(a) A fetter, shackle, chain; also fig.; (b) a band or strap of metal, a hoop, clamp, fastening; (c) a circlet or fillet to confine the hair; (d) a cord for tying or fastening; a bandage, rope, withy……
(a) A headdress, a hat; esp., a small head covering worn under the hood; (b) a priest's close-fitting cap, the coif covering the tonsure; also, any kind of head covering for ecclesiastics; (c) a……
(a) A crooked staff; a hook; ?also, some type of hooked implement or fixture; welle cromb, the hook attached to a well rope [see welle n., sense 1c.(d)]; (b) surg., a hooklike or curved surgical……
(a) A dead man, a corpse; pl. dead men, corpses, the dead; dedes office, funeral service; (b) a ghost; (c) one who has died; the ded, the deceased; dedes wille, will or desire expressed by someone who……
(a) Unable to hear; of a person, an ear, hearing: deaf; blind and def, def and blind, def and doumb, doumb and def; (b) as noun: deaf person(s, the deaf; (c) def boren, born deaf.
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(a) The flesh of the human body; esp., the muscular, gristly, and glandular portions (as opposed to blood vessels, bones, fat, hair, ligaments, nerves, skin, etc.); (b) corresponding portions of an……
(a) A belt worn around the waist, used for fastening clothes or for carrying a sword, purse, etc.; (b) eken out girdel, to stretch the belt, stuff one's belly; from girdel to hose, the excretory……
(a) Any implement consisting of, or provided with, a metal hook for pulling, drawing, or hoisting; (b) ?a hook attached to an archer's belt for pulling the cord of a crossbow into position; ?the catch……
(a) An alkaline solution made by leaching ashes, and used for washing, making soap, bleaching hair; lye; lei cuppe, a cup for holding lye; (b) med. & surg. a similar solution used for cleansing……
(a) The moon as a luminous heavenly body; the seventh 'planet' of Ptolemaic astronomy, the planet of the sphere nearest the earth; (b) the moon as the cosmological divider between the earth and the……
(a) The human mouth; rof of the mouth, the palate; also fig.; (b) the mouth as a facial feature and the part of the face with or on which kisses are given.
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(a) The name of a human being: Christian name, surname, or both; Christian name with epithet denoting rank, with characterizing adjective, or with descriptive noun; hire first name, the name she first……
(a) A sewing needle; ?also, a pointed instrument, style [quot.: (c1392) 30/8]; seuinge nedle; (b) surg. any one of various kinds of needle used in surgical procedures, a surgical needle [not always……
(a) A tube or hollow cylinder employed as a receptacle or passage for liquid, smoke, etc.; the nozzle of a bellows; flue of a chimney; beli pipe, the nozzle of a bellows; (b) a water pipe, conduit……
(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is……
(a) A sharp, localized pain; also, emotional pain; pl. pangs; stich of sorwe; (b) the loop of thread left by a single movement of a threaded needle up and down through a piece of fabric; also, the……
(a) A double-armed instrument, usually hinged, for manipulating objects too hot or too difficult to hold; a pincers, pliers, pair of tongs;—often pl.; also fig. and in fig. context; fir tonges; paire……
(a) The fibrous cord of cotton or flax that draws fuel to the flame of a candle, torch, or lamp, a wick;—also coll.; candel (torche) wek
(b) in conventional comparisons and fig. contexts;
(c) the……
(a) An injury to a person or an animal involving the piercing, cutting, or laceration of the skin or flesh, a wound; a puncture wound caused by a bee’s sting, an animal’s bite, etc.; also, a gash in……
(a) A wrenching or twisting motion, a twisting; also, a violent tug;—used fig.;
(b) a bending of the knee [2nd quot. may belong to (a)];
(c) an ill turn, a trick.
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