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1. cāke n.

48 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A flat cake or loaf; also, an unbaked cake or loaf, a lump of doug; haver (ote, oten) cake, a cake of oaten bread; therf cake, a cake of unleavened bread; barli cake, flouren cake, spiced cake

2. carpen v.

76 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To talk, chat, converse, discourse; carpen toward, address (sb.); (b) tell (sth.), say; ask (a question); as I have herd carpen, as I have heard tell; as men do carpen, as people say; to carpen

3. nastī adj.

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Unclean, filthy.

4. rō̆t n.

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(a) Decay, corruption, putrefaction; (b) a disease of sheep; (c) a wasting disease in man; also fig.; (d) in place name.

5. ruggī adj.

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(a) Hairy, shaggy, bristly; (b) rugged in form, unshapely.

6. scratten v.

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(a) To scratch (sb., the face, etc.) with the nails; ppl. scratted, scratched (by thorns, etc.); (b) to scratch with the nails; (c) in surname.

7. shrinken v.

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(a) To wither permanently through death, age, disease, etc.; become wrinkled; ppl. shrunken, withered, wrinkled; (b) of leather or wood: to shrink through loss of moisture; (c) shrinken awei, to…

8. sī̆len v.(2)

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To strain (sth.).

9. sīlen v.(3)

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(a) To sink, fall; of tears: drop, flow; silen adoun (doun); geren silen, kill (sb.); ppl. silande as adj.: flowing; (b) to proceed, go; proceed (to do sth.); silen forth.

10. skei adj.

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(a) Of a horse: easily frightened; of a person: ?fastidious, particular; (b) ?as surname.

11. skerren v.

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(a) To frighten (sb.), terrify; ppl. skered, frightened; also, alarmed, startled [quot.: c1400]; skered with, frightened by (sth.); (b) to become alarmed; of clamor: rise up; ppl. skerring as adj…

12. slant(e n.

Additional spellings: slante
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In phrase: on slant, at an angle, obliquely [cp. aslant(e adv.]; he shal on slant, he shall stagger or have a fall; -- ?used fig. he shall come to grief.

13. slem n.

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Slime, mud.

14. sluggen v.

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To be lazy or slothful; ppl. slugginge, lazy, sluggish, characterized by sloth.

15. sniffen v.

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To sniffle, sniff.

16. thwert nai phr.

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Certainly not, in no way, to the contrary; law as a formula for categorical denial of a complaint: absolutely not, not so; seien (ouen) thwert nai.

17. tossen v.

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To buffet (sb. or sth.) about, agitate, toss; also [1st quot.], sift or winnow (sth.);—used fig.

18. upbrixle n.

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An object of reproach.

19. waggen v.

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(a) To be in motion, esp. back and forth or up and down, shake, flutter, swing; also fig. with ref. to (e) [quots. a1387 & a1425]; of teeth: be loose; of a boat: rock with the waves; of flesh: wobble…

20. weiknen v.

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To become feeble or deranged.