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1. 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…

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. hẹ̄ pron.(2)

108 quotations in 4 senses
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As anaphoric or pers. pron., subject: (a) the female person referred to, she; (b) used pleonastically, or for emphasis; (c) with appositional adjunct; (d) he that, he the, he..that, she who.

5. 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…

6. 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…

7. light adj.(2)

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(a) Of things: light in weight; light in proportion to bulk, of small specific gravity, not dense; of persons: thin; also fig.; (b) of containers: light in content, empty; of measures: underweight…

8. ortrouthe n.

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Distrust, doubt.

9. prǒud adj.

228 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Guilty of the sin of Pride; haughty, arrogant; also, obstinate, rebellious; (b) proudest of pride, supremely proud; proud as lucifer; proud herte, proud heart; -- also as surname or epithet; maken

10. -rē̆de(n suf.

Additional spellings: -reden
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A derivational suffix forming nouns in composition with a noun (rarely an adj.) as simplex: (a) in abstract nouns denoting condition or qualities associated with the condition: e.g., broþer-reddene

11. rēpinge n.

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Touching; also, the sense of touch, sensation.

12. ridelen v.(1)

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To sift (grain); also, fig. test (sb.); -- also without obj.; spread (ashes) by means of sifting; -- used without obj.; ridelen oute of, separate (sb.) from (God's chosen).

13. saughtnesse n.

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Reconciliation, peace, accord; to saughtnesse, as a settlement, for reconciliation.

14. sẹ̄l(e adj.

Additional spellings: sele
33 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Good; also, brave; also, sup. as noun: the best men [quot.: Lay.Brut 1162]; (b) good for a purpose; skilled, efficacious, favorable; the selere, better, more favorable; (c) wealthy, prosperous…

15. 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…

16. sẹ̄n v.(1)

1447 quotations in 37 senses
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(a) To see (sb., sth., a place) with the eyes, catch sight of, notice; also, be able to see (sb., sth., a place); also fig.; (b) with ellipsis of obj. or rel.pron.; -- also in than clause; (c) ppl. se

17. 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…

18. shẹ̄ pron.

165 quotations in 3 senses
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As anaph. or pers. pron.: (a) the female person referred to, she; (b) used pleonastically, or for emphasis; (c) with antecedent in apposition following: she; she this, usu. translating L haec or ista

19. sī̆k adj.

306 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Suffering from disease, injury, or ill health; sick, diseased, ailing; also, in a special physiological state, such as pregnancy; also, ?dying [quot.: a1387]; (b) sik and (ner) sore, sore and sik

20. silveren adj.

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(a) Made or consisting of silver; also fig.; also, silver-colored, lustrous like silver [quot.: ?a1450]; ben of silveren sight, to appear to be silver; (b) silveren time (world), fig. the age of…

21. sleuful adj.

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(a) Slothful, lethargic; (b) as noun: a slothful person; -- also coll.

22. sleugh adj.

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Slothful.

23. slēuīe n.

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Languor, heaviness, weariness.

24. 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…

25. sōrlī adv.

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(a) Sorrowfully, sadly, ruefully; also, so as to cause sorrow [last quot.]; (b) wretchedly, miserably; (c) fiercely, severely, hard; also, greatly, very much; (d) in a state of physical pain.

26. stāver n.

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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].

27. stōn n.

682 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) A discrete piece of rock, esp. one of small or medium size; a stone, pebble; also, a large discrete piece of rock, a boulder; a standing stone, monolith; (b) a ston(es cast, the throuinge of a

28. stop(pe n.

Additional spellings: stoppe
32 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A pail or bucket; a milking pail; also, a jug [quot. 1397-8; cp. stoupe n.(1) (a)]; stop hop, a hoop fastened around a bucket; stoppes plates, ?metal buckets; milk stop, a milk pail; (b) a vessel…

29. thach(e n.

Additional spellings: thache
87 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Straw, reeds, or similar material used in covering a roof, thatch; also, such material put to other uses; lode thach; (b) a covering of thatch or of lead, tiles, etc. over a roof; also, a roof…

30. thẹ̄̆ rel. pron.

106 quotations in 5 senses
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Used for animate antecedents: (a) as subj.: who, that;—sg. & pl.; the that (the); alle tho (thei) the, all those who; (b) as direct obj. or obj. of a prep.: whom; as indirect obj.: to whom;—sg. & pl…

31. thẹ̄̆ def. art.

963 quotations in 13 senses
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Referring to a specific member of a class and used anaphorically, pointing to a person or thing previously mentioned: the, this, that; with plural: the, these, those: (a) with noun; also with adj. as…

32. tiche n.

21 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A young goat, a kid; also fig.; (b) in surname and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.178].

33. tō̆nge n.(1)

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(a) A double-armed instrument, usually hinged, for manipulating objects too hot or too difficult to hold; a pincers, pliers, pair of tongs;—often pl.; also fig. and in fig. context; fir tonges; paire

34. tup(pe n.

Additional spellings: tuppe
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(a) A male sheep, ram; also, a ram's skin [quot. c1450]; tup hed; tup horn; (b) mil. a battering ram; (c) in surnames and place name.

35. up prep.

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(a) Above and touching (sth.); seated on (sth.); also, supported by (sth.); also, based on (reason) [quot. c1450] (b) riding on (a horse, an animal’s back); also, sitting upon (a bench); (c) onto…

36. uplō̆ndish(e adj.

Additional spellings: uplondishe
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(a) Of the country, rural, rustic; uplondish man, a peasant, countryman; (b) provincial, unsophisticated; (c) as surname.

37. warm adj.

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(a) Of the sun, a fire: radiating a considerable degree of heat (b) of weather, wind: characterized by pleasantly warm temperatures, mild, balmy; ?also, hot, scorching [last quot.]; (c) of a day,…

38. welcǒm(e adj.

Additional spellings: welcome
80 quotations in 6 senses
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Used predicatively of persons: (a) well-met; pleasing as a visitor, companion, or resident, welcome;—used to characterize someone whom one is glad to see or receive [occas. difficult to distinguish…

39. welcǒmen v.(1)

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(a) To speak words of greeting, welcome, etc. to (sb.), hail, greet; acknowledge the arrival of (sb.) with words of greeting; also, invite the presence of (the Holy Spirit) with a hymn; welcomen with

40. Windsọ̄re n.

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(a) In comb.: Windsore heraud, an office or officer of the town or castle of Windsor in Berkshire; (b) in surname and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.268].

41. wọ̄de-leie n.

Additional spellings: wodeleie
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(a) ?A woodland glade or clearing; under wode-leie, in the woods, under cover of woods (b) a secluded grove as a place for furtive or illicit pleasures;—used in proverbs and prov. expressions; (c) in…

42. writelinge ger.

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Warbling, twittering.