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1. arched ppl.

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(a) Forming an arch; provided with arches; (b) provided with an arcade; (c) her. joined with an arch.

2. arǧent n. & adj.

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(a) Silver, silver coin; (b) her. silver-colored, silver-gilt; (c) vif argent, argent vif, the metal mercury, quicksilver.

3. armen v.

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(a) To equip oneself with weapons and armor, to arm oneself; don armen, leten armen, to cause (sb.) to arm himself, to have (oneself) armed; (b) refl. to put on one's battle gear, arm oneself; to…

4. armes n. (plural)

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(a) The weapons of a warrior; also, defensive arms and armor; (b) in sg.: a weapon; (c) the tusks of a boar; (d) means of spiritual attack or defence; armes of penaunce, Godes armes, etc.

5. ā̆sūr n.(1) & adj.

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The blue stone lapis lazuli; enamel made of powdered lapis lazuli.

6. baǧǧe n.(2)

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Her. A badge of cognizance, insignia; bagge of armes.

7. barre n.

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(a) A barrier, obstruction, or barricade, esp. outside the gate of a walled city or castle; also, the gate itself; -- often pl.; (b) in names: gate (of a walled city).

8. barren v.

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(a) To secure (a gate, a door) with bars or a bolt; to bar, block, or bolt; barren to; (b) to lock (a room); (c) to lock (sb.) up.

9. barri adj.

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(a) Cook. Decorated with strips of metal foil; (b) Her. divided equally by horizontal stripes of two alternating colors; also as noun: blazon so constituted.

10. bastǒun n.

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(a) A walking stick, staff; (b) fig. a blow with such a stick.

11. batalẹ̄, bataly ppl.

Additional spellings: bataly
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Her. Having a crenelated edge.

12. bēked adj.

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(a) Beaklike, hooked; (b) her. having a beak (of a specified color).

13. bē̆nd(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: bende
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(a) A fetter, shackle, chain; also fig.; (b) a band or strap of metal, a hoop, clamp, fastening; (c) a circlet or fillet to confine the hair; (d) a cord for tying or fastening; a bandage, rope, withy…

14. bē̆ndẹ̄ adj.

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(a) Ornamented with bands or stripes; (b) her. having a diagonal stripe, bendy.

15. bendē̆l n.

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(a) A narrow bandage; (b) an ornamental band or stripe; (c) her. a narrow diagonal stripe, a bendlet; (d) a cord or shackle.

16. bē̆nden v.(2)

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(a) To wrap or tie (sth.); blindfold; set (jewels); (b) to provide (sth.) with stripes or borders, adorn or border (with sth.); (c) her. to provide (a shield) with a diagonal stripe; ppl. bended

17. bē̆ndlī adj.

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Her. Having a diagonal stripe, bendy.

18. berlẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Traversed by narrow horizontal stripes, barruly.

19. besauntẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Strewn with gold disks or bezants; besaunte (of) gold.

20. billetẹ̄ ppl.

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Her. Strewn with 'billets' (small rectangular figures); billetty.

21. blā̆k n.

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(a) The color black, a black or dark color; (b) her. sable; (c) (the) broun and (the) blak, persons of all kinds, everyone.

22. blā̆k adj.

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(a) Of a black color, black; (b) blak and blo, black and livid, black and blue [see blo adj.]; blak or whit, black or white, of any color or kind; blak as col (blacche, croue, inde, molde, pich, slo),

23. bleu adj.

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(a) Blue; esp., sky-blue, azure; (b) blue-violet, hyacinthine; deep blue-purple, indigo-blue; dark; as bleu as inde; (c) bleu purpre, bleu violet, bright bleu, dep bleu, inde bleu, violet bleu; (d) as…

24. bōle n.(1)

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(a) A bull; fre bole, a bull free to roam with the herd [see Homans Eng.Villagers 61-3]; (b) a steer or bullock.

25. bō̆nd n.

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Something used for tying, binding, wrapping, fastening, joining: (a) a cord, string (also fig.); a strap, halter, leash; a bowstring; (b) a twist of straw; a tendril; (c) a bandage or wrapping; (d) a…

26. bōr n.

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(a) An uncastrated male swine (either wild or domesticated); (b) bores brain, brain of a boar used medicinally; bor(es grece, fat of a boar; bores herte, a bold or fierce heart; bor(es tusk, one of…

27. bō̆rdūre n.

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(a) Edge, side, brink, margin; boundary (of a city or country); (b) a district lying along the boundary of a country, a border region; (c) an ornamental border along the edge of a dish, garment…

28. bō̆rdūren v.

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(a) To provide (sth.) with an ornamental border; borduren abouten, with; (b) her. to provide (a shield) with a bordure.

29. bǒttonẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Of a cross or crosslet: having each arm ending in a trefoil, botonée.

30. bǒuche n.(2)

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(a) A leather bag; (b) her. representation of two bags hung from a yoke, a bouget.

31. bǒuǧe n.(1)

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(a) A leather bag; water bouge, 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.

32. chaump(e n.

Additional spellings: chaumpe
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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.

33. chẹ̄f n.

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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…

34. chē̆k interj. & n.

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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!

35. chekkẹ̄ ppl.

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Her. Checkered, checky.

36. cheverǒun n.

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

37. cok n.(1)

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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.)…

38. cǒlǒur n.

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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'…

39. cōmb n.

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(a) A comb for dressing the hair; (b) an ornamental comb for keeping the hair in place; a comli under combe, a fair lady; (c) her. the figure of a comb as a charge.

40. combatant adj.

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Her. Poised for combat.

41. cǒmīn n.

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

42. cō̆ste n.

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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.

43. cǒuntre- pref.

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Against (in position, motion, direction), opposite, counter-; ?back, rear (as opposed to front, forward); countre- filet, some kind of ribbon for the head or headdress; countre- frount, countre-

44. cressaunt n.

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The moon's shape in the first or last quarter, a crescent.

45. cros n.

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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

46. cros-crosselet n.

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Her. A cross with each arm recrossed by a small piece at right angles, a cross crosslet.

47. crosselet n.(1)

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(a) A small cross; a cruciform reliquary; (b) her. a cross crosslet; (c) crosselet wise, shaped like a cross crosslet.

48. daunce n.

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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.

49. demī n. & combining element

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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.

50. dented ppl.

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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.

51. dēparten v.

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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,

52. descendaunt adj.

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Her. Extending downwards.

53. difference n.

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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.

54. dismembren v.

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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…

55. displaien v.

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To unfurl, raise, or display (a banner, a pennon); also fig.

56. eirond adj.

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Her. Of a fish: Upright (in pale) with the head at the top (in chief), as if rising to the surface for air; hauriant.

57. embelif adv.

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(a) Astron. Not at right angle to the horizon, obliquely; (b) her. (divided) diagonally; 'per bend' or 'per bend sinister'.

58. embelink adj.

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Her. Diagonal, 'bendwise'.

59. endenten v.

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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.

60. ?engǒushed ppl.

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Her. Lying down, but with the head raised; couchant.

61. engrēled ppl.

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Her. Having an edge or border consisting of tapering points; engrailed.

62. entē adj.

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Her. A manner of dividing a shield into two parts, such that a triangular portion is in one color and the remainder of the field in a different color. [Apparently equiv. to party per chevron in MnE…

63. entravers adv.

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Her. Athwart.

64. ermīn n.

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The European ermine [Mustela erminea].

65. ermīn adj.

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(a) Made of ermine fur; (b) her. having the fur ermine, consisting of white with black spots.

66. erminē ppl. adj.

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Her. Having the fur ermines, consisting of black with white spots (instead of black on white); -- also as noun.

67. erminēd ppl.

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Her. Having ermine spots (in quot., white spots on black).

68. fals adj.

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Of persons, animals (specif., the fox, lapwing), etc.: given to the practice of deception; deceitful, full of guile; also, guilty of breach of trust, faithless, disloyal, perfidious, treacherous; fals

69. fẹ̄ld n.

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(a) Relatively flat open country; a plain; feld and wode(s; feld place, a plain; (b) feld hath eie(n (sight), wode hath ere(s; (c) feld of Damask, feld Damascene, the plain on which Adam was said to…

70. fer-de-molin n.

Additional spellings: ferde-molin
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Her. A charge made to resemble the ironwork at the center of a millstone [i.e. two semicircular pieces, placed convex to convex, bound together by two parallel bands so as to leave a square opening at…

71. fesse n.(1)

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Her. A single broad horizontal stripe across the middle of the field, a fesse; also, one of two or three horizontal stripes, a bar.

72. flaunche n.

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Her. A type of subordinary: a more or less lentiform space at either side of a shield of arms (bounded by the outer rim and by a segment of a circle intersecting the rim); a flanch, a flasque.

73. flǒuren v.(1)

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(a) Of a blossom: to open; of a plant: to bloom, blossom; of a field, etc.: to become full of flowers; (b) of wine: transl. L flavescit, to turn golden.

74. flǒurtẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Ornamented with fleurs-de-lis, flory, fleury.

75. forchẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Divided, forked.

76. formẹ̄ ppl.

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Her. Shaped, moulded; cros forme, a cross whose arms are thick at the extremities and tapering inward to the point of juncture.

77. fret n.(2)

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(a) An ornament, a decorative device, an ornamental design or border; (b) an ornamental netlike covering for the hair; a headband or diadem.

78. frēten v.(2)

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(a) To adorn or decorate (something), to ornament (with an inlay of gold or precious stones), to interweave (a garment with gold thread, etc.); (b) fretted ful (all) of, thickly set with (gems, etc.)…

79. fūsil n.

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Her. A bearing in the form of an elongated lozenge, a fusil.

80. fūsilẹ̄ ppl.

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Her. Of an ordinary: composed of fusils.

81. gad(de n.

Additional spellings: gadde
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(a) A sharp-pointed metal spike; (b) a sharp-pointed stick used for driving oxen etc.; a goad; (c) gad nail, some kind of nail or spike.

82. garbe n.

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(a) A bundle of brass rods; (b) her. a representation of a sheaf of wheat or a bunch of cumin.

83. ǧemelles n. (plural)

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(a) Twins; (b) the constellation Gemini; (c) her. barrulets arranged in pairs.

84. ǧerọ̄nẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Of a shield or the field of a coat of arms: divided into gyrons or triangular sections, gyronny.

85. ǧessenande ppl.

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Her. Lying down, couchant.

86. Gien(ne n.

Additional spellings: Gienne
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Her. Guienne, the King-of-Arms having jurisdiction over the province of Guienne.

87. gobbonẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Divided into sections of alternate colors, componé, gobony.

88. gōld n.

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(a) The metal gold; of gold, consisting of gold, made of gold; (b) gold and silver, etc.; (c) clene gold, cler gold, fin gold, pure gold, refined gold; parti gold, gold with considerable alloy; red

89. gōld adj.

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(a) Made of gold, golden; (b) gold foil, gold foil; (c) gold ring, a gold ring; in prov.: gold ring in a soues (swines) nose.

90. gǒules n. & adj.

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Her. The tincture gules, red; red goules; also, gules-tinctured, gules-depicted.

91. gǒute n.(2)

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(a) A drop of liquid; (b) a fragrant resin, stacte, ?a kind of myrrh; (c) her. a drop-shaped figure in a coat of arms, a goutte.

92. grailed adj.

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Her. Engrailed, having an edge or border consisting of a series of cusps.

93. grēlẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Engrailed.

94. gritti adj.

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Her. [According to OED:] 'Of a field: Composed equally of a metal and a colour.'

95. hōl(e adj.(2)

Additional spellings: hole
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(a) Of a person, animal, the body, part of the body: healthy, cured, healed, free from disease or defect; also fig.; maken hol, to heal (sb.); (b) hol and fere (quert, sound), heil (herti, strong) and

96. joinant adj.

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(a) Nearby, adjacent, touching; joinant to, adjacent to (sth.), abutting upon; (b) her. of charges: connected, conjoined.

97. kīnde n.

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(a) The aggregate of inherent qualities or properties of persons, animals, plants, elements, medicines, etc.; essential character; the nature of emotions, attributes, and the like; after the fleshes

98. lābel n.

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(a) A dangling strip of cloth or ribbon used as an ornament in dress; a tab, band; (b) a strip of parchment or paper appended to a document to contain supplementary matter; fig. a corollary; (c) a…

99. Lancaster n.

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(a) Her. Lancaster, a King-of-Arms having at various times jurisdiction over the province of the north; one of the chief heralds of England; Lancaster king of armes; (b) Lancaster sword, a sword…

100. lange n.

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(a) A language, tongue; on light lange, in simple language; (b) her.?a tongue-shaped heraldic charge; ?the tongue-shaped end of a banner.