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1. aunen v.

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(a) To show (sth.), disclose; (b) refl. to show oneself, appear; (c) ?point the way.

2. benger(e n.

Additional spellings: bengere
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A grain bin; the hopper of a mill.

3. big adj.

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Of persons and animals: (a) strong, sturdy, robust; big of bones, of sturdy build; big in armes, strong-armed; of big strengthe, powerful; (b) full-grown, big; (c) stout-hearted, courageous, fierce…

4. bloderen v.

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To make inarticulate sounds; blubber, sob, 'carry on'.

5. blǒnderen v.

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(a) To walk without seeing, go blindly; (b) to proceed ignorantly, act blindly or irrationally; refl. delude oneself, be out of one's senses; ppl. blundering, rash, clumsy, thoughtless; of things…

6. bōst n.

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(a) A brag, a boast; boastful speech, bragging, self-praise; (b) casten bost at, be boastful toward (sb.), insult; maken bost (of), brag (of, about); more bost is, etc., a pot of wine causes more…

7. bǒu(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: boue
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(a) The bow of a ship; (b) in name of ship.

8. bou(e-līne n.

Additional spellings: bouline, boue-line, boueline
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Naut. Bowline.

9. bou-sprẹ̄t(e, bǒu(e)sprẹ̄t(e n.

Additional spellings: bouspret, bou-sprete, bousprete, bouesprete, bouspret, bouespret, bousprete
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Naut. Bowsprit.

10. bred-ful adj.

Additional spellings: bredful
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(a) Of a container: filled to the brim, brimful; (b) of an area: completely covered; (c) completely filled, chock-full.

11. brōked adj.

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Variegated, spotted.

12. burre n.(1)

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(a) The common burdock (Arctium lappa); ?also, some similar plant; (b) ?some member of the genus Rumex; ?R. crispus, ?R. obtusifolius; (c) cleavers (Galium aparine); (d) Christ's thorn (Paliurus…

13. cāke n.

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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

14. clint n.

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(a) A ledge of rock; a cliff, steep bank; (b) in place names.

15. cliver adj.

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?Expert in seizing.

16. clǒm n.(1)

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(a) Silence; (b) as interj.: Be silent! Mum's the word!

17. clǒmmed ppl.

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Benumbed.

18. cramsen v.

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To scratch.

19. cros n.

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(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen

20. crōt(e n.

Additional spellings: crote
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(a) A lump; a clod (of earth); ?a knob (on the cover of a pot); (b) the residue of rendered fat, cracklings; (c) ilk (a) crot, every bit.

21. crul adj.

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(a) Of the hair or head: curly; (b) as surname.

22. 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.

23. cukken v.

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To void excrement.

24. dappeld ppl.

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Spotted, dappled.

25. flẹ̄rien v.

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To laugh derisively, mock, sneer; fleriende lippes, grimacing or sneering lips.

26. flǒunder n.

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(a) A flatfish, esp. the flounder; (b) as a name.

27. flunderes n. (plural)

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Fire fragments, i.e. sparks.

28. fogge n.

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(a) Rank tall grass; (b) a meadow grown with such grass.

29. fraknes n. (plural)

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Freckles; also certain other skin blemishes.

30. gaggen v.

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(a) To strangle (sb.); (b) ?in surnames.

31. gāsen v.

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(a) To stare, gaze, look steadily or intently; (b) gasen abouten, to look after (sth.), watch intently; (c) fig. to fix one's attention, think longingly.

32. gaspen v.

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To open the mouth wide, gape; also, exhale.

33. gauren v.

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To look with wonder or curiosity; stare, gaze; gauren on (upon).

34. gessen v.

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(a) To infer (sth.) from observation, etc.; perceive, find out; gessen in, gessen of, perceive (sth.) in (sb.), suspect; (b) with clause as obj.: to conclude (that sth. is true or will happen)…

35. gil(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: gile
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(a) The gill of a fish; (b) gil fish, a kind of stockfish.

36. glāde n.(2)

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Setting; gon to glade, drauen to glade, of the sun: to set, be setting.

37. glenten v.

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(a) To move or turn quickly to one side; dodge, flinch; glenten aside, glenten beside; glenten aside on, to fall upon (enemies) from the side; (b) to change one's behavior, deviate; (c) glenten from

38. glimme n.

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Shining brightness; radiance.

39. glopnen v.

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(a) To fill (sb., the heart) with fear; frighten, alarm, startle; (b) to be distressed, be filled with fear or grief; glopnen in herte, become sad at heart; glopnen and greten [cp. OI glūpna ok grāta

40. glouen v.(2)

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To stare, gaze; glouen up)on, stare at (sth.).

41. 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.

42. glǒuten v.

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To scowl, look glum.

43. graspen v.

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(a) To grope, feel around; graspen about; (b) to reach with the hand(s; graspen after (on, to), reach for (sth.); (c) ppl. grasping, petting, caressing, cajoling.

44. halk-essing n.

Additional spellings: halkessing
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Naut.?A beam used to reinforce the gunwales at an angle of the ship.

45. hals n.

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(a) The neck; hongen bi the hals, to hang (sb.) with a rope around the neck; fro hals to croupoun, from neck to rump; hals gund [OE heals-gund], a neck tumor; also in asseveration: bi mi hals; (b) the…

46. harsk adj.

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(a) Rough-textured, coarse; (b) harsh-tasting, sour, astringent.

47. harwe n.

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(a) A harrow for cultivating land, a drag; gon at harwe, to drive a harrow; (b) fig. the Old or New Testament; the power of Love (with pun on arwe); also, in proverb; (c) harwe tind (toth), a tooth of…

48. hā̆ver n.(2)

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(a) The cereal grain, oats; (b) haver bern, haver gerner, a storehouse for oats; haver bred, oaten bread; haver cake, a loaf made from oaten flour; also as surname; haver mele, oaten flour; (c) haver

49. hei interj.

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(a) Implying challenge, rebuttal, anger, derision; (b) indicating sorrow or concern; hei weilawei; (c) an exclamation of encouragement to dogs, esp. in hunting; (d) as a burden in songs and carols…

50. hilder n.

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(a) The European elder (Sambucus nigra); hilder tre; (b) hilder tre, ?the European alder [see alder n. (1)]; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.274].

51. insprǒut n.

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A blowing in.

52. -k(e suf.

Additional spellings: -ke
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A derivational suffix in words from OE and borrowings from ON, MLG, and MDu.: (nouns) balk(e, larke, etc.; (verbs) lurken, runken, sanken, skulken, etc. It occasionally occurs in ME or possibly ME…

53. kē̆r n.

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(a) Low, swampy ground; a marsh, bog, fen; ker miln, a mill by a marsh; ker side, the side of a marsh; (b) a marsh overgrown with alders or other small trees or shrubs; alder ker.

54. kerven v.

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(a) Of an edged or pointed weapon, a sharp implement, a stroke, etc.: to cut or pierce, make a cut or incision, inflict a stroke that cuts or pierces; have the property of cutting or piercing; also fi

55. kide n.

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(a) The young of a goat; kide lomb; (b) the meat of a young goat; -- often pl.; also, a carcass of a kid slaughtered for meat or prepared as a dish; (c) kides blod, the blood of a young goat; kide

56. kinsen v.

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

57. ladde n.(1)

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(a) A young male attendant; one of a king's or nobleman's retinue; a servant; (b) a foot soldier; fot ladde; (c) ladde cf kichene, an attendant in the kitchen of a noble household, a kitchen boy.

58. lag-mon n.

Additional spellings: lagmon
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In phrase leden bi lag-mon, to lead (sb.) astray [in which 'lag-mon' probably denotes the last or hindmost person; see Menner PQ 10.163-168 and early Modern English 'lag-man' (OED s.v. lag, n.1 and…

59. lit-mose n.

Additional spellings: litmose
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A blue pigment, litmus; ?also, lichens from which the pigment is obtained.

60. lodden v.

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To stick (together), cleave.

61. loperen v.

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Of milk: to become curdled; fig. (in literal transl. of L coagulare): harden (the heart); of the heart: be hardened.

62. luddok n.

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(a) The loin; also, pl. the buttocks; (b) as surname.

63. lugerande ppl.

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Loosely hanging.

64. luggen v.

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(a) To pull (sb. or sth.) forcibly; luggen of, pull off (lips), pull out (hair); (b) to drag (sb.); (c) to mistreat (sb.); (d) of a vessel afloat: to move heavily; (e) lug-tripe, name of a dog: one…

65. lurken v.

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(a) To hide, be in hiding, lie hidden; be latent; (b) to lie in ambush; (c) to cower, skulk, keep out of sight; (d) to lie comfortably; (e) to go stealthily or cautiously, go under cover; also, crawl…

66. muk n.

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(a) Animal or human excrement; dung; manure; also, dirt, filth; sewage; putrescence; ech muk, each piece of dung, every turd; (b) fig. property, possessions, wealth, worldly gain; -- also personified…

67. musteren v.

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To whisper; mumble.

68. nap n.(3)

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A suck, draught.

69. napand ppl.

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Grasping, greedy.

70. nippe n.

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(a) A hill or crag; ?an extremity; (b) in place name [see Smith PNElem. 1.254].

71. nirt n.

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A nick, a slight cut or scar.

72. nirvil n.

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A small person, a dwarfor midget.

73. nọ̄k n.

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(a) An angle formed by the meeting of two lines; an angular symbol used in musical notation; lettre nok, part of an alphabetic character; (b) the corner of a cloth or document; mantel nok [see mantel

74. ok adv. & conj.

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(a) Introducing a sentence or an independent clause: moreover, likewise, also; (b) modifying the predicate: too, also, in the same manner; (c) connecting nouns, usually following the last member…

75. overleith n.

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Excessive harm.

76. pasken v.

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To paddle, splash.

77. picchen v.

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(a) To thrust (sth.), drive (a stake, etc.); picchen in (o, to, into), stick, thrust, or drive (sth.) into (sth.); surround (a wood) with a palisade [quot.: a1450, 1st]; (b) to pierce (sb. or sth.)…

78. pilken v.

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(a) Of a bird: to strike at or pick clean (sth.) with the bill; used fig.; (b) to deprive (sb.) of goods by exercise of power; (c) in surname.

79. pirling ppl.

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Revolving.

80. pǒuten v.

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(a) To thrust out the lips in displeasure or sullenness, pout; (b) pouten oute, to swell, erupt.

81. quert(e adj.

Additional spellings: querte
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(a) Of a person, an animal: healthy, sound; alive; uninjured, safe; (b) of a thing: intact, undamaged; (c) spiritually sound or healthy; quert from, safe from (sin); (d) at ease, untroubled.

82. rak n.(1)

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(a) A rain cloud, storm cloud, storm; rein and rak; (b) movement, rapid movement; a rush; haven rap and rak, to have swift passage; on rak, god (gret) rak, immediately, very quickly.

83. rī̆ndes n. plural

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Low ridges of earth, banks; also, the banks of a river.

84. riplen v.

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(a) To wrinkle, crease; (b) to scratch (sth.), score; (c) med. to bore (a bone), trepan.

85. 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.

86. rōthen v.(2)

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To talk nonsense.

87. rǒuken v.

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(a) To heap (sth.) up; (b) to cower, huddle, crouch; lurk; squat, sit; also fig.; (c) in phrase: nought..rouken nor rounen, not to mumble, not to whisper.

88. rōve n.(2)

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

89. rubben v.

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(a) To apply friction on a surface, rub; sharpen a tool by filing or scrubbing; rubben on the rote of the red galle, touch on a sore spot; (b) of a boat: to rub against the bank; of an animal: rub…

90. ruggen v.

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(a) To pull or stretch (sb. or sth.), tug at fiercely; -- also without obj.; also, torture (sb.) by pulling or stretching; (b) to drag (sb.); (c) to tear (sb. or sth.), tear (one's hair); ruggen and

91. rūke n.

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(a) A heap, pile; also, a haystack; (b) a unit of measure; (c) a group of common people.

92. rū̆kelen v.

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To assemble (sth.), heap up, amass; heap (coals of fire on someone's head).

93. rumbelen v.

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(a) To make a rumbling sound; (b) to make a low noise; murmur, mumble, mutter; (c) of a crowd: to make noise or tumult; (d) to move with a rumbling sound; (e) to cause a rumbling sound by movement.

94. rump(e n.

Additional spellings: rumpe
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(a) The rump of a quadruped mammal; also, the tail; also, an animal rump as food for a hawk; (b) the rump of a person, posterior; (c) as surname.

95. saggen v.

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(a) To sink, be mired; (b) to sag, hang down unevenly; (c) ?to weaken; ?sink down.

96. scab(be n.

Additional spellings: scabbe
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(a) Any of various skin diseases characterized by itching, pustules, ulceration, etc.; also, the pustule characteristic of such diseases [quot.: a1398, 1st]; also, scabby or scaly condition of the…

97. scadde n.

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A corpse.

98. scōpen v.(1)

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To leap, skip, bound.

99. shingle n.(2)

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(a) Gravel, pebbles; (b) in place names [see Smith PN Elem.2.121].

100. shǒupe n.

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A rose hip, esp. of the dog rose Rosa canina or the sweetbrier rose (R.osa rubiginosa or Rosa eglanteria); shoupetre, a dog rose tree or bush or a sweetbrier bush.