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1. ablā̆tī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: ablative
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(a) The ablative (case) of Latin; a noun or adjective in the ablative case; (b) in a pun (with ref. to L ablātiō a taking away & ablāt-um taken away, stolen): carried off, stolen; ablatif cas, the……

2. absent adj. (& n.)

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(a) Not in a particular place, not present, absent; -- often with fro, from; (b) of things, qualities, etc.: absent, lacking, non-existent. …

3. accǒunta(u)nt adj. & n.

Additional spellings: accountaunt
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(a) Liable to render account; (b) charged with accounting; officer accountant; (c) as noun: an accounting officer. …

4. ac(c)ūsatīf adj. & n.

Additional spellings: accusatif
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(a) Accusing, self-accusing [note the play on the word cas in GRom.]; (b) gram. accustif (cas). …

5. acūtīves adj. (plural) as n.

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Medicines for sharpening or improving (the hearing). …

6. adjectī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: adjective
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Gram. (a) Adjectival; noun adjectif, an adjective; verb adjectif, a verbal noun or adjective; (b) as noun: adjective. …

7. adminiculātī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: adminiculative
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(a) Supplementary; (b) a supplement. …

8. adversaire n. & adj.

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(a) An opponent or enemy; (b) opposing, hostile. …

9. agrest, -a adj. & n.

Additional spellings: agresta
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(a) Uncultivated, wild (plant); (b) win agrest, agresta, verjuice. …

10. amēr adj. as n.

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don amer, deal bitter blows, inflict severe wounds. …

11. angard n. & adj.

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(a) Forwardness, arrogance, insolence; angardes pride, etc.; (b) adj. arrogant, proud. …

12. anglēr adj. as n.

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A cornerstone or quoin; also fig.; square angler, such a stone cut to a right angle; angler skouchon, cut to an obtuse angle [cp. scochoun shield]. …

13. annuē̆l adj. & n.

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(a) Of income, rent, a feast, etc.: yearly, annual; (b) of service: lasting a year, by the year; (c) of persons: engaged or appointed by the year; (d) annuel prest, a priest who performs anniversary……

14. annuel(l)ēr adj. & n.

Additional spellings: annueller
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A priest who celebrates anniversary memorial masses for the dead, or is endowed for this purpose; prest annueler. …

15. antecēdent adj. & n.

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Logic & ethics A prior assumption or principle, a premise; antecedent trouth; antecedent ded, a preceding act as causing a later act. …

16. apostatā n. (& adj.)

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One who abandons or renounces an established religion or an article of faith; an apostate; tyrant apostata. …

17. Arabī n. & adj.

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(a) Arabia; Fenix of Arabi; (b) an Arab; (c) the Arabic language; (d) an Arabian horse; (e) gomme (of) Arabi, gum Arabic. …

18. Arābien, -ian adj. & n.

Additional spellings: Arabian
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(a) Arabian; an Arab; (b) a religious sect [see quot.]. …

19. Arabī̆k adj. & n.

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(a) Arabic; Arabik tonge; (b) gomme Arabik, gum Arabic. …

20. arǧent n. & adj.

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(a) Silver, silver coin; cash (specifying a cash price as opposed to a discounted price or price paid in installments); (b) her. silver-colored, silver-gilt; (c) vif argent, argent vif, [L argentum……

21. arōmaunt adj. & n.

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(a) Fragrant, aromatic; (b) pl. aromatic substances, spices. …

22. artetīk, -ica adj. & n.

Additional spellings: artetica, arthetica, arthretica, aretica
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Arthritic, rheumatic; arthritis, rheumatism; goute artetik, arthritis, gout. …

23. artīk adj. & n.

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(a) belonging to the celestial north; pol artik, the north pole of the heavens; specif., the North Star as marking its position; under the pol artik, under the North Star, in the North; of artik, of……

24. asaut adj. & n.

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In heat, in rut. …

25. ā̆sūr n.(1) & adj.

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The blue stone lapis lazuli; enamel made of powdered lapis lazuli. …

26. attenda(u)nt adj. & n.

Additional spellings: attendaunt
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(a) Solicitous, diligent, careful; considerate; (b) ben attendant on, to, take care of, attend. …

27. augard n. & adj.

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(a) Forwardness, arrogance, pride; (b) adj. proud, excellent; exceeding. …

28. barbar adj. & n.

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(a) Foreign, non-Greek; (b) heathen, non-Christian; -- perh. with implications of inhumanity; (c) barbar tonge [see quots.]. …

29. barbariē̆n(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: barbariene
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(a) Foreign or heathen; (b) a foreigner, i.e. not a Roman; (c) a native of the Barbary Coast; a Berber. …

30. barbarī̆n(e n. & adj.

Additional spellings: barbarine
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(a) A foreigner, barbarian, heathen; a non-Greek, a non-Roman; (b) foreign, non-Greek; also, rugged [quot.Chauliac]. …

31. bīgam adj. & n.

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(a) Having two wives; (b) one who marries a widow; married twice (also fig. of Christ). …

32. bīs adj. & n.

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Dark, gray, ?blue-gray; a pigment of this color. …

33. brigǒus adj. (& n.)

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(a) Intricate, subject to dispute; (b) as noun: a quarrelsome person. …

34. Britǒun n. & adj.

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(a) A native of the British Isles, a Celt; Britones se, the Britons' (or Bretons') Sea = Brittish se, the English channel; (b) a Breton; (c) a Breton apple. …

35. Burgoin(e n. and adj.

Additional spellings: Burgoine
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(a) Burgundy; (b) a Burgundian. …

36. burnē̆t n.(1) & adj.

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(a) Of cloth, a garment: brown; (b) a brown woolen cloth of fine quality; blak burnet, bright burnet; (c) a garment or bag made of this cloth. …

37. caffatīn n. & adj.

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In phrases denoting a type of sugar, orig. from Caffa in the Crimea: sugre (de) caffatin. …

38. calefactī̆f adj. & n.

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Med. (a) Of a remedy or a diet: producing heat in the body, warming; (b) a medicine which increases heat. …

39. captī̆f n. & adj.

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(a) A captive or prisoner; (b) imprisoned, enslaved; also fig. …

40. causatīf adj. as n.

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Cause. …

41. cendrīn adj. & n.

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Ash-colored, gray; also, as noun: cloth of this color; ? = cendal. …

42. cerimoniāl adj. & n.

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Belonging to religious ceremony or ritual; ceremonial; -- distinguished from judicial and moral. …

43. certificatōrie adj. & n.

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A certifying letter or document, a certificate; lettre certificatorie. …

44. champain(e n.(1) & adj.

Additional spellings: champaine
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(a) Open country; a plain; (b) champain countrē, champain lond; champain heritages, inherited open country. …

45. cheisil, -el adj. & n.

Additional spellings: cheisel
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(a) Made of fine linen; cheisil cloth, cheisil smok; (b) fine linen cloth; (c) an overgarment made of this kind of linen. …

46. chekerī adj. & n.

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(a) Checked or checkered in design; (b) cloth or a piece of cloth so figured. …

47. chek-māt adj. & n.

Additional spellings: chekmat
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Chess Checkmate! (said to the opponent when his king is cornered); saien chek-mat. …

48. chevalrǒus adj. (also as n.)

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(a) Excelling in warfare; filled with the spirit of knight-errantry; valiant, brave; chevalrous of dedes; (b) filled with the ideals of chivalry (i.e. prowess, generosity, allegiance, courtly……

49. chinche adj. & n.

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(a) Parsimonious, stingy, miserly; (b) as noun: a (rich) person who is stingy, miserly, or greedy; a niggard, miser; also, wretch; (c) said to be a nickname of the hare. …

50. cicatrizatī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: cicatrizative
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(a) Promoting cicatrization; (b) a medicine promoting cicatrization. …

51. cirẹ̄ adj. (?and n.)

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In combination cire cloth, cloth impregnated with wax or a wax compound, perh. associated specifically with burial shrouds; ?as noun: waxed burial wrapping; ?as a metonymy for death. …

52. citrīn(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: citrine
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(a) Reddish or brownish yellow; orange, amber [distinguished from yellow]; (b) orange or yellow; pome citrin, a citrus fruit; ozimus (ocimum) citrin, a medicinal plant, perhaps lemon basil Ocimum X……

53. cochie adj. & n.

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A remedy for relieving 'excess humors'; pillule cochie. …

54. colik adj. & n.

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(a) Affecting the colon; suffering with colic; (b) as noun: a disease characterized by severe abdominal pain, the colic. …

55. columbīne adj. & n.

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Gentle or innocent as a dove; meek, demure. …

56. cǒmfortatī̆f adj. & n.

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Heartening, cheering, consoling. …

57. conglūtinatī̆f adj. & n.

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(a) Of a medicine: having the property of closing wounds or knitting fractured bones by producing a glutinous substance; (b) a medicine having this property. …

58. consenta(u)nt adj. & n.

Additional spellings: consentaunt
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(a) Agreeing in sentiment; (b) inclined, willing; (c) acquiescent; accessory (to a crime). …

59. conservatīf adj. & n.

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(a) Tending to preserve or protect; (b) as noun: a means of preservation, a preservative. …

60. consolidatīf adj. & n.

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Of a medicine: having the property of promoting cicatrization or closing of a wound; as noun: a medicine of such properties. …

61. constrictī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. (& n.)

Additional spellings: constrictive
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(a) Of medicines: having the property of thickening and thus arresting the discharge of bodily fluids; (b) of a bandage or truss: restraining or preventing a discharge or distention. …

62. consumptī̆f adj. & n.

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(a) Of a medicine: having the property of reducing or eliminating morbid 'humors' or tissue; (b) a medicine having this property. …

63. contemplātī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: contemplaive
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(a) Of a person: devoted to the contemplation of the Divinity and the divine order (as a monk or recluse); (b) as noun: a person so devoted; (c) a devotee (of the devil). …

64. continū(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: continue
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(a) Continuous, uninterrupted; repeated; (b) successive (days); (c) continuity (of tissue). …

65. corrō̆sī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: corrosive
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(a) Chemically corrosive; water corrosif, an acid; also fig.; (b) a chemically corroding substance, as an acid. …

66. cotidiā̆n adj. & n.

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(a) Daily; also, continual, unceasing; (b) usual, habitual; ordinary, everyday. …

67. cǒuẹ̄ adj. & n.

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(a) Of rimed verse: having a shorter line at regular intervals, tailed; in (rime) coue, in tail rime; (b) ?the tail, or shorter line, of such verse; couplen a coue, ?to make intricately rimed verse. …

68. cǒupāble adj. & n.

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(a) Of persons: guilty, blameworthy, culpable; (b) coupable in, coupable of, guilty of (a crime, sin); coupable upon, blameworthy in (sth.); (c) of things, actions, etc.: blameworthy, sinful, wicked. …

69. crā̆s adj. & n.

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(a) Slow, sluggish, tardy [with pun on sound made by raven]; (b) as noun: something fat or gross. …

70. Cristen adj. & n.

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(a) Of persons: Christian; Cristen soule, Christian soul; also, a Christian; (b) Cristen man, a Christian. …

71. culvert adj. & n.

Additional spellings: culvart, culverd
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(a) Villainous, base, treacherous; (b) as surname: ?serf. …

72. cūte adj. & n.

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(a) Of wine: boiled down to one third of the original volume; (b) of iii (ii) cute, of a liquor: reduced to one third (one half) by boiling. …

73. debonaire adj. & n.

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(a) Mild, gentle, kind; courteous, gracious; humble, meek; (b) of things: benign, favorable; of winds: mild; of words or speech: kindly, courteous; of life, actions: gentle, meek; of eyes……

74. debǒuntẹ̄ adj. & n.

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(a) ?Good, virtuous; ?benevolent; (b) goodness, virtue. …

75. dēmoniak adj. & n.

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(a) Possessed by a devil, insane; (b) as noun: one possessed by a devil, insane person. …

76. demonstrātīf adj. & n.

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(a) Characterized by logical reasoning, logical; proceding from true premises, demonstrable, certain; -- as noun, personified; demonstratif conning, the science of logic; also, knowledge based on……

77. derivatī̆f adj. & n.

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(a) Such as to draw off blood; (b) as noun: a derived word or form, a derivative. …

78. dīǧestī̆f adj. & n.

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As adj.: (a) med. able to break down pathological matter, humors, etc.; medecin digestif, a digestive medicine, a drug that prepares pathological matter for evacuation; (b) physiol. having to do with……

79. dī̆minūtī̆f adj. & n.

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Gram. A derivative word denoting a small kind of the primitive, a diminutive; also noun diminutif. …

80. discō̆rdaunt adj. & n.

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(a) Conflicting in nature or kind; discordaunt fro, discordaunt to, discordaunt unto, not conforming to (sth.), differing from (sth.); (b) dissonant; (c) as noun: a discordant element. …

81. discǒuncellẹ̄ adj. as n.

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One who is without counsel, helpless person. …

82. dismā̆l n. & adj.

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(a) in the dismal, in days of misfortune or disaster, under inauspicious circumstances, at an unlucky time; (b) dismal dai, one of the two days in each month which were considered unlucky, a day of……

83. doctrī̆nāl adj. & n.

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(a) Of Scripture: dealing with doctrines or precepts of conduct; (b) a treatise dealing with the principles of a field of knowledge. …

84. dominaunt adj. & n.

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(a) ordre dominaunt, the fourth order of angels; (b) as noun: angels of the fourth order. …

85. dorma(u)nt adj. & n.

Additional spellings: dormaunt
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(a) Of a table: remaining in place, permanent; table dormant, bord dormant; (b) as noun: a permanent table (i.e. one not taken down after a meal has been served). …

86. dorrẹ̄, dōrī adj. & n.

Additional spellings: dori
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(a) Golden or reddish-yellow; (b) cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s dorre, sopes dorre. …

87. dǒuce adj. & n.

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(a) Dear, beloved; douce amour, sweetheart; (b) douce Fraunce, beloved France; (c) douce vie, luxurious life; (d) as noun: paramour; foul douce, filthy harlot; (e) in surnames. …

88. dǒucet adj. & n.

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(a) Sweet or pleasant to the taste; tasty, delicious; (b) as noun: a sweet custard or sweetened meat pie. …

89. Ēǧipcien, -ian n. and adj.

Additional spellings: Egipcian
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As noun: a native of Egypt, an Egyptian. …

90. empīrī adj. and n.

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Empyrean, empyreal; heven empiri, the highest of the heavenly spheres, which according to the ancients consisted of the element of fire, and became the abode of God and the angels in the Middle Ages. …

91. ēnorme adj. as n.

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A monstrous or unnatural act, an enormity. …

92. epilentī̆k adj. & n.

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(a) Affected with epilepsy, epileptic; (b) an epileptic. …

93. erratī̆k adj. & n.

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erratik sterre, sterre erratik, a wandering star, a planet. …

94. expert ppl., adj. (and n.)

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Having (personal) experience (in or of something); experienced, wise through experience. …

95. faie adj. and n.

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Possessed of magical powers or properties; enchanted, enchanting; as noun: a person or place possessing such powers or characteristics. …

96. fēmē̆l(e, -āl(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: femele, femal, female
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(a) Of man and animals: female; a female; (b) femel complexioun, the physiological 'constitution' of a female (in accordance with the 'humor' theory). …

97. feminīn(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: feminine
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(a) Of sex: female; sex feminin; as noun: a female being, a woman; (b) fig. feminin fader, Father-Creator. …

98. ferrī adj. & n.

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caudel ferri, a kind of spiced drink; blaunch de ferri, a kind of meat dish. …

99. formel adj. & n.

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(a) A female bird; esp., the female of any of the species used in hawking; (b) formel egle, female eagle. …

100. fūtī̆f adj. as n.

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A fugitive, a vagabond. …

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