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1. borwen v.

86 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To take (sth.) with the understanding that it will be returned, receive (sth.) on credit, borrow; esp., to obtain (money) by pledging something as security or by finding sureties to guarantee…

2. brēken v.

592 quotations in 47 senses
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(a) To break (an object) into parts; dash to pieces; destroy the wholeness of (an object); shatter (a weapon) in combat; crush (the human body, etc.); breken atwo, breken asonder, breken in peces

3. bringen v.

332 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) To bring (sth.), fetch, lead, convey, take, send; bringen awei, chase away; bringen into, drive (sb.) into (a place); (b) bringen biforen (toforen), to bring (sb.) into the presence of; also, say…

4. drauen v.

766 quotations in 21 senses
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(a) To pull, tug, draw; pull in harness; (b) to pull (sb. or sth.), drag, tug at; pull up (a drawbridge); (c) to draw or withdraw (a part of the body); (d) to pull (a vehicle), tow (a ship), turn…

5. eie n.(1)

490 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) The organ of vision, the eye; (b) bodili (erthli, fleshes, fleshli, outer) eie.

6. ēven adj.

171 quotations in 16 senses
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(a) Of a surface: level or flat; smooth; (b) horizontal, not inclined or sloped; perpendicular.

7. fẹ̄rthe num.

91 quotations in 7 senses
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Ordinal as adj.: fourth.

8. fọ̄t n.

377 quotations in 18 senses
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The bodily organ used in standing, walking, etc.: (a) the foot of a man; (b) the foot of a beast or bird; (c) the foot of a statue, a constellation; (d) hinder fot, hind foot; holwe of fot, the under…

9. hōl(e adj.(2)

Additional spellings: hole
404 quotations in 13 senses
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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

10. in-tọ̄̆ prep.

Additional spellings: into
468 quotations in 23 senses
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To the inside of (sth.) so as to be surrounded by or immersed in it; into (a solid object, liquid, fire, air, etc.).

11. lēnen v.(3)

218 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To give or grant (sth.) to (sb.); give to (the poor); pay (tribute); give, be generous; lenen to, give (sth.) to (sb.); (b) to give (sb. a woman) in marriage; (c) to grant or give (sb. strength…

12. lē̆st(e adj.(1)

Additional spellings: leste
207 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Of things, animals, weights, measures: smallest, least; also, a single, any, any at all; lest finger (to), the little finger (toe); lest drope (her, lef), the smallest drop (hair, leaf), a single…

13. līne n.(1)

237 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) A cord or rope; a leash, sounding line, etc.; drauen bi o line, to pull on the same rope, pull together; line wie, a towpath; (b) a fishline; also fig.; hok and line, etc.; ground line [see ground

14. manī-fōld adj.

Additional spellings: manifold
79 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Many and various, manifold; mani-fold wise, a mani-fold wise, in many and various ways; (b) varied, diversified, of many kinds; (c) of a person: variable, changeable, complex.

15. middel n.

129 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A middle region in space, the middle part of a thing; the interior of a country, central part of a constellation, middle stories of a building; middle of a stream, town, bodily part, etc.; (b) the…

16. middel adj.

189 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Mid, middle; middel eie, the middle or center of the eye; bi middel tables, across the middle of the boards; in middel cite (se, valei), in the middle of the city (sea, valley); in middel pathes

17. mọ̄der n.

331 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) A female, human parent; mother; -- also used of a goddess; (b) used of animals and birds; moder shep, a ewe; (c) in phrases, cpds., and combs.: at my moder, at my mother's house; fro his moder(es

18. mōst adj. (superlative) & n.

306 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Largest in size, highest, most extensive; very large [quot.: (a1382)]; ?tallest [quot.: c1380]; most finger, biggest or longest finger; (b) greatest in number or quantity; the majority of (sth.)…

19. nō-thing pron.

Additional spellings: nothing
151 quotations in 3 senses
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Nothing; also, nobody: (a) as the unmodified subject of a finite verb or as a predicate nominative; (b) as direct object; niten no-thing her-of, to know nothing about this; setten no-thing bi (of)

20. ought pron.

133 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Anything, anything whatever; also, anything of value or avail; ought muchel, any large amount of money; ought amounten, ben ought worth, to be worth anything, be of any avail; (b) ought of