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21. 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……

22. 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. …

23. drīven v.

369 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) To chase (sb. or sth.), pursue, drive; driven abak, driven forth, driven fro, driven in, driven into, driven of, driven to, etc.; (b) to move (sth.), propel, push; driven ayen, force back (water)……

24. eie n.(3)

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. (a) A brood (of pheasants); (b) ?a young hawk. …

25. encornen v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Hunt. To lay a deer on its back so that the head rests on the horns. …

26. enossed ppl.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Hunt. Of dogs: choked, strangled (as though a bone were lodged in the throat). …

27. enquirreien v.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. To reward (hounds) with a part of the deer. …

28. enterchaunǧen v.

18 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To exchange (two things); to exchange (one thing for another); enterchaungen for (with); (b) to reciprocate; to share (something), to enjoy mutually or in common; (c) to interchange (opposites)……

29. entermarchen v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Hunt. To run in such manner that the hind feet fall either between or beyond the prints of the forefeet. [Cp. enterchaungen, 4.] …

30. envoisen v.(1)

5 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. Of hounds: (a) to follow a scent; (b) to follow the wrong scent. …

31. escorchē ppl.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Hunt. Skinned by flaying, flayed. …

32. fen n.(2)

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

33. fimẹ̄ n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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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). …

34. fīnden v.

438 quotations in 23 senses
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Of persons or of things viewed as agents: to come upon, encounter, or meet (someone or something) by chance or in the course of events (usually with the notion of perceiving or recognizing the person……

35. 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. …

36. 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. …

37. foilen v.(2)

15 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To trample (sth.), tread upon; fig. to mortify (the flesh), to oppress or torment. [=fullen trample, tread.]; (b) to trample (sb.) down; ?to conquer (sb.), overcome, destroy [cp. defoilen v., 2.(d……

38. foiling ger.

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

39. fō̆rme n.

249 quotations in 17 senses
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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. …

40. forswǒngen ppl.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Severely flogged, scourged; (b) hunt. of the flanks of a dog: hollow, pinched. …

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