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1. aberdē̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: aberdene
6 quotations in 1 sense
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Sun-dried or salt codfish. …

2. agrōt(e)ien v.

Additional spellings: agroteien
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To glut or surfeit. …

3. begger(e n.

Additional spellings: beggere
41 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A beggar, mendicant; (b) beggeres route, the assembled beggars; beggeres rowe, place assigned to beggars; bold begger, impudent beggar; (c) a suppliant. …

4. blok(ke n.

Additional spellings: blokke
21 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A large piece of wood, a block; also fig. or (as a type of something inert) in quasi-proverbial comparisons; blok bord, rough, unpolished board; also, specifically: (b) the executioner's block……

5. boi(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: boie
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(a) A buoy; (b) boi rop, the rope for fastening a buoy to its anchor. …

6. budde n.

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(a) A bud (of a flower or spray); also, a fresh shoot or spray, the first stage in the development of fruit (as of grapes); (b) a seed pod. …

7. burgh-ma(i)ster n.

Additional spellings: burghmaister, burgh-master, burghmaster
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A member of the governing body of a Dutch or North German town, a burgess. …

8. bush n.(1)

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(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth. …

9. crankelon n.

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A crossbow. …

10. flashe n.

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(a) A watery or marshy place, a swamp; a pool or puddle; (b) in place names and surnames. …

11. fraught n.

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(a) The transporting of goods or passengers (usually by water); a charge for transportation; passage money; (b) facilities for transportation. …

12. frē̆sh adj.

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(a) Of recent making or occurrence, new, recent; fresh age, childhood or youth; fresh deluge, a new (or second) deluge; fresh and newe; (b) fresh god, a new or strange god, any god other than the……

13. frē̆ten v.(4)

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(a) To load (a ship); fill (a chest); (b) fret ful of (with), loaded or fraught with (something, esp. something bad), full of. …

14. gloi n.

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Straw, thatching. …

15. gō̆le n.(1)

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

16. gōt(e, gǒute n.

Additional spellings: gote, goute
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(a) A stream of water; watercourse, brook; a current or swell of the ocean; also, a stream of blood; (b) a channel, ditch, drain; a sluice; (c) got nail, some kind of nail; (d) in place names [see……

17. graffe n.

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(a) A graft, a cutting for grafting; also fig.; (b) a twig, branch, shoot; also fig. …

18. happen v.(2)

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(a) To cover (sth.) over; enclose, imprison, or conceal with a covering; (b) to attach (sth.) by wrapping, make fast; also fig.; (c) to embrace; happen in hert, love (sb.). …

19. hē̆ring n.

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(a) A herring Clupea harengus; (b) red hering, smoked herring; whit hering, herring salted but not smoked; (c) hering barel, a cask for herring; hering breder (carter), one who roasts (hauls) herring……

20. 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)]. …

21. houe n.(2)

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A mattock, pickax; also fig. …

22. isigrī̆nus n.

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A name for the wolf in beast fables. …

23. kā̆kun n.

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One of the ends of a horse-shoe, turned down to prevent slipping; a calk. …

24. lekere n.

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(a) A lascivious man, a lecher; (b) as name of the hare:?lecher; ?glutton. …

25. mandrag(e n.

Additional spellings: mandrage
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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. …

26. maskel n.

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(a) Spot, mark; blemish; (b) pl. the strands or cords of a net; also, the openings between the strands or cords of a net; (c) gise of maskel, ?lozenge shaped. …

27. 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……

28. mūle n.(2)

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

29. 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.)……

30. pī̆k(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: pike
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(a) A spike; a pointed tip or spike on a staff, pole, weapon, instrument of torture, etc.; a spike affixed to a door or wall; also, a spike used to tear or wound someone; also fig.; → of iren, an iron……

31. pille n.

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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. …

32. pit n.

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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……

33. 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. …

34. raspen v.

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To scratch, score; scratch (sth.), scrape, scrape away; raspen togeder, scrape (sth.) together, collect; raspen and raken, scratch and scrape away (food supplies), diminish, deplete. …

35. rastelinge n.

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Railing or grating for a barge. …

36. rat n.

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(a) A rat; rat trappe; rattes bait; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.79]. …

37. reis n.

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A journey; also, a military expedition. …

38. rēm n.(2)

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A standard commercial measure for a large quantity of paper, ?= twenty quires. …

39. 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. …

40. rǒupen v.

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To cry out, howl; roupen and roren. …

41. rūen v.

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In phrase: ruen up, of hair: to stand on end. …

42. ruǧlinge adv.

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Backward. …

43. runken v.

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To speak secretively, whisper; runken or rounen. …

44. 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. …

45. 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)……

46. 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……

47. scǒuren v.(2)

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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……

48. shel(le n.

Additional spellings: shelle
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(a) In general, the protective calcareous or chitinous outer covering of an invertebrate, a shell; (b) the shell of a mollusk, crustacean, or an echinoderm; also fig.; also in proverb; (c) shel fish [……

49. shǒut(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: shoute
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(a) A flat-bottomed boat, barge; (b) shout man, the master of a shoute; also, a sailor on a shoute; also as surname. …

50. sigrī̆m n.

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A name for the wolf in beast fables. …

51. simle n.

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

52. sirō̆n n.

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A shoot, sprout. …

53. skipper(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: skippere
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(a) The captain or master of a ship; (b) as surname [some quots. may belong to skipper(e n.(2)(c)]. …

54. slinger(e n.

Additional spellings: slingere
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(a) A soldier armed with a sling; honde slinger; staf slinger [see staf n.1f.(a)]; (b) as surname. …

55. socāde n.

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A kind of sweetmeat, perh. candied fruit or sugar plums. …

56. soud(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: soude
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(a) A wage, stipend; also, pay, wages; (b) for soud, for pay; men of soud, mercenaries; quartere soud, wages or a stipend paid four times a year; with his ouen soudes, liable for his own wages, at his……

57. sparre n.

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(a) A piece of timber used in building; a rafter, beam; a board; -- also coll.; firre sparre; hilinge of sparres, a roof; joininge of sparres, a roof or building; maister sparre, a main beam or……

58. spelter n.(1)

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Some kind of metal used to make or plate armored headgear: ?an alloy of zinc. …

59. spẹ̄lunk(e n.

Additional spellings: spelunke
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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. …

60. sperling(e n.

Additional spellings: sperlinge
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(a) A fish of the family Clupeidae, esp. the sprat Clupea sprattus; ?also, a shoal of sprats [quot. ?a1500, 1st]; also, the pilchard Sardinia pilchardus; also, any small fish of the genus Merlangus……

61. spī(e n.

Additional spellings: spie
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(a) One who spies on the activities of another; one sent out to make secret observations in a foreign land, a scout or spy; also, a forerunner or messenger [quot. 1449]; (b) mil. one sent into enemy……

62. spīen v.(1)

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(a) To seek information by stealth, make surreptitious observations; scout out (a territory), reconnoiter; spy on (sb.); (b) to make inquiries; search for an answer to (a question); inquire about……

63. squil(le n.(1)

Additional spellings: squille
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(a) A woven basket; ?also, a bucket; (b) a hollow stem or cane. …

64. stampen v.

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(a) To pound or mash an ingredient; pound (sth.), beat; crush (sth.), mash; also fig. [last quot.]; -- also without obj. [quot.: ?a1500]; stamp (ingredients in a mortar), bray; ppl. stamped, pounded……

65. stāplen v.(2)

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In phrase: ben stapled, of exported goods: to be marketed or sold in an official export market. …

66. strop(pe n.(2)

Additional spellings: stroppe
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Law Destruction or spoliation of an inheritance. …

67. 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……

68. tak n.(1)

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(a) A clasp or similar fastener; (b) a nail of some kind;— ?also coll. [quot. c1390], perh. with play on sense (a); tak nail. …

69. tapē̆t(e n.

Additional spellings: tapete
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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……

70. tīle n.(2)

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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……

71. vīring-rōp n.

Additional spellings: viringrop
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Naut. Some kind of rope used aboard a sailing vessel, ?a warp rope. …

72. voice n.

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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……

73. wambais n.

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= gaumbisoun n. …

74. wē̆ld(e n.

Additional spellings: welde
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(a) A flowering plant variously to be identified with weld (Reseda luteola) or woad (Isatis tinctoria) [the latter esp. when glossing L sandix or gaisdo];—sometimes used medicinally or to make dye……

75. wẹ̄r(e n.(5)

Additional spellings: were
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(a) A feeling or personal condition of doubt or uncertainty; also, hesitancy, indecision; double wer, a state of doubt or indecision between two alternatives; in (a) wer, in a state of doubt or……

76. 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……

77. wimble n.

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(a) An auger used in woodworking, a gimlet, wimble; also person.; axel-man wimble, a wheelwright’s wimble; frensh wimble, ?a specially adapted variety of wimble associated with French designs or……

78. yon adj.

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As dem. adj., pointing to a person, place, or thing: that…over or up there, that; also, those…over there, those: (a) with noun only; (b) with intervening adj.; yon ilke (self, same). …

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