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1. blenchen v.

57 quotations in 5 senses
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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……

2. rẹ̄nish(e adj.

Additional spellings: renishe
2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Strange, uncouth; (b) of an emperor: stern, awful. …

3. riǧǧe n.

200 quotations in 9 senses
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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,……

4. skẹ̄ling(e n.

Additional spellings: skelinge
4 quotations in 1 sense
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An outbuilding; a shed, lean-to. …

5. sweiven v.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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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.' …

6. wau(e n.

Additional spellings: waue
61 quotations in 2 senses
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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……

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