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1. māsel n.

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

2. hogge n.(2)

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A ship of some sort. …

3. wrimplid adj.

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Marked with lines, wrinkled. …

4. leperen v.

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To babble (a secret); leperen oute. …

5. galpen v.

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(a) To open the mouth wide, yawn, gape; of hell: open wide; (b) galpen after, to be eager to obtain (sth.); (c) of a deer:?to bellow. …

6. draf n.

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(a) Refuse of grain, chaff, husks; ?also, bran; fig. the worthless part of something; (b) waste parts of grapes or olives after removal of juice or oil; also fig.; (c) solid parts of leaves or herbs……

7. 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. …

8. stumpe n.

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(a) A tree stump; (b) the part of a severed arm, leg, tail, etc. that remains attached to the body, stump; also, a decapitated body [quot. ?a1450]; also, a jocular term for a leg [last quot.]; (c) in……

9. hǒune n.(2)

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Only in phr. herre and houne, master and servant alike, one and all, everybody. …

10. yọ̄meren v.

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To cry out in sorrow, wail, lament; also, groan in grief or pain; ppl. ȝeomerinde as adj.: sorrowful, woeful [1st quot.]. …

11. stand(e n.

Additional spellings: stande
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A barrel, tub, cask, or similar container; stand worter, a cooking vessel of some kind; ale stand, a vessel for ale. …

12. 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. …

13. skinnen v.

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(a) To remove the skin from (the penis), circumcise; (b) ppl. skinned, possessing a particular kind of skin; hard skinned, ?having a tough skin; ?having the shell of a shellfish; (c) in surname. …

14. wōling(e ger.

Additional spellings: wolinge
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(a) The action of wrapping or tying with a cord, binding with rope; naut. the securing of a mast by winding rope around it (b) ?some sort of wrapping or tie for a leather sack or boot [cp. wellinge n……

15. dāsard, -art n.

Additional spellings: dasart
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A worthless person, a poor fellow. …

16. toltren v.

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To shake, rock, quake, be unsteady underfoot. …

17. Sēland n.

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(a) The county of Zealand in the Netherlands; (b) Seland cloth, a kind of cloth made in Zealand; (c) as title of a herald. …

18. stāken v.

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(a) To stake out (a boundary), determine; mark (land); staken oute; (b) to fix (pointed stakes) in a defensive line; fortify (a position) with pointed stakes; staken up; (c) ppl. staked, fastened to a……

19. walsh-nǒt(e n.

Additional spellings: walshnot, walsh-note, walshnote
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(a) A walnut; also in fig. context [quot. a1450]; walsh-not shelle; (b) in comparisons and expressions of quantity or size: as gret as a walsh-not; bi a walsh-not; in (the) quantite of a walsh-not. …

20. wọ̄de-wāle n.(1)

Additional spellings: wodewale
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Any of several varieties of bird, esp. the green woodpecker (Picus viridis) and the rarer golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus), with which, in its female and immature forms, the former may readily be……

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