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1. alisa(u)ndre, -er n.

Additional spellings: alisaundre, alisander, alisaunder
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(a) Alexanders, horse parsley (Smyrnium olusatrum); (b) alisandre more, alisandre rot; alisandre sed. …

2. almes(se n.

Additional spellings: almesse
144 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on……

3. amatist(e n.

Additional spellings: amatiste
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Amethyst; amatist colour, amatist ston. …

4. amidǒun n.

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Crushed hulled wheat; grits, starch. …

5. artetīk, -ica adj. & n.

Additional spellings: artetica, arthetica, arthretica, aretica
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Arthritic, rheumatic; arthritis, rheumatism; goute artetik, arthritis, gout. …

6. celidoine n.(1)

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The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus); also, any of its parts used medicinally. …

7. cercelle n.

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A teal duck. …

8. cocodril n.

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Crocodile (any reptile of the genus Crocodilus). …

9. coloquint(ide n.

Additional spellings: coloquintide
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The plant colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis) or its fruit or pith. …

10. dē̆fāmāciǒun n.

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(a) Disgrace, dishonor, ill repute, scandal; (b) calumny, slander, defamation. …

11. demigraine n.

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A severe ache on one side of the head, migraine. …

12. diker n.

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(a) A measure or lot of ten; esp., of hides or skins; (b) ?in place name [see Smith PNElem. 1.133]. …

13. ditain(e n.

Additional spellings: ditaine
19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) One of two medicinal plants: dittany of Crete (Origanum dictamnus) and/or white dittany (Dictamnus albus); (b) lesse ditain, costmary (Chrysanthemum balsamita). …

14. dragaunt n.

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(a) The gum tragacanth; muscilage dragaunt; (b) some kind of vitriol; calcantum dragaunt, vitriol dragaunt. …

15. emigraine, -grāne n.

Additional spellings: emigrane
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A severe headache, orig. one affecting one side only. …

16. gāte n.(3)

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A deep bowl. …

17. grī̆p(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: gripe
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(a) The fabulous beast griffin; (b) a representation of the griffin in heraldry, ornamentation; grip fot, a figure of the griffin's claw as decoration for the base of a vessel; (c) a vulture; (d)……

18. gule n.

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In phr. gule of August, Lammas Day, August 1. …

19. heremī̆t(e n.

Additional spellings: heremite
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(a) A man who, from religious motives, lives in relative solitude; a male Christian recluse, a hermit; (b) holi heremit, a pious hermit; (c) a false hermit; one who has not renounced human society, or……

20. hiēna n.

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A precious stone produced by the hyena. …

21. hiēne n.

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The hyena. …

22. īconomī(e n.

Additional spellings: iconomie
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The management of economic affairs, housekeeping. …

23. ī̆dō̆latrī(e n.

Additional spellings: idolatrie
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(a) The worship of man-made statues, paintings, or other objects; idolatry; also, the personification of idolatry; don idolatri, to practice idolatry; (b) an idolatrous religion or cult [sometimes……

24. letanī(e n.

Additional spellings: letanie
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(a) A litany of the saints, as used in ordinary divine worship, in private devotions, or on special feasts or special occasions; (b) more (gret) letani, the Greater Litany used on the feast of St……

25. letuā̆rī(e n.

Additional spellings: letuarie
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(a) A medicine, usually in the form of either a paste or a syrup; also, a magical potion; fig. a spiritual medicine; also, a temptation of the Devil; (b) an aphrodisiac; fig. a stimulant to love of……

26. macillence n.

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Surg. A morbid smallness or shrinking. …

27. malencolī(e n.

Additional spellings: malencolie
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(a) One of the four humors, black bile; a bodily fluid which helps to form and nourish the body; -- not pathological unless present in excessive amounts; also, an altered form of black bile [see (b)]……

28. martel n. singular & plural

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(a) A hammer; (b) as surname (?ME). …

29. mō̆re n.(2)

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(a) A Moor; the nacioun of mores, Mauretania; ?also less precisely, a black African; (b) as adj.: Moorish. …

30. olibane n.

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An aromatic gum resin used in medicinal ointments, plasters, etc.; frankincense; olibane album, ?a white paste of frankincense and water. …

31. palefrei n.

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(a) A riding horse (as opposed to a war horse); a fine riding horse; in palefreies wise, like palfreys; -- also sg. with pl. meaning; (b) ambling (fair, god, large, pomele, thik, white, etc.) palefrei……

32. phītōnesse n.

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A female conjurer, medium, or witch. …

33. piretrum n.

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(a) The medicinal root, pellitory or pellitory of Spain Anacyclus pyrethrum; also, the herb pellitory of the wall Parietaria officinalis or a similar plant; (b) wild thyme Thymus serpyllum. …

34. pō̆merī n.

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(a) An orchard; (b) as surname. …

35. prē̆sse n.

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(a) A crowd, throng, company, an assembly; also, the assembling or gathering of a crowd; also, a group of things; (b) amid (among(es, in, in middes) presse, among or in a crowd; into presse, in among……

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