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1. flouen v.

90 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Of a stream: to run, flow; also fig.; (b) of water or other liquid: to run; of blood, humors, pus: to move (within the body), run (to a part of the body).

2. greithen v.

184 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) To prepare (sth.), arrange, make ready; prepare the way for (sth.); (b) to prepare (food), cook, dress; (c) to complete (preparations); trim (a lamp); skin and cut up (game); wash (a vessel)…

3. snirten v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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To nick (sb.), cut lightly, graze.

4. scāken v.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To tremble, shake; also, ppl. skakand as adj.; (b) to seize and shake (a purse), steal; (c) in surnames.

5. crẹ̄pen v.

148 quotations in 8 senses
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To crawl like a snake or worm; ppl. cropen, crawled, having crawled, that has (have) crawled; icropen in drit, crawling in filth.

6. wāken v.(1)

268 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) To be awake; also, be conscious and alive; ppl. wakinge, awake; also, living (b) to remain awake, esp. during hours customarily given to sleeping; also, with inf. as adj. in phrase: holden waken,…

7. scēren v.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) scer-man, one who shears woolen cloth, a shearman [cp. sher-man n.(a)]; (b) to go away, depart; take (sth.) away; curtail (a vice); sceren awei, do away with (the desire of the flesh); sceren

8. bresten v.

175 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To be broken, fall apart, break, shatter; bresten atwo, bresten atwinne, bresten in peces, bresten in sunder; (b) to break (sth.), shatter, crush; break (one's arm); ppl. brosten, of grain or…

9. wēlen v.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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To choose (sb. or sth.), select; also, with partitive prep. phrase: welen of, choose from among (victims); welen oute, pick out (persons), choose out; welen the werse, determine the greater (of two…

10. swippen v.

17 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) In phrase: swippen at (to), to strike at (sb.), hit, attack, assail; (b) swippen of, strike off (someone's head); -- also, with dat. of pers.pron. [last 2 quots.]; (c) to swing (a sword).

11. missen v.(1)

137 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To fail to find (sb. or sth.), notice to be absent or missing; become separated from (one's company, one's comrade); missen path, lose (one's) way; ben missed, be absent; be noticed to be absent…

12. yēten v.(2)

56 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To convey (sth. to sb. or an institution) by a grant; bestow (sth. on sb.), confer; accord (sth. to sb.); provide (sth., sth. for sb.); yeten and yeven, yeven and yeten (b) to yield (sth.) up;…

13. welten v.(2)

13 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To topple, fall over; also, fall in defeat; welten bakwardes (upright) (b) to overturn (walls); overset (sb.), throw over; welten doun; welten over; throw or toss (a body) over something; (c) fig

14. thrīven v.

114 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To prosper, flourish, thrive; enjoy good fortune; thriven and then; thriven ivele, have bad luck, do poorly; (b) in proverbs, aphorisms, and prov. expressions; (c) in oaths and asseverations: as

15. ruthen v.(1)

3 quotations in 1 sense
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To awaken (sb.), disturb; refl. get up from bed.

16. drǒunen v.(1)

75 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To drown (sb.), kill by drowning; -- also refl.; (b) to be drowned, die by drowning; (c) ppl. drouned, drowned; ben drouned, to be drowned, drown.

17. hō̆ngen v.

589 quotations in 18 senses
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To suspend (sb. or sth.) from an elevated point: (a) to hang (sb., his corpse, or parts of it) up by the feet, hands, or hair; hongen up, hongen up bi the fet, etc.; (b) to fasten or mount (sth. on…

18. recchen v.(2)

205 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To care, heed; litel recchen, ne (not, nought) recchen, recchen never; the devel have (who) that reche, may the devil have anyone who cares; (b) recchen of, to care about (sb., oneself, an…

19. wēven v.(1)

72 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) To practice the craft of weaving; also fig.; ppl. wevinge, weaving; also, as noun: a weaver (b) to interlace (threads, yarn, etc.) to form a fabric; weven togeder; weven togeder to hem-self, of…

20. slingen v.

41 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To throw (sb. or sth., esp. into a place or in a specified direction), hurl, fling; also, fell (an adversary) in battle; also, raze (a city); slingen abouten, swing (sb.) around; slingen doun