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1. bē̆l adj.

46 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Fair, fine, good, excellent; of a woman: beautiful; bel cher, good company; bel chose, bel chist, female sex organ; bel sone, good son, ?grandson; la bel, the beautiful one; (b) in personal names…

2. dēmūr adj.

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Quiet, well-mannered, poised, dignified, grave, sedate; of the sea: calm; benigne and demur, kind and gentle; demur of age, mature; also as AF surname.

3. estraunge adj.

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(a) Haughty, reserved; (b) as noun: something external to the body, a foreign substance.

4. luxūriǒus adj.

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(a) Lustful, lecherous; (b) wanton, outrageous.

5. overcharce adj.

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Of human hair: too sparse or scanty.

6. parochial adj.

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Parochial; chirche parochial, the principal church of a parish; messe parochial, a mass intended for the members of the parish; prest parochial, the priest administering a parish; parochial rightes

7. pẹ̄nī̆ble adj.

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(a) Painstaking, concerned, assiduous, devoted; (b) able to endure pain, stoical, hardy; penible to waken, inured to waking; (c) painful, bitter, agonizing; also, most painful, most distressing…

8. prenāble adj.

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(a) Capable of being taken by force, pregnable; also fig. obtainable; (b) of words: weighty, convincing [confused with preignaunt].

9. prēterit adj.

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(a) Before the present, past; preterit time; (b) having to do with the past; (c) gram. of tense in Latin: denoting action in the past; preterit imparfit tens, the imperfect tense.

10. ramāǧeǒus adj.

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Of an animal: (a) wild, untamed, violent; (b) ?in rut.

11. rēal adj.(1)

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(a) Of a king, one of the royal family, his power, dignity, etc.: majestic, royal, kingly; real blod, blod real [see also blod n. 6a.(a)]; real estat, estat real [see also estat n. 11d.]; real

12. receivāble adj.

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(a) Able to be received, capable of being received; acceptable; (b) of an excuse: admissible; (c) able to receive, capable of receiving; receivable thing, a receptacle, container.

13. rē̆nāble adj.

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(a) Eloquent; of a person's speech: fluent; (b) having the faculty of reason, wise; (c) moderate, reasonable; renable to, proportionate to (sth.); (d) as adv.: eloquently, fluently.

14. repugnaunt adj.

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(a) Hostile, opposed; also, resistant; as noun: the opposite, the contrary; (b) contradictory, inconsistent.

15. rǒuǧe adj.

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(a) Red; (b) as noun: a red color; rouge clere, bright red; (c) in place names.

16. rǒund(e adj.

Additional spellings: rounde
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(a) Spherical in shape; of any of the four elements: constituting a sphere; round as an appel (a bal, ani bal); round bodies, the celestial spheres; (b) more or less spherical in shape; also, of a…

17. Sarasī̆neis adj.

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(a) Of Saracen manufacture or style; brouet Sarasineis blaunk, a milk-based sauce; (b) of Saracen birth; (c) as noun: the territory of the Saracens [cp. Sarasinesse n.(a)].

18. savāǧe adj.

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(a) Of a person: wild, barbarous, uncivilized; of one's manner: rude; also as epithet; (b) of an animal or its nature: wild, not domesticated; untamed; (c) of land: wild, uncultivated; of a forest…

19. scrūpulǒus adj.

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Characterized by fine distinctions of doubt; also, troubled by pangs of conscience [1st quot.].

20. secce adj.

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Dry; brouet secce, soup or sauce usu. made with dry wine.