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1. abneveu n.

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?A great-great grandson or grandnephew. …

2. affīe n.

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Reliance, trust; don affie, setten affie, to put (one's) trust (in sb.). …

3. Aleman(n)es n. (plural)

Additional spellings: Alemannes
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The Germans, the German nation; also, the Teutons. …

4. annulet n.

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(a) a small ring; (b) Med. and anat. the 'cartilage of the windpipe' [Norri]; (c) her. a cadency mark in the shape of a ring. …

5. antē̆me n.

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A musical composition based upon a scriptural text, sung in the Church Offices before each psalm and often repeated after the psalm, or after each verse of the psalm [see Karl Young, The Drama of the……

6. arblast, -blastē̆r n.

Additional spellings: arblaster
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(a) A weapon for discharging quarrels, stones, etc., consisting of a bow set crosswise on a shaft; a crossbow, an arbalest; (b) a missile shot from a crossbow; arblast shute. …

7. aunǧel n.

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One of the celestial servants of God, an angel. …

8. autē̆r n.

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(a) The altar of a church; also, the altar placed before the shrine or image of a saint; (b) heigh auter, chef auter, the high altar, the altar on which the Eucharist is offered; sacrement of the……

9. avēr n.(2)

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Things owned; possessions, property, wealth; -- coll. or pl. …

10. berberie n.

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The fruit of the common barberry Berberis vulgaris. …

11. capri-fig(e n.

Additional spellings: caprifig, capri-fige, caprifige
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The wild fig-tree; capri-fig tre. …

12. cause n.

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The cause of an effect; source, origin, root. …

13. chervel n.

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Chervil Anthriscus cerefolium, used as a pot-herb and in medicaments. …

14. circumsta(u)nce n.

Additional spellings: circumstaunce
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(a) A factor conditioning, influencing or contributing to an act or process; (b) specif. an aspect of the situation in which a sin is committed as affecting its seriousness. …

15. cirurǧīe n.

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(a) That branch of medical science and practice which is concerned with wounds, fractures, ulcers, etc., that require manual operation; surgery; craft of cirurgie; cirurgie and phisik; (b) a treatise……

16. cǒuntǒur n.(1)

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(a) An accountant; esp., an official who oversees the collecting and auditing of taxes for a shire, a kingdom, etc.; (b) one who calculates, an arithmetician; (c) a pleader in court, a lawyer; (d) as……

17. cǒverlī̆te n.

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A cloth for covering a bed; bedspread, coverlet. …

18. cristi-grei n.

Additional spellings: cristigrei
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A gray fur with tufts, or crests, of some kind. …

19. ēgre fū n.

Additional spellings: egre fu
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Med. Erysipelas, or similar eruption on the skin; also, a case of erysipelas. …

20. exīl n.(2)

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A banished person, an exile. …

21. exīlitē n.

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Meagerness (of support or revenue); impoverished condition. …

22. felterre n.

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A plant, prob. the common centaury (Centaurium umbellatum). …

23. 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……

24. formica-leon n.

Additional spellings: formicaleon
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An insect whose larvae destroy ants, the ant lion. …

25. frank-pleǧǧe n.

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

26. ingrā̆titū̆de n.

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(a) Ungratefulness; (b) as adj.:?unacceptable, ?excluded. …

27. lanentǒur n.

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A mourner. …

28. māter n.

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The womb. …

29. mid-wī̆f n.

Additional spellings: midwif
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(a) A midwife; (b) a saint who aids women in childbirth, Ste. Mary Magdalene; (c) ?midwifery. …

30. neighebor n.

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(a) One who dwells nearby, a neighbor; a fellow citizen; an inhabitant of a nearby town or country; (b) of a country, part of the body, a bee: a neighbor (to another country, another bodily part……

31. nipte n.

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(a) A granddaughter; (b) a niece, the daughter of one's brother. …

32. omnegadrium n.

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A collection of miscellaneous items in a manuscript. …

33. passe-nẹ̄pe n.

Additional spellings: passenepe
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The parsnip plant Pastinaca sativa or its root. …

34. phēnīcienes n. plural

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Phoenicians. …

35. pī̆mentārīe n.

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(a) A maker of aromatic unguents or perfumes; (b) ?the craft of making aromatic unguents; (c) ?as adj.: pimentarie poudre, aromatic powders and spices used in ointments and perfumes. …

36. posset n.

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(a) A hot drink made of curdled milk and ale or wine, often with sugar and various spices; (b) ?hot milk curds used as a poultice. …

37. preciōsitẹ̄ n.

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Preciousness, value, great worth; costliness, monetary value; richness; in preciosite, as of value. …

38. proneveu n.

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?A grand-nephew. …

39. prō̆nǒun(e n.

Additional spellings: pronoune
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Gram. A pronoun. …

40. quā̆drant n.(2)

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(a) A geometrical square; bi quadrant, in square form; (b) math. a number which can be pictured as a quadrangular geometric figure; (c) a quadrangular courtyard; a quadrangle. …

41. quā̆druple n.

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(a) A fourfold amount; (b) an incisor tooth, esp. a lateral incisor. …

42. quassāciǒun n.

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(a) Bruising, crushing; a bruise; (b) ?rejection, disqualification; ?suspension, dismissal. …

43. quā̆treble n.

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(a) A fourfold amount or number; (b) mus. the highest part in four-part contrapuntal singing. …

44. quā̆triple n.

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A fourfold amount. …

45. rebarich n.

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= rubarbe n. …

46. rebek(ke n.(2)

Additional spellings: rebekke
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A disparaging term for an old woman, a crone. …

47. requiēd n.

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Rest, place of rest. …

48. rīnocephales n. plural

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Fire-breathing monsters. …

49. rīte n.

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(a) A formal religious act or service, ritual, ceremony; a religious procedure or observance; -- usu. pl.; paganisme rites, pagan religion; don rite(s, observen rites, to perform (one's) religious……

50. rǒffe n.

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(a) A kind of saltwater fish, esp. a fish of the family Sparidae; (b) the fresh-water ruff Acerina cernua. …

51. Rōmā̆nīe n.

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Rome; the Roman Empire. …

52. rōse-mārī(e n.

Additional spellings: rosemari, rose-marie, rosemarie
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The evergreen herb rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), used in cookery and medicines; rose-mari lef. …

53. Rūth n.

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The Biblical Book of Ruth; bok of Ruth. …

54. sabatīn(e n.

Additional spellings: sabatine
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(a) Some kind of slipper or shoe; (b) arm. a piece of protective armor for the upper side of the foot, held in place by laces or straps. …

55. sai(e n.

Additional spellings: saie
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(a) An esteemed variety of woolen cloth, perh. rather heavy; ?also, a small piece of such cloth [quot.: ?c1475]; double sai, such cloth in two layers; worsted sai, a piece of worsted; (b) a curtain……

56. sā̆l-nī̆tre n.

Additional spellings: salnitre
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A naturally occurring salt, prob. sodium carbonate. …

57. sanctificāciǒun n.

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(a) Sanctification, the action through God's grace of making a believer or baptismal water holy or free from sin; also, the state of blessedness conferred upon the Virgin Mary; (b) hallowing……

58. sapient n.

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(a) Wisdom, knowledge; (b) a wise act. …

59. sāve n.(1)

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(a) A decoction of herbs, taken internally as a remedy for wounds, broken bones, etc.; also, an ointment made from this decoction, taken internally or used externally; -- appears to have been……

60. scā̆r(re n.(1)

Additional spellings: scarre
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(a) The scar of a wound or sore, cicatrix; (b) the scab produced by cautery; (c) a remnant of a morbid tumor or glandular condition, anything morbid that remains when such a condition has been……

61. scī̆asis n.

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The disease sciatica. …

62. scī̆se-skin n.

Additional spellings: sciseskin
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?A corrosive to roughen and scarify the skin. …

63. sē̆duciǒun n.

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(a) = sedicioun (a); (b) = sedicioun (b); ?also, treason, treachery [last quot.]; (c) enticement into error or wrongdoing. …

64. seint-pro-seint n.

Additional spellings: seintproseint
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A kind of wine; ?a wine from Saintes in western France. …

65. senāt(e n.

Additional spellings: senate
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(a) The ancient Roman senate; also, the members of the senate; (b) the ruling council of the Jews; (c) the governing body of a city. …

66. 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……

67. sepultūr(e n.

Additional spellings: sepulture
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Burying, burial; the act or rite of burial; also fig. …

68. sētīne n.

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A soap-like substance obtained from boiling spermaceti with potash. …

69. sext(e n.

Additional spellings: sexte
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(a) The canonical hour of sext; a time in midday; (b) the prayers or service said at that time. …

70. sikeritesse n.

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A compact, an agreement; maken sikeritesse, ?to arrange a marriage, enter into a marriage contract. …

71. singulāritẹ̄ n.

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(a) Solitude, solitary living; also in book title translated from Latin; (b) unusual or exceptional behavior; also, unusual or improper teaching [last quot.]; gon in singularite, to act in a different……

72. singulē̆res n.

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A term of association for wild boars [cp. singler n.(a)]. …

73. sinodā̆l n.

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(a) ?The dues paid to an archdeacon; (b) a decree made by a synod or council. …

74. sirō̆n n.

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A shoot, sprout. …

75. skabber n.

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An infection, perh. on the scalp. …

76. Smolein n.

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In comb.: Smolein werk, cured furs from Smolensk, on the Dnieper River in Russia. …

77. ?snee n.

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Something used or an activity performed in the process of cleaning a ship's bottom. …

78. sourbe-stōn n.

Additional spellings: sourbeston
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? = sebesten n. …

79. spar n.(2)

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A kind of battle-ax. …

80. sperware n.

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?A canopy. …

81. spīking(e n.

Additional spellings: spikinge
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A large iron nail; -- also coll.; ?also, the act of fastening with a spike [quot. 1431-2]; spiking nail; cok spiking, ?a nail resembling a cockspur; double (gret, gros, middel) spiking. …

82. sponsaile n.

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Marriage, wedlock; also, theol. the union between Christ and the church. …

83. stank n.

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(a) A pond, pool; a reservoir; a lake; also in fig. context [quot.: c1400]; stank hed, a dam or similar structure for controlling the water in a pond; stank medwe, a meadow in which there is a pond……

84. stiptik n.

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Med. (a) A medicine or medicinal ingredient which contracts bodily tissue, inhibits bleeding, etc.; (b) astringency, stypticity. …

85. subincarnāciǒun n.

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= subcarnacioun n. …

86. sufferaunce n.

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(a) The undergoing of hardship, affliction, punishment, etc.; suffering; (b) a state of affliction, hardship, or suffering; pl. trials, tribulations. …

87. sufficience n.

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(a) That which suffices, all that is necessary, enough; an adequate supply of something, sufficient resources; soverain sufficience, abundance; to (unto) sufficience, sufficiently; (b) contentment……

88. suffrāge n.

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(a) Help, assistance, aid; -- also pl.; in suffrage of, assisting (sth.); (b) suffrage of preiere(s, suffrages of preieres, the help given by prayer [some quots. could also be construed as sense 2.]. …

89. sugre-candī n.

Additional spellings: sugrecandi
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Crystallized sugar. …

90. Sunamīte n.

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An inhabitant of Shunem, a town in the land of Canaan; also as epithet for the Virgin Mary. …

91. superēgressiọ̄̆n n.

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The process of going too far, exceeding what is required. …

92. superflūe n.

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(a) That which exceeds what is normal; (b) an instance of immoderate behavior. …

93. surrecciọ̄̆n n.

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Insurrection, rebellion. …

94. suspendī̆s n. plural

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Instances of barring or excluding someone from something. …

95. suspūrātīve n.

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= suppuratif n. (a). …

96. tactþe n.

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The sense of touch. …

97. tīme n.(2)

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(a) Temporal duration; the duration of the world;—also pl.; worldes time; fulnesse (ful-filling, plente) of time, the full measure of time, appointed time; thinges of time, temporal things; under the……

98. torkwed n.

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?A twisted chain or rope used to control a horse. …

99. torment n.

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(a) The systematic infliction of physical pain or an instance of it; applied torture; also, punishment; (b) a cause of physical or mental suffering, an affliction, a hardship; also, a disaster, an……

100. totte n.(2)

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An entry in a financial record. …

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