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1. Sarasī̆neis adj.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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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)]. …

2. servaunt n.

223 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) One owing a duty of service to a master or lord; a laborer for hire; a male or female domestic servant, household servant; servaunt man, servaunt womman; (b) servaunt familier (domestical,……

3. squiler(e n.

Additional spellings: squilere
15 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A servant in the scullery, dishwasher; also, an officer in charge of the scullery in a noble household; sergeaunt squiler, the officer in charge of the scullery in a king's household; (b) prive……

4. vernā̆ǧelle n.

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A variety of sweet wine, prob. similar to vernage n. …

5. salā̆rī(e n.

Additional spellings: salarie
37 quotations in 1 sense
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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……

6. reneirīe n.

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Apostasy. …

7. remissiǒun n.

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(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……

8. remenaunt n.

131 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The rest, remaining part or quantity; the residual portion of an estate; a remaining or reserved portion; also fig.; (b) the remaining part of a story, question, text, law, etc.; a remaining……

9. remembren v.

189 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To bear (sb. or sth.) in mind, give heed to, reflect on, consider; take (sth.) into account; consider (that sth. is the case); (b) remembren of (on, upon), to pay heed to (sth.), meditate on……

10. remaunden v.

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To send back (a document, message), return. …

11. resǒunen v.(1)

18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To re-echo, resound; return an echo; resounen of (with), ring with (a sound), reverberate with, be filled with; (b) to sound, make or utter a sound; also, to play (a tune); resounen in-to mirthe……

12. rē̆sǒun n.(2)

416 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) The intellectual faculty, intellectual power or capacity, reason; -- also pl.; light of resoun; (b) the exercise of the intellectual faculty, act or process of reasoning; mental processes……

13. resurrecciǒun n.

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(a) The Resurrection of Christ; also, the resurrection of Antichrist [quot.: Chester Pl.Antichr.]; (b) the religious festival commemorating the Resurrection; resurreccioun gilde, a guild that……

14. 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……

15. reprōchen v.(1)

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(a) To rebuke (sb.), reproach; ppl. reproching as noun: one who rebukes; (b) to insult (sb.), mock; (c) to condemn (sth.); also, belittle (a gift); (d) to reject (sth.), destroy; (e) reprochen of, ?by……

16. replīen v.(1)

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(a) To turn (sth.) back, fold; bend back (a probe), flex; (b) to make opposition; retaliate; oppose (sth.), object to; repudiate (a former opinion), divorce (one's wife), cancel (a command, decision)……

17. ǒusten v.

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Law To oust or evict (sb.), dispossess (sb.) of land or other property. …

18. ǒundẹ̄ adj.

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

19. -ǒun suf.

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A derivational suffix in words from OF or ML (chiefly the reflexes of Latin third declension nouns in -o, -ōnem): (a) in various words, in which -oun was probably felt as part of the root rather……

20. merliǒun n.

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(a) A small European falcon, the merlin Falco aesalon; (b) ?confused with the heraldic merlete. …

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