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1. lauelīche adv.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) In accordance with law, lawfully, legally; (b) ?duly, thoroughly. …

2. lauelī adj.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Prescribed by law; also, permitted by law, lawful; (b) laueli man = laueful man; (c) in accordance with a legal pledge or agreement. …

3. serve n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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The service tree (Sorbus domestica); also, the fruit of this tree; serve tre [LOE syrf-trēow]. …

4. thrinde num.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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As adj.: third. …

5. ladde n.(1)

61 quotations in 4 senses
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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. …

6. saughten v.

53 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To make peace, be conciliated, be reconciled; saughten with, make peace with (sb.), become reconciled with; also, make peace by means of (tools of peace) [1st quot.]; (b) to conciliate (a land)……

7. tannen v.

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(a) To cure (skins, hides, leather, etc.) with an infusion of tanbark; ppl. tanned, preserved by tanning; (b) ppl. tanned as adj.: tan in color. …

8. saughtelen v.

33 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To make peace, be reconciled; also, agree, come to terms [1st quot.]; saughtelen with, make peace with (sb., Christ), become reconciled with; (b) to reconcile (sb.); saughtelen with (to, toward)……

9. uplō̆ndish(e adj.

Additional spellings: uplondishe
18 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Of the country, rural, rustic; uplondish man, a peasant, countryman; (b) provincial, unsophisticated; (c) as surname. …

10. withen n.

26 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A tree of the genus Salix, a willow; withen tre; withen nail, a nail made from willow wood; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.271]. …

11. skēr(e adj.

Additional spellings: skere
40 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Blameless, innocent, faultless; of speech: honest, straightforward, sincere; maken quite and sker, to consider (sb.) blameless; prove (oneself) innocent; (b) free (from sin), absolved; sker of……

12. 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……

13. nāmen v.

89 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To name (sb.), give a name to; namen..for, name (an angel) after (a star); ppl. named, named; named after, named after (sb. or sth.); (b) to call (sb.) something; give (sb.) a descriptive……

14. ō̆nfōld adj.

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(a) Single, one, onefold; (b) simple, honest; (c) of interpretation: simple, literal; (d) bi onfold, onefold. …

15. -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……

16. wā̆pen-tā̆ke n.

Additional spellings: wapentake
31 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) An administrative division of certain counties, all within the Danelaw, corresponding to the hundred; (b) in names of specific wapentakes. …

17. 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. …

18. 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……

19. 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……

20. thank n.

158 quotations in 9 senses
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Kindly regard felt toward another for a benefit received or services rendered, gratitude; also, a grateful thought. …

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