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1. raft n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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A beam; also, a spear [last quot.]. …

2. rōk(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: roke
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(a) A mist, vapor; drizzling rain; (b) smoke, fumes; (c) rok peni, = reke-peni, s.v. rek(e n.(3)(d). …

3. ruggen v.

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(a) To pull or stretch (sb. or sth.), tug at fiercely; -- also without obj.; also, torture (sb.) by pulling or stretching; (b) to drag (sb.); (c) to tear (sb. or sth.), tear (one's hair); ruggen and……

4. rūke n.

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(a) A heap, pile; also, a haystack; (b) a unit of measure; (c) a group of common people. …

5. scurf n.

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(a) A scaly or scabby disease of the skin, esp. of the head; also, a similar disease in sheep [quot.: Palladius]; (b) the dry slough or scab produced by a caustic medicine, the bursting of a……

6. sī n.

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Fiber used in caulking ships. …

7. skī̆mering ger.

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(a) Gleaming, shining; also, a gleam, glimmer; (b) agitation, commotion; -- ?error for skirming(e ger. or screming ger. …

8. skrī̆ken v.

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(a) To shriek with pain, fear, or grief; scream, screech; also used of a frightened bird or chicken; (b) to scream with anger or excitement; also used of a snake and a scorpion; (c) of a baby or an……

9. slent n.(2)

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A drop of liquid. …

10. slẹ̄t(e adv.

Additional spellings: slete
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Obliquely. …

11. sneven v.

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To sniffle, snuffle; smell (sth.). …

12. snoberlī adv.

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Derisively. …

13. snō̆ken v.

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(a) To snuffle about, esp. as a hound on a scent; also fig.; (b) in cpd.: snoke-horn, ?one who snuffles into a horn, one who blows a horn, i.e., a worthless person [cp. blouen in an horn, etc., s.v. h……

14. snorkil n.

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A wrinkle. …

15. soggon ppl.

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In cpd.: water soggon, full of or saturated with water, watery. …

16. tit-mōse n.

Additional spellings: titmose
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A small songbird of the family Paridae, esp. one of the genus Parus. …

17. waggen v.

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(a) To be in motion, esp. back and forth or up and down, shake, flutter, swing; also fig. with ref. to (e) [quots. a1387 & a1425]; of teeth: be loose; of a boat: rock with the waves; of flesh: wobble……

18. weght n.(1)

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(a) The physical property of heaviness, mass; weight as an attribute of objects, living creatures, or substances; also, the abstract quality of weight as a component of due proportion in nature; also……

19. wī̆ke n.(2)

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A corner of a part of the body; the wike of the eie; the thinne wikes, the temples; share wikes, ?the groin. …

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