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301. enterclōs n.

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(a) A partition; enterclos wal, a dividing wall or partition (in a house); (b) septum of a seed pod.

302. entercǒurs n.

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entercours of merchaundise, trade or traffic in goods, commercial dealings; also, an agreement between nations to permit reciprocal trade.

303. enterlūde, -lūdi n.

Additional spellings: enterludi
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A dramatic or mimetic entertainment of any kind, esp. a play.

304. entraille(s n.

Additional spellings: entrailles
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The organs enclosed in the trunk of man or animals, the viscera; also, the viscera excluding one or another of the inner organs;-- (a) coll. sg.; (b) pl.

305. entrēt n.

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A salve or plaster.

306. epiglōte n.

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The epiglottis.

307. epilencie, -ence n.

Additional spellings: epilence
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Epilepsy, or a particular variety of it; ?also convulsions of other kinds.

308. epilentī̆k adj. & n.

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(a) Affected with epilepsy, epileptic; (b) an epileptic.

309. ē̆quinox n.

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Either of the two periods, one in March, the other in September, when the days and nights are of equal length; the equinox.

310. ē̆rūbescence n.

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Blushing, shame.

311. excō̆riāciǒun n.

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The removal or cutting away of skin; loss of skin, either of the epidermis or of the membrane covering an internal organ; an excoriated area.

312. excrescence, -encie n.

Additional spellings: excrescencie
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Med. A morbid growth or excrescence.

313. exemplificāciǒun n.

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Illustration or demonstration by example; for exemplificacioun, for example.

314. existence n.

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(a) Reality, actuality (as opp. to appearance); in existence, in reality, really, actually; (b) real being, existence.

315. exitūre n.

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(a) A morbid swelling or 'aposteme' enclosing a considerable body of pus or purulent matter; a running abscess; an abscess or encysted tumor; (b) draining, discharge.

316. exorcisme n.(1)

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The action or practice of calling up or driving out spirits; also, incantation, invocation.

317. expēdience n.

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Advantage, benefit.

318. extasīe n.

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Elation, ecstasy.

319. extorciǒun n.

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(a) The act or practice of wresting money, goods, etc. (from someone) by force, intimidation, or the undue exercise of power or authority; illegal exaction; (b) don (usen) extorcioun(s, to practice…

320. fāce n.

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(a) The face of man in its general physical aspects; (b) the face of an animal; (c) the face (of Fortune); the (double) face (of Janus, Law).

321. fanǒun n.

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Eccl. The maniple, one of the Eucharistic vestments.

322. farmacīe n.

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A medicine that rids the body of an excess of any of the 'humors' except blood; also, treatment, or the theory of treatment, with such medicines; a purgative.

323. fēd(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: fede
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(a) Mortal enmity, hostility, hostile conspiracy; revengeful spirit, homicide committed in revenge; (b) a mortal enemy; one of the three enemies of mankind (i.e. the flesh, the world, the Devil).

324. feire n.

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(a) A periodic gathering (mostly once or twice a year at any one place) of sellers and buyers of goods, usually in connection with a Saint's Day or other church festival; holden feire; graunt of feire

325. fēmē̆l(e, -āl(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: femele, femal, female
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(a) Of man and animals: female; a female; (b) femel complexioun, the physiological 'constitution' of a female (in accordance with the 'humor' theory).

326. fenestrā̆l n.

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(a) A window; also, a transparent sheet serving as a window pane [quot.: c1500]; (b) fig. a window of the body, i.e. one of the senses.

327. fēnix n.

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(a) The Phoenix [see the Barth. quots.]; also a representation of it; (b) said of a woman of unique beauty; applied to the Virgin Mary; (c) said to be the name of a long-lived palm tree.

328. fēri(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: ferie
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(a) Weekday, i.e. any day in the Christian week except Sabbatum = Saturday; first feri, Sunday; second feri Monday; etc.; [this usage was intended to avoid the traditional pagan names of the days]…

329. ferme n.(2)

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(a) The arrangement by which one has the use of land (or has the privilege of collecting revenues) in return for fixed payment; a lease; a stewardship; (b) land or other property leased or farmed out…

330. fī̆kes n.

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(a) A fig-shaped swelling or growth; (b) in the anus: a pile or hemorrhoid; (c) on the penis or the uterus: a chancre or a chancroid; (d) on some other part of the body: a canker or hemorrhoid.

331. filāce n.

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A place where official documents and letters are kept, a file.

332. filatērie n.

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(a) A band or badge with inscriptions from the Scripture, worn by the Jews on the arm or forehead as a reminder of the Law; (b) an amulet worn as a charm against evil; (c) a vessel or other container…

333. filtre n.

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(a) Felt; a felt carpet; (b) a piece of felt cloth used to filter liquids.

334. fīōle n.

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(a) A small glass or metal bowl or cup for liquids, incense, etc.; (b) a flask; (c) fig.

335. flaun n.

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A sort of pie or cake [see quots. 1381, c1425].

336. flẹ̄me n.(2)

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Surg. A lancet used for letting blood.

337. fleobotomī̆e n.

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The operation of letting blood by opening a vein, bloodletting; don fleobotomie, to let blood; quantite of fleobotomie, the amount of blood taken from the patient.

338. flumbarding, -ling n.

Additional spellings: flumbardling
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A fiery or bold man.

339. forfē̆tūre n.

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A transgression, offence, or crime; a sin; first forfeture, the sin of Adam, original sin; fig. an error, a blunder [quot. Capgr.].

340. fortalice n.

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Fortified place, fortress, stronghold.

341. frairīe n.

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(a) A brotherhood, fraternity; (b) a friary; grei frairi, a convent of Grey Frairs (Franciscans).

342. 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…

343. frank-encens n.

Additional spellings: frankencens
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Frankincense, olibanum.

344. frē̆t n.(4)

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A payment made to secure peace, a fine for a breach of the peace; a payment for a favor [quot.Brut].

345. froise n.

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A kind of pancake containing chopped meat or fish.

346. frok n.

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An outer (woollen) garment worn by monks and friars; a cope or cowl.

347. frūiciǒun n.

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Enjoyment; esp., the spiritual joy experienced in mystical communion with God, heavenly joy or bliss.

348. frumentẹ̄ n.

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Frumenty, a 'potage' made of boiled hulled grain mixed with milk (or almond milk) and sweetened; frumente potage; potage de frumente.

349. fūnē̆l n.

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A rope.

350. ǧaiol(e n.

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(a) A jail, prison; also, a birdcage; also, fig.; (b) in surnames; (c) gaiol fe, a fee paid by the prisoner to the jail keeper; gaiol deliverie, clearing a prison by bringing the prisoners to trial…

351. galanga n.

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(a) Galingale; (b) galanga win, ?wine spiced with galingale.

352. galǒun n.

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(a) A liquid measure of capacity, a gallon; also, an equivalent dry measure; of a galoun, having a capacity of one gallon; (b) a gallon container; also, any jar or container for liquids; (c) galoun

353. gamut n.

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Mus. (a) The lowest tone in the hexachordal scale; (b) the entire hexachordal system.

354. garant n.(2)

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A black gem with magical powers.

355. gargoile n.

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A carved rain spout, a gargoyle.

356. garse n.

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A cut, gash, wound.

357. gāte n.(3)

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A deep bowl.

358. gaudī n.

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(a) A jest, trick; (b) ornamentation; (c) a large, ornamental bead in a rosary.

359. ǧermandre n.

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(a) A plant of the genus Teucrium; esp. the wall germander Teucrium chamaedrys; ?also, some plant of the genus Veronica, perhaps Germander speedwell Veronica chamaedrys; often confused with [and some…

360. gernet(e n.

Additional spellings: gernete
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(a) The fruit pomegranate; appel gernet, gernet appel; (b) the shrub or tree that bears pomegranates (Punica granatum); (c) a dish made with pomegranates.

361. ǧē̆st(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: geste
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(a) A poem or song about heroic deeds, a chivalric romance; (b) a poem or song of any kind; (c) a prose chronicle or history, a prose romance or tale; English geste(s, gestes of Engelond, history of…

362. gibbositẹ̄ n.

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Anat. & med. (a) A bulge, convexity; (b) a pathological swelling or bulge; (c) humpback; curvature of the spine.

363. ǧiezitrīe n.

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The sin of selling sacred things.

364. ǧinǧe-brēd n.

Additional spellings: gingebred
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(a) Ginger; esp. preserved ginger; ginge-bred confit; ginge-bred Alisaunder (cp. OF gingembraz d'Alixandre); (b) a kind of stiff pudding served in slices.

365. ǧinǧivere n.

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(a) The root of the plant Zingiber officinale or of a related species, ginger; poudre (of) gingivere, finely ground ginger; race (rote) of gingivere, a root of ginger; (b) grene gingivere, gingivere

366. ?glaria n.

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The juice or pulp of a grape.

367. glōse n.

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(a) A gloss or explanatory comment on a text or word; a series or collection of glosses; glose yever, a glossator; commune glose the Glossa Ordinaria on the Bible; (b) an interpretation of a fact or…

368. Gorgon n.

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(a) One of three mythical females, with snakes for hair, whose look turned the beholder into stone; a Gorgon; (b) ?a representation or a statue of a Gorgon; (c) a rain spout, gargoyle.

369. gō̆ter n.(1)

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(a) Any device for leading water down from a roof; an eaves trough; a channel where two slanting roofs (or parts of a roof) meet; a rain pipe; a gutter; (b) ?a ready-made gutter, ?material used in…

370. gǒuǧe n.

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A chisel with a concave blade, gouge; thixel gouge, an adz with a concave blade.

371. gǒune n.

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(a) An outer garment, a robe, gown; long goune, short goune, childes goune, womman goune; (b) a coat or cloak worn out-of-doors to cover one's clothing, armor, etc.; (c) an official or distinguishing…

372. gǒute n.(1)

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(a) An attack of gout; a painful swelling, esp. at a joint; an arthritic swelling, an attack of arthritis; an open sore resulting from gouty inflammation; (b) a chronic disease characterized by…

373. Grẹ̄cisme n.

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The Graecismus, an early 13th century treatise on grammar by Evrard de Béthune.

374. gridel n.

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(a) A grating, lattice; (b) a grill for roasting or broiling; also, an iron plate on which bread was baked; gridel sacrifice, an offering of something baked or roasted on a grill; (c) a gridiron used…

375. grī̆p(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: gripe
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(a) The fabulous beast griffin; (b) a representation of the griffin in heraldry, ornamentation; grip fot, a figure of the griffin's claw as decoration for the base of a vessel; (c) a vulture; (d)…

376. gule n.

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In phr. gule of August, Lammas Day, August 1.

377. hasp(e n.

Additional spellings: haspe
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(a) A fastening for a door, gate, chest, etc.; a hasp; up bi the hasp, unfastened, unlatched; barre and hasp, stapel and hasp; (b) a fastening for a garment or a helmet; ?a buckle, ?a lace; (c) a hank…

378. ?haster(e n.

Additional spellings: hastere
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A roaster of meat, turnspit.

379. hastivel n.

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Some variety of early-ripening grain [see Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex. 12-3].

380. hauberǧer n.

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A maker of coats of mail; -- only as surname.

381. hauberk n.

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(a) A coat of mail; also, plate armor or a coat of mail reinforced with plates; -- sometimes used interchangeably with habergeoun; (b) chain mail worn over a hair shirt as a form of penance; (c) fig.

382. haunche n.

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(a) The part of the human body between the lowest ribs and the thighs, the hips, haunch; haunche joint, the bones of the haunch; (b) one side of the haunch, a hip; pl. hips; also, buttocks; (c) the…

383. herbāǧe n.

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(a) Grass, turf; grass and other non-woody plants collectively; (b) coll. garden vegetables; esp. leafy vegetables; also, a vegetable or other garden plant; (c) a magical concoction made of herbs.

384. herbelāde n.

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(a) Cook. A dish consisting of broth, eggs, herbs, etc., baked in a pastry shell; (b) ?a medicinal herb.

385. hē̆rbe-robert n.

Additional spellings: herberobert
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(a) A medicinal herb; herb robert (Geranium robertianum); ?also, water avens (Geum rivale); (b) ?used for food.

386. heremī̆t(e n.

Additional spellings: heremite
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(a) A man who, from religious motives, lives in relative solitude; a male Christian recluse, a hermit; (b) holi heremit, a pious hermit; (c) a false hermit; one who has not renounced human society, or…

387. hērse n.

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(a) A structure for carrying clothes, candles, statues, etc., placed over the coffin or erected over the tomb of a dead man; herse cloth, a cloth for covering the structure; (b) a triangular…

388. heuk(e n.

Additional spellings: heuke
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(a) An outer garment, a cloak with a hood; (b) ?an ornamental covering for a shield; (c) ?caparison of a horse [?error for hak n. (2)].

389. hiēna n.

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A precious stone produced by the hyena.

390. hiēne n.

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The hyena.

391. hilaritẹ̄ n.

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High spirits.

392. hōge n.

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A hill or mound; -- also in surname.

393. horribilitẹ̄ n.

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(a) Horribleness, dreadfulness, repulsiveness; (b) something horrible or repulsive; sinne of horribilite, sodomy; (c) a shuddering reaction to the taste of sour things.

394. hospitāl n.

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(a) An establishment for the reception, protection, and care of pilgrims and travelers; hospice; ?also, a monastic guesthouse; (b) a charitable institution providing residence and care for the poor…

395. hō̆stāǧe n.(2)

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(a) A dwelling place, (one's) lodging or abode; a lodging house, inn, hospice; also, lodging, accommodation; haven hostage, to have (one's) lodging, lodge, reside; holden hostage, sojourn, remain (in…

396. hō̆stilē̆r n.

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The guest master or mistress in a religious house; also fig.

397. hǒus(e n.

Additional spellings: house
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(a) A covering for the back and flanks of a horse, horsecloth; also, a saddle cloth; (b) a protective covering, case, sheath; hous of the pintel, the foreskin; (c) a bed cover, coverlet.

398. hūmiditẹ̄ n.

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(a) Moistness, dampness; (b) anat. & med. the primary quality of moistness.

399. hurdis n.

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(a) A wooden framework, a hurdle; (b) a hurdle used for defense in battles and sieges; also, a palisade, bulwark, or other structure made of hurdles; (c) a wooden bulwark or other structure on a ship…

400. Hurlewain n.

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A mischievous sprite or goblin; hurlewaines meine (kin) [cp. ML familia Herlechini & OF maisniee Hellequin], pranksters, rascals.