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1. brẹ̄den v.(3)

103 quotations in 8 senses
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Of birds: to incubate eggs, hatch out and rear young, breed; breden brod, bring forth a brood. …

2. God, god n.(1)

Additional spellings: god
562 quotations in 17 senses
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(a) God; the Trinity; God the Father; the God of the Old Testament; to goddes paie, so as to please God; (b) Christ; goddes bodi (flesh), Christ's body (flesh); (c) the Holy Ghost; (d) the Communion……

3. frēten v.(2)

31 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To adorn or decorate (something), to ornament (with an inlay of gold or precious stones), to interweave (a garment with gold thread, etc.); (b) fretted ful (all) of, thickly set with (gems, etc.)……

4. dǒuce adj. & n.

23 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Dear, beloved; douce amour, sweetheart; (b) douce Fraunce, beloved France; (c) douce vie, luxurious life; (d) as noun: paramour; foul douce, filthy harlot; (e) in surnames. …

5. vōcā̆t n.

20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A professional pleader in civil or ecclesiastical courts of law, an advocate; also fig. [last quot.]; one skilled in law, a lawyer; also, a legal representative of the crown (b) one who pleads……

6. flẹ̄ten v.(1)

109 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To rest or move on the surface (of a liquid), float, drift; of a ship: sail; (b) of fish, persons: to swim; (c) to drift, float, sail in a ship; (d) to move (through the air); of arrows: to fly……

7. cheuen v.(1)

54 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To masticate or chew (sth.); cheuen cud, chew resin or gum; (b) to eat or consume (sth.); cheuen cud upon, feast upon (sth.); lat hem chewe as þei chese, let them eat (subsist) as they chose! …

8. ē̆rthelī, ē̆rthlī adj.

Additional spellings: erthli
66 quotations in 4 senses
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Belonging to this earth (i.e. not of heaven or hell), terrestrial, worldly; having material and transitory existence on this earth (i.e. not spiritual and lasting), mortal or mundane;-- (a) of man or……

9. arecchen v.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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To tell the meaning of (a dream, a text), interpret; describe (an appearance); exemplify or illustrate (a statement). …

10. gōn v.

1054 quotations in 29 senses
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(a) To walk; also, be able to walk; walken and gon; comen gon (going), come walking; gon on fot, gon upon fet, gon with fot, etc., go on foot, walk; gon on a fot, go on one foot, hop; (b) gon or……

11. hidǒus adj.

78 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Terrifying, horrible, dreadful; (b) hideous to see or hear; frightening, horrible, repulsive; hidous til heringe, hidous til (bi) sight, hidous to biholden (sen, heren), hidous to loken (sen) on……

12. whīt adj.

656 quotations in 18 senses
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(a) Of a substance, structure, an object: white in color; whitish, pale-colored, light-colored; of the moon, a star: silvery-white; of a book or register: bound in a white or light-colored binding; of……

13. mọ̄ten v.(2)

689 quotations in 21 senses
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To be allowed, be permitted, may: (a) present forms with pr. or fut. meaning; (b) in negative clauses; (c) past forms with past meaning [cp. sense 6.]; (d) in neg. clauses. …

14. dusī(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: dusie
21 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Foolish, unwise; -- of persons or actions; (b) giddy, dizzy; (c) dull, unresponsive. …

15. cǒningẹ̄r(e n.

Additional spellings: coningere
7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A rabbit warren or burrow; (b) a tunnel. …

16. bed-rēde(n adj. & n.

Additional spellings: bedrede, bed-reden, bedreden
26 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Confined to bed, bedridden; (b) one who is confined to bed. …

17. forbrennen v.

63 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To burn up (something), to consume or destroy by fire; (b) to ravage or lay waste (a country) with fire; (c) to burn up, to be destroyed by fire. …

18. par- pref.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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A rare prefix occurring almost exclusively in words of French or Latin origin; e.g., paramoure, parclose, pardoun (nouns); parboilen, pardounen, pargeten (verbs); paregal, parfit (adj.)……

19. pō̆t-fālda n.

Additional spellings: potfalda
3 quotations in 1 sense
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A payment made for the enfolding of livestock outside the lord's fold. …

20. thīn pron.

425 quotations in 9 senses
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Thy, thine, your, of yours;—modifying a noun denoting: (a) something in the charge, control, or possession of the person addressed; thin god (hous, lond, riche, etc.); (b) something rhetorically……

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