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141. bēver n.(2)

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A drink or beverage. …

142. bevey, bevī n.

Additional spellings: bevi
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A flock (of quail), a herd (of roe); a company (of ladies); a bevy. …

143. bilet n.

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Some kind of feminine ornament; ?a chaplet, a studded girdle. …

144. bille n.

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(a) A formal document (embodying a will, a permit, etc.); fig. a list or inventory; (b) a papal bull. …

145. billet n.(1)

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(a) An official register, roll, or record; (b) an official tag or badge of registration or identification. …

146. ?bin-heie n.

Additional spellings: binheie
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An enclosure, pen. …

147. blaunden v.

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To caress, fondle; flatter. …

148. blaundice n.

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(a) Flattery, blandishment; (b) dalliance, caresses; (c) allurement, attractiveness; (d) deception, deceitfulness. …

149. blaundishen v.

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(a) To flatter (sb.), fawn, be enticing or persuasive; (b) to be favorable; (c) blaundishen in, ?to acquiesce in (sth.); (d) of the sea: to subside, become calm. …

150. blaun-nēr adj. as n.

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

151. blẹ̄aunt n.

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(a) A costly silk fabric; (b) a garment of this fabric, a tunic; (c) a bedspread of this fabric. …

152. blēchen v.(2)

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To injure or hurt (sb.), inflict injuries; damage (sth.). …

153. bochement n.

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An increase; specif., what is given to boot (in a bargain). …

154. bolās n.

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(a) A wild plum (Prunus insititia), bullace; bolas fruit; bolas tre; (b) see quots. …

155. bondāǧe n.

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(a) The feudal tenure or status of a bonde or bond(eman (q.v.), bondage; holden lond in bondage; (b) a service required of a customary tenant; (c) the class of bondmen and serfs, the unfree. …

156. bōrd-alisaundre n.

Additional spellings: bordalisaundre
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A costly silk cloth from the Near East. …

157. bōst n.

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(a) A brag, a boast; boastful speech, bragging, self-praise; (b) casten bost at, be boastful toward (sb.), insult; maken bost (of), brag (of, about); more bost is, etc., a pot of wine causes more……

158. bōsten v.

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(a) To brag, speak arrogantly; ?also, speak loudly; (b) refl. to brag, exalt oneself; boast oneself (to be sth.), pretend (to be sth.); boast (that one can do sth.); (c) bosten of, to brag about……

159. botevaunt n.

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(a) An article of furniture; (b) a game. …

160. bǒuǧẹ̄ n.(2)

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(a) Sheepskin (as distinct from lambskin), budge, ?trimmed sheepskin; bouge skin; (b) bouge rowe, Furriers' Row; bouge shank, fur from the shank of a sheep. …

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