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1. brim-stōn n.

Additional spellings: brimston
34 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The mineral sulphur; (b) quik brim-ston, native or virgin sulphur; ded brim-ston, sulphur which has been rendered inert; poudre of brim-ston, flowers of sulphur; brim-ston water, water containing……

2. fleil n.

25 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Instrument used for threshing grain, a flail; (b) cap of a fleil, fleil cap, one of the bands of wood or leather (fastened about the end of the flail staff or the end of the swingle) through which……

3. frank-pleǧǧe n.

Additional spellings: frankplegge
11 quotations in 2 senses
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One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc. …

4. gọ̄me, gom(m)e n.(3)

Additional spellings: gomme
27 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The flesh surrounding the teeth, gums; -- also sg.; (b) the insides of the mouth; palate, upper throat, etc.; (c) the jaws; whetten gomes, to whet the jaws, beat one's gums; (d) molars. …

5. hal-penī n.

Additional spellings: halpeni
45 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) An English coin [made of silver from the time of Edw.I], worth half a penny, a halfpenny; (b) a halfpenny given in charity; Goddes hal-peni; (c) a coin of Biblical times; a small foreign coin……

6. kinrē̆de n.

125 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Stock, family, lineage, race; gret (god, heigh, noble, worthi) kinrede, high birth; loue (mene) kinrede, low birth; (b) descendants, progeny, posterity; also, a descendant; (c) forebears……

7. laue n.

513 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) A rule or set of rules prescribing or restraining conduct; -- thought of as promulgated by a rational, authoritative, and powerful lawgiver; laue positif, positif laue, laue of setnesse, a……

8. light n.

339 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) Light as a substance that illuminates objects or colors, light as seen or present in a condition where vision is possible; lightes leme; (b) light as one of God's creations; (c) the property of……

9. ortrouthe n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Distrust, doubt. …

10. ǒuthēs n.

18 quotations in 1 sense
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Outcry, clamor, uproar; outhes upon, outcry against (sb.); outhes and clamour, outhes and crie, hue and cry; greden (maken, reisen) outhes, raise a cry. …

11. rēpinge n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Touching; also, the sense of touch, sensation. …

12. rōd-knight n.

Additional spellings: rodknight
7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A vassal owing the service of riding in his lord's retinue; (b) ?a piece of property for which such service is owed; (c) as surname. …

13. saughtnesse n.

20 quotations in 1 sense
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Reconciliation, peace, accord; to saughtnesse, as a settlement, for reconciliation. …

14. self-hēle n.

Additional spellings: selfhele
13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A plant regarded as having healing properties and freq. used in salves, esp. the plant selfheal Prunella vulgaris; ?also, burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga [some quots. may belong to any of……

15. sepulcre n.

57 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A tomb; a place of burial, grave; also fig.; right of sepulcre, the right to a place of burial; (b) the tomb, or rock cave, in which Jesus was buried; also, the church in Jerusalem built to cover……

16. shau(e n.

Additional spellings: shaue
51 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A wood or forest; a grove; a thicket; at a shau side, at the edge of a forest; shau of (the) wod, a wodes shau; under (the) shau, beneath the foliage of a wood, in the shade; in thickets; also……

17. slēuīe n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Languor, heaviness, weariness. …

18. smak(ke n.

Additional spellings: smakke
31 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Taste, flavor; also fig.; also, a certain taste; also, the ability to taste; -- used fig. [quot. c1230, 1st]; oute of smak, tasteless, insipid; drauen smak to, to give flavor to (sth.); (b) the……

19. smel n.

69 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Smell as a property of matter; the odor of something (land, water, a flower, etc.); (b) an inhalation of an odor, a whiff; also fig.; haven the smel of the smakke, to detect the scent of……

20. stāver n.

16 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An upright bar in a rack for hay or fodder; hacche staver; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.141, 142]. …

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