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1. āme n.(2)

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A liquid measure (of varying capacity). …

2. blenken v.

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(a)To shine, gleam, be bright; (b) to cause (one's countenance) to grow livid; to turn pale; blenken of one's ble, of a person: to turn pale; of the sun: to grow dim. …

3. blī-gẹ̄ter n.

Additional spellings: bligeter
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A lead founder. …

4. bǒuken v.

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To soak (sth.) in a lye solution for the purpose of cleaning and bleaching, buck (clothing, thread, etc.); fig. cleanse. …

5. bught n.

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(a) A bend or curve; loop (of thread or yarn); fold (of cloth); loop (in a dragon's tail); (b) a hollow or curve in the body; bught of the arm, the angle of the elbow; bught of the kne (leg), the……

6. but(te n.(5)

Additional spellings: butte
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(a) A fish of the family Pleuronectidae, a flounder; (b) but tourte, a torte or pie containing this fish; -- used as personal name. …

7. clam adj.

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Viscous, sticky; muddy, miry; also fig. …

8. clap-holt n.

Additional spellings: clapholt
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Small boards of split oak, board cut to make barrel staves. …

9. corf n.

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(a) A basket; (b) ?a booth. …

10. cracchen v.

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(a) To scratch (sth.); esp., scrape with claws or fingernails; -- also without object; (b) to scratch oneself to relieve itching; scrape (sth.) lightly with claws or nails; (c) to comb (cloth) to make……

11. craulen v.

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(a) To swarm, crawl; ben crauling, be crawling (with worms); (b) fig. to drag oneself, walk slowly. …

12. cropling n.

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An inferior kind of stockfish. …

13. cunte n.

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(a) A woman's private parts; cunte-beten, impotent (man); (b) the corresponding organ(s) of a female animal; (c) sexual intercourse; (d) in place names and surnames; grope cunte lane [see gropen v.]……

14. dēle n.

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(a) A sawed board; firren dele, a deal made of fir; (b) dele maker, one who makes boards. …

15. doder n.

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(a) Flax dodder (Cuscuta epilinum), a greenish-yellow parasitic plant growing on flax; (b) ?hemlock (Conium maculatum). …

16. dọ̄l n.(3)

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A landmark; a boundary mark, such as a stone, post, or rail. …

17. drivel n.(1)

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A drudge or menial; also, a low fellow, rascal. …

18. dwẹ̄re n.

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(a) Doubt, perplexity, uncertainty; in (a) dwere, in doubt; without dwere, without question, certainly; (b) ?disagreement, dissension; ?distress, trouble; (c) amazement, awe; dread, fear. …

19. fokesail n.

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A sail attached to the foremast, a (triangular) foresail. …

20. fōr(e-dēl n.

Additional spellings: fore-del
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Advantage, advancement, benefit; ben at for-del, to have the upper hand. …

21. fuk n.

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A foresail; fuk mast, foremast. …

22. gār-fangel n.

Additional spellings: garfangel
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A fish spear. …

23. gelstren v.

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To stink. …

24. gessen v.

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(a) To infer (sth.) from observation, etc.; perceive, find out; gessen in, gessen of, perceive (sth.) in (sb.), suspect; (b) with clause as obj.: to conclude (that sth. is true or will happen)……

25. gilder n.(3)

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Any of a number of coins [orig. gold] of varying weight and value, current esp. in Germany, Holland, Flanders. …

26. glimeren v.

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(a) To shine brightly; gleam, glitter; (b) to shine faintly; glimmer. …

27. glimsen v.

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(a) To glisten, be dazzling; (b) to glance with the eyes. …

28. glisteren v.

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To glisten, glitter, sparkle, flash; shine brightly; glisteren ayen the sonne, to reflect the light of the sun. …

29. gō̆le n.(1)

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(a) Gullet of an animal; (b) a throatful, speech, talk. …

30. grāpe n.(2)

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(a) A kind of pitchfork, dungfork; (b) ?a trowel. …

31. grūen v.

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(a) To be terrified, shudder, tremble; (b) of mirth, manner, behavior: to be disturbed, be troubled; (c) ?to frighten (sb.) [?error for greven]. …

32. grummen v.

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To grumble. …

33. grundel n.

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(a) ?A fish, a groundling; ?a bird [cp. L fringilla, ML frigellus]; (b) as surname. …

34. hake-bōt n.

Additional spellings: hakebot
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A kind of small ship [perh. orig. a boat with a broad stern or counter; cp. Arngart in EStudies 25.164]. …

35. harwe n.

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(a) A harrow for cultivating land, a drag; gon at harwe, to drive a harrow; (b) fig. the Old or New Testament; the power of Love (with pun on arwe); also, in proverb; (c) harwe tind (toth), a tooth of……

36. hauker n.(2)

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A peddler, huckster. …

37. hē̆ngel n.

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(a) The part of a hinge containing a ring or eye to fit over the hook or pin on a gatepost, doorjamb, or window casing; also, the complete hinge; hengles and hokes; hengel hok, the pin or hook of the……

38. hēpe n.(1)

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A kind of pruning knife; what with hepe and what with crok, by hook or by crook. …

39. ?hirse n.

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Millet. …

40. hukker n.

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(a) A petty merchant, peddler, male huckster; ?also, an auctioneer; (b) in surnames. …

41. kip n.

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(a) A bundle or lot of animal hides; (b) ?the hide of a small animal; ?a particular kind of hide; (c) a bundle of sticks. …

42. knar-hō̆lt n.

Additional spellings: knarholt
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A thin oak board [orig. prob. a board full of knots]. …

43. knarre n.

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(a) A crag, twisted rock; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.102]. …

44. knod n.

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An excrescence or lump in the flesh. …

45. lak n.

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(a) Lack, absence, want; shortage, deficiency; default of payment; lak of sacramentes, failure to receive the sacraments; no lak (of, no shortage (of, no deficiency (of; pens lak, q.v.; (b) for lak of……

46. lāk(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: lake
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Fine linen, ?cambric; whit as lak, as white as linen. …

47. lask n.

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A flat piece of wood fastened across a joint to strengthen it, a fish-joint. …

48. lēne n.

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Naut. The railing or bulwark of a ship's castle. …

49. lis-punt n.

Additional spellings: lispunt
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A unit of weight, twenty of which made a ship pound, used in the Baltic trade; ?between 15 and 20 pounds. …

50. lob n.

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(a) The pollack (Gadus pollachius); lob fish; (b) a lazy lout, lubber; ?also, a bundle of clothing [quot.: c1475]; (c) as surname. …

51. lǒuen n.

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A rascal, rogue. …

52. mare-grāve n.

Additional spellings: maregrave
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A count in Flanders or Friesland. …

53. māsel n.

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(a) The disease, measles; -- also pl.; (b) a pustule or skin eruption characteristic of or as in measles. …

54. meis(e n.

Additional spellings: meise
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(a) A container (barrel, basket, or crate) holding 500 or 1000 herring, used as a measure in the fish trade; (b) the quantity of herring in such a container; (c) a container used as a measure for……

55. mīte n.(2)

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(a) A coin [orig. Flemish] of very small denomination, variously valued at a farthing or half a farthing; a small sum; (b) a jot, a whit; half a mite; not a mite, not a bit, not at all; dere inough……

56. molle n.(1)

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(a) The common European mole (Talpa europæa); as an ingredient in medicine; also as an image of covetousness or folly; moseling molle [see moselen (d)]; (b) molle hep, molle hille, mole hill; molle……

57. mọ̄me n.

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(a) An aunt; also, affectionate term of address for older woman; (b) an old woman. …

58. mud(de n.

Additional spellings: mudde
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(a) Mud, mire; also, murky water; (b) mud wal, a wall of clay; (c) in surname & in place name [see Smith PNElem. 2.44]. …

59. mūle n.(2)

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A sore spot on the heel, a chilblain; ?also, gout. …

60. nirk-punt n.

Additional spellings: nirkpunt
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A unit of weight, less than a lis-punt. …

61. nurth n.

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Noise, din, racket. …

62. osmund n.

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A kind of iron, made chiefly in Sweden; also a standard-size piece of such iron; fals osmund, a counterfeit piece of such iron; trencher osmund, a knife made of such iron. …

63. pak(e n.

Additional spellings: pake
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(a) A bundle or package; a bundle of cloth, moss, skins, merchandise, etc.; also, pl. baggage [quot.: (a1393)]; also fig.; pak mailed, a tied bundle; priken in a pak, to pin (sth.) up in a bundle; (b)……

64. pampen v.

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To pamper (the flesh) by feeding; fatten. …

65. pamperen v.

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To indulge (flesh, belly, oneself), esp. with food. …

66. picchen v.

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(a) To thrust (sth.), drive (a stake, etc.); picchen in (o, to, into), stick, thrust, or drive (sth.) into (sth.); surround (a wood) with a palisade [quot.: a1450, 1st]; (b) to pierce (sb. or sth.)……

67. pōken v.(1)

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(a) To poke (sb.), nudge; also, knock (sb.), strike; poken on; (b) to push or thrust (sth.) out, remove; (c) to stimulate (sb.), irritate; incite (sb. to do sth.); poken forth (out), bring out……

68. prām n.

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An open, flat-bottomed Prussian boat used for transport. …

69. prī̆d(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: pride
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A lamprey, esp. the sand pride (Petromyzon planeri); prid net, a net for catching lampreys. …

70. prōnge n.

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(a) Agony, pain; an affliction; pronges of deth, death throes; wommanes pronge, the pain of childbirth; (b) a pointed instrument. …

71. pumpe n.

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A mechanical device to raise and expel bilge water from a ship, a pump; pumpe yerde, ?a handle for a pump. …

72. quappen v.

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(a) To struggle or wriggle in death agony; of someone's vital force: suffer convulsion or agitation; (b) of one's heart or arteries: to pound, throb, or palpitate because of joy, fear, distress, etc……

73. quēd(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: quede
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(a) Evil, wickedness; (b) an evil thing or event; a wicked act or sin; harm or trouble; sickness or injury; (c) boden qued, to foretell evil; don (to) qued, do evil, do wrong; don (spien, waiten,……

74. quellen v.(2)

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To well up, gush forth, flow. …

75. racle-fish n.

Additional spellings: raclefish
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Some kind of stockfish, prob. dried halibut. …

76. rāsen v.(2)

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To rage; also, ?to enrage (sb.); rased of wit, ?beside oneself with rage. …

77. reie n.

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A round dance. …

78. reis n.

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A journey; also, a military expedition. …

79. reisen v.(2)

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To make a military expedition; also, journey, travel. …

80. rē̆st(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: reste
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(a) Rest due to sleep; repose; slumber; -- also pl.; at (in, on) rest, at rest, asleep; oute of rest, out of sleep; (b) the repose of the grave, death; rest of the ded, repose of death; at rest, dead……

81. rīde adj.(1)

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Of warriors: fierce; of blows: violent; of speech: rough. …

82. rig-holt n.

Additional spellings: righolt
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(a) A kind of wood, perh. oak, used in shipbuilding, construction, and cabinetry, prob. imported from the Baltic; pl. & coll.: boards of such wood; (b) in cpds.: rig-holt bolt, an arrow shaft made……

83. rī̆nd(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: rinde
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An iron fitting in the center of the upper and moving millstone into which the rindespindel is inserted; rind spindel, the spindle through the center of the lower millstone which fits into the rinde. …

84. ripelinge ger.

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The act or process of cleaning the seeds from flax; ripelinge comb (stok), = ripel-stok n. …

85. ripel-stok n.

Additional spellings: ripelstok
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An implement for cleaning seeds from flax. …

86. rō n.(3)

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Naut. In cpds.: ro bende, a rope attaching the head of a sail to the yard [cp. ro-bond n.]; ro line (rop), ?a brace for swinging the yards horizontally; ?a footrope; ?a gasket of some kind. …

87. romenei(e n.

Additional spellings: romeneie
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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. …

88. rotelen v.

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(a) To make a rattling sound in breathing; make a death rattle; (b) of a banner: to flap; (c) rotelen togeder, of weapons: to rattle against each other in battle. …

89. rōver(e n.

Additional spellings: rovere
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(a) A pirate; rover of the se; (b) in surnames. …

90. rumbelen v.

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(a) To make a rumbling sound; (b) to make a low noise; murmur, mumble, mutter; (c) of a crowd: to make noise or tumult; (d) to move with a rumbling sound; (e) to cause a rumbling sound by movement. …

91. runken v.

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To speak secretively, whisper; runken or rounen. …

92. scateren v.

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(a) To scatter; disperse (sth.), throw or spread about, strew; scateren on, cast (dirt) on (one's head); (b) ben scatered, to be spread about so as to be common or prevalent; (c) to scatter (clouds)……

93. schulle n.

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A kind of European flatfish, a plaice. …

94. scǒme n.

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(a) Froth, foam; pl. frothy bubbles; (b) the impure foam that rises to the surface when a liquid boils or is heated; (c) the impure scum that rises to the surface in purifying silver. …

95. scǒmen v.

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(a) To skim impurities or fat from (a liquid); -- also without obj.; clarify (butter, honey); skim the surface of (the white of an egg); (b) ppl. scomed, skimmed; of butter, honey: clarified; (c)……

96. scọ̄pe n.(2)

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(a) An implement for drawing or taking up liquids, prob. usu. provided with a handle; a scoop; also fig.; (b) a scoop for use on a boat, usu. for bailing water; (c) a scoop used in the brewing……

97. scọ̄pen v.(2)

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To draw out with a scoop; draw out (water), scoop out, bail out; scopen oute. …

98. scot n.(4)

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A Prussian coin or money of account, equal to one twenty-fourth of a mark. …

99. ?scot-holt n.

Additional spellings: scotholt
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?A floorboard. …

100. scot-nail n.

Additional spellings: scotnail
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A kind of nail; -- also coll. …

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