tree considered apart from its roots and branches, trunk; (b) a lifeless human body, corpse, specif. a mutilated or dismembered body; (c) her. the representation of an animal's……

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