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1. cedūle n.

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(a) A piece of paper or parchment containing writing; a written document, letter, etc.; (b) a brief document attached to a roll or enclosed in a letter, and usually containing a list of names or bill……

2. champartīe n.

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Law The practice of aiding a litigant for a share of the matter in dispute, champerty. …

3. frank(e)lein, -in, -en n.

Additional spellings: frankelein, franklin, franklen
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(a) A landowner and member of the gentry ranking immediately below the nobility; a freeman, a gentleman; franklein of toun, a free citizen, an owner of property in a town, a burgess; (b) as a personal……

4. panāde n.

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A long knife or dagger. …

5. prīse n.(1)

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(a) The taking of something; an exaction, taxation, requisition; (b) something or somebody captured, booty, prey; (c) something requisitioned for the king; (d) the king's customs; also, something……

6. quishin n.

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(a) A cushion, bolster, or pillow; a cushion for the arm or for sitting or kneeling on; also, a hassock or footstool; (b) quishin(es cloth, a case or cover for a cushion. …

7. raspīse n.

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A sweet wine; also, rose-colored wine. …

8. relẹ̄f(e n.

Additional spellings: relefe
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(a) That which is left over or left behind, remains, remnants, residue; -- often pl.; also, a legacy, charitable bequest; also, dregs; relef of brucus, what the bruchus leaves; (b) rabble, ruins; (c)……

9. residence n.

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(a) The condition of dwelling somewhere; dwelling place; also, eccl. of a clergyman: the fact of being in residence where his duties are performed; holden (kepen) residence, to dwell, reside, live……

10. riban n.

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(a) Ribbon, edging material, riban frenge; (b) a ribbon; an ornamental band or border, trimming; an ornament, a necklace; ?a bracelet, an anklet; (c) = filaterie n.(d). …

11. rīs n.(2)

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(a) The edible seed or grain of the grass Oriza sativa, rice; (b) ris flour, flour (of) ris, rice flour; ris mele, mele of ris, rice meal; poudre of ris, powdered rice; (c) cook. a dish made of rice……

12. rō̆che n.(2)

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(a) A large rock formation; a cliff, rocky height, crag; a rocky area; also fig.; roche wal; (b) a rock in the sea or a river; a reef, rocky island; also, a cliff by the sea; (c) a cave, tunnel, or……

13. rok(ke n.(1)

Additional spellings: rokke
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(a) Rock; a rock, stone, esp. a large rock or rocky outcropping; (b) a large rock or crag along the seacoast or in the sea; (c) a rocky outcropping on a mountain, cliff, precipice; rok side; (d) a……

14. rolle n.

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(a) A scroll; a scroll with its contained text; a roll of prayers [quot.: 1454]; (b) a roll used in the game of rage-man [see rage-man n.3.(b)]; rage-man rolle; (c) rolle of wacche, a scroll on which……

15. rō̆sī̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: rosine
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(a) A distillate of turpentine, rosin; also, resin; (b) rosin clene (coiled, pured), god (clene) rosin, high-grade rosin or resin; red rosin, whit (drie) rosin. …

16. rǒuel n.(2)

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(a) A small wheel with radial points forming the extremity of a spur, a rowel; riden on rouel, to ride spurring; (b) a small wheel; a circular frame; also, the representation of a wheel or disk; rouel……

17. rǒuncī n.

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(a) A charger, steed; (b) a riding horse; (c) a pack horse, workhorse; (d) a kind of small horse; (e) in phrase: queue de rounci, nag's tail, a comic title for a dish; (f) as surname. …

18. rǒundel n.

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(a) An ornamental ball or knop; also, a medicinal pellet [quot.: ?c1450]; (b) a round slice of leek or onion; a round loaf of bread; (c) roundel of the eie, the iris of the eye; (d) a ripple resulting……

19. rūbarbe n.

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(a) A plant of the genus Rheum, either Rheum officinale or Rheum palmatum; also, the rootstock of this plant used medicinally; jus rubarbe, juice from this plant; pelotes (pilules) of rubarbe, pills……

20. russet n.

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(a) The color russet, grey or dull red, brown, etc., suitable for working clothes; (b) a serviceable woolen cloth, usu. of plain or subdued color & usu. worn by the poor or by workingmen (also by the……

21. sā̆belīn(e n.

Additional spellings: sabeline
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The fur of the sable. …

22. sāble n.

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(a) The European sable (Martes zibellina); (b) the fur or pelt of the sable; (c) the color black; blak sable; blak as (blakker than) sable; (d) a black garment, black clothing, mourning clothes; (e) h……

23. sai n.(2)

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Silk; sai worm, the silkworm (Bombyx mori). …

24. salā̆rī(e n.

Additional spellings: salarie
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(a) Compensation, payment, esp. a salary or compensation periodically paid for regular service [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (b)]; also fig.; (b) a payment for a specific service or limited……

25. sā̆l-petre n.

Additional spellings: salpetre
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Saltpeter (potassium nitrate); ?also, gunpowder. …

26. sandal n.

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(a) A kind of shoe, consisting of a sole fastened to the foot by thongs, a sandal; (b) a richly made shoe worn by popes and bishops. …

27. sanicle n.

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(a) The European sanicle (Sanicula europaea); (b) a type of orchid. …

28. Sarasī̆n(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: Sarasine
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(a) A Turk; also, an Arab; also, a Moslem; -- often with ref. to the Crusades; Sarasin hed, the head of a Saracen; (b) a heathen, pagan; an infidel; (c) as a type of non-Christian; Sarasin or jeu, jeu……

29. sarpler(e n.

Additional spellings: sarplere
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A large canvas sack, used esp. for packing wool or fleeces; also, a bale of wool, containing two sacks; also, the weight of a bale of wool. …

30. sartrīe n.

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(a) The workshop of the tailors in a monastic house; (b) in surnames. …

31. satī̆n n.

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(a) A smooth, lustrous, silken cloth, satin; also, a piece of such cloth; (b) satin doutremer, imported satin; satin figure, satin brocade; tinsel satin, satin brocaded with gold or silver; bridels of……

32. sauce n.

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(a) A condiment for meat, fish, fowl, etc., a sauce; also, a pickling liquid, brine; (b) fig. of (a); (c) a curative or preventive preparation; a medicinal sauce; (d) cook. in combs.: sauce blaunk……

33. saucerī(e n.

Additional spellings: saucerie
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(a) The department in a great household whose job is to make sauces; also, coll. the members of such a department; (b) the place where sauces are made; (c) in surnames. …

34. saundre n.

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(a) Sandalwood, the wood of any of several trees of the species Santalum, esp. the white sandalwood (Santalum album) and the red sandalwood (Pterocarpus santalinus); also, a small piece of sandalwood……

35. sausiǧe n.

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A sausage; ?also, error for sanicle [2nd quot.]. …

36. sausister n.

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A sausage. …

37. scache n.

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A scaffolding pole. …

38. scapulārī(e n.

Additional spellings: scapularie
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A sleeveless garment usu. worn by religious, scapular; ?also, a body belt. …

39. scarlē̆t n.

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The color scarlet; also, scarlet dye; red scarlet. …

40. scī̆atica n.

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(a) The disease sciatica; (b) an attack of the disease. …

41. scūāǧe n.

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A royal tax levied on land, originally paid in commutation of military service, scutage; also, the obligation to pay such tax. …

42. senẹ̄̆ n.(1)

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The powdered leaves or pods of senna, a plant of the genus Cassia, esp. the Alexandrian senna (C. acutifolia) or Tinnevelly senna (C. augustifolia). …

43. seneshal n.

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(a) A principal officer, usu. knighted, in charge of the domestic affairs of a king's or an emperor's household; also, the title of the chief administrator of a king's or lord's lands and estates……

44. serǧeaunt n.

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(a) A servingman, servant; an officer in a lord's retinue, an attendant; ?a man [quot.: 1372]; an altar server [quot.: 1429]; (b) fig. a servant of God, hell, etc.; (c) the head of a specific……

45. serǧeauntīe n.

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(a) Tenure of land as recompense for services or goods rendered to the king; the land held or governed under such an arrangement; graunt sergeauntie, land tenure on condition of personal service……

46. serǧeauntrīe n.

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(a) Land tenure for services or goods rendered to the king; (b) the office of sergeant. …

47. sextrī n.

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(a) A room in a church in which vestments, furnishings, and other possessions are kept, vestry, sacristy; (b) in surname. …

48. sirō̆n n.

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A shoot, sprout. …

49. sirup n.

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(a) Med. A thick viscous liquid, usu. made from herbs boiled with sugar; also fig.; (b) sirup acetous, a decoction of honey or sugar with vinegar; sirup egre, bitter (egre, sour) sirup, any……

50. sō̆le n.

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(a) The sole of the human foot; also, the under surface of an animal's hoof; fot sole; (b) a sole of a (the, his) sole, the sole of the fot, the sole of his (thi) fet, the soles of the (his, here)……

51. solempnisāciǒun n.

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(a) The religious or ceremonial celebration (of an event or of marriage); also, a celebration (of marriage); (b) religious rites, the celebrating of religious festivals; (c) solemn discourse. …

52. sǒmer n.(2)

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(a) A packhorse; -- also coll.; somer bai (hors); somer driven, forced to ride a packhorse; somer folwer, one who follows packhorses in a train; somer ledere, a driver of packhorses; somer sadel, a……

53. sompter n.

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(a) One who drives a packhorse; sompter hors, a packhorse; sompter man; (b) as surname. …

54. sophistrī(e n.

Additional spellings: sophistrie
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(a) Subtle but fallacious reasoning, usu. used to deceive, sophistry; also, the use of cunning and deceitful traps, nonverbal trickery [quot. c1450]; (b) that part of logic dealing with sophismata……

55. soudan n.

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(a) The supreme ruler of one of the medieval Moslem states, the Sultan; the soudan; (b) soudan of babiloine (perse, sirie, sirie and of egipte), the Sultan of Egypt (Persia, Syria, Syria and Egypt)……

56. soume n.

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?A plough trace, often of iron. …

57. sparre n.

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(a) A piece of timber used in building; a rafter, beam; a board; -- also coll.; firre sparre; hilinge of sparres, a roof; joininge of sparres, a roof or building; maister sparre, a main beam or……

58. spīcer n.

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(a) A dealer in spices, an apothecary; spicer(es shoppe, an apothecary's shop; spicer wif, a female apothecary; (b) in surnames. …

59. spīcerī(e n.

Additional spellings: spicerie
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(a) An aromatic substance; a spice; also fig. [quot. c1400]; coll. spices; also, spice plants; spiceri menginge, blending of aromatic spices; grounden (poudre of) spiceri, ground spices; (b) a spice……

60. spinace n.

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A small ship capable of carrying 25 men, a pinnace. …

61. spinache n.

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(a) The herb Spinacea oleraceo, spinach; also, ?a plant of the genus Cichorium [quots. ?a1450 & a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes]; pl. spinach leaves; (b) as surname. …

62. springald n.

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(a) A siege machine used for hurling stones and other heavy projectiles, a catapult; also, the missile thrown by such a catapult; also fig.; (b) as surname. …

63. squirel n.

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(a) A squirrel, esp. the common Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris); -- also coll.; (b) the fur of the squirrel; (c) squirel tail, the tail of a squirrel; -- also coll.; squireles tail(es, the……

64. stal(le n.

Additional spellings: stalle
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(a) An enclosed or partially enclosed place for keeping a domesticated animal, a stall; a stable; also in fig. context [quot.: ?a1425]; also in proverbs and prov. expressions; asse (oxe) stal; (b) a……

65. standard n.

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(a) A flag or banner displayed from a pole in battle; also, a pole used to display a military ensign; a figure displayed as a military ensign; standard berere, a standard bearer; standard of treues, a……

66. stāple n.

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(a) An official market established by royal authority for selling export goods; also, the town containing such a market; (b) staple sele, sele of the staple, the official seal of such a market; staple……

67. stuble n.

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(a) A stalk of grain; the yet stondinge in the stuble, unharvested grain, grain still standing; (b) coll. the ends of grain stalks left in the ground after reaping, stubble; harvested stubble or flax……

68. sturǧeǒun n.

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(a) The sturgeon (Acipenser sturio); -- also coll.; ?also, another fish or aquatic animal [quot. ?c1475]; (b) cook. a sturgeon used as food; maken a sturgeoun, to prepare a sturgeon for the table; (c)……

69. sugre n.

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(a) The sweet crystalline substance sugar; -- freq. in combs. & phrases identifying place of origin: sugre babiloine (cipres, marrok, marrokes), sugre de cipres (marrok), sugre of alisaundre (cipres)……

70. tabard(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: tabarde
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(a) An overgarment, usu. sleeveless, worn primarily by members of the lower classes or by monks; also fig.; also, an academic overgarment prescribed for scholars; in tabard wise, in the manner of an……

71. tabart n.

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(a) An overgarment, usu. sleeveless, worn primarily by members of the lower classes or by monks; (b) a surcoat, usu. sleeveless, worn over armor, or a richly decorated overgarment; (c) a covering for……

72. tablet n.

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(a) A small, portable writing tablet made of a durable material, often covered with wax in which the characters are incised; also, a stone or metal tablet bearing an inscription; also, one of the……

73. tā̆borne n.

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A drum; tromp and taborne. …

74. taffata n.

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A costly woven, glossy silk fabric. …

75. taille n.

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(a) A slash, cut; (b) a style, fashion, manner in which cloth is cut; (c) physical appearance, shape; (d) coll. slips of wood, cuttings; also [1st quot.], ?a thicket; ?undergrowth [this word and the……

76. tamarinde n.

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The pod-shaped fruit of the tamarind tree (Tamarindus indica), used medicinally; water of tamarindes, a decoction made from this fruit. …

77. tanner(e n.

Additional spellings: tannere
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(a) One who tans hides to make leather, a tanner; tanneres craft, the trade of tanning; tanneres wos, tanning liquor; (b) in surnames; (c) in place names. …

78. tarǧe n.(1)

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(a) A light shield, often small and round in shape; a buckler, targe; also in fig. context [quot. a1475]; under targe, behind a shield, in combat; (b) a representation of a targe; (c) a seal……

79. tarǧet n.

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(a) A light shield, often small and round in shape; a targe, buckler; also fig.; a protective covering over a siege engine formed from joined or overlapping shields; (b) a pictorial representation of……

80. taste n.(2)

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Surg. A probe. …

81. teler n.(1)

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(a) The stock of a crossbow; (b) the stock of a hand-held firearm; (c) a lever to steer a boat, tiller. …

82. tenement n.

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(a) The holding of property, tenure, possession; fre tenement, freehold tenure; (b) property held in tenure, rented property; a holding; tenement man, a man of property; tenement place, a rented……

83. tentǒur n.(2)

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A wooden frame used to stretch cloth, a tenter; also, a place where cloth is stretched [quot. a1500]. …

84. thū̆ribul n.

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A censer, thurible. …

85. timber n.(2)

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A specific quantity of furs, usu. a bundle of forty skins. …

86. tiriacle n.

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An antidote, esp. a drug containing snake flesh used as an antidote against poisonous snake bites. …

87. tonnel n.

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(a) A barrel for liquids or solids, cask, tun; tonnel hop; tonnel tre, ?a barrel stave; (b) a net for catching partridges or other birds; (c) ?a chimney shaft; (d) a strainer or colander. …

88. torel n.

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A malt-kiln. …

89. tǒurel n.

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(a) A turret; also in fig. context; (b) as surname. …

90. tǒurnement n.

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(a) An exercise in the medieval martial arts, engaged in by knights, usu. mounted, and used to demonstrate prowess or hone skills; (b) a test or demonstration of physical skill;—used of the Olympic……

91. tramaile n.

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A type of fishing net. …

92. trameis n.

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The spring sowing or plowing; also, spring-sown grain. …

93. trā̆ve n.

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(a) A beam; trave nail; trave tre; (b) an enclosure or a frame for restraining horses while they are being shod; (c) in surnames. …

94. trentā̆l n.

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(a) A set or course of thirty masses for the dead, sung on the same day or spread over several days, a trental; also, a poem describing a particular trental [quot. a1500 Trental]; also, a payment for……

95. trē̆peǧet n.

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(a) A siege weapon designed to cast stones, darts, etc., with a counterweighted or man-powered throwing arm; ?also, a version of such a weapon adapted for use on a ship; trepeget line (rop); (b) a……

96. trestel n.

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(a) A support, usu. two-legged and employed in pairs, for boards or planks serving as a tabletop, a base, trestle;—also coll.; paire (of) trestel(es; (b) a bracing or supporting structure consisting……

97. triple n.

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(a) A triple amount or quantity; (b) = triplacioun n. …

98. trǒut n.

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(a) Any of several food or game fish of the genus Salmo, prob. including the common trout (S. fario) and salmon trout (S. salar) and perh. also the sea trout (S. trutta);—freq. as a commodity; (b) a……

99. trusse n.

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(a) A wrapped bundle containing clothing, laundry, etc., a parcel, traveler's pack; also, ?a bolt of cloth, cloth wound and fastened together in a roll [quots. c1436]; in trusse, ?on the bolt; (b) a……

100. tumbrel n.(1)

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(a) An instrument of punishment, perh. a pillory or cucking stool; ?also, the right to erect and employ such an instrument [quot. 1394]; (b) a wheeled cart designed to tip backward to empty its load……

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