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21. bǒuǧe n.(1)

22 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A leather bag; water bouge (q.v.), a leather bottle for water; (b) her. a representation of two bags hung from a yoke, a bouget; (c) bouge maker, one who makes leather bags. …

22. chaump(e n.

Additional spellings: chaumpe
18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A piece of open ground, such as a field or meadow; (b) chaump bataile, battlefield; chaump clos, an area set off or enclosed for trial by combat or a tournament; also, single combat. …

23. chẹ̄f n.

72 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) The head or leader (of an organization); ruler, governor, administrator, commander, chief officer, chief; chef of clergie, high priest; chef of holi chirche; etc.; (b) the (chief) seat (of a……

24. chē̆k interj. & n.

46 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) A call uttered in chess when the opponent's king (or another important figure) is under attack: check!, guard!; (b) fig. halt! …

25. chekkẹ̄ ppl.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Her. Checkered, checky. …

26. cheverǒun n.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Her. A charge or device in the shape of an inverted V, chevron; (b) a design of that shape. …

27. 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.)……

28. cǒlǒur n.

161 quotations in 10 senses
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Color as an inherent property of matter; uttemest colours, the extreme colors, i.e. white and black; mene (middel) colour, the intermediate colors, i.e. yellow, orange, red, purple, and 'green'……

29. combatant adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Her. Poised for combat. …

30. cǒmīn n.

26 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The plant cumin Cummin cyminum or its aromatic seed; (b) used medicinally; (c) used in cooking; (d) her. …

31. cō̆ste n.

80 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Anat. A rib; fals coste, false rib; (b) the side of the body, flank; the side of a building; the face of a solid figure; (c) her. cotise. …

32. crosselet n.(1)

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A small cross; a cruciform reliquary; (b) her. a cross crosslet; (c) crosselet wise, shaped like a cross crosslet. …

33. daunce n.

64 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) A dance of any kind (i.e. of a group, a couple, or an individual performer); (b) a group of dancers; (c) her. a picture of a dance. …

34. demī n. & combining element

21 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A half (of a certain measure or unit); (b) a Scottish gold coin [see quots.]; (c) her. half-and-half, party. …

35. dented ppl.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Notched, serrate; (b) barbed; (c) inlaid; (d) her. indented; (e) of a deed: made in the manner of an indenture. …

36. dēparten v.

253 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) To take one's leave, go away, depart; departen awei; (b) departen fro (awei fro, from, out of), to go away from (sb. or sth., a place); departen from, retreat from (foes); fig. departen from lif,……

37. descendaunt adj.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Her. Extending downwards. …

38. difference n.

69 quotations in 6 senses
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The fact of difference in kind; lack of identity, unlikeness, dissimilarity, diversity: (a) without constr.; (b) with prep. phr.; (c) with gen. …

39. dismembren v.

28 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To cut off the members or limbs of (a person, an animal); tear (sb.) limb from limb, dismember; dismembren asondre, dismembren joint fro joint, dismembren lim and lith, dismembren on peces; (b) to……

40. embelink adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Her. Diagonal, 'bendwise'. …

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