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1. wā̆ter-gā̆ng n.

Additional spellings: watergang
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(a) A watercourse, drainage ditch; (b) an ingress of water, a flood; (c) as place name.

2. shulder-bōn n.

Additional spellings: shulderbon
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(a) The shoulder blade, scapula; (b) the shoulder; (c) the shoulder bone of a sheep.

3. nib-herbe n.

Additional spellings: nibherbe
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Catnip Nepeta cataria.

4. tīle-hǒus n.

Additional spellings: tilehous
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(a) A building used for the making of tiles; (b) as place name.

5. shulder-blā̆d(e n.

Additional spellings: shulderblad, shulder-blade, shulderblade
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(a) The shoulder blade, scapula; (b) the shoulder [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (a), to which some quots. here may belong].

6. wōde-asshe n.

Additional spellings: wodeasshe
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Coll. and pl. A form of crude potash rich in mineral salts, from which dyers and others could produce a lye;—in most cases prob. the substance obtained by burning woad plants (Isatis tinctoria)…

7. pol-axe n.

Additional spellings: polaxe
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(a) A poleax; (b) a man armed with a poleax.

8. wī̆nd-barǧe n.

Additional spellings: windbarge
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Arch. A piece of timber or stone prob. covering the joint between the gable edge and the roof and serving as protection from the wind, a bargeboard.

9. wei-hǒus n.

Additional spellings: weihous
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A building in which commodities are weighed, weigh-house; commune wei-hous, a public weigh-house.

10. thrumen v.

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To compress (multiple books into one), condense.

11. wimplen v.

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(a) To cover (sb., oneself, the head) with a wimple or veil, veil (oneself); also in fig. context; also, fig. conceal (sth., errors), hide (b) ben wimpled, to undergo a religious ceremony of veiling,…

12. slǒmbrī adj.

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Sleepy, tending to doze.

13. top-castel n.

Additional spellings: topcastel
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A platform at the top of a ship's mast, esp. a fortified structure on a fighting ship.

14. whirl-wind n.

Additional spellings: whirlwind
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(a) A whirlwind, tornado; also, a windstorm, tempest; ?a swirling wind; storm of whirl-wind; (b) fig. trouble, affliction; also, an excessive emotion or manifestation.

15. shiveren v.

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(a) To break into small pieces, shatter, splinter; shivering shides, splintering pieces; (b) to break (sth.) into pieces, shatter, splinter; shiveren in shides; shivered short, broken off; (c) impers.

16. Sēlander n.

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(a) A native or an inhabitant of the county of Zealand; (b) ?as surname.

17. spōren v.

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(a) To urge a horse to gallop; strike (a horse, mule) with spurs; ?also, error for spurnen v. 1.(a) [quot. c1425]; (b) to incite (sb. to sth. or to do sth.), urge; (c) ppl. spored, arrayed with or…

18. swarmen v.

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(a) To move about in great numbers, swarm; (b) to exist in great numbers.

19. sọ̄thhē̆d(e n.

Additional spellings: sothhede
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Truth, truthfulness; ?also [2nd quot.], error for softhed(e n. (b).

20. wantrust n.

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Lack of confidence, doubt, mistrust; also in apostrophe [1st quot.]; ?also, lack of hope, despair [quot. ?a1475].