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1. frā̆kel adj. (Also as n. & adv.)

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Vile, foul, wretched, worthless; this frakel world.

2. grēt adj. & adv. & n.

696 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Large in size or quantity, big; gret and smal, large and small, all; gret ne smal, big or little, of no kind; althergrettest, largest of all [cp. alder- pref.]; gret belle, large bell; (b) much…

3. halven-dēl(e n., adj., and adv.

Additional spellings: halvendel, halven-dele, halvendele
65 quotations in 3 senses
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As noun: (a) a half portion of anything; (b) an arithmetical half; (c) bi the halven-del, to the extent of one half; ?by a great deal, considerably; in halven-del, in half, into two equal parts; to

4. hundfōld adj., adv., n.

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(a) As adj.: hundfold mede, a hundredfold reward; (b) as adv.: hundfold more, one hundred times as great; (c) as noun: bi hundfold, by a hundred times, a hundred times as much.

5. hundredfōld adj., adv., n.

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(a) As adj.: hundredfold mede (fruit, reward), a reward one hundred times as great as the service or sacrifice, a hundredfold reward; hundredfold fruit to virginite, the hundredfold reward for…

6. inmōst n., adj., & adv.

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(a) As noun: the inmost part, depth, deepest part; (b) as adj.: inmost, deepest, intimate; also, inner; (c) as adv.: within, inwardly.

7. iwis adv. & adj. & n.

71 quotations in 3 senses
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As adv.: (a) surely, certainly, indeed, in fact; (b) in phrases: ful iwis, wel iwis, very certainly; ye (yis) iwis, ye ful iwis, yes certainly; nai (no) iwis, certainly not.

8. mid-dai n., adj., & adv.

Additional spellings: middai
110 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) The middle of the day, the period around noon; devel of mid-dai, devil who is abroad in the middle of the day; in the time of mid-dai, in the middle of the day; in morwe and mid-dai and even-tide

9. mid-ward n.(1), adj., & adv.

Additional spellings: midward
54 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The middle of a thing, center spatially; the middle of a book; the middle portion of a river's course; bi the mid-ward, at the middle of the body, at the waist; (b) aboven mid-ward of, in (into)

10. north-ēst n., adj., & adv.

Additional spellings: northest
22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The point or direction which lies midway between north and east; the northeastern part of the sky or horizon; on north-est, in the northeast; (b) the northeast wind; (c) as adj.: northeast…

11. north-west n., adj., & adv.

Additional spellings: northwest
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(a) The point or direction which lies midway between north and west; at north-west, from the northwest; bi (in, on) north-west, to the northwest; in north-west, in the northwestern part of the sky…