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221. wīsing ger.

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(a) ?Instruction; ?guidance; (b) the setting or identification of a route, leading.

222. wissing(e ger.

Additional spellings: wissinge
23 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Teaching, instruction; also in fig. context; the giving of instruction; also, counsel, guidance; also, an instruction (b) ordination, disposition, regulation; (c) the setting or identification of…

223. wītī̆inge ger.(2)

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That which is declared by a prophet, prophecy; a prophecy; also, the divine gift of prophecy [quot. a1225(OE)]; witiinge bok, one of the prophetical books of the Bible; witiinge writ, the corpus of…

224. wīving(e ger.

Additional spellings: wivinge
8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act of taking a wife, marrying; also, the state of being joined to a woman in marriage, marriage; twie (twinne) wiving, bigamy; (b) sexual intercourse with a woman.

225. wlāting(e ger.

Additional spellings: wlatinge
21 quotations in 2 senses
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Sickness of the stomach, nausea; repugnance (at food or drink); ?also [quot. a1425(c1395)], ?vomiting; ?vomit; also, something causing nausea [quot. a1333]; stomak wlating; wlating of the mouth, sour…

226. wọ̄dringe ger.

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In comb.: laue wodringe, the service of carting firewood [cp. wode n.(2) 6a. & 6b.].

227. wǒndring(e ger.

Additional spellings: wondringe
28 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) That which causes wonder; a marvel; ?also, a portent [1st quot.] (b) amazement, astonishment; surprise; also, an instance or example of astonishment or amazement; (c) puzzlement; speculation;…

228. wǒning(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: woninge
57 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The act or action of living, dwelling [occas. difficult to distinguish from (b)]; ancre woning, the way of life of an anchorite; comeling woning, sojourning (b) a home, habitation; a place of…

229. wōning(e ger.(2)

Additional spellings: woninge
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Wailing, moaning; lamentation; ?also, distress, grief [quot. ?c1250]; woning and wepinge (groninge, etc.); woning dai, a day of wailing.

230. worthing(e ger.

Additional spellings: worthinge
12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act of honoring someone; the act of worshiping God; also, honor; worship, reverence; worthing dai [OE weorþung-dæg], a day of worship, specif. the Sabbath; worthing night, ?the evening of Ash…

231. wouinge ger.

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(a) Courting, wooing; the act, or an act, of courtship; also in title of a mystical text [1st quot.]; gon o (riden on) wouinge, to court, woo (b) love-making, seduction; also in fig. context; pl.

232. wraggunge ger.

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= wragelinge n. (a).

233. wreiing(e ger.

Additional spellings: wreiinge
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(a) The act of exposing something, disclosure; (b) accusation, denunciation; also, an accusation; also, slander.

234. wrestling(e ger.

Additional spellings: wrestlinge
33 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Grappling, tussling; ?also, twisting about (b) specif. the sport of wrestling; the action of wrestling; also, a wrestling contest or match; (c) in combs.: wrestling coler, a piece of cloth worn…

235. writelinge ger.

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Warbling, twittering.

236. wrīting(e ger.

Additional spellings: writinge
127 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) The action or process of inscribing, forming, or otherwise recording characters, words, sentences, etc.; the craft of writing; also, one’s own handwriting, spelling, syntactic habits, etc (b)…

237. wrixlunge ger.

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The action of changing or exchanging.

238. yarking ger.

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Preparation.

239. yeddinge ger.

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A poem or song; a saying; also, a recitation (spoken or sung) of a verse narrative [quot. c1387-95].

240. yelping(e ger.

Additional spellings: yelpinge
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The act of bragging, boasting; also, a boast; ?also, arrogance [quot. 1440]; idel yelping; maken yelping.