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1. bọ̄th n.

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A stall at a market or fair, a merchant's shop; ?also, house of prostitution [L meritorium]; (b) a temporary dwelling, arbor of branches, tent, hut; also a poor dwelling, a hovel; (c) in personal…

2. bǒun adj.

114 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Of persons: ready, prepared; also, armed; boun in, clothed in (sth.); expert in (astronomy); of things: in readiness, prepared; of a weapon: drawn; of parts of buildings: made, built; of wages or…

3. hō̆lm(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: holme
22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An island; a peninsula; (b) a meadow on a river bank; (c) a hill; (d) in surnames & place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.258-9, 268].

4. 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].

5. lodden v.

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To stick (together), cleave.

6. lūne n.

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Peace, quiet.

7. 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.

8. raft n.

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A beam; also, a spear [last quot.].

9. rag(ge n.

Additional spellings: ragge
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(a) A scrap of cloth, rag; (b) a strip of cloth, bandage; a streamer on a banner or pennon; (c) a flap or lappet of a garment; (d) sg.& pl. tattered or ragged clothing; also fig.; (e) ?a shred of…

10. rein n.(2)

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(a) A strip of land forming a boundary; also, a strip of land marked out as lists; (b) a furrow; (c) a barrier, an embankment; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2. 82].

11. reisen v.(1)

261 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) To lift up (sb. or sth.), hold up; engage in lifting and carrying [quot.: 1446]; reisen up; reisen eien, reisen up eie-sight, look up; reisen eres, of an elephant: stretch out the ears; reisen up

12. rudnen v.

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To become flushed from strong emotion.

13. rushe-wāle n.

Additional spellings: rushewale
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Walrus hide.

14. sẹ̄men v.(2)

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With adjectives, adjectival phrases, etc. in the pred.: (a) of persons, their countenance, speech, etc.: to appear to be (sick, honest, of great age, etc.); ppl. seminge as adv.: outwardly…

15. shāme n.

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(a) The feeling of having offended against propriety or decency; the feeling of having done something disgraceful; an instance of such feeling; embarrassment or revulsion caused by awareness of one's…

16. snibben v.

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(a) To rebuke, reprove; reprove (sb.), rebuke; also, abuse (sb.); censure (sinful behavior); (b) to rebuke (sb.) for (just criticism); snibben of (for), reprove (sb.) for (sinful or improper conduct)…

17. stēn(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: stene
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(a) A large stone; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.150].

18. sum conj.

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(a) As; ?also, error for soth adj. [quot. a1225]; sum that, where [cp. as conj. 10.]; as fer sum, so fer..sum, insofar as; so (as) sum, as, just as; also, as though [quot.Orm .3694]; swich (al-swich)

19. sweien v.(2)

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(a) To move, go, go quickly, hasten; also, of a current: move (sb.) along, carry; (b) to move in a swaying or sweeping motion; also, stoop, bend; ppl. sweande as adj., of a sail: billowing, swelling…

20. thei pron.

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As anaph. or pers. pron.: (a) the persons referred to, they; (b) used pleonastically or for emphasis; (c) with antecedent in apposition following; (d) as obj. of verb or prep.: them, those; (e) with…

21. thī̆r(e pron.

Additional spellings: thire
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(a) Used anaphorically, pointing to previously mentioned persons, things, actions, etc.: these, they; also, these, them [quots. 1st & c1450(?a1400)]; alle thir; also, pointing to one of two previously…

22. weght n.(1)

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(a) The physical property of heaviness, mass; weight as an attribute of objects, living creatures, or substances; also, the abstract quality of weight as a component of due proportion in nature; also…

23. wẹ̄k(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: weke
179 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The calendrical unit consisting of a cycle of seven successive named or numbered days and beginning or ending with a particularly specified day, the week of the Jewish or Christian calendar (b)…

24. whē̆then adv. & conj.

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As interrog. adv. in direct questions: (a) from what place?, whence?; also in interrog. adv. phrase with prep. from [last quot.]; (b) by what means?, how?; for what reason?, why?

25. yēven v.

1371 quotations in 35 senses
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(a) To give alms, gifts, etc., give something voluntarily, make a gift; give generously (to sb.); give alms, gifts, etc. (to sb.) in response to a request; also, in partitive construction: yeven of