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1. allǒuen v.

106 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To commend or praise (sth.); worship (God); recommend (a virtue); (b) approve of, be pleased with (sth.); be pleasing (to sb.); favor (sb.); (c) appreciate or value (sth.); esteem. …

2. oil(e n.

Additional spellings: oile
341 quotations in 8 senses
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A liquid substance, natural or concocted, which is unctuous, usually inflammable, and insoluble in water; an oil or oily substance. …

3. caumber adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Curved. …

4. dettǒur n.

28 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) One who owes money or goods, a debtor; (b) money due from a debtor, an unpaid debt; (c) one who keeps account of unpaid debts. …

5. camē̆l n.

36 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A camel (Camelus dromedarius or C. bactrianus); (b) camel her, a cloth or garment of camel's hair; camel flesh, camel hide, camel skin; (c) cameles chaf, a medicinal plant; prob., camel grass……

6. mǒunt n.(1)

65 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A mountain or hill; also fig.; pl. mountains, mountainous region; mountain range; mount joie, mount of joy, highest bliss; bi mount(es, among the mountains; (b) the Alps; -- pl. & coll.; (c) in……

7. nǒmbre n.

219 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A number; (b) nombre diminutif, a number greater than the sum of its aliquot parts; nombre dividing, a divisor; nombre exeant, quotient [see exeant]; nombre multipliing, a multiplier; nombre of……

8. Jon n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) John; -- used as a familiar name for a priest; sire Jon; (b) used as a contemptuous name for a person of mean station. [See also herbe-jon, Seint Jones wort; Jon with the gilden mouth, see gilden……

9. purǧen v.(1)

157 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To purify or cleanse (sth.), make clean or pure; rid (the Church, the Temple, a town) of objectionable persons or things; (b) to purify (metal) by fire, refine; also fig.; scour (metal), remove……

10. propiciātōrī(e n.

Additional spellings: propiciatorie
9 quotations in 1 sense
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The mercy seat of the Ark and Solomon's Temple. …

11. fēt n.

38 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) What one does or succeeds in doing; act, deed, doings; the working or operation (of the universe); (b) in fet, in fact, actually. …

12. fertre n.

17 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A shrine enclosing the body or relics of a saint; a tomb; (b) in fertre, enshrined; entombed. …

13. encrēsen v.

132 quotations in 9 senses
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Of a material thing, condition, or institution (such as a tree, a river, the moon, fire, light; wealth, property, income, cost; a realm or country, the Church, an army; a report, age, illness, etc.)……

14. fǒundǒur, -ur n.(1)

Additional spellings: foundur
42 quotations in 4 senses
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The original builder of a city; the founder of a country; the builder of a castle, etc. …

15. cǒunte n.(2)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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A count, an earl. …

16. cǒunseilen v.

91 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To counsel (sb.), advise, teach, instruct; also, give advice; (b) to advise (sb. to do sth.), advise (doing sth., a course of action); -- often with to phr. or that clause. …

17. chibol(le n.

Additional spellings: chibolle
14 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A spring onion (bulb and stalk, as used in salads); (b) elecampane (error in transl.). …

18. heir n.

108 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) One who inherits, or is entitled to inherit, the property, title, honors, etc. of a dead man; an heir or heiress; fals heir; verrei heir; kind heir, natural heir; thirde heir, the third in……

19. fecche n.

27 quotations in 2 senses
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Any of certain cultivated or wild leguminous plants belonging to the genus Vicia or to allied genera; vetch. …

20. -ǒun suf.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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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……

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