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1. blā̆k adj.

218 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Of a black color, black; (b) blak and blo, black and livid, black and blue [see blo adj.]; blak or whit, black or white, of any color or kind; blak as col (blacche, croue, inde, molde, pich, slo),

2. dēd adj.

290 quotations in 16 senses
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(a) Of persons, animals, bodies, parts of bodies: dead, no longer alive; also fig.; ben ded, to be dead; (b) of trees, flowers, etc.: dead.

3. drīe adj.(1)

207 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Not humid, moist, or drenched; dry; (b) of land: not flooded or submerged; also, not wet or sodden; comen (driven) to drie lond, to come (drive) ashore; (c) not moistened or soaked; mid (with)

4. fǒul adj.

217 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) Dirty, filthy, soiled; (b) maken foul, to void excrement; (c) foul wei, a muddy road or path; (d) a miry place in a road or street; atte foul, at the muddy place, by the marsh; fair ne foul, for…

5. Frē̆nsh adj.

100 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Pertaining to France [as constituted at various times], or to Frenchmen; consisting of Frenchmen; associated with France or Frenchmen; Frensh fare, courtly behavior; Frensh flour, the…

6. ful adj.

144 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Filled to capacity; fully loaded [a1425 WBible]; fillen ful; half ful; (b) amounting to the capacity (of a certain measure); cup ful, barrel ful.

7. glā̆sen adj.

26 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Made of glass; (b) yeven a glasen houve, to delude (sb.); glasen glose, a deluding or sophistical interpretation; (c) glasen wright, a glazier.

8. grẹ̄ne adj.

208 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Green, of the colour of grass; (b) of the skin or complexion: green; also, pale, colorless, livid; gul and grene, pale and grene; (c) as symbolic of inconstancy or envy; (d) grene cloth, the…

9. hōrī(e adj.

Additional spellings: horie
20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Dirty, filthy, soiled; ceremonially unclean or defiling; med. of a wound or sore: purulent, suppurating; as noun: dirt, filth; purulent matter; (b) sinful, wicked, corrupt; as noun: sinfulness…

10. hō̆t adj.

275 quotations in 7 senses
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High in temperature (ranging in degree from pleasantly warm to excessively hot): (a) of sunshine, air, weather, the day, etc.: warm, balmy; also, hot, torrid; hotteste, the hottest part; of a country…

11. ivel adj.

300 quotations in 7 senses
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Wicked, depraved, sinful: (a) of persons, the soul; ivel man, etc.; (b) of a spirit; ivel gost, an evil spirit, a devil; the Devil; (c) of an action; ivel dede, ivel werk; (d) of speech; ivel speche,

12. lē̆s(se adj. (comparative)

Additional spellings: lesse
249 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) Smaller in size or spatial extent; maken les, to reduce (sth.) to smaller parts; more and les, greater and smaller; (b) smallest.

13. mōr(e adj. (comparative)

Additional spellings: more
272 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) Larger in size or spatial extent; taller; mor del (partie), the larger part; (b) mor of inough, much larger; bi the hed (a yerd) mor, a head (a yard) taller; bi the shuldres mor, head and…

14. muchel adj.

459 quotations in 14 senses
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With reference to amount: of property, treasure, wealth, etc.: much; of food, honey, salt, etc.: in a large amount, much; ben to muchel, of blood: to be an excessive amount; muchel god, many…

15. narw(e adj.

Additional spellings: narwe
67 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Narrow, small; wide or narw, wide or narrow, large or small; lesse and narwere, smaller and narrower; the narw se, the English Channel; (b) strait, constricting, restrictive; narw path (wei), wei

16. ōld(e adj.

Additional spellings: olde
702 quotations in 20 senses
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(a) Of living beings: near the end of the normal span of life, advanced in age; also, of children: of an age late in childhood, pre-adolescent; (b) used disparagingly; (c) old man, a man well-advanced…

17. ọ̄̆ther adj.

677 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) Second of two; second, another; on other; ech other dai (yer), every second day (year), every other day (year); (b) other dai, the second day; swich (slik) on other, a second of the same kind…

18. ǒutre adj. (comparative)

116 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Outer; existing or situated on the outside of, or at a distance from, something; outre hous, a house located away from the principal building(s; (b) exterior, consisting of the outer portion of…

19. prǒud adj.

228 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Guilty of the sin of Pride; haughty, arrogant; also, obstinate, rebellious; (b) proudest of pride, supremely proud; proud as lucifer; proud herte, proud heart; -- also as surname or epithet; maken

20. rēd adj.

521 quotations in 18 senses
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(a) Red, of various shades of purple, crimson, scarlet, pink, etc.; also fig. [last quot.]; (b) red colour, red color; also, red dye, red ink, red pigment, or red paint; (c) in fixed comparisons: red

21. rēdī adj.(3)

361 quotations in 12 senses
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1a. (a) Prepared, ready; (b) prepared or ready (to do sth.); (c) redi to, prepared or ready for (sb. or sth.); also, ready to perform (sth.) [quot.: a1425]; redi for (til, unto), prepared for (sth.)…

22. rīpe adj.

83 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Of grain, fruit, seed, a field, etc.: ready for harvest, eating, or reproduction; ripe, mature; also fig.; of grass: ready for cutting; ripe corn, the harvest; daies of ripe corn, time of harvest…

23. rǒum adj.

53 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Wide, broad; large; spacious, roomy; also fig.; fourti fot roum and gret, a distance of forty feet; yeven the roum wei, to give (sb.) a wide berth, avoid (sb.); (b) of a belt: wide; of clothing…

24. sā̆d adj.

312 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Sated, surfeited; satisfied; ben sad of, to be weary or tired of (sb. or sth.); (b) as noun: satiety, weariness.

25. seint(e adj.

Additional spellings: seinte
246 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Holy, divinely inspired, worthy of worship; also in oaths; in personification: seint treuth; (b) in phrases: for (par, etc.) seint charite, for the sake of charity; -- common in entreaties and…

26. shā̆plī adj.

27 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Well-shaped; beautiful, attractive; also, as noun: a beautiful person; shapli in sight, handsome in appearance; in stature more shapli, taller; (b) med. correct or appropriate with regard to…

27. sted-fast adj.

Additional spellings: stedfast
172 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) Of a person: firm in purpose, belief, faith, etc., unwavering, resolute; sted-fast in bileve (feith, etc.), sted-fast in herte (thought, etc.), etc.; sted-fast in god (order), faithful to God (a…

28. stōnī adj.

59 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Consisting of stone, made of stone; (b) fig. unfeeling, insensitive; stoni herte, a hard heart; (c) constructed of building stones or stonework; (d) full of stones, rocky; beset with stones or…

29. tāme adj.

93 quotations in 6 senses
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Of an animal: (a) living under the care of or habituated to humans, domesticated, domestic;—also used of man as a creature [quots. a1398 (1st) & a1400]; also, as noun: domestic animals, domestic…

30. unkīnd(e adj.

Additional spellings: unkinde
196 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Not in accord with the regular course of nature, unnatural, bizarre; of weather: unseasonable, unusual; of an act: against human nature; of an animal’s behavior or actions: uncharacteristic…

31. unkīndelī adj.

49 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Not in accord with the regular course of nature, unnatural, extraordinary; of medical treatment: unusual, unorthodox; in unkindeli time, prematurely (b) of a plant: developing, as by suckers, in…

32. unsted-fast adj.

Additional spellings: unstedfast, un-stedfast
42 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Of a person: not firm in purpose, belief, faith, etc., irresolute, wavering; also, having strayed from the truth or grown faithless; inconstant, vacillating, unsteadfast; ?also, unreliable…

33. warm adj.

93 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Of the sun, a fire: radiating a considerable degree of heat (b) of weather, wind: characterized by pleasantly warm temperatures, mild, balmy; ?also, hot, scorching [last quot.]; (c) of a day,…

34. werst(e adj. superlative

Additional spellings: werste
90 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Most evil, most wicked, most sinful, most morally reprehensible; very evil, very wicked, very iniquitous; alder werst, evilest of all; on the werst sinne, one of the evilest sins, one of the worst…

35. wē̆t adj.

150 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Consisting of moisture, flowing, fluid, wet, liquid;—freq. used pleonastically of liquid substances: wet se (teres), reines (teres, wateres, etc.) wet (b) full of moisture; of cheese: ?fresh;…

36. whīt adj.

655 quotations in 18 senses
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(a) Of a substance, structure, an object: white in color; whitish, pale-colored, light-colored; of the moon, a star: silvery-white; of a book or register: bound in a white or light-colored binding; of…

37. wīld(e adj.

Additional spellings: wilde
319 quotations in 11 senses
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Of a person, the flesh, etc.: (a) lacking in restraint, undisciplined; unmanageable, recalcitrant; riotous, rowdy; headstrong, rash, impetuous; also, ill brought up, unruly;—used of a child; wild

38. wọ̄d(e adj.

Additional spellings: wode
298 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Of persons or other sentient beings: insane, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one’s mind; wod man, a madman; wod sik [OE wōd-sēoc], insane, mad; brain wod, out of one’s mind; waxen wod

39. yelwe adj.

142 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Of an object, a substance, color, etc.: yellow, yellowish; of any of the various shades of yellow, golden, saffron-colored, amber-colored, yellowish brown; also in conventional comparisons; yelwe