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1. bēting ger.(1)

44 quotations in 7 senses
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A flogging, scourging, beating; also, punishment of any kind.

2. blouing ger.(1)

34 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The blowing of the wind; also fig.; (b) breathing, exhaling; blowing with the breath; med. blouing in, insufflation; (c) blowing a fire (with bellows); also fig.; (d) smelting; blouing hous; (e)…

3. drauing ger. or ppl.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. In phr. blowen drauing, ?to blow 'the drawing', blow on a hunting horn the signal to turn back and search a wood for the game or the scent [cp.OD draw v. 52]; ?to blow slowly, prolong the notes…

4. fīnding ger.

60 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) The act of discovering either by chance or after searching; also, an instance of it; (b) the act of securing through search;--often with of phrase; (c) a foundling.

5. foiling ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A stain, a spot; (b) hunt. act of traveling or 'beating'.

6. fraiing ger.(2)

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A crushing impact, a clash; (b) hunt. an abrasion made by a hart in rubbing the skin from his horns.

7. gaderinge ger.

85 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) The assembling of people, act of coming together; mustering of an army; meeting of a council; gaderinge about, crowding around; (b) the summoning of a council; (c) a group of people assembled, a…

8. mẹ̄ting(e ger.(4)

Additional spellings: metinge
58 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A meeting of two or more persons, encounter, rendezvous; cristes meting, meeting of Christ, a name for the feast of the Presentation, Purification, or Candlemas, February 2; (b) a gathering…

9. recovering(e ger.

Additional spellings: recoveringe
20 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Recovery from illness; restoration (of someone's health); (b) hope or chance of rallying in battle; (c) salvation; (d) help, assistance.

10. relẹ̄ving(e ger.

Additional spellings: relevinge
29 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The action of helping, providing for, saving; an instance of this; aid, assistance, succor; also, redemption; releving oute of, helping (sb.) out of (debt, distress); setten a releving, to provide…

11. renning(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: renninge
78 quotations in 6 senses
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Of a person: (a) running; running in pursuit or hunting; a running, rush; also fig.; at long renning, in the long run; (b) running in sport or contest; a race; ?also, a racecourse [last quot.]…

12. retreving ger.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Hunt. Retrieval of game.

13. sē̆rching(e ger.

Additional spellings: serchinge
15 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act of searching or investigating; an examination, investigation, inquiry; (b) an inspection for quality; the act of inspecting the materials and practices of guildsmen to maintain the quality…

14. stinting(e ger.

Additional spellings: stintinge
22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Stopping, ending, termination; pause; a stop; assuaging of anguish; withouten (ani) stinting, ceaselessly, continuously; ben upon a stinting, hunt. of the hounds: to come to a stop when the scent…

15. stō̆nding(e ger.

Additional spellings: stondinge
58 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) The action or fact of standing upright, or an instance of it; the act or fact of standing on one's feet; also, an instance of standing together, a meeting [quot. c1440]; upon stonding, of hounds…

16. trōching(e ger.

Additional spellings: trochinge
2 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. The cluster of three or more tines at the top of a deer's antlers.

17. vesteiing ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. The act of searching for the track of the quarry.

18. wagging(e ger.

Additional spellings: wagginge
10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act or action of moving back and forth or up and down; ?also, error for waking(e ger. 2.(a) [quot. a1475]; also, the loosening of teeth; the wagging of a tail; the rocking of a boat; bot