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1. balteren v.

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To move about clumsily; totter, hobble, tumble about.

2. bāre n.(2)

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A wave, billow; se bare.

3. blenchen v.

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(a) To move suddenly or sharply; jerk, twist; flinch, wince, dodge; blenchen aside; blenchen low, duck; blenchen broues, raise (one's) eyebrows or eyelids; blenchen of slepe, wake up suddenly; (b) of…

4. clagged adj.

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?Besmeared, bedaubed, covered.

5. claggen v.

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(a) to clump or grow viscous; (b) ppl. clagged, ?besmeared, bedaubed, covered.

6. clōen v.

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To claw or beat.

7. cubbel n.

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(a) A block of wood tied to an animal to keep it from straying, a clog; (b) a surname.

8. gloumen v.

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(a) To look glum or sullen; look displeased; scowl, frown; gloumen on, scowl or frown at (sb.); (b) of the weather: to become dark, lower.

9. glǒuten v.

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To scowl, look glum.

10. golf n.

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A heap of sheaves in a barn; prob. the heap of grain between any two upright posts of the barn.

11. gollan n.

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Some kind of wild plant with yellow flowers; probably a species of Ranunculus (buttercup family).

12. grẹ̄nen v.(2)

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To desire, long (to do sth.).

13. hirplen v.

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(a) To walk with difficulty, hobble; (b) to be wrinkled.

14. intak n.

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A piece of enclosed land taken from a moor or from a common; -- only in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.304].

15. kē̆mpe adj.

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Of hair: coarse, shaggy; of an eel: large, coarse; as noun: a kind of large eel.

16. kevel n.(3)

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A big, strong person; ?also, as surname.

17. kinsen v.

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(a) To wince, shy away; (b) to kick or rear back (against sth.).

18. lerk n.

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A wrinkle; a fold in the skin or flesh.

19. leske n.

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That part of the sides of the body of a man or quadruped between the ribs and thighs; the flank.

20. musteren v.

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To whisper; mumble.

21. pirling ppl.

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Revolving.

22. rekelen v.

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To clatter, cackle.

23. rẹ̄nish(e adj.

Additional spellings: renishe
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(a) Strange, uncouth; (b) of an emperor: stern, awful.

24. riǧǧe n.

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(a) The back of a person; also fig.; rigge and ribbe, ribbe and rigge, completely; rigges bon, the backbone; (b) the back of an animal; the shell of a snail; (c) in phrases, of burdens: at (on, up,

25. rōn n.(2)

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A rowan-tree berry.

26. rothelen v.(1)

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To sear (meat), roast.

27. roune n.(1)

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The guts or roe of a fish; also, ?some kind of sauce made of fish and brine.

28. rōve n.(2)

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Coll. Metal plates for clinching nails; rove nail, nails used with a clinch plate.

29. scavel n.

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(a) A strong, narrow-bladed spade; also fig.; (b) in surname.

30. scopperel n.

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(a) A toy that spins around, a top, whirligig, perh. consisting of a disc of some sort with a pointed peg passed through its center; (b) her. ?a badge in the form of a disc.

31. scot n.(3)

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Name of a horse; also, a horse; -- ?error for stot n. [1st quot. 615 vr.].

32. scrabbe n.

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A wild or crab apple.

33. sege n.(1)

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A callus.

34. self-ō̆de n.

Additional spellings: selfode
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(a) ?A separate holding, perh. split off from the unified villein's holding; (b) an occupant of such a holding, one of a class of tenant named in records from Northumberland and Cumberland, app. one…

35. n.

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Fiber used in caulking ships.

36. skẹ̄ling(e n.

Additional spellings: skelinge
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An outbuilding; a shed, lean-to.

37. skelpen v.(2)

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?To make a face, mock [cp. skelken v.]; ?take away (a portion of sth.) for one's own use.

38. skelten v.

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(a) To come, go; skelten ther-at, apply oneself to something; (b) to raise (an alarm); cause (skirmishing), begin; (c) ?to cause (sb.) to go away, drive away; ?revile (sb.).

39. skeuier n.

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A skewer.

40. skittish adj.

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Frivolous, impulsive.

41. slag n. or adj.

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?A slippery or muddy place; ?slippery, muddy.

42. slāpe adj.

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In phrase: slape of thrift, smooth of fortune, i.e., fortunate.

43. snifteren v.

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To sniffle.

44. sniteren v.

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Of snow: to fall; ppl. sniterand as adj.: falling.

45. swagge n.

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A bag, sack.

46. swarlen v.

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To catch (sb. or sth.) in a noose or snare; ppl. suarled, tangled up.

47. sweiven v.

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To move with a whirling or sweeping motion, whirl, sweep.

48. tā̆ven v.

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(a) To struggle energetically, wrestle; (b) to suck greedily.

49. vō̆k n.(1)

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(a) (?A reputation for) prowess, (?show of) strength; beren vok; (b) rumor, reputation, common report.

50. wappen v.(1)

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(a) To strike (through mail) with a slashing blow; of an arrow, the wind: rush, be driven; ppl. wappond, of flames: shooting up, lashing (b) to strike (sb.); wappen in, shoot (bolts) in; wappen of,…

51. wāre n.(4)

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Spring; ware corn, grain sown in the spring, specif. barley and oats; ware tide (time), springtime.

52. wau(e n.

Additional spellings: waue
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(a) A wave of water, esp. in the sea; ?also, a current; gon in wawes, to become tempestuous (b) pl. the sea, seen as a collection of individual waves; (c) used metonymically: the sea; water; wau of

53. yǒure n.

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An udder.