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1. accǒuntāble adj.

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Charged with a duty or responsibility; responsible (for sth.), answerable (to sb.).

2. appurtenaunt adj. & n.

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(a) Belonging (to a country, a manor) as a possession or a right; (b) as noun: what belongs to or forms a subsidiary part (of a manor, etc.).

3. aunce(s)trel adj.

Additional spellings: auncestrel
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Derived from an ancestor, ancestral.

4. Austī̆n n.(1) & adj.

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(a) A friar of the Augustinian order; (b) Austin frere, an Augustinian friar.

5. availāble adj.

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Beneficial, useful, helpful; available to (unto), helpful to (sb.), useful for (sth.).

6. avǒut(e)rēr(e adj.

Additional spellings: avoutrer, avouterer, avoutrere
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Adulterous; adulterated.

7. barain(e adj.

Additional spellings: baraine
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(a) Barren (woman); sterile (woman or man); also fig.; (b) childless (woman or man); (c) unpregnant (animal); (d) infertile (egg).

8. bē̆l adj.

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(a) Fair, fine, good, excellent; of a woman: beautiful; bel cher, good company; bel chose, bel chist, female sex organ; bel sone, good son, ?grandson; la bel, the beautiful one; (b) in personal names…

9. bẹ̄ne adj.

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Good, fair, pleasant, kindly.

10. blaun-nēr adj. as n.

Additional spellings: blaunner
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A kind of fur, ?ermine.

11. caitī̆f adj.

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Captured, imprisoned; enslaved; leden caitif, to lead (sb.) captive, enslave.

12. caīve adj.

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Epileptic; goute caive, epilepsy.

13. capitūlēr adj.

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Of an ecclesiastical assembly or chapter, capitular.

14. chausemles n.pl. ?or adj.

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A variety of leather-soled footgear.

15. clamǒurǒus adj.

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(a) Clamorous; (b) extremely painful; clamourous goute, an extremely painful kind of gout.

16. contrārie adj.

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Of paired entities: opposing, opposed, opposite, contrasting, contrastive; ben contrarie to, to be opposed to or contrast with (sth.); al contrarie, even contrarie, exactly opposite, reversed…

17. Corn-walish adj.

Additional spellings: Cornwalish
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Cornish; the Corn-walish bor, the Cornish boar [said of King Arthur]; as noun: Cornishman.

18. cǒuntāble adj. & n.

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(a) Containing a reckoning or account; (b) able to record or remember; (c) responsible, accountable.

19. cǒurteis adj. & n.

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(a) Of persons: courtly or refined in manners; well-bred, urbane; polite, courteous; considerate, kind; courteis and hende; (b) of behavior, actions, words, etc.: refined, well-mannered, polite.

20. dēceivāble adj.

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(a) Of persons or animals: deceitful, lying, treacherous; -- also as noun; (b) disloyal, seditious.

21. dē̆ceivaunt adj. & n.

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(a) Lying, deceitful; (b) as noun: a deceiver, something that deceives.

22. dē̆fendaunt adj.

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(a) Defending; him (him self, me) defendaunt, defending himself (myself), in self-defense [cp. OF se defendant]; mi sonne defendaunt, my son defending himself; (b) law defending in a suit; partie

23. dē̆fēsāble adj.

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Law Of rights to income or property: capable of being voided or annulled.

24. dēmūr adj.

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Quiet, well-mannered, poised, dignified, grave, sedate; of the sea: calm; benigne and demur, kind and gentle; demur of age, mature; also as AF surname.

25. denisein n. (& adj.)

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(a) A legally established inhabitant or resident of a city or borough; a citizen as distinct from a non-resident Englishman or a foreigner; (b) a native or citizen of the realm of England; (c) a…

26. dē̆vīsāble adj.

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Assignable by will, capable of being bequeathed.

27. discontinūẹ̄ adj.

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Law Of the entail of an estate: broken.

28. distreināble adj.

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Law Liable to be distrained, subject to distraint.

29. dǒuāble adj.

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Entitled to dower.

30. eirond adj.

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Her. Of a fish: Upright (in pale) with the head at the top (in chief), as if rising to the surface for air; hauriant.

31. endǒuāble adj.

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Law Of widows: entitled to the income from a portion of a deceased husband's estate; having the dower rights of a widow; --with of phrase.

32. English n. (orig. adj.)

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(a) The people of England, Englishmen;--pl.; (b) an Englishman; (c) the Anglian inhabitants (of Northern and Central England), the Angles (as distinguished from the Saxons).

33. English adj.

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Pertaining or belonging to England or the English people; originating in England; ?also, of Anglo-Saxon stock (as distinct from Norman French) [quot.: (1155)].

34. enviǒus adj.(1)

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Given to, or actuated by, ill-will, hatred, or enmity; hostile; also, proceeding from such feeling;--with to or on phrase.

35. erraunt adj.

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(a) baili(f erraunt, an itinerant bailif or sheriff; (b) bailifes-man erraunt, ?the servant of a bailif erraunt; (c) erraunt Jew, the Wandering Jew (used as a term of opprobrium); (d) justice erraunt

36. estraunge adj.

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(a) Haughty, reserved; (b) as noun: something external to the body, a foreign substance.

37. extravagaunt adj.

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(a) Rambling, irrelevant; (b) extraordinary, unusual; (c) Canon law: constituciouns extravagaunt, papal decrees originally not included or codified in the Decretals [see quot.]; (d) spurious, not…

38. fāmǒus adj.

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(a) Celebrated, renowned, famous; (b) well-reputed, estimable; (c) well-known.

39. fẹ̄r adj.(2)

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(a) Of warriors: fierce, bold, proud; (b) of facial expression: bold, proud; (c) of an enterprise: worthy.

40. fēsāble adj.

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Capable of being accomplished, feasible.

41. fētīs, -īce adj.

Additional spellings: fetice
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(a) Of things: cleverly fashioned, neat, elegant; (b) of persons: shapely, handsome, pretty, neat [used ironically in quot.: 1477].

42. fōlīǒus adj.

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Foolish; ?sinful.

43. Fraunceis adj. as n.

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Frenchman.

44. fugerī adj.

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satein fugeri, a kind of satin.

45. Galliene adj.

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Of Gaul, Gallic.

46. gauǧeābles adj. pl.

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Subject to compliance with the standard measure; liable to be gauged.

47. ?gẹ̄̆ldāble adj. & n.

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Liable to the payment of taxes to the English crown; as noun: geld.

48. gobbonẹ̄ adj.

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Her. Divided into sections of alternate colors, componé, gobony.

49. grẹ̄vǒus adj.

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(a) Oppressive, burdensome, bitter; of temptation: hard severe; (b) of sin, crime: grave, serious; (c) tedious, difficult, distasteful; (d) important.

50. interlīniārē̆ adj.

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Written between the lines of a text; glose interliniare, Anselm's interlinear gloss to the Vulgate; par interliniare, by interlining, in the manner of an interlinear gloss.

51. jūdiciābles adj. pl.

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Judicial.

52. lẹ̄ǧe adj.

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(a) Of a feudal superior: entitled to feudal allegiance and service; of a sovereign: entitled to a subject's allegiance; lege lord, lege ladie, lege soverain, etc.; (b) fig. lege lord, religious Lord…

53. lī̆neāl adj.

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(a) In a line or row; lineal ordre, linear order; (b) straight, not crooked; (c) lineal climat, the climate of a certain latitude [cp. climat 2. (a)].

54. luxūriǒus adj.

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(a) Lustful, lecherous; (b) wanton, outrageous.

55. main-purnāble adj.

Additional spellings: mainpurnable
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Of a prisoner: eligible for release by surety.

56. maintē̆nāble adj.

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Law Admissible.

57. malencolien adj. & n.

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(a) Ill-tempered, irascible; (b) of the sun or moon: in such a position as to favor the formation of black bile; (c) as noun: a person whose complexion, or physiological make-up, is dominated by black…

58. meiniāl adj. & n.

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(a) Belonging to a household; meinial meine, meine meinial, household servants; meinial man (servaunt), servaunt meinial; in NT transl.: meinial chirche, a church comprising a household; (b) connected…

59. mendinaunt adj.

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(a) Of the friars: mendicant; (b) collective pl. as noun: beggars, needy people.

60. mischẹ̄vǒus adj.

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(a) Miserable, wretched, unhappy; also, causing pain or distress, painful; as noun: the wretched, the needy, the suffering; (b) unfortunate, regrettable; calamitous, ruinous; dangerous; (c) evil…

61. nāsẹ̄ adj.

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Iron. Having a nose or a big nose; i.e., having no nose or a mutilated one.

62. neiger adj.

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Black.

63. ǒuele adj.

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Equal.

64. ǒundẹ̄ adj.

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(a) Her. Wavy, undé; (b) decorated with undulating streaks of color; (c) of hair: wavy, curly.

65. ǒutraiǒus adj.

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(a) Outrageous, unconscionable; violent; (b) immoderate, extravagant; (c) trouble-making, unruly; (d) forbidding, inhospitable.

66. overcharce adj.

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Of human hair: too sparse or scanty.

67. parochial adj.

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Parochial; chirche parochial, the principal church of a parish; messe parochial, a mass intended for the members of the parish; prest parochial, the priest administering a parish; parochial rightes

68. pecūnier adj.

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Consisting of money; peine pecunier, pecuniary penalty, a fine.

69. pendaunt adj.

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(a) Hanging, suspended, pendent; also, hanging down, slung low [quot.: c1475]; also, draping, flowing; (b) sloping, steep; (c) overhanging, jutting; (d) surg. of an infected wound: protruding…

70. pẹ̄nī̆ble adj.

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(a) Painstaking, concerned, assiduous, devoted; (b) able to endure pain, stoical, hardy; penible to waken, inured to waking; (c) painful, bitter, agonizing; also, most painful, most distressing…

71. plenē̆r(e adj.

Additional spellings: plenere
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(a) Full, complete, total; of an account: fully told; of plener age, of legal age, full-grown; plener pes, general peace; plener time, appropriate time, fullness of time; (b) plener remissioun

72. plētāble adj.

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Of a writ or plea: eligible to be heard in a certain court; pleadable.

73. pleuretik adj.

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As noun: a person suffering from pleurisy.

74. plunket adj.

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Of a blue color; esp. light or grayish blue; also, made of light blue or blue-gray wool; plunket medle, cloth made of varying shades of blue-gray or light blue threads.

75. Poileis adj.

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Apulian.

76. povre adj.

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(a) Lacking money or material possessions, destitute; needy, indigent; also, less wealthy in comparison with somebody else; (b) povre and nedi, povre nedi, etc.; povre and riche, riche and povre

77. prenāble adj.

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(a) Capable of being taken by force, pregnable; also fig. obtainable; (b) of words: weighty, convincing [confused with preignaunt].

78. prēterit adj.

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(a) Before the present, past; preterit time; (b) having to do with the past; (c) gram. of tense in Latin: denoting action in the past; preterit imparfit tens, the imperfect tense.

79. prī̆mer adj.

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(a) First in time or succession; (b) first in rank, foremost; (c) as surname.

80. propiciǒus adj.

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Inclined to grant favor, generous; disposed to grant pardon or forgiveness.

81. purprin adj.

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Of purple color; purprin heu, purplish hue.

82. purseint adj.

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Surrounding, encircling, adjacent; yerd purseint, precincts of a church, the consecrated ground surrounding a church.

83. pursī̆f adj.

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Asthmatic, short-winded, pursive.

84. purveiaunt adj.

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Foresighted, prudent.

85. queisī(e adj.

Additional spellings: queisie
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(a) Of food: unsettling to the stomach, queasy; (b) of humors: ?associated with nausea; (c) of events or the state of affairs: unsettled, uncertain.

86. quisheld adj.

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Of thigh boots or leggings: fitted with cuisses, armored.

87. ramāǧeǒus adj.

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Of an animal or of young men likened to same: (a) wild, untamed, violent; (b) ?in rut.

88. rēal adj.(1)

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(a) Of a king, one of the royal family, his power, dignity, etc.: majestic, royal, kingly; real blod, blod real [see also blod n. 6a.(a)]; real estat, estat real [see also estat n. 11d.]; real

89. receivāble adj.

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(a) Able to be received, capable of being received; acceptable; (b) of an excuse: admissible; (c) able to receive, capable of receiving; receivable thing, a receptacle, container.

90. regardant adj.

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(a) Bound or pertaining to a manor; vilein regardant; (b)her. of an animal figure: looking backward.

91. rē̆nāble adj.

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(a) Eloquent; of a person's speech: fluent; (b) having the faculty of reason, wise; (c) moderate, reasonable; renable to, proportionate to (sth.); (d) as adv.: eloquently, fluently.

92. repleveshāble adj.

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Law Eligible for bail.

93. repugnaunt adj.

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(a) Hostile, opposed; also, resistant; as noun: the opposite, the contrary; (b) contradictory, inconsistent.

94. residencer adj.

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Eccl. Residing where one's church duties are performed, residentiary.

95. Rīnish adj.

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(a) Of or pertaining to the Rhine river or the regions near it, Rhenish; Rinish fat, ?a vessel manufactured in, or of a type common to, the Rhine region; Rinish gilder, a coin current in Germany…

96. rǒuǧe adj.

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(a) Red; (b) as noun: a red color; rouge clere, bright red; (c) in place names.

97. rǒund(e adj.

Additional spellings: rounde
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(a) Spherical in shape; of any of the four elements: constituting a sphere; round as an appel (a bal, ani bal); round bodies, the celestial spheres; (b) more or less spherical in shape; also, of a…

98. Sarasī̆neis adj.

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(a) Of Saracen manufacture or style; brouet Sarasineis blaunk, a milk-based sauce; (b) of Saracen birth; (c) as noun: the territory of the Saracens [cp. Sarasinesse n.(a)].

99. savāǧe adj.

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(a) Of a person: wild, barbarous, uncivilized; of one's manner: rude; also as epithet; (b) of an animal or its nature: wild, not domesticated; untamed; (c) of land: wild, uncultivated; of a forest…

100. sclendre adj.

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(a) Not fat or fleshy, thin, lean, gaunt; of the face: narrow; of the knees: bony; (b) slim, slender; (c) not fully grown, immature.