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1. anlē̆t n.

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(a) Face; (b) forehead; (c) appearance, looks; image. …

2. brim-stōn n.

Additional spellings: brimston
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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……

3. chele priem n. or phr.

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Coriander. …

4. eie-wrak n.

Additional spellings: eiewrak
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Pain in the eye. …

5. faster-man n.

Additional spellings: fasterman
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A surety or sponsor. …

6. fleil n.

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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……

7. flō n.

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(a) An arrow for the long bow; a crossbow bolt; fethered flo, so swithe (blive) as flo, as swift as an arrow; (b) fig. uses: fendes flo, dethes flo, etc. …

8. frank-pleǧǧe n.

Additional spellings: frankplegge
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One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc. …

9. gọ̄me, gom(m)e n.(3)

Additional spellings: gomme
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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. …

10. grei n.(2)

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(a) A gray fur, prob. the fur from the back of the Eurasian red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris in winter; red (ruskin) grei, the fur of the Eurasian red squirrel in winter; tristi (tresti) grei, ?error……

11. grith n.

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(a) The peace of a nation or society, law and order; fig. the peace resulting from the observation of God's will; breken (fordon) grith, to disturb the peace, break the law; holden (maken, setten)……

12. hal-penī n.

Additional spellings: halpeni
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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……

13. hā̆m-fāre n.

Additional spellings: hamfare
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Law = hamsokne. …

14. hang-wīte n.

Additional spellings: hangwite
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Law The right to impose a fine for hanging a culprit without legal trial; also, an acquittance of amercement for such an offense. …

15. hilder n.

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(a) The European elder (Sambucus nigra); hilder tre; (b) hilder tre, ?the European alder [see alder n. (1)]; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.274]. …

16. hō̆lm(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: holme
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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]. …

17. hoppe n.(2)

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(a) The seedpod of flax; also, a representation of a flax pod in embroidery; hoppe gavel, a rent paid in flax pods; (b) ?hedge-berry, haw. …

18. hǒus-bō̆nd(e n.

Additional spellings: housbond, hous-bonde, housbonde
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(a) A male spouse, married man, husband; also fig.; (b) alch.?sophic sulphur. …

19. hǒus-carl n.

Additional spellings: houscarl
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(a) A member of the household troops of a Danish king, an armed retainer; (b) as surname. …

20. imihte n.

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Sg. & pl.: military might or skill; mid al imihte(n. …

21. innōm n.

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(a) An enclosure made from common or waste land; cp. inhok; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.303]. …

22. kinrē̆de n.

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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……

23. knīf n.

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(a) A knife; a dagger or sheath knife carried or worn on the person; a knife as a weapon [usually distinguished from sword]; also fig.; (b) an instrument for cutting or scraping made of material other……

24. ladde n.(1)

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(a) A young male attendant; one of a king's or nobleman's retinue; a servant; (b) a foot soldier; fot ladde; (c) ladde cf kichene, an attendant in the kitchen of a noble household, a kitchen boy. …

25. last n.(3)

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(a) A moral defect, a vice, a sin; beden lastes, ?to tempt (sb.) to sin; (b) the quality of sinfulness, wickedness, guilt; (c) grounds for blame, fault, discredit; last finden, to find fault with……

26. latteu n.

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Guide, leader, director. …

27. laue n.

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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……

28. laue-man n.

Additional spellings: laueman
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(a) One of a number of local magistrates administering justice in a borough or town; (b) in surnames. …

29. lẹ̄k n.

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(a) A leek (Allium porrum); unsette lek, a leek not yet transplanted; (b) garlic (Allium sativum); also, one of a group of sharp-tasting herbs; lek man, a dealer in potherbs; (c) in phrases: grene……

30. light n.

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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……

31. lith n.(3)

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(a) A body of fighting men, army; (b) ?family, household, ?body of persons; -- used of the Trinity; (c) ?aid, assistance; ?var. of leth n. (1). …

32. lithernes(se n.

Additional spellings: lithernesse
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(a) Wicked deed(s, evil way of life; also, harm, injury; (b) wicked speech, evil or false words; (c) wickedness, sinfulness; (d) ferocity; (e) ?damnation, perdition. …

33. lōr-theu n.

Additional spellings: lortheu
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(a) A teacher, master; (b) a spiritual or theological teacher such as a priest, cleric, any of the apostles, Church Fathers, etc.; holi lor-theu; ?also, an epithet for God; (c) lor-theu selde, the……

34. mark(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: marke
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(a) A measure of weight equivalent to 8 ounces; (b) mark pound, a measure of weight equivalent to 1/16 of a lispound. …

35. market n.(1)

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(a) A periodical public assembly for buying or selling; also, an occasion of such a gathering; beten market, to linger or hang about at a market; crien a market, announce the holding of a market……

36. night n.

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(a) The dark part of a day, night, nighttime; also, nightfall; as derk as night, derk (mirk) as night; verrei night, the end of evening or twilight [see verrei adj.]; vulgar night, the period from……

37. nighte-gāle n.

Additional spellings: nightegale
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(a) The nightingale; (b) as surname. …

38. nirwit n.

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Tightness in the chest, angina pectoris. …

39. nīthing n.

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(a) A wretch, coward; good-for-nothing; -- also as term of address; nithinges bearde [see bearde]; (b) as term of familiar address: boy, lad, fellow. …

40. Norenish adj. & n.

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(a) Norse, Norwegian; (b) as noun: Norwegians. …

41. Nor-man n.

Additional spellings: Norman
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A Norman; Normans [quot.: (a1464)]. …

42. Norrene n.

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(a) Norway; (b) Norwegians; (c) as surname. …

43. Nor-wei(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: Norwei, Nor-weie, Norweie
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Norway; Nor-wei coste, the Norwegian coast; Nor-wei man, a Norwegian. …

44. Nor-wei(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: Norwei, Nor-weie, Norweie
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(a) A Norwegian; (b) as surname. …

45. orest(e n.

Additional spellings: oreste
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(a) Combat, struggle; (b) law the right of jurisdiction over cases involving trial by combat; (c) by misunderstanding of (b): the liberty of entering woods or lands; (d) by false etymologizing [cp. or……

46. ortrouthe n.

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Distrust, doubt. …

47. ǒuthēs n.

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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. …

48. plǒugh n.

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(a) A plow; also, a plow with its draft animal(s; --also coll.; (b) gates of the plough, furrows; plough lenge, the length of a plowshare; ?the length of a plow; (c) gon (gangan) at the plough, gon……

49. pōpedọ̄̆m n.

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(a) The office of pope; (b) the tenure of a pope, pontificate. …

50. pōse n.

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A head cold; catarrh; on the pose, afflicted with a cold; bringen in a pose, to give (sb.) a cold. …

51. prē̆sse n.

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(a) A crowd, throng, company, an assembly; also, the assembling or gathering of a crowd; also, a group of things; (b) amid (among(es, in, in middes) presse, among or in a crowd; into presse, in among……

52. prīd(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: pride
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(a) Unreasonable self-esteem, pride; desire to exceed one's proper station; also, the sin of pride (shading into 1c.); prid of herte; (b) love of praise, vanity; (c) prideful bearing or behavior……

53. rāven n.

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(a) The raven (Corvus corax); ?also, the rook (Corvus frugilegus); (b) the carrion crow (Corvus corone); (c) raven(es brid, a young raven; raven(es fether; raven(es kinde, a raven's nature; buk-raven……

54. rein n.(1)

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(a) Rain; gret rein, heavy rain; litel rein, fine rain; (b) a spell of rain, shower of rain; (c) strem of rein, a stream, brook; rein of oure lord(es, ?divine or sacred rain. …

55. rēpinge n.

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Touching; also, the sense of touch, sensation. …

56. rē̆st(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: reste
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(a) Rest due to sleep; repose; slumber; -- also pl.; at (in, on) rest, at rest, asleep; oute of rest, out of sleep; (b) the repose of the grave, death; rest of the ded, repose of death; at rest, dead……

57. reue n.(2)

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(a) A row or line of people or things; a rank of soldiers; reue bi reue, in lines; fro reue to reue, from one rank to another; riche on reue, noble in (their) ranks; (b) a row of houses, a street……

58. ridel n.(1)

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(a) A coarse sieve used for bolting grain, a riddle; big (ote, whete) ridel, a riddle for barley (oats, wheat); ?also, a winnowing fan or fork [quot.: 1440]; also, a representation of a sieve [quot……

59. rīder(e n.

Additional spellings: ridere
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(a) A horseman, one riding a horse; both rider and goer, both those who go on horseback and those who go on foot, everyone; (b) a mounted warrior, knight; (c) a coin bearing the image of a knight; spe……

60. rifte n.(2)

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A veil. …

61. rīmth(e n.

Additional spellings: rimthe
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Space, extent, room; space of time, opportunity; rimth of time. …

62. rinel n.

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(a) A small stream, brook, rivulet; thurgh right rinel, by astraight course; (b) ?in place name [see Smith PNElem.2. 91]. …

63. rod(de n.

Additional spellings: rodde
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(a) A stick of wood; (b) a straight shoot, esp. of brushwood; a straight cutting from a bush or tree; tuft of roddes, an osier bed, a stand of young shoots; (c) an offshoot; -- used fig.; (d) a bar of……

64. rōd-knight n.

Additional spellings: rodknight
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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. …

65. rọ̄te n.(4)

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(a) A root of a tree or other plant; the underground stock of a plant from which new shoots or leaves are periodically produced, a rhyzome, tuber; rote ne braunch; dokke rote [see also dokke n.1.(d)]……

66. rother n.(2)

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(a) An ox, a cow, bull; pl. cattle, oxen; rother beste; (b) rother drivere, a cattle driver; rother herde [OE hrīðer-hirde], herdsman; rotheres lether, prepared oxhide or cowhide; (c) in surnames; (d)……

67. rouhe n.

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An elasmobranch fish, a ray, skate; rouhe fish. …

68. sain n.

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A statement, saying. …

69. Sarasī̆n(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: Sarasine
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(a) A Turk; also, an Arab; also, a Moslem; -- often with ref. to the Crusades; Sarasin hed, the head of a Saracen; (b) a heathen, pagan; an infidel; (c) as a type of non-Christian; Sarasin or jeu, jeu……

70. saughtnesse n.

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

71. scōr(e n.

Additional spellings: score
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(a) A crack, crevice; (b) a mark on a tree to be felled; (c) a track, way; holden scor after, to follow (sb.); (d) a limit, boundary; oute of scor, immoderately, unreasonably; also, at all [quot.: HS……

72. Scot n.(1)

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(a) An inhabitant of Scotland; a native Scot; a Scottish soldier; -- sometimes used anachronistically; (b) in cpds. & combs.: Scot lede, Scotland; the Scots; Scot riveling, a derogatory nickname for a……

73. sē n.(1)

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(a) The expanse of salt water covering much of the earth; the se flodeth (falleth in), the sea flows (ebbs); the se swevede, the sea was calm; (b) se (of) occean, se of the occean, gret se (of)……

74. sẹ̄d-lēp n.

Additional spellings: sedlep
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A basket holding seed carried by the sower during the process of sowing by hand; also, a measure of seed [1st quot.]. …

75. self-hēle n.

Additional spellings: selfhele
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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……

76. sepulcre n.

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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……

77. serve n.

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The service tree (Sorbus domestica); also, the fruit of this tree; serve tre [LOE syrf-trēow]. …

78. sester n.

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(a) A vessel for holding liquid; ?a brewing vat [2nd quot.]; (b) a liquid measure; sester ful; (c) a dry measure; (d) sester peni, an annual tax imposed upon commercial brewers of beer. …

79. shadde n.

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A fish, probably, like modern 'shad,' one of the saltwater food fishes of the herring family (Clupeidae) that swim up rivers to spawn, 'allis shad' Alosa alosa or 'twaite shad' Alosa fallax. …

80. shau(e n.

Additional spellings: shaue
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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……

81. shingle n.(1)

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(a) A wooden tile for roofing; also fig.; also, a thin piece of wood used as a writing tablet; coll. shingles, a quantity of shingles; also, lumber from which shingles are made [quot.: 1439]; (b)……

82. shraf n.

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(a) A cave; also fig.; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.113-14]. …

83. shrift n.

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(a) Confession to a priest, auricular confession; also person.; shrift in (o, of, with) mouth; shrift wind, oral confession; soth (sothfast, verrei) shrift; haven shrift on herte, to intend to……

84. sineu n.

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(a) A fibrous cord connecting a muscle to a bone or other bodily part, a tendon; a ligament or other connective tissue; also, a muscle [quot.: ?a1450 Macer]; hole in sineu and veine, completely……

85. slēuīe n.

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Languor, heaviness, weariness. …

86. smak(ke n.

Additional spellings: smakke
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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……

87. smẹ̄k(e n.

Additional spellings: smeke
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(a) Smoke produced by a burning or smoldering substance; aromatic smoke of incense; a column or cloud of smoke; a variety of smoke; also fig.; also in proverbs; smek hous, a smokehouse; -- used fig.……

88. smel n.

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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……

89. smē̆rels n.

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(a) An ointment or unguent for anointing the body; -- ?also pl.; (b) a medicinal ointment; (c) a cosmetic preparation of some kind. …

90. snak n.

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A ship of some kind, esp. a light, fast ship. …

91. snape n.

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(a) Winter pasture; (b) in surnames and place names. …

92. sōr(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: sore
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(a) Pain in bodily parts or organs due to wounds, illness, childbirth, etc.; the sensation of physical pain or soreness; an experience or undergoing of physical pain; physical affliction or suffering……

93. soul(e n.

Additional spellings: soule
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The spiritual and rational element in man, the Christian soul, understood: (a) to animate and control the body; (b) to have an eternal destiny as a moral agent; also person.; cure of soule(s……

94. sǒundfulnesse n.

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Security, safety; also, well-being, prosperity. …

95. spāduinge n.

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The gummy matter secreted in the eye. …

96. spāle n.(1)

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A rest, break. …

97. sprai n.(1)

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(a) A branch, shoot, or twig of a tree, shrub, or vine; a switch; also fig.; also, a branch as a symbol of victory, strength, or prowess [quots. c1440 & c1450, 2nd]; ivi sprai; (b) leafy branches and……

98. staf n.

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(a) A stick of wood, rod; also, a stick of ivory; (b) a branch or limb of a tree; a stalk of a plant. …

99. stagge n.

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(a) An adult male deer, esp. a four- or five-year-old stag; stagge of an hert; (b) a young male horse, colt [chiefly N]; (c) a swan [cp. steg(ge n.]; (d) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.……

100. 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]. …

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