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1. bille n.

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(a) A formal document (embodying a will, a permit, etc.); fig. a list or inventory; (b) a papal bull. …

2. endōsen v.

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Law (a) To confirm or approve (a charter, bill, agreement, etc.), [orig. by writing on the back of the document];--also fig.; (b) to approve a reply to (a petition), to grant (a petition) under seal……

3. fermisǒun n.

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The closed season in which it is not lawful to hunt male deer; bi fermisounes, in fermisoun time, during the closed season on male deer; flourished of fermisoun, fattened in the closed season. …

4. frank(e)lein, -in, -en n.

Additional spellings: frankelein, franklin, franklen
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(a) A landowner and member of the gentry ranking immediately below the nobility; a freeman, a gentleman; franklein of toun, a free citizen, an owner of property in a town, a burgess; (b) as a personal……

5. panāde n.

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A long knife or dagger. …

6. quishin n.

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(a) A cushion, bolster, or pillow; a cushion for the arm or for sitting or kneeling on; also, a hassock or footstool; (b) quishin(es cloth, a case or cover for a cushion. …

7. relẹ̄f(e n.

Additional spellings: relefe
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(a) That which is left over or left behind, remains, remnants, residue; -- often pl.; also, a legacy, charitable bequest; also, dregs; relef of brucus, what the bruchus leaves; (b) rabble, ruins; (c)……

8. rescǒuen v.

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(a) To rescue or deliver (sb.) from captivity, fire, death, hell, abduction, etc.; keep (sb. from hell, death); also, raise (sb.) from the dead; (b) to aid (sb. in battle or under siege), relieve……

9. rewarden v.

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(a) To give a reward; reward (sb.); (b) hunt. to reward (a hound or hawk), esp. with a part of the game; (c) to reward (affection, good deeds, etc.); -- also without obj.; (d) to pay (sb.) for goods……

10. riban n.

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(a) Ribbon, edging material, riban frenge; (b) a ribbon; an ornamental band or border, trimming; an ornament, a necklace; ?a bracelet, an anklet; (c) = filaterie n.(d). …

11. rǒuncī n.

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(a) A charger, steed; (b) a riding horse; (c) a pack horse, workhorse; (d) a kind of small horse; (e) in phrase: queue de rounci, nag's tail, a comic title for a dish; (f) as surname. …

12. russet n.

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(a) The color russet, grey or dull red, brown, etc., suitable for working clothes; (b) a serviceable woolen cloth, usu. of plain or subdued color & usu. worn by the poor or by workingmen (also by the……

13. salā̆rī(e n.

Additional spellings: salarie
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(a) Compensation, payment, esp. a salary or compensation periodically paid for regular service [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (b)]; also fig.; (b) a payment for a specific service or limited……

14. sarpler(e n.

Additional spellings: sarplere
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A large canvas sack, used esp. for packing wool or fleeces; also, a bale of wool, containing two sacks; also, the weight of a bale of wool. …

15. scarlē̆t n.

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The color scarlet; also, scarlet dye; red scarlet. …

16. sē̆questerer n.

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An official who holds disputed property in trust during arbitration or litigation. …

17. serǧeauntīe n.

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(a) Tenure of land as recompense for services or goods rendered to the king; the land held or governed under such an arrangement; graunt sergeauntie, land tenure on condition of personal service……

18. sǒmer n.(2)

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(a) A packhorse; -- also coll.; somer bai (hors); somer driven, forced to ride a packhorse; somer folwer, one who follows packhorses in a train; somer ledere, a driver of packhorses; somer sadel, a……

19. somnen v.

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(a) To urge (sb. to do sth.), invite, call upon; order (sb. to do sth.); -- also with that clause; ben somned, be called upon (to do sth.), be obliged; ben somned to, be invited to (a feast); (b) ?to……

20. sō̆r(e adj.(1)

Additional spellings: sore
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(a) Of a horse: reddish-brown; as noun: a sorrel horse; sor bausand, a piebald sorrel horse; sor grisel, a grayish sorrel horse; red sor, reddish-brown; also, a reddish-brown horse; (b) of a hawk in……

21. spīcer n.

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(a) A dealer in spices, an apothecary; spicer(es shoppe, an apothecary's shop; spicer wif, a female apothecary; (b) in surnames. …

22. spīcerī(e n.

Additional spellings: spicerie
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(a) An aromatic substance; a spice; also fig. [quot. c1400]; coll. spices; also, spice plants; spiceri menginge, blending of aromatic spices; grounden (poudre of) spiceri, ground spices; (b) a spice……

23. spinace n.

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A small ship capable of carrying 25 men, a pinnace. …

24. spinache n.

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(a) The herb Spinacea oleraceo, spinach; also, ?a plant of the genus Cichorium [quots. ?a1450 & a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes]; pl. spinach leaves; (b) as surname. …

25. springald n.

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(a) A siege machine used for hurling stones and other heavy projectiles, a catapult; also, the missile thrown by such a catapult; also fig.; (b) as surname. …

26. squār(e adj.

Additional spellings: square
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(a) Having a square surface or covering a square area; in the shape of a square; of a formation of troops: square in outline; of a cloister: four-sided, rectangular; also, of walls: enclosing a square……

27. squirel n.

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(a) A squirrel, esp. the common Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris); -- also coll.; (b) the fur of the squirrel; (c) squirel tail, the tail of a squirrel; -- also coll.; squireles tail(es, the……

28. stal(le n.

Additional spellings: stalle
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(a) An enclosed or partially enclosed place for keeping a domesticated animal, a stall; a stable; also in fig. context [quot.: ?a1425]; also in proverbs and prov. expressions; asse (oxe) stal; (b) a……

29. standard n.

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(a) A flag or banner displayed from a pole in battle; also, a pole used to display a military ensign; a figure displayed as a military ensign; standard berere, a standard bearer; standard of treues, a……

30. stāple n.

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(a) An official market established by royal authority for selling export goods; also, the town containing such a market; (b) staple sele, sele of the staple, the official seal of such a market; staple……

31. strū̆ciǒun n.

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The ostrich Struthio camelus; -- sometimes confused with the stork [cp. stork n.]. …

32. stuble n.

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(a) A stalk of grain; the yet stondinge in the stuble, unharvested grain, grain still standing; (b) coll. the ends of grain stalks left in the ground after reaping, stubble; harvested stubble or flax……

33. sturǧeǒun n.

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(a) The sturgeon (Acipenser sturio); -- also coll.; ?also, another fish or aquatic animal [quot. ?c1475]; (b) cook. a sturgeon used as food; maken a sturgeoun, to prepare a sturgeon for the table; (c)……

34. sugre n.

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(a) The sweet crystalline substance sugar; -- freq. in combs. & phrases identifying place of origin: sugre babiloine (cipres, marrok, marrokes), sugre de cipres (marrok), sugre of alisaundre (cipres)……

35. taillen v.

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(a) To cut (sth.), trim; ppl. tailled, cut up, sliced; (b) to cut down (an enemy) in battle, cut to pieces, slaughter; also, slash and kill [last quot.]; (c) to set (persons) in order for battle; put……

36. tanner(e n.

Additional spellings: tannere
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(a) One who tans hides to make leather, a tanner; tanneres craft, the trade of tanning; tanneres wos, tanning liquor; (b) in surnames; (c) in place names. …

37. timber n.(2)

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A specific quantity of furs, usu. a bundle of forty skins. …

38. tonnel n.

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(a) A barrel for liquids or solids, cask, tun; tonnel hop; tonnel tre, ?a barrel stave; (b) a net for catching partridges or other birds; (c) ?a chimney shaft; (d) a strainer or colander. …

39. torel n.

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A malt-kiln. …

40. tortū̆s(e n.

Additional spellings: tortuse
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(a) A reptile of the order Chelonia, a tortoise, turtle; tortus of the se; mires tortus, a marsh tortoise; (b) a covered siege engine equipped with a battering ram [cp. snail n. (c)]; (c) as surname. …

41. tǒurel n.

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(a) A turret; also in fig. context; (b) as surname. …

42. tǒurnement n.

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(a) An exercise in the medieval martial arts, engaged in by knights, usu. mounted, and used to demonstrate prowess or hone skills; (b) a test or demonstration of physical skill;—used of the Olympic……

43. trameis n.

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The spring sowing or plowing; also, spring-sown grain. …

44. trā̆ve n.

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(a) A beam; trave nail; trave tre; (b) an enclosure or a frame for restraining horses while they are being shod; (c) in surnames. …

45. trentā̆l n.

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(a) A set or course of thirty masses for the dead, sung on the same day or spread over several days, a trental; also, a poem describing a particular trental [quot. a1500 Trental]; also, a payment for……

46. trē̆peǧet n.

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(a) A siege weapon designed to cast stones, darts, etc., with a counterweighted or man-powered throwing arm; ?also, a version of such a weapon adapted for use on a ship; trepeget line (rop); (b) a……

47. tresaunce n.

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A passageway, corridor; a covered walkway, cloister; ?also, an archway [quot. ?c1450]. …

48. trestel n.

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(a) A support, usu. two-legged and employed in pairs, for boards or planks serving as a tabletop, a base, trestle;—also coll.; paire (of) trestel(es; (b) a bracing or supporting structure consisting……

49. trusse n.

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(a) A wrapped bundle containing clothing, laundry, etc., a parcel, traveler's pack; also, ?a bolt of cloth, cloth wound and fastened together in a roll [quots. c1436]; in trusse, ?on the bolt; (b) a……

50. tumbrel n.(1)

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(a) An instrument of punishment, perh. a pillory or cucking stool; ?also, the right to erect and employ such an instrument [quot. 1394]; (b) a wheeled cart designed to tip backward to empty its load……

51. tū̆tīe n.

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(a) The crude zinc oxide obtained by the smelting of copper ore with zinc and freq. used in medicinal compounds, tutty, pompholyx; tutie ablute (washed, washen), washen tutie, tutty purified through……

52. vaut(e n.

Additional spellings: vaute
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(a) A structural or decorative arch; an arched interior roof-structure or ceiling; vaut ston, a vault stone; chirche vaut; (b) ?a lid or cover for a container. …

53. vavasǒur n.

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(a) A feudal tenant holding land of some other vassal, a subvassal; a feudal vassal, a liegeman; also, a member of the landholding nobility, presumably ranking below a baron;—often used in contrast……

54. velvet n.

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(a) A soft, piled cloth, velvet; a piece of such cloth (b) in phrases: velvet upon velvet, a patterned velvet cloth of some kind; velvet upon satin, ?a patterned velvet and satin cloth; also, in……

55. ventọ̄sen v.

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Surg. (a) To treat a patient by drawing blood or other matter with a cupping glass (b) to apply a cupping glass to (a wound, boil, etc.); also, treat (a patient) by bloodletting with a cupping glass;……

56. verdit n.

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(a) Law A decision rendered by a jury in an inquest or a court case, verdict; verdit yeldinge; yeven verdit; seien (supposen) for verdit, to find (that sth. is or was the case), make a ruling (b) a……

57. vermilǒun n.

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(a) Naturally occurring or synthetic mercuric sulfide, cinnabar; ?also, red lead or another similar red compound (b) cinnabar as a commodity, prob. in its raw state but in some cases perh. prepared……

58. vernāǧe n.

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An expensive variety of strong, sweet wine, prob. from Italy; wine vernage. …

59. vernish n.

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One or more kinds of resin or gum, or such held in solution and intended for use as a decorative or protective coating on wood or other material, varnish; ?also, varnish used as a vehicle or mordant……

60. vessel n.

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(a) A small, portable container, esp. one for storage or serving of food or drink; a flask, pitcher, jug, cup, dish, pot, etc.; a piece of household tableware, a kitchen utensil, etc.; also, an……

61. vileinī(e n.

Additional spellings: vileinie
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Fig. The condition or state of being a thrall to sin. …

62. vintner n.

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(a) A wine merchant; a vintner; (b) as surname. …

63. virel n.

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(a) A ring, band, or cap, usu. of metal, put around the end of a piece of wood, the handle of an implement, etc., a ferrule (b) a metal pivot on the projecting end of an axle on a crane, windlass,……

64. wareine n.

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(a) A tract of land set aside for small game, usu. privileged by royal grant and used for breeding; kinges wareine, a royal hunting preserve; (b) the right to keep or hunt the animals in a warren. …

65. warnestōr(e n.

Additional spellings: warnestore
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(a) Provisions of foodstuffs, provender; ?also, the action of provisioning [1st quot.]; pl. stores, supplies; in warnestor, in storage, in stock, on hand [last quot.] (b) military supplies, including……

66. weif n.

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Law (a) Property, including livestock, app. ownerless and hence subject to seizure and forfeiture, abandoned goods; weif and strai (b) a piece of such property, a stray domestic animal; weifs and……

67. wer(re n.

Additional spellings: werre
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(a) Large-scale military conflict between countries, peoples, rulers, etc. or between factions or forces within a single country, war, warfare;—also pl.; wer faringe, q.v.; open (pleine) wer, open……

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