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1. annulet n.

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(a) a small ring; (b) Med. and anat. the 'cartilage of the windpipe' [Norri]; (c) her. a cadency mark in the shape of a ring. …

2. undampnement n.

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Legal protection, indemnity. …

3. stǒute n.

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In phrase: stoute and route, completely. …

4. swīth(e adj.

Additional spellings: swithe
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(a) Great; excessive; in adv. phrase: a swith pase, at great speed, swiftly; ben so swith that, of bitterness: to be so intense that, be so great that; (b) with nouns of quantity or number: swith fele……

5. rent-sek n.

Additional spellings: rentsek
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A rent granted to a person other than the owner of the income property, without right of distress for nonpayment. …

6. and- pref.

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(a) In the nouns an(d)-ȝit, an(d)-let, and-seche, an(d)swere; (b) in the adjs. an(d)-sete, an(d)-weard; in the verbs and-ȝǣten, an(d)-sweren. …

7. delicatif n.

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A choice item of food or a fine drink, delicacy, dainty. …

8. frēte-wil adj.

Additional spellings: fretewil
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Fond of eating, voracious. …

9. sikeritesse n.

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A compact, an agreement; maken sikeritesse, ?to arrange a marriage, enter into a marriage contract. …

10. firnen v.

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To move away or withdraw;--refl. …

11. fīnden v.

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Of persons or of things viewed as agents: to come upon, encounter, or meet (someone or something) by chance or in the course of events (usually with the notion of perceiving or recognizing the person……

12. fō n.

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(a) One who, as an individual, hates or seeks to injure someone; enemy; hed fo, meste fo, chief enemy; (b) an opponent of God, an unbeliever, one who opposes Christianity; godes fo; (c) one who……

13. of conj.(1)

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(a) Until, till; (b) as prep.: until (a time, an action). …

14. furtheren, -ien v.

Additional spellings: furtherien
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(a) To aid (someone), assist, support; (b) intr. be helpful, be of assistance; it fortheres, it helps; what fortherit, what availed, what profited. …

15. carl-fǒul n.

Additional spellings: carlfoul
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A male bird. …

16. barri adj.

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(a) Cook. Decorated with strips of metal foil; (b) Her. divided equally by horizontal stripes of two alternating colors; also as noun: blazon so constituted. …

17. applicātī̆f adj.

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Suitably applied, applicable, predicable. …

18. sǒmer-hǒus n.

Additional spellings: somerhous
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(a) A summer residence; a building set in a cool or shady place; also, ?a storehouse, barn [last quot.]; (b) in surname and place name [see Smith PNElem.2.168]. …

19. līthelīche adj.

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As predicate adjective: easy, not difficult or troublesome, with infinitive in passive sense. …

20. isīen v.(1)

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(a) Of the sun: to set; (b) ben isiȝen, to go, proceed; journey; (c) ben isiȝen to, to befall (sb. or sth.), happen to. …

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