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1. alder n.(1)

18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Alder (Alnus glutinosa); alder tre; (b) alder kerre, alder kyr, alder was, alder swamp; alder shawe, alder thicket.

2. anclẹ̄ n.

21 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The ankle; ankle bone, esp. the inner projection [quots. c1150, c1440]; innermore ancle; utward ancle, outer projection of the ankle; (b) ancle bon, ankle bone; utter ancle, outer projection of…

3. bī-ker n.(3)

Additional spellings: biker
1 quotation in 1 sense
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A nest of wild bees.

4. birth(e n.

Additional spellings: birthe
116 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) The act of giving birth, childbirth; birth bering; labour of birth; at on (a) birth, in one delivery; (b) birth in wombe, conception.

5. bratthe n.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Violence, impetuosity; (b) anger, rage; -- also pl.; (c) the deadly sin of Wrath.

6. brẹ̄ch n.

55 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The undergarment covering the lower part of the body; underpants, drawers, or tights; brech and sherte, sark and brek; (b) brech, brek, as pl.; a pare brech, a pair of breeches.

7. breid n.(1)

88 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A sudden or quick movement, such as a jerk, wrench, pull, start, jolt; (b) a rash or hasty act; a move; (c) an impassioned utterance, an outburst or outcry; (d) an unusual occurrence or event…

8. brim n.(1)

7 quotations in 1 sense
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A body of water, such as the sea, a pool, spring, river.

9. brō n.(1)

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The bank (of a stream); the brink or raised edge (of a ditch or pit); (b) in names.

10. burgh n.(3)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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A hill or mountain; also a towering mass of hair.

11. chaffā̆re n.

68 quotations in 4 senses
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Trade in goods, buying and selling, commerce, bargaining; driven, usen chaffare, engage in trade, do business; chaffare of lesinges, dishonest trade or bargaining.

12. chaft n.

10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Jaw, jawbone; chaft bon; (b) pharynx; pl. tonsils.

13. colle n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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A barrel.

14. draf n.

43 quotations in 3 senses
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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…

15. drag(ge n.(1)

Additional spellings: dragge
14 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A dragnet; (b) a harrow or drag; (c) a barge or raft; (d) a grappling hook.

16. drēm n.(2)

60 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or

17. eg(ge n.(1)

Additional spellings: egge
36 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The edible egg of a domesticated fowl; (b) glair or whit of an egge, the white of an egg; oil of egges, an oil extracted from eggs; yolk or yelk of an eg; (c) fried egge; hard eg, an egg roasted…

18. ēten n.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A supernatural being of great size and strength, an ogre, a giant; also, a human being with these attributes; often fig.; (b) etene ring, circle of the giants (the reference is to a prehistoric…

19. far-cost n.

Additional spellings: farcost
9 quotations in 1 sense
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Some kind of boat.

20. fast-ingō̆ng, -ingā̆ng n.

Additional spellings: fastingong, fast-ingang, fastingang
14 quotations in 1 sense
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Shrovetide (the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday preceding the Lenten fast); fast-ingong even, the evening of Shrove Tuesday; faste-gong woke, the week including Shrovetide; fast-ingong sondai, fast-ingong