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1. arnement n.

16 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A black coloring matter or pigment; black ink; (b) a pigment used in glass painting; prob., ferric oxide [cp. Knowles in Antiq.50]. …

2. dēceit(e n.

Additional spellings: deceite
82 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Trickery, deceit, treachery; lying; (b) act of deceiving; a deception, stratagem, trick; a lie; (c) an ambush; (d) a fowler's snare or trap; some device to impede the passage of ships. …

3. manē̆r(e n.

Additional spellings: manere
630 quotations in 16 senses
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(a) A kind, sort, variety, or species; a distinct tribe, nation, or race; (b) with appositive noun: a kind of, sort of, etc. …

4. paillet n.

18 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A bed or mattress of straw, pallet; small or simple bed; paillet shetes, sheets for a pallet; (b) med. a pad used in dressing or sewing a wound. …

5. pẹ̄r n.

114 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A person or thing which is equivalent or similar to another in one or more ways; a match or equal; (b) finden per, to find (someone's) equal; haven no(n per, etc.; withouten per, peerless……

6. pointe n.(1)

436 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) A small dot marked on a surface; also, a punctuation mark, period; (b) a small hole; prick, puncture; the pointes of peines, ?the marks of Christ's wounds; (c) a spot of dirt; med. a round spot or……

7. poket n.

21 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A bag, pouch, small sack; med. a cloth bag containing medicaments to be applied externally; pope poket, Pope Moneybag; poket of the testicles, the scrotum; (b) one of the divisions of a sack tied……

8. purpōs n.

186 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) One's intention, plan, or design; one's object, aim, or goal; also, the proper function or purpose for which something exists [quot.: a1398]; (b) purpos and ende (entente), purpos or entencioun……

9. remenaunt n.

131 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The rest, remaining part or quantity; the residual portion of an estate; a remaining or reserved portion; also fig.; (b) the remaining part of a story, question, text, law, etc.; a remaining……

10. rē̆sǒun n.(2)

416 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) The intellectual faculty, intellectual power or capacity, reason; -- also pl.; light of resoun; (b) the exercise of the intellectual faculty, act or process of reasoning; mental processes……

11. respīt(e n.

Additional spellings: respite
63 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) An extension of time for action, deliberation, etc.; a temporary postponement of an action, a decision, judgment, etc., grace period; don in respit, to postpone (sth.), put off; putten in respit……

12. sclīce n.

28 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Med. A spatula for stirring and mixing compounds; also, a probe; (b) a flat cutting instrument; a forceps; (c) cook. a spatula or other flat utensil for turning bacon, etc. in a pan; also, a……

13. sect(e n.

Additional spellings: secte
75 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A class of people or things, sort, kind; (b) a species, race; a ieu of sect, ?of Jewish extraction or adherence; (c) a bodily form, likeness; in oure sect, in our likeness, in human flesh; (d)……

14. significāciǒun n.

61 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A symbol; in significacioun, as a symbol, symbolizing; (b) symbolic meaning; also, interpretation [quots.: Lydg.Pilgr.]; (c) symbolization, representation; a gret significacioun, an important……

15. soverain n.

123 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) One who is superior to or has power over another; an immediate master, a lord; also fig.; pl. masters; also, one's betters; ben soverain over, to be lord over (sb., oneself); (b) a husband; lord……

16. sponǧe n.

41 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A piece of the elastic, absorbent, and porous spongin skeleton of various species of Porifera, a sponge; (b) the sponge as an instrument of the Passion, the sponge soaked with vinegar and gall……

17. stāt n.

347 quotations in 21 senses
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(a) A moral or spiritual state or condition; stat of dampnacioun (grace, right, etc.); stat of penaunce (teres), a state of repentance; (b) a mental state, frame of mind; (c) the physical state or……

18. streit n.

38 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A narrow pass between hills or mountains, defile; (b) a narrow or confined place, small space; ?also, a narrow path or track; (c) a narrow waterway or passage between two larger bodies of water……

19. subtracciǒun n.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The taking away of something, removal; also, theft; also, deprivation; (b) the withdrawal or removal of someone from a place; (c) med. the letting of blood; (d) arith. the finding of the……

20. suppositōrī(e n.

Additional spellings: suppositorie
20 quotations in 1 sense
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Med. (a) A rectal suppository to induce defecation, eliminate abdominal gas, promote healing, etc.; (b) a vaginal suppository to reduce excessive menstrual flow or purge the uterus of unhealthy……

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