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1. mandrag(e n.

Additional spellings: mandrage
21 quotations in 1 sense
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Either of two Old World mandrakes (Mandragora vernalis or M. officinarum); also, a part of these plants used in medicine; mandrag lef. …

2. pille n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A pill containing a medicament; pille cochie (rasis, a pill containing a purgative; pille fetid, ?a foul-smelling pill; (b) a pellet found in a pigeon's gizzard. …

3. pit n.

200 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is……

4. romenei(e n.

Additional spellings: romeneie
21 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A sweet red wine of Mediterranean origin, rumney; romenei (of) modoun, rumney from Modon in the Peloponnesus; (b) a rumney cask. …

5. scǒuren v.(2)

57 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To scour, polish; polish or scour (metal, a pot, etc.); furbish (armor); ?also, fig. of a day: be bright and clear [quot.: a1375]; scouren bright (clene, neue), make (sth.) bright (clean, new) by……

6. simle n.

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(a) A loaf or bun made of fine flour; (b) in surname. …

7. sirō̆n n.

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A shoot, sprout. …

8. spẹ̄lunk(e n.

Additional spellings: spelunke
16 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A cavern in a rock, cave; a den; spelunk of thefes, fig. a den of thieves; (b) a burial cave, tomb; double spelunk, a two-chambered tomb, place of double burial. …

9. sw- consonant clust.

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For all words beginning with sw- from here to the end of this volume [of the print MED], the practice of the MED is to record all variant forms except those beginning with su-; forms with su- are……

10. tapē̆t(e n.

Additional spellings: tapete
31 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A piece of decorative fabric bearing a painted, embroidered, or woven pattern or figures and used variously as a carpet, coverlet, bed or wall hanging, or the like, a tapestry; also fig.; also in……

11. tīle n.(2)

124 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A brick; a masonry tile;—also coll.; brenned tile; clei tile; (b) in related cpds., combs., & phrases: tile of flaundres, flaundres (flaundrish) tile, bricks or tile made in Flanders; tile ston……

12. voice n.

270 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) The voice of a human being, centaur, etc.; a voice; also, vocal sound; a vocal sound or a sound made in speaking; in (with) o voice, in unison; in voice, aloud; soun (of) voice (b) the voice of……

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