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1. bagge n.(1)

74 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A bag or sack, with or without its contents; traveling bag, wallet, satchel, pouch; bagge portatif; undo the bagge; (b) a bag as a unit of measure.

2. gāble n.(1)

30 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A gable of a building; also, a façade; (b) gable ende, gable wal, gable wough, the end wall surmounted by a gable, gable end; gable forke, a gable; gable windou, a window in a gable; (c) in place…

3. gein n.

18 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Advantage, benefit; help, remedy; don gein, to benefit (sb.), do (sb.) good; ther is no gein, there is no help, nothing can be done; (b) worth, value or usefulness in battle; (c) reward, profit…

4. gēthe, gẹ̄the n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Only in phr. in a gethe, ?spiritedly, ?hastily.

5. hasp(e n.

Additional spellings: haspe
41 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A fastening for a door, gate, chest, etc.; a hasp; up bi the hasp, unfastened, unlatched; barre and hasp, stapel and hasp; (b) a fastening for a garment or a helmet; ?a buckle, ?a lace; (c) a hank…

6. hō̆lm(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: holme
22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An island; a peninsula; (b) a meadow on a river bank; (c) a hill; (d) in surnames & place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.258-9, 268].

7. mis n.

129 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Sin, sinfulness; guilt, culpability for sin; evil, wickedness; withouten mis, sinless, innocent; withouten mis of this man, he being sinless, innocent as he was; (b) a sin, an evil deed; criminal…

8. mō̆s n.(1)

70 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Moss, or a similar cryptogamous plant; ?also, hairiness, ?dirt [quot.: Pilgr.LM]; (b) mos crop, ?cotton grass; ?a moor flower; mos (be) growen, grown over with moss; grene mos, moss; whit mos

9. pōke n.

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A sack, pouch, bag [in some quots. perhaps a measure of quantity, but see quot.: a1500]; pissinge poke, provande poke, sond poke [see pissinge, provende, sond]; (b) a full, elongated type of…

10. tater n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Pl. (a) Torn or ragged strips of material hanging from a garment; projecting strips or points of a slashed garment; ragged clothing [1st quot.]; (b) jagged appendages on a dragon's tail.

11. trust n.

121 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Confidence (in sb. or sth.), reliance (on sb. or sth.), trust; haven trust, to have confidence (in sb. or sth.), rely (on sb. or sth.); with inf.: haven more trust..thanne, think it preferable (to…