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1. blī-gẹ̄ter n.

Additional spellings: bligeter
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A lead founder. …

2. knod n.

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An excrescence or lump in the flesh. …

3. pōken v.(1)

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(a) To poke (sb.), nudge; also, knock (sb.), strike; poken on; (b) to push or thrust (sth.) out, remove; (c) to stimulate (sb.), irritate; incite (sb. to do sth.); poken forth (out), bring out……

4. reisen v.(2)

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To make a military expedition; also, journey, travel. …

5. ripel-stok n.

Additional spellings: ripelstok
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An implement for cleaning seeds from flax. …

6. scot-nail n.

Additional spellings: scotnail
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A kind of nail; -- also coll. …

7. scot-sēm(e n.

Additional spellings: scotsem, scot-seme, scotseme
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Coll. Nails of some kind, perh. clinch nails or small nails used for fastening laths; scot-sem nail, clavus de scot-sem, a nail of this kind. …

8. shaltrẹ̄ n.

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Naut. Some kind of pole or spar. …

9. shelt-bēm n.

Additional spellings: sheltbem
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Naut. Some sort of beam, evidently slabbed; shelt-bem nail. …

10. shrimpen v.

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To ruffle (a beard). …

11. slǒmberen v.

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(a) To sleep, doze; slomberen and slepen, slepen and slomberen; ppl. slombring, dozing, sleepy, drowsy; (b) fig. to be quiescent, remain dormant; be spiritually unheeding or unaware; slomberen in……

12. smā̆ken v.

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(a) To taste something, sense flavor in the mouth; also fig.; smaken of, experience the flavor of (sth.); -- used fig.; ppl. smakinge as adj.: flavorful, savory; (b) to taste (sth.); also, fig. learn……

13. smeltes n.

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?A smeltery; ?smelting operations. …

14. smert(e n.

Additional spellings: smerte
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(a) Physical pain; also, harm [quot. a1420]; also, a burn [quot. 1440]; don smert, to cause (an animal) pain, harm; (b) grief, sorrow, annoyance; also fig. of Jesus; also, contrition, remorse; (c)……

15. snegge n.

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(a) A snail; (b) some kind of fish; ?an eel. …

16. snof(fe n.

Additional spellings: snoffe
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(a) The burnt end of a candlewick; candel snof; (b) ?a candle snuffer; (c) glossing L muco. …

17. snǒuen v.(2)

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Of a hawk: to wipe (the beak) clean of food, etc. …

18. sparren v.(1)

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(a) To lock; -- used in fig. context; (b) of a part of the body: to close up; also, refl. close itself; sparren after, of heaven: close behind (sb.). …

19. spetifful adj.

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Harmful, injurious. …

20. sprenklen v.(1)

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(a) To sprinkle (water, salt, etc.), scatter, strew; sprinkle (sth. on sb. or sth. or into sth.); also fig.; sprenklen abouten (aboven, on); (b) to sprinkle (sb. or sth. with sth.); also fig.; splash……

21. stẹ̄r(e adj.

Additional spellings: stere
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(a) Of persons or animals: strong, hardy; of objects: sturdy; (b) powerful; ?also, harsh, tyrannical; (c) steadfast, faithful; (d) ?prosperous; (e) important, great; (f) as adv.: firmly, securely……

22. stikeling(e n.

Additional spellings: stikelinge
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Any of several spinous saltwater fishes, often of the family Gasterosteidae, a stickleback; also, a thornback Raia clavata [quot. 1412-13]; ban stikeling. …

23. stilt(e n.

Additional spellings: stilte
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(a) The handle of a plow; (b) a wooden crutch; an artificial leg, peg leg; also, a stilt; stilt bond, a strap for attaching a stilt or a peg leg; (c) ?one of the uprights of a ladder; (d) in surname. …

24. stǒupe n.(1)

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(a) A jug, often made of leather; also, a measure for liquids, varying from one pint to several gallons; (b) a vessel or container for holy water; holi water stoupe. …

25. thurven v.

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(a) Of a candle: to be necessary (for sb.), be needed, avail; (b) impers. hit thare, used parenthetically: it is necessary; (c) ?impers. thurte, he experienced (no lack of knights at his disposal). …

26. tọ̄̆murten v.

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To break apart, split. …

27. vīring-rōp n.

Additional spellings: viringrop
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Naut. Some kind of rope used aboard a sailing vessel, ?a warp rope. …

28. welken v.(1)

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(a) Of a flower, leaf, plant, etc.: to fade, droop, wither, dry up; also, of human tissue: shrivel [quot. c1425]; of an odor: ?dissipate [quot. a1450]; ppls. welkede & welkinge, withered, dried up……

29. wẹ̄r(e n.(5)

Additional spellings: were
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(a) A feeling or personal condition of doubt or uncertainty; also, hesitancy, indecision; double wer, a state of doubt or indecision between two alternatives; in (a) wer, in a state of doubt or……

30. wẹ̄veling n.

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Naut. A piece of caulking material placed between the lapstrakes while the ship is under construction;—also coll. …

31. whip(pe n.

Additional spellings: whippe
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(a) A scourge, lash, whip; also fig.; whip of (knotted with) led, a whip furnished with leaden balls or pieces; whippes lash, a flexible switch used as a whip (b) an instrument for driving or……

32. whippen v.

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(a) To move rapidly, move back and forth quickly; specif. of a dragon: flap or flutter furiously (with its wings); of a bird: struggle (in a snare) by fluttering or flapping the wings; whippen in……

33. wīnd(e n.

Additional spellings: winde
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(a) An apparatus for hoisting or hauling, a winch, windlass [cp. windas n.]; naut. middel wind, ?a central garnet used in brailing up the sail (b) a wooden reel from which a hank or thread of yarn……

34. wisp(e n.

Additional spellings: wispe
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(a) A small gathering or bundle of cut grass, straw, or grain stalks; wisp of hei (strau) (b) a bundle of straw, hay, or similar material twisted together for use as a torch; wisp of fir; (c) a……

35. wraggunge ger.

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= wragelinge n. (a). …

36. wrak n.(1)

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A wrecked ship, shipwreck; ship wrak; toward a wrak, on the verge of being wrecked; gon (ben igone) to wrak, of a ship: to suffer destruction on the water, be wrecked; also in fig. context. …

37. wrā̆ken v.

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(a) Of a person or God: to exact vengeance, inflict punishment for wrong done; display vindictive anger [last quot.]; exact vengeance (on sb. or a god); also, inflict punishment (on sb.) (b) to……

38. wrimplid adj.

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Marked with lines, wrinkled. …

39. yespon n.

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A measure of volume equivalent to that contained in a person’s hands cupped together. …

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