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1. glā̆d adj.

181 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Of persons, creatures: joyful, merry, gay; cheerful, jolly; full of joyous or festive spirits, rejoicing; glad in (on) herte, glad of chere; glad and blithe, glad and joli, glad and light, glad……

2. glā̆sen adj.

26 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Made of glass; (b) yeven a glasen houve, to delude (sb.); glasen glose, a deluding or sophistical interpretation; (c) glasen wright, a glazier. …

3. lāt(e adj.

Additional spellings: late
68 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Slow, sluggish; reluctant; lat man in treuth, a man reluctant to believe; (b) ?negligent, remiss; (c) deliberate in moving; slow to anger. …

4. lāter(e adj. (comparative)

Additional spellings: latere
47 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Less early, later; produced, originating, born, brought out, uttered, coming, or occurring at a later time; of later date (yeres), of later date (years), more recent; (b) later ende, the latter……

5. līe adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Of persons and statements: mendacious, false. …

6. nāked adj.

193 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Not covered with clothing, unclothed, undressed; naked, nude, bare; also fig. [quot.: a1425]; naked bed, a bed in which one sleeps naked; as noun: a naked person; (b) lacking clothing; scantily……

7. nẹ̄̆r(re adj.

Additional spellings: nerre
60 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Nearer in space or time; ner dai, an earlier date; (b) more closely related by kinship; ner kin (sibbe); (c) in proverbs. …

8. pratī(e adj.

Additional spellings: pratie
42 quotations in 4 senses
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Cunning, crafty, clever; of a bee: skillful. …

9. stathel-fast adj.

Additional spellings: stathelfast
4 quotations in 1 sense
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Steadfast, sure. …

10. swẹ̄t(e adj.

Additional spellings: swete
375 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) Sweet to the taste, having the quality of sweetness; sweetened; also fig. and in fig. context; (b) swet almaunde, an almond used as food, as opposed to the bitter almond used medicinally; swet……

11. wēdle adj.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Poor, needy; (b) as noun: poor people, the poor. …

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