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1. as(s)emblẹ̄ n.

Additional spellings: assemble
39 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A getting together or gathering (of people or parties, on a particular occasion or by chance); maken asemble; (b) a meeting (of a constituted body, or called by an official); (c) hunt. the…

2. assignẹ̄ n.

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One (not an heir-at-law) to whom a property or right is bequeathed; heires and assignes.

3. bērner n.

16 quotations in 2 senses
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Hunt. An attendant in charge of running or scenting hounds.

4. bēst(e n.

Additional spellings: beste
197 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) One of the animal kingdom (including man), any living creature (non-vegetable); (b) best doumb, a dumb animal; dedli best, mortel best, mortal creature; devine best, spiritual or Godlike creature…

5. chaunǧe n.

66 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Alteration, variation, change (as of character, attitude, circumstances), or an instance of it; chaunge of fortune, chaunge of herte; ben in chaunge, be mutable or unstable; (b) the changing of…

6. cǒuntre n.(1)

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(a) The contrary of something; a remedy; (b) the opposite half of a tally ( = countretaille); (c) ?a circular parry in fencing [cp.OD sb.(5)]; (d) hunt. the direction opposite that taken by the game…

7. daunǧẹ̄r n.

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(a) Domination, power, control, or possession (as exercised by a ruler, lord, or adversary); abiden daunger, to submit to control; ben in (under) daunger, be in (someone's) power or hands, be a…

8. dēth n.

329 quotations in 12 senses
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Loss of life; dying, death as an event; deth of the bodi, deth of lif; dout (dred) of deth, fear of dying; paien the dette of deth, to die as man must die; dethes cares, throes of death.

9. dī̆visiǒun n.(1)

78 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) The act or processes of splitting or breaking up; branching (of arteries, streams); (b) separability, divisibility; (c) math. the process of dividing numbers, division; (d) hunt. the ceremonious…

10. drit n.

52 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Excrement, droppings; dung; feces; (b) hunt. the dung of certain animals; (c) cattes drit, dove drit, gandres drit, gotes drit, hors drit, mannes drit, mous drit, swines drit.

11. eie n.(3)

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Hunt. (a) A brood (of pheasants); (b) ?a young hawk.

12. fen n.(2)

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Dung, excrement; filth [cp. fen n.(1), sense 2., which here overlaps with this word].

13. fimẹ̄ n.

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(a) Hunt. The excrement of certain game animals, such as the deer; (b) med. excrement, dung; (c) alch. mud or clay (for sealing a retort).

14. fīndere, -are n.

Additional spellings: findare
24 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) One who finds (a lost object); (b) one who attains to knowledge; (c) hunt. a dog used to track game; also, one who has charge of such dogs.

15. fō̆rme n.

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(a) The physical shape of something, contour, outline; the figure or shape (of a person), body; also fig.; (b) forme and shape, shape or forme, forme and shafte, etc.

16. fǒurche n.

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The fork formed by the legs and the trunk of the body, the crotch.

17. gorǧeaunt n.

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Hunt. A gorger, a boar in his second year.

18. gō̆ter n.(1)

81 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Any device for leading water down from a roof; an eaves trough; a channel where two slanting roofs (or parts of a roof) meet; a rain pipe; a gutter; (b) ?a ready-made gutter, ?material used in…

19. herberwer n.

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(a) One who entertains guests; (b) an innkeeper; (c) a servant in charge of providing quarters for a nobleman's guests; (d) hunt. the huntsman in charge of tracking the hart to his lair; (e) as…

20. hert n.

92 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A male of the red deer (Cervus elephas), a hart; also, the female; she hert; (b) hunt. hert of ten, hert at the first hed, a hart having ten tines in all on his antlers, a hart in his sixth year…

21. jū̆ǧement n.

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(a) The action of trying at law, a trial; figure (noise) of jugement, a formal trial; sitten (ben set) in jugement, to act as a judge, sit in judgment; bringen to (unto) jugement, bring (sb.) to…

22. menẹ̄ n.(4)

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Hunt. (a) The cry of the hound when he finds the track of the game; (b) the signal sounded on the horn when returning from the hunt.

23. parfit n.(1)

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Hunt. (a) A horn call indicating that the hunter or hounds are on the right track; also fig.; (b) ?the right track.

24. parfī̆tere n.

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Hunt. A dog kept in reserve to be used at the completion of a chase.

25. purs-net n.

Additional spellings: pursnet
4 quotations in 1 sense
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A fishing net furnished with a bag containing a stone for sinking the net; hunt. a bag-shaped net having a cord running through the outer meshes in the manner of a purse-string.

26. quest(e n.

Additional spellings: queste
94 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) A judicial inquiry, an inquest, a trial; (b) fals (ivel, wrongful) quest, an inquest initiated without valid cause or resulting in an unjust verdict; (c) comen in (on) quest, gon on (upon) quest

27. quirrẹ̄ n.(1)

16 quotations in 2 senses
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Hunt. (a) The parts of a deer, usually placed on the animal's hide, which are given to the hounds as a reward for the chase; (b) the ceremony of giving the hounds their reward; (c) the collection of…

28. rēal n.

30 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A noble, person of royal blood; coll. the nobility; (b) royal power or possessions; also, ?kingdom; ?error for realte n.(1); (c) service owed to the king.

29. receit(e n.

Additional spellings: receite
79 quotations in 5 senses
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A sum or an amount of money received by a person, guild, church, etc.; an income; -- also pl.; forein receit [see also forein adj. 5.(b)].

30. receivǒur n.

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(a) A recipient of a gift, property, etc.; (b) a partaker of the sacrament, communicant; also, a recipient of medicine; (c) a receiver of stolen goods, resetter; (d) hunt. a heavy deerhound used to…

31. refūs(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: refuse
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(a) Refusal, rejection; disgrace; also person.; maken refus of, to reject (sb.); putten in refus, reject (sth.), despise; (b) hunt. withouten refus, old enough to be hunted.

32. relai n.

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Hunt. Hounds posted along the probable line of a chase to replace hounds grown weary; also, the place where the hounds are posted.

33. relẹ̄f(e n.

Additional spellings: relefe
99 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) That which is left over or left behind, remains, remnants, residue; -- often pl.; also, a legacy, charitable bequest; also, dregs; relef of brucus, what the bruchus leaves; (b) rabble, ruins; (c)…

34. reward n.

134 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Something awarded in recognition of merit, virtue, etc.; a reward, prize; (b) a payment for services, remuneration; a fee, bonus; also fig.; (c) what one deserves, just deserts; retribution…

35. right n.

447 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) That which is morally right; resoun and right; (b) moral rectitude, righteousness; right and skil, skil and right; haven right, to act rightly; (c) a right action, good deed; bi right or wrong, by…

36. rīot(e n.

Additional spellings: riote
53 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Riotous living, dissipation, debauchery; extravagance, a course of extravagance; setten in riot, to set (sb.) on a course of dissipation; (b) an instance of loose living, debauchery, or…

37. rīse n.

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(a) A piece of rising land; high land; (b) an uprising; maken a rise, to raise a rebellion; (c) hunt. ?a false start by a hare to deceive the hounds; ?error for ruse n.; (d) in surname and place name…

38. rǒute n.(2)

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(a) A way, route; a road; holden forth route, to continue on (one's) way; leten the cuppe gon route, let the cup make its way, pass the cup; maken route in-to, make way to (a place); (b) hunt. a…

39. semblẹ̄ n.

54 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The gathering together of persons for a particular purpose; an assembly, a meeting, feast, tournament; also, the act of seating persons together at an occasion; maken a semble, to attend a…

40. set n.(1)

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(a) Hunt. The area of a forest or park marked out for the hunt; (b) an attack, onslaught; (c) the time of sunset; set of the sonne, sonne set [cp. OE sunn-set].

41. skirt(e n.

Additional spellings: skirte
35 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The lower part of a man's gown or robe, clerical vestment, etc.; prest skirt; serke skirt; (b) the lower part of a woman's dress, a skirt; also, a skirt used as a receptacle; (c) in glossary…

42. spelers n. plural

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Hunt. Dentelations on the hind edge of the palm or the broad upper part of a buck's horn.

43. stāblīe n.

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Hunt. A group of hunters and hounds stationed around the perimeter of a wood during a hunt to prevent the escape of the game; (b) a military encampment.

44. stint n.(1)

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(a) A pause or stop in an action; termination of an intention or objective; maken (a) stint; (b) withouten (ani) stint, without any delay, forthwith; also, without ceasing, endlessly, for a long time…

45. stō̆nd(e n.

Additional spellings: stonde
10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Place, position; thurgh londes and stondes, through many places; (b) a fixed position in a battle, a stand; in stond and stoure, in every kind of battle; (c) hunt. a position from which to shoot a…

46. strength(e n.

Additional spellings: strengthe
432 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) Physical strength, muscular power, brute bodily might; also person.; pl. physical powers, strength; (b) a mighty act or deed; (c) the application of physical force; also, physical tightness [quot…

47. stristre n.

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Hunt. An appointed station where hunters awaited the game.

48. surrēal n.

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(a) Hunt. The third tine of a hart's antlers, tray; (b) hawk. pl. the outermost of the three anterior claws of a hawk [cp. sussengeles n.pl.].

49. sū̆srēal n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. The third tine of a hart's antlers, tray.

50. tēser(e n.

Additional spellings: tesere
9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) One who teases wool, flax, etc., a carder; (b) hunt. a light, swift greyhound used to rouse deer; (c) some item of horse gear; (d) in surnames.

51. tīnd(e n.

Additional spellings: tinde
25 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) One of a series of projecting, sharp points of metal or wood on a rake, trap, harrow, or other implement; also in fig. context; (b) the tip of a thorn, a prickle.

52. top n.(1)

164 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) The higher end of something vertical: the top of a tree, mast, standard, etc.; tre top; top ne more, neither top nor root, nothing at all; up to the top from the more, from beginning to end; (b)…

53. train(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: traine
70 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Treachery; treacherousness; trickery, craft, guile; (b) fraud, deceit, mendacity; (c) in verse tag or with diminished force: withouten train, without prevarication, in truth [cp. OF sans traine].

54. trist(e n.

Additional spellings: triste
19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Hunt. An appointed station where hunters await the game; also in fig. context; (b) a place of concealment; also, a redoubt; also, a staging area for a military assault; (c) ?the land owned by an…

55. trōche n.

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(a) Hunt. A cluster of three or more tines at the summit of a deer's antlers; (b) an ornamental brooch or jewel cluster set with pearls; (c) ?a branched candlestick, candelabra; ?error for torch(e n.

56. vāle n.

94 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) A defined area, often long and narrow, of lower elevation than the surrounding terrain, sometimes bisected by a stream or river, a dale, valley, ravine, river bottom, etc.; also fig. and in fig.

57. van-lai n.

Additional spellings: vanlai
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Hunt. A relay of hounds released before another relay arrives or passes by in pursuit.

58. vaun-chāce n.

Additional spellings: vaunchace
1 quotation in 1 sense
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Hunt. The first group of hounds sent in pursuit of the quarry.

59. vaun-chāsǒur n.

Additional spellings: vaunchasour
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Hunt. A hound in the first group sent in pursuit of the quarry.

60. velvet n.

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(a) A soft, piled cloth, velvet; a piece of such cloth (b) in phrases: velvet upon velvet, a patterned velvet cloth of some kind; velvet upon satin, ?a patterned velvet and satin cloth; also, in…

61. vermin n.

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(a) Coll. Animals regarded as dangerous, monstrous, or foul or exciting fear and revulsion, such as snakes, lizards, toads, and scorpions (b) coll. noxious or pestiferous animals; bestes of vermin;…

62. walron n.

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In comb.: chace walron, hunt. some kind of horn signal sounded during the course of a hunt.

63. wanlās(e n.

Additional spellings: wanlase
7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Hunt. A maneuver that intercepts and drives fleeing game back toward the hunters (b) a deceptive maneuver by which an army evades or intercepts its enemy; (c) trickery, deceit; also, a deception,…

64. wanlāsǒur n.

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Hunt. One who intercepts and turns back the game toward the hunters, a driver, beater.

65. warde-rōbe n.

Additional spellings: warderobe
46 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A room for the storage of clothing, armor, and similar articles; a closet; a dressing room; also in fig. context; also, a private chamber or small apartment (b) a stock or supply of clothing;…

66. wō̆rd n.

363 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) A word as a lexical item or grammatical form, a string of characters representing a minimal unit of meaning, a word in isolation; also, a word or group of words as represented in graphic form…