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1. cǒu-hē̆rde n.

Additional spellings: couherde
22 quotations in 1 sense
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One who tends cows, a cowherd. …

2. gāte n.(1)

239 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A gateway; a gate of a city, castle, house, etc.; also, a doorway; flod gate, a floodgate; (b) the movable barrier which closes off a gateway; one of the valves of a double gate; ?a portcullis……

3. hā̆ven v.

1676 quotations in 26 senses
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(a) To possess (sth.), own; nadda non, she had none; we havt, we have it; ppl. havand, wealthy; (b) to possess (land, an estate or inheritance, a city, town, manor, etc.); -- also used fig.; (c) to……

4. hēlden v.

138 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To pour (sth.), pour away, spill; heap, pile up; throw out (ashes); helden ful, fill (a dish) full (of blood); helden in with, pour (water) on (sth.); (b) fig. to shed (grace, joy, light, etc.)……

5. hẹ̄ning ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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An insult; haven in hening, to condemn (sb.), treat with contempt. …

6. hẹ̄rd(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: herde
114 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A herdsman; a keeper of cattle, hogs, horses, goats, or any kind of livestock; asse herd, aver herd, calf herd, colt herd, cou herd, gelde herd, gos herd, got herd, hog herd, hors herd, lomb herd,……

7. hẹ̄̆rsumen v.

13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To obey (sb.), serve; worship (God, a god, an idol); (b) to be subservient to (sin, one's belly). …

8. heu n.

134 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Color; also, brightness or freshness of color; of on heu, in solid color(s; clothen in heu, to take (a lady's) colors, become her servant; (b) paint, dye, pigment; fig. a rhetorical color; (c) fig……

9. hīred n.

73 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A household; the familia of a cathedral; an eccl. court [last quot.]; the heavenly retinue of the Virgin Mary, the Devil's retinue; fig. the senses and desires of man; hiredes alder (lord), the……

10. igladen v.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To make (sb.) happy, gladden, cheer; (b) to be happy, rejoice; (c) to relieve (a diseased organ), soothe, comfort. …

11. ihẹ̄rsumen v.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To obey (sb.); (b) to be obedient. …

12. imæhte n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Might, power. …

13. imerren v.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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To impair (sth.), mar; disfigure (sb.), sLay. …

14. iwẹ̄lden v.

18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To overcome (sb., a city); (b) to subdue (sth., a vice, a disease); (c) to temper (sth.), allay. …

15. lẹ̄che-craft n.

Additional spellings: lechecraft
45 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The art or science of medicine and/or surgery; -- also used in pl.; also, magic [quot.: a1225]; (b) the practice or profession of medicine and/or surgery. …

16. lēnen v.(1)

97 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To lean, support oneself; steady oneself while standing or walking; lean (on an ax, a spade, staff, one's elbow, etc.); -- also refl.; lenen on knes, kneel; -- often with bi, in, into, on, to, up……

17. lēp n.(1)

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act of jumping; a jump, leap; a spring of a fish from the water; at a (o) lep, in one jump; at lepes, ?quickly; lepen (taken, nimen, yeven) lep, to take a leap; maken lepes, leap about, play……

18. man n.

695 quotations in 21 senses
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(a) A person, a man or woman; (b) erest men, the first men, Adam and Eve; cristen man, ded man, fals man, god man, haveles man, hethen man, ivel man, povre man, riche man, rightwis man, unilered man,……

19. mer n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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A hindrance; mer in mouth, a speech impediment. …

20. messe n.(1)

267 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) The celebration or occasion of the Eucharistic service; also, an instance of the celebration of this service; messe of the dai, the regular mass celebrated on any given day as specified by the……

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