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1. shin(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: shine
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(a) The leg below the knee; the front part of the lower leg, shin; also, the shinbone; ?also, the leg [quot.: NV Psalter]; (b) shin bon [OE scin-bān], the shinbone, tibia; ?also, error for chin-bon……

2. kip-string(e n.

Additional spellings: kipstring, kip-stringe, kipstringe
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= kippe-line. …

3. mǒch n.

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A cap or hood; prob. a kind of nightcap worn by men. …

4. -k(e suf.

Additional spellings: -ke
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A derivational suffix in words from OE and borrowings from ON, MLG, and MDu.: (nouns) balk(e, larke, etc.; (verbs) lurken, runken, sanken, skulken, etc. It occasionally occurs in ME or possibly ME……

5. lewe n.

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A coin, 'the Burgundian lion d'or, struck by Philip the Good between 1454 and 1466' [Hanham]. …

6. hǒuns-cul n.

Additional spellings: hounscul
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A kind of metal head-armor. …

7. waften v.

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?To move gently through the air (near to the sun), float on a breeze; also [main text], ?propel (sth.), put to flight; ?error for wasten v. 7.(a). …

8. stokken v.

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(a) To lock (sb.) in a restraining device, put (sb.) in the stocks; imprison (sb.); ppl. stokkede, set in a restraining device; imprisoned; also fig.; also, cast in fetters [quot. ?a1439]; (b) to……

9. twīen v.

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(a) ?To go, take (to the field); (b) ?to waver, hesitate, turn back. …

10. twīnen v.

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(a) To form (a thread) by twisting filaments together, spin; also, of a Fate: spin (the thread of life); twinede thred; (b) to intertwine (threads, filaments, etc.), braid; entwine (a feather into a……

11. -kin suf.

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A diminutive suffix: (a) in nouns of foreign, usually MDu. or MLG origin; e.g. boidekin, cruskin, ferdekin, kilderkin; (b) in prob. ME formations; e.g. baudekin n. (2), fauntekin, fend(e)kin,……

12. agrōt(e)ien v.

Additional spellings: agroteien
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To glut or surfeit. …

13. shēd(e n.

Additional spellings: shede
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(a) The parting of the hair; ?also, the crown of the head; shed of the here, shed of hed, hed shed; (b) difference, distinction; maken shed, to discern a difference; (c) the faculty of discernment……

14. skil n.

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(a) The intellectual faculty, reason; also person.; wit and skil; (b) skil wille (lereth, mot sen), reason demands (teaches, might discover); skil witnesse, reason; -- ?error for skil-wisnes n.; a……

15. weghin n.

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In comb.: fot weghin, ?floorboards, foot-waling [cp. fot-weir, s.v. weir n.]. …

16. crop-mader n.

Additional spellings: cropmader
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Madder. …

17. aberdē̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: aberdene
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Sun-dried or salt codfish. …

18. postulat n.

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A coin 'issued by Rudolf of Diepholt when postulatus [i.e. claimant] of the see of Utrecht or [a] later imitation' [Hanham]. …

19. spekel n.

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(a) A spark, bit of burning ash; (b) a gold-colored fleck; (c) ?a diamond-shaped spot. …

20. splē̆t(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: splete
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(a) One of the metal plates making up or reinforcing armor; (b) a surgical splint; (c) in cpds.: splet bon, the shoulder bone, scapula [cp. spel(e n. (c) & spil(e n.(1) (b)]; splet hat, ?a hat made of……

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