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1. autēle n.

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A small duck of some kind.

2. bāre n.(2)

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A wave, billow; se bare.

3. bidagged ppl.

Additional spellings: bedagged
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Splashed, bespattered.

4. blenchen v.

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(a) To move suddenly or sharply; jerk, twist; flinch, wince, dodge; blenchen aside; blenchen low, duck; blenchen broues, raise (one's) eyebrows or eyelids; blenchen of slepe, wake up suddenly; (b) of…

5. chīmb n.

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The rim (of a barrel, formed by the joined ends of the staves).

6. clōen v.

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To claw or beat.

7. drǒuknen v.

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To be overcome; ppl. droukning, dejected, downcast.

8. dudde n.

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A cloak or mantle (?made of coarse, woolen cloth); also, a kind of cloth.

9. dunch(e n.

Additional spellings: dunche
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A loud noise, crash; a blow.

10. elten v.

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To mold (bricks); ?to work (clay); to roll (a paste-like substance) between one's hands into a given shape.

11. flostring ger.

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Blustering, agitation.

12. fors n.

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A cascade, a rapids.

13. frough adj.

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(a) Weak (in character), loose, fickle; fals and frough; (b) of a vision: delicate; ?delightful.

14. glǒuten v.

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To scowl, look glum.

15. golf n.

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A heap of sheaves in a barn; prob. the heap of grain between any two upright posts of the barn.

16. gollan n.

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Some kind of wild plant with yellow flowers; probably a species of Ranunculus (buttercup family).

17. grẹ̄nen v.(2)

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To desire, long (to do sth.).

18. hirplen v.

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(a) To walk with difficulty, hobble; (b) to be wrinkled.

19. intak n.

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A piece of enclosed land taken from a moor or from a common; -- only in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.304].

20. jāde n.

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(a) A cart horse, hack; (b) as surname.

21. kēkir n.

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(a) The clitoris; (b) ?the penis, ?an erection of the penis.

22. kē̆mpe adj.

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Of hair: coarse, shaggy; of an eel: large, coarse; as noun: a kind of large eel.

23. kevel n.(3)

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A big, strong person; ?also, as surname.

24. knāve n.(2)

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(a) ?A bed frame, bedstead; (b) ?a cooper's tool.

25. lerk n.

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A wrinkle; a fold in the skin or flesh.

26. raived adj.

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Of a roof: broken open.

27. rekelen v.

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To clatter, cackle.

28. rẹ̄nish(e adj.

Additional spellings: renishe
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(a) Strange, uncouth; (b) of an emperor: stern, awful.

29. riǧǧe n.

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(a) The back of a person; also fig.; rigge and ribbe, ribbe and rigge, completely; rigges bon, the backbone; (b) the back of an animal; the shell of a snail; (c) in phrases, of burdens: at (on, up,

30. rōn n.(2)

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A rowan-tree berry.

31. roune n.(1)

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The guts or roe of a fish; also, ?some kind of sauce made of fish and brine.

32. scavel n.

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(a) A strong, narrow-bladed spade; also fig.; (b) in surname.

33. scletten v.

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In phrase: scletten adoun, to flap (the ears) down.

34. sege n.(1)

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A callus.

35. self-ō̆de n.

Additional spellings: selfode
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(a) ?A separate holding, perh. split off from the unified villein's holding; (b) an occupant of such a holding, one of a class of tenant named in records from Northumberland and Cumberland, app. one…

36. short adj.

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(a) Of little length; smiten forth limes short, to cut the legs off short; shivered short, broken off short; (b) short iswired; short nosed; short pastroned; short ribbe, an asternal rib; short shapen

37. n.

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Fiber used in caulking ships.

38. sinden v.

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To wash (sth.), rinse out.

39. skẹ̄ling(e n.

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An outbuilding; a shed, lean-to.

40. skelpen v.(2)

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?To make a face, mock [cp. skelken v.]; ?take away (a portion of sth.) for one's own use.

41. skeuier n.

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A skewer.

42. slag n. or adj.

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?A slippery or muddy place; ?slippery, muddy.

43. slāpe adj.

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In phrase: slape of thrift, smooth of fortune, i.e., fortunate.

44. snẹ̄pe adj.

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As coll. noun: fools.

45. spāle n.(2)

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Pl. The uprights of a ladder.

46. storclen v.

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?To ripen by drying, season; ?stiffen.

47. sweiven v.

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(a) To move with a whirling or sweeping motion, whirl, sweep; (b) ?to shake or toss (one's head); -- probably an error for sheuen v.(1), 'expose, reveal.'

48. than conj.

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Used to introduce a clause having a finite verb and expressing a comparison or contrast: (a) in constructions with a comp. adj., adj. as noun, or adv. in the comp. degree: than; (b) in constructions…

49. vō̆k n.(1)

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(a) (?A reputation for) prowess, (?show of) strength; beren vok; (b) rumor, reputation, common report.

50. wappen v.(1)

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(a) To strike (through mail) with a slashing blow; of an arrow, the wind: rush, be driven; ppl. wappond, of flames: shooting up, lashing (b) to strike (sb.); wappen in, shoot (bolts) in; wappen of,…

51. wāre n.(4)

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Spring; ware corn, grain sown in the spring, specif. barley and oats; ware tide (time), springtime.

52. wau(e n.

Additional spellings: waue
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(a) A wave of water, esp. in the sea; ?also, a current; gon in wawes, to become tempestuous (b) pl. the sea, seen as a collection of individual waves; (c) used metonymically: the sea; water; wau of

53. yǒure n.

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An udder.