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1. strai n.

31 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Law A domestic animal found wandering away from its home or enclosure and subject to impoundment and, if unredeemed, to forfeiture, an estray; -- also coll.; also, the right to impound an estray……

2. rīnocephales n. plural

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Fire-breathing monsters. …

3. triasandrī n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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Med. An electuary made of three kinds of sandalwood. …

4. trussūre n.

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= tressour n. (a). …

5. ā̆verāǧe n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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A service owed by the tenant to his feudal superior [orig. consisting of work performed by the tenant with his draft animals]. …

6. stak n.

30 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A pile, heap, stack; a stack of hay, grain, wood, etc.; a hay rick; also fig.; -- presumably sometimes used as a measure [e.g., quots. 1370, 1391, 1440 Invent.]; as a stak, in a heap; in stak……

7. walda n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Alum. …

8. rē̆nǧe n.(2)

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(a) A row (of words, people), a line; (b) a line of fighting men assembled for battle or a joust, a rank; also, fig. a group of saints in heaven; on o (on) renge, in one rank, in a group; upon o renge……

9. pō̆t-fālda n.

Additional spellings: potfalda
3 quotations in 1 sense
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A payment made for the enfolding of livestock outside the lord's fold. …

10. somnen v.

105 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To urge (sb. to do sth.), invite, call upon; order (sb. to do sth.); -- also with that clause; ben somned, be called upon (to do sth.), be obliged; ben somned to, be invited to (a feast); (b) ?to……

11. shẹ̄le n.

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(a) A hut, hovel, usu. temporary; (b) in place names; (c) in surnames. …

12. rewarden v.

100 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To give a reward; reward (sb.); (b) hunt. to reward (a hound or hawk), esp. with a part of the game; (c) to reward (affection, good deeds, etc.); -- also without obj.; (d) to pay (sb.) for goods……

13. stāking(e ger.

Additional spellings: stakinge
9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The driving of stakes; (b) an enclosure of stakes set in water for the catching of fish [some occurrences may be place names]; (c) a stake used to support a plant; (d) fig. anguish, torment [cp. s……

14. santa n.

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A female saint. …

15. tapestrī(e n.

Additional spellings: tapestrie
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(a) A kind of decorative fabric in which sets of colored weft threads of one material are worked directly onto a uniform warp of another to furnish an ornamental design or figure, tapestry; bed of……

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

Additional spellings: frankelein, franklin, franklen
22 quotations in 1 sense
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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……

17. warnestōr(e n.

Additional spellings: warnestore
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(a) Provisions of foodstuffs, provender; ?also, the action of provisioning [1st quot.]; pl. stores, supplies; in warnestor, in storage, in stock, on hand [last quot.] (b) military supplies, including……

18. sē̆dūciǒus adj.

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(a) Deceitful, devious; (b) seditious, treasonable; (c) of words: sharp, bitter; -- ?error for sedicious adj. …

19. vintner n.

12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A wine merchant; a vintner; (b) as surname. …

20. souden v.(1)

52 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To fix (sth.) in place by soldering or welding; join (sth. together, sth. to sth. else) by soldering; also, mend (broken metal) by soldering; also, unite things with solder [last quot.]; (b) to……

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