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1. aloft(e adv.

Additional spellings: alofte
65 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Up in the sky or air; high above, at or to a height; high aloft; (b) on top, atop; above, upstairs; also, on (a surface); lenden aloft, go up (to sb.); (c) upward; liften, heven aloft, lift up…

2. ayẹ̄n adv.

155 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Back or away from something; to the rear, back, backwards; drawen ayen, ten ayen, draw back, withdraw; holden ayen, hold back, check, restrain; putten ayen, set or thrust back or away; turnen

3. emel(le adv.

Additional spellings: emelle
8 quotations in 3 senses
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Along with, besides; together.

4. gē̆ten v.(1)

330 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) To acquire (sth.), earn, buy, win, receive, find; ivel geten, ill-gotten; fals geten, got by falsehood; (b) refl.

5. hitten v.

83 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To strike (sb. or sth.); strike a blow; deliver (blows); hitten in, cut into (sb. or sth.); hitten on, beat upon (sb. or sth.); hitten on the hed of the nailes ende, hit the nail on the head…

6. igain adv.

10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Back again, back towards a place; ben igain, to be back; cumen (drauen, turnen) igain, return; (b) once more; (c) in return, in reply; (d) igain callen, to revoke (a promise).

7. in prep.

1422 quotations in 30 senses
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(a) Inside (a solid object); immersed, or partly immersed, in (a fluid substance); enclosed in (fire, the air, etc.); (b) into (a solid, liquid, etc.); (c) in or into the surface of (sth.), pierced or…

8. in-bland adv.

Additional spellings: inbland
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Together, jointly, in combination; in-bland with, together with.

9. inset-hǒus n.

Additional spellings: insethous
4 quotations in 1 sense
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Some kind of building on a farm.

10. ketling n.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The young of an animal; a whelp, cub, kitten; lioun ketling; also fig.; (b) ?a youth, adolescent.

11. king n.

280 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A king, monarch; (b) in titles; king of kinges, supreme king, emperor; (c) one of the wise men of Mat. 2; also, a representation of one of them; thre kinges of coloin; king pleie, a play dealing…

12. laughen v.

245 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To laugh (in amusement, triumph, derision, etc.); smile; jeer; of the eye(s: show pleasure or amusement; (b) laughen for scorn (bismare), laughen ascorn, to laugh in scorn; laughen faste (loude,

13. lē̆r n.

64 quotations in 3 senses
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The cheek; in pl.: the face; loken under ler, to look down over (one's) cheek, look downward.

14. rōn n.(2)

1 quotation in 1 sense
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A rowan-tree berry.

15. shrīven v.

147 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Refl. To make confession, make confession (to sb., to God); also iron., with implication of impending decease [quot.: Chaucer TC]; (b) refl. shriven o (of), to confess (sins), make confession of…

16. telden v.

42 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To pitch (a tent), set up (a pavilion, tabernacle); telden up; (b) to set (a trap, snare), set out (a net);—often in fig. contexts; (c) to build (sth.), erect, raise; telden on (upon) loft; telden

17. wāren v.(2)

28 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To spend (money, a sum of money), lay out, expend; make (expenditures), pay (expenses, wages); ivel (wel) wared (b) to spend or make use of (one’s time); employ (one’s wits), use; expend…

18. weght n.(1)

202 quotations in 7 senses
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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. welken v.(2)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To toss (medicinal ingredients) together; (b) to go on foot, walk; (c) to pursue motion along (a course).