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1. slẹ̄t n.(1)

17 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Sleet; mingled snow and rain; also, a sleet shower [2nd quot.]; (b) ?mud, slush; -- in place names only [see Smith PNElem.2.128]. …

2. sharpe adv.

18 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Sharply, keenly; also, piercingly; (b) loudly, shrilly; (c) fiercely; intensely; also, vigorously, eagerly [quot.: ?a1450]; sharpe lokinge; (d) swiftly; with pun on sense (a) [2nd quot.]; sharpe……

3. lẹ̄th n.(1)

15 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Relief from pain, peace; mercy; don leth, show mercy (to sb.), obtain mercy for (sb.); withouten leth, without relief or respite; (b) calm, ceasing of a storm; warmth, sunshine [1st quot.]; (c)……

4. bẹ̄lden, bēlden v.

38 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To encourage (sb.), strengthen, help, support; -- also refl.; (b) to instruct (sb.), edify; (c) to become strong, be strong; flourish; of a child: grow, mature. …

5. lap-wink(e n.

Additional spellings: lapwink, lap-winke, lapwinke
22 quotations in 3 senses
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The hoopoe (Upupa epops); lap-wink eiren, a hoopoe's eggs; lap-wink nest. …

6. ōld-mọ̄der n.

Additional spellings: oldmoder
4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A grandmother; (b) an ancestress; (c) a mother-in-law. …

7. neighebor n.

85 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) One who dwells nearby, a neighbor; a fellow citizen; an inhabitant of a nearby town or country; (b) of a country, part of the body, a bee: a neighbor (to another country, another bodily part……

8. chẹ̄lde n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Cold or freezing weather, cold. …

9. neigh adj.

97 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Near (in space), nearby; close together; adjacent, surrounding; neigh costes, borders; to neigh, too close together; neigh biside, near; fer and neigh, neigh and fer (wid), far and near, near and……

10. skẹ̄ling(e n.

Additional spellings: skelinge
4 quotations in 1 sense
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An outbuilding; a shed, lean-to. …

11. gọ̄d-dẹ̄de n.

Additional spellings: goddede
16 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Good deed(s, pious action(s; (b) act(s of kindness, benefit(s, favor(s; don god-dede, to do good to (sb.), confer benefits upon. …

12. stanrī adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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In phrase: stanri pere, a stony pear, a pear full of pips. …

13. setlen v.

46 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) To seat (sb.), place in a seat; ben setled, be seated, be placed; (b) ben setled, to be situated, be located. …

14. light adj.(2)

346 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Of things: light in weight; light in proportion to bulk, of small specific gravity, not dense; of persons: thin; also fig.; (b) of containers: light in content, empty; of measures: underweight……

15. shẹ̄ pron.

165 quotations in 3 senses
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As anaph. or pers. pron.: (a) the female person referred to, she; (b) used pleonastically, or for emphasis; (c) with antecedent in apposition following: she; she this, usu. translating L haec or ista……

16. on- pref.(1)

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A derivational prefix appearing in all parts of speech except pronouns, but most frequently in verbs. It is found in words descended from OE: (verbs) onblowen, onbrirden, onhauien, onheven [see……

17. belī n.

95 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The belly of man or animal, abdomen; beli and bak, before and behind, all over; (b) the body; (c) beli blind, blind as the inside of the belly, pitch dark; beli bond, a band or strap passing under……

18. dwergh n.

34 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A supernatural being of subhuman size, dwarf; on dwergh, possessed by a dwarf; dwergh dwosle, pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegium); (b) a member of a race of small people, Pygmy; (c) an undersized or……

19. gī̆rden v.(2)

94 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To strike (sb.); girden at, aim a blow at (sb.); girden on, rain (blows) on (sb.); (b) girden abak, to drive (sb.) back with blows, repel; girden al to poudre, beat (sb.) to dust; girden doun……

20. fēsen v.

17 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Drive or chase; spur (a horse); incite (to action); (b) put to flight, rout (an enemy); discomfit. …

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