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1. āche n.(1)

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Pain, esp. continuous or deep-seated pain; aching, suffering; ache of hed, headache; toth ake; aches of love, the woes of love.

2. ā̆korn n.

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(a) An acorn; akorns of okes; cup of an akorn; (b) mast, such as acorns and nuts.

3. al n.

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(a) A tool or instrument with a sharp point; a stylus; (b) a shoemaker's awl; (c) a spike (on armor); (d) a quill (of a hedgehog or porcupine); an awn.

4. al limiting adj. & n.

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Denoting the total number of entities in a class or group: all (persons, creatures, things, units); all without exception: (a) with a noun: al(le men, al(le the knightes, the knightes al(le, etc.; (b)…

5. alder n.(1)

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(a) Alder (Alnus glutinosa); alder tre; (b) alder kerre, alder kyr, alder was, alder swamp; alder shawe, alder thicket.

6. ā̆l-gē̆r n.

Additional spellings: alger
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Eel spear, fish spear.

7. alōe(s n.

Additional spellings: aloes
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Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c) med. the drug aloes; aloe caballinum (cicotrine, epatik).

8. anclẹ̄ n.

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(a) The ankle; ankle bone, esp. the inner projection [quots. c1150, c1440]; innermore ancle; utward ancle, outer projection of the ankle; (b) ancle bon, ankle bone; utter ancle, outer projection of…

9. andetnes(se n.

Additional spellings: andetnesse
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(a) Confession of sins; (b) profession (of faith, etc.).

10. angel-twacche n.

Additional spellings: angeltwacche
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Earthworm.

11. ang-nail n.

Additional spellings: angnail
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A corn; ?also, a whitlow.

12. antē̆me n.

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A musical composition based upon a scriptural text, sung in the Church Offices before each psalm and often repeated after the psalm, or after each verse of the psalm [see Karl Young, The Drama of the

13. arblast, -blastē̆r n.

Additional spellings: arblaster
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(a) A weapon for discharging quarrels, stones, etc., consisting of a bow set crosswise on a shaft; a crossbow, an arbalest; (b) a missile shot from a crossbow; arblast shute.

14. asshe n.(2)

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(a) Ashes of combustible materials; brennen to asshe; turnen to asshe; (b) ashes as used in medicaments, for making lye, etc.; (c) hot ashes or coals, as for baking.

15. aughte n.

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(a) Possessions collectively, one's property, goods, wealth; (b) a possession, something valuable; also, a gift; -- often in pl.; (c) erthli aughte, worldli aughte, worldes aughte, worldly goods…

16. aunǧel n.

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One of the celestial servants of God, an angel.

17. autē̆r n.

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(a) The altar of a church; also, the altar placed before the shrine or image of a saint; (b) heigh auter, chef auter, the high altar, the altar on which the Eucharist is offered; sacrement of the

18. băcher n.

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(a) A baker; (b) as surname.

19. bāk(e-hǒus n.

Additional spellings: bakhous, bake-hous, bakehous
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(a) A building or a room equipped for baking bread, a bakery (as in a lord's household, a village); comon bak-hous; also, a bakery with its staff of officers and servants; office of the bak-hous,

20. bās n.(1)

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A fish of the perch family; perch, bass.

21. bēde-mād n.

Additional spellings: bedemad
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A manorial service consisting of mowing for the lord of the manor.

22. bed-rēde(n adj. & n.

Additional spellings: bedrede, bed-reden, bedreden
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(a) Confined to bed, bedridden; (b) one who is confined to bed.

23. belī n.

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(a) The belly of man or animal, abdomen; beli and bak, before and behind, all over; (b) the body; (c) beli blind, blind as the inside of the belly, pitch dark; beli bond, a band or strap passing under…

24. bē̆rn n.(1)

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(a) A man, male person; also, person, human being; (b) bern ne best, man nor beast; bernes and brides, men and women; etc.; (c) mate, husband; (d) serving man, servant.

25. bidel n.

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One who makes announcements or carries messages and performs other services on the authority of a lord, court, guild, etc.; herald, town crier, summoner; bidel hod, a beadle's hood; bidel land (a…

26. bihēst(e n.

Additional spellings: behest, biheste, beheste
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(a) A promise or pledge; also, what is promised; bihoten, maken bihest, make a promise; bilesten, fulfillen, holden bihest, keep or carry out a promise; breken bihest; (b) lond of bihest, the Promised…

27. bīke n.(1)

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A nest of wild bees or wasps; a honeycomb; hony bike.

28. bil n.

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A cutting, hacking, or grubbing implement: (a) a falchion, halberd, pike, gisarme; bil ibeat; blak bil [see blak adj., sense 4. (f)]; (b) a pruning hook or blade; bil hok; hegge bil, a bill hook used…

29. bī̆rde n.(1)

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A woman of noble birth; damsel, lady, lady in waiting; fre iboren birde; also, woman; -- frequ. in allit. phrases: birde bright, fair lady; birde in boure, damsel in bower; bern and birde, lord and…

30. birth(e n.

Additional spellings: birthe
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(a) The act of giving birth, childbirth; birth bering; labour of birth; at on (a) birth, in one delivery; (b) birth in wombe, conception.

31. bī̆-smār(e n.

Additional spellings: bismar, bi-smare, bismare
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Ridicule, mockery, derision, disdain, or an instance of it; on (a) or for bi-smar, by way of mockery or ridicule, tauntingly, derisively; driven to bi-smar, engage in mockery, make fun of, be amused…

32. bisọ̄kne n.

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(a) An entreaty or request; (b) chirche-bisocnie, attendance at church.

33. bitlok n.

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A bit of food.

34. biyēte n.

Additional spellings: beyete
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(a) What has been acquired; property, possessions, goods; for al his biyete, for all the world; (b) gain, profit, benefit, advantage; also, interest (on loans); (c) spoils, booty; (d) prey.

35. blā̆s n.

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(a) Blowing (of wind), a gust; windes blas; (b) blowing (of a bellows); beli blas; breath (of the devil); (c) blowing (of horns), blast.

36. blāse n.

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(a) A flame, a blaze; blase of fire; tenden blase, setten on blase, set on fire; ben on blase, be on fire, burn; (b) a firebrand, torch, beacon; (c) a blaze of light.

37. bọ̄ld n.

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(a) An edifice, such as a castle or mansion; (b) a dwelling place, an abode; (c) in names [see A.H. Smith PNElem. 1.43].

38. bō̆nd n.

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Something used for tying, binding, wrapping, fastening, joining: (a) a cord, string (also fig.); a strap, halter, leash; a bowstring; (b) a twist of straw; a tendril; (c) a bandage or wrapping; (d) a…

39. brẹ̄ n.

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(a) Porridge, pulse; (b) broth (of meat), liquor (of vegetables); (c) ?a type of ale or beer; ?some sort of broth, juice, or liquor;bre mongere, a seller of such a commodity; ale bre, a drink made…

40. brẹ̄ch n.

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(a) The undergarment covering the lower part of the body; underpants, drawers, or tights; brech and sherte, sark and brek; (b) brech, brek, as pl.; a pare brech, a pair of breeches.

41. breid n.(1)

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(a) A sudden or quick movement, such as a jerk, wrench, pull, start, jolt; (b) a rash or hasty act; a move; (c) an impassioned utterance, an outburst or outcry; (d) an unusual occurrence or event…

42. brembel n.

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A thorny shrub or prickly plant; a bramble or brier; specif., the blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) or dewberry (R. caesius); brembel busk; brembel bery.

43. brẹ̄st n.(1)

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(a) The thorax or chest, esp. as containing the vital organs; streightnesse of brest, asthma; nimen under brest, swallow (sth.); (b) womb, bosom.

44. brid n.

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(a) A bird of any kind; briddes and bestes; (b) brid of prai, a bird of prey; brid of gentris, a noble bird; brid of plesaunce, a bird used in the sport of hunting; feld brid, wild fowl; (c) a bird as…

45. brim n.(1)

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A body of water, such as the sea, a pool, spring, river.

46. Britaine n.

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The island on which England, Cornwall, Wales, and Scotland are (or were) situated, or those parts of the island held by Celts after the Anglo-Saxon conquest; also, specif., Wales, Cornwall; Britaine

47. būr-lō̆nd n.

Additional spellings: burlond
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Land occupied by country people or farmers; ?also, land held by cottagers.

48. bush n.(1)

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(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth.

49. būte-carl n.

Additional spellings: butecarl
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A boatman.

50. buttok n.

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(a) A buttock; pl. rump, posteriors; (b) rump, posteriors; (c) element in personal names.

51. calle n.

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(a) A net for the hair, a kind of headdress; (b) comeli under calle, beautiful in one's headdress; uncomeli under calle; maken (sb.) a houve aboven a calle, to make a fool of (sb.); (c) ?a hood, ?a…

52. cal-meu n.

Additional spellings: calmeu
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A water bird; ?a kingfisher; fig. a loose woman.

53. carl-fǒul n.

Additional spellings: carlfoul
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A male bird.

54. chaffā̆re n.

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Trade in goods, buying and selling, commerce, bargaining; driven, usen chaffare, engage in trade, do business; chaffare of lesinges, dishonest trade or bargaining.

55. chā̆vel n.

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(a) A jaw; nethere (over) chavel, lower (upper) jaw; (b) chavel bon, jawbone, jaw; (c) the toothed jaw-like front (of a reaper).

56. cherset n.

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A customary rent paid in grain or chickens for the support of the (parish) church, usually at Martinmas (Nov.11). [See Neilson Cust.Rents in OSSLH 2 193-6.]

57. chervel n.

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Chervil Anthriscus cerefolium, used as a pot-herb and in medicaments.

58. cholle n.

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(a) Throat, gullet; (b) the front of the neck; jowl, double chin, dewlap, etc.; (c) forehead, head; balled cholle bald head.

59. clōve n.(1)

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(a) A bulbil or clove, esp. of garlic; (b) as surname.

60. clyvy n.

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A bur.

61. cōl-mōse n.

Additional spellings: colmose
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Kingfisher.

62. Cornwaile n.

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Cornwall.

63. crud n.

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(a) Coagulated milk, clabber; curds, cottage cheese; -- usu. pl.; (b) a curd; (c) rennet or junket [as in L].

64. cud(e n.

Additional spellings: cude
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(a) Gum, resin, mastic; cobbler's wax; cheuen cud, to chew mastic; (b) Spanish cud, a resin from Spain; whit cud [cp. OE hwit-cudu], mastic.

65. cuð-red(d)en n.

Additional spellings: cuðredden, cuð-reden, cuðreden
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Intimate acquaintance, intimacy.

66. dēne n.

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A valley; a thickly wooded valley; doun (hil) and dene, hill and dale; dene of teres, vale of tears.

67. Dene-laue n.

Additional spellings: Denelaue
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The law code imposed upon the northern and eastern counties of England by the Danes or Northmen, or the 15 counties so governed; the Danelaw.

68. Dene-marche n.

Additional spellings: Denemarche
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The land of the Danes and Northmen, Scandinavia.

69. deu-lap(pe n.

Additional spellings: deulap, deu-lappe, deulappe
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Dewlap of cattle.

70. dogge n.

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(a) An ordinary dog or cur; curre dogge; (b) as a term of abuse or contempt: a worthless or contemptible person; wretch, cur; -- also, said of the Devil.

71. dọ̄ke n.

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(a) A duck of any kind (male or female, wild or tame, young or old); drinken with the doke, to drink only water; (b) donghil doke, barnyard duck; wilde doke, (c) the likeness of a duck.

72. doughtī adj. & n.

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(a) Bold, brave, valiant, strong in battle or combat; (b) doughti in armes, doughti in (of) dede(s, doughti of hond, doughti of his hondes, doughti under sheld; (c) of an action, blow, fight, etc…

73. draf n.

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(a) Refuse of grain, chaff, husks; ?also, bran; fig. the worthless part of something; (b) waste parts of grapes or olives after removal of juice or oil; also fig.; (c) solid parts of leaves or herbs…

74. drag(ge n.(1)

Additional spellings: dragge
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(a) A dragnet; (b) a harrow or drag; (c) a barge or raft; (d) a grappling hook.

75. drēm n.(2)

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(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or

76. drince-lēn n.

Additional spellings: drincelen
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A lord's grant to a vassal in reward for hospitality [see Liebermann Gesetze 2.56 under dryncelean].

77. drōpe n.(1)

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(a) A drop of liquid; drope of blod (deue, rein, water, win, etc.); deues drope, reines drope, etc.; a drop of medicine; (b) on (a, an) drope, a single drop; no drope, not a drope, nought on (o)

78. drọ̄̆s n.

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(a) Dross, impurities of metal; also fig.; (b) sediment, lees; (c) waste matter, decayed matter; dighten to dros, to kill (sb.).

79. dusī(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: dusie
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(a) Foolish, unwise; -- of persons or actions; (b) giddy, dizzy; (c) dull, unresponsive.

80. dwergh n.

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(a) A supernatural being of subhuman size, dwarf; on dwergh, possessed by a dwarf; dwergh dwosle, pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegium); (b) a member of a race of small people, Pygmy; (c) an undersized or…

81. ēke n.

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(a) An increase, addition, enhancement; an added tract of land [quot.: c1465]; (b) to (on) eke(n, teke(n, in addition, over and above; (c) to eke, to eke this or that, therteke, in addition to this…

82. ēle n.(1)

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Oil; holi ele, holy oil, chrism.

83. elf n.

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A supernatural being having magical powers for good or evil; a spirit, fairy, goblin, incubus, succubus, or the like.

84. elf-thung n.

Additional spellings: elfthung
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A medicinal root, identified with L helleborus [cp. elebre].

85. ēm n.(1)

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An uncle;--applied indifferently to the father's brother [paternal uncle, L patruus] and the mother's brother [maternal uncle, L avunculus].

86. ē̆rdling n.

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A husbandman (having a certain holding of land); half erdling, one with half the holding of an erdling.

87. ē̆rthe n.(1)

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(a) The physical earth as part of God's creation, often as contrasted with the heavens above and hell below; (b) the earth as a sphere.

88. ēten n.

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(a) A supernatural being of great size and strength, an ogre, a giant; also, a human being with these attributes; often fig.; (b) etene ring, circle of the giants (the reference is to a prehistoric…

89. fenel n.

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(a) Fennel Foeniculum vulgare; rot (more) of fenel, etc.; red (rouge, brown) fenel, a variety of fennel with brown seeds, ?German or Saxon fennel; (b) when qualified, denoting other plants: hound

90. fether-hāme n.

Additional spellings: fetherhame
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Feather covering, plumage; wings.

91. fixen n.

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A female (fox), she-fox; fixen of the fox.

92. fleil n.

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(a) Instrument used for threshing grain, a flail; (b) cap of a fleil, fleil cap, one of the bands of wood or leather (fastened about the end of the flail staff or the end of the swingle) through which…

93. flẹ̄te n.

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(a) A group of ships; esp. a fleet of warships, a navy; ?a naval expedition; (b) a troop of armed men, an army; (c) ?a set (of fishing nets).

94. flōte n.(1)

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(a) A fleet of ships, esp. of warships; (b) company, troop; army; (c) herd of animals; (d) ?a set (of fishing nets).

95. n.

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(a) One who, as an individual, hates or seeks to injure someone; enemy; hed fo, meste fo, chief enemy; (b) an opponent of God, an unbeliever, one who opposes Christianity; godes fo; (c) one who…

96. fodme n.

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Anything that is nourished or grows; erthes fodme, the produce of the earth.

97. fōrd n.

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(a) A shallow place in a body of water; esp., a place where one may pass through the water, a ford; (b) a watering place; a spring.

98. frank-pleǧǧe n.

Additional spellings: frankplegge
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One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc.

99. frī-dai n.

Additional spellings: fridai
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Friday; --freq. with def. art.; in various constructions; (b) in prep. phrases; (c) adverbial uses.

100. Frī(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: Frie
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The goddess of love, Freya.