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1. almes(se n.

Additional spellings: almesse
144 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on……

2. amboht n.

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Handmaid, bondwoman. …

3. anclẹ̄ n.

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(a) The ankle; ankle bone, esp. the inner projection [quots. c1150, c1440]; innermore ancle; utward ancle, outer projection of the ankle; (b) ancle bon, ankle bone; utter ancle, outer projection of……

4. anger n.

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(a) Distress, suffering; anguish, agony; the anguish of love, love-longing; anger and wo (tene, care); (b) a source of distress, suffering, or discomfort; trouble, hardship; pl. troubles……

5. ar-dawe n.

Additional spellings: ardawe
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(a) Plowland; ar-dawe feld; (b) dais ar-dawe, an acre or juger of plowland (orig. a day's plowing). …

6. arvel n.

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Funeral feast, wake. …

7. aue n.

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Fear, terror, dread; also, great reverence, veneration, awe. …

8. aun(e n.

Additional spellings: aune
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The beard on grain; an awn. …

9. bagge n.(1)

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(a) A bag or sack, with or without its contents; traveling bag, wallet, satchel, pouch; bagge portatif; undo the bagge; (b) a bag as a unit of measure. …

10. bait n.

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(a) Bait for fish, fowl, or vermin; (b) a worm or insect to be used for bait. …

11. bāl(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: bale
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A blazing fire, esp. one for burning victims or corpses; also, hell-fire; bale-fir. …

12. bank(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: banke
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(a) A natural ridge; (b) a height, hill, mountain; (c) a slope, a hill-side; (d) ?the crest of a wave. …

13. bāre n.(2)

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A wave, billow; se bare. …

14. bark n.

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The bark of a tree or woody plant. …

15. benger(e n.

Additional spellings: bengere
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A grain bin; the hopper of a mill. …

16. benk n.

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(a) A bench, a seat; esp., a long, backless seat; (b) a royal seat, the throne of a ruler; setten on benk, to put (sb.) on a throne, do honor to (sb.); (c) benk ende, the end of the bench. …

17. berling n.(1)

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A pole (?for propelling a boat); berling tre. …

18. bī n.

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A dwelling; farm, village, town; bi-milne, town mill. [Common in place names and field names of the East Midland and the North (the Danelaw). See A. H. Smith PNElem. 1.66, & the thorp, by, tun map in……

19. big n.(1)

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Barley; big bern, barley barn; big rid(d)el, barley riddle or sieve (for bolting). …

20. Bigge n.

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A surname. …

21. bing n.

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A coffer; a bin. …

22. bir(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: bire
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Naut. A wind or breeze, esp. one favorable for sailing; haven bir at the bak, have a tail wind; abiden the bir, await favorable wind (i.e. circumstances). …

23. birth(e n.

Additional spellings: birthe
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(a) The act of giving birth, childbirth; birth bering; labour of birth; at on (a) birth, in one delivery; (b) birth in wombe, conception. …

24. blē̆k n.

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(a) Ink; blek pot, inkhorn; (b) a black substance, ?tar; (c) a dark or somber mood. …

25. blọ̄m n.

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(a) A flower, blossom; flowers, bloom; flowering (as a stage in the development of a plant); also fig.; bright as blom; beren blom, to flower; (b) as an epithet: Christ; the Virgin; (c) pre-eminence……

26. bōde-wǒrd n.

Additional spellings: bodeword
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(a) A commandment (of God); the bode-word(es, the (ten) Commandments; forbeden bode-word, impose a prohibition; (b) a command or edict. …

27. bōl-ax(e n.

Additional spellings: bol-axe, bolax, bolaxe
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(a) An ax for cutting or splitting wood; (b) a poleax. …

28. bōle n.(1)

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(a) A bull; fre bole, a bull free to roam with the herd [see Homans Eng.Villagers 61-3]; (b) a steer or bullock. …

29. bōle n.(2)

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(a) The trunk (of a tree); also, a tree; (b) ?a branch or grape cluster [may be error for bobbe n]. …

30. bọ̄n n.(2)

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(a) The act of praying, or what one asks for in praying; a prayer; a favor asked for; bidden, don, maken, praien bon, address a prayer (to God), say a prayer, pray; asken, bidden bon, pray for……

31. bō̆nd(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: bonde
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(a) A customary tenant (as distinct from a free-holder); a villager (villain) or farmer (husbandman) holding land under a lord in return for customary services, esp. plowing (cp. plough-man); specif……

32. bọ̄th n.

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(a) A stall at a market or fair, a merchant's shop; ?also, house of prostitution [L meritorium]; (b) a temporary dwelling, arbor of branches, tent, hut; also a poor dwelling, a hovel; (c) in personal……

33. brand-reth n.

Additional spellings: brandreth
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(a) A grate, gridiron, or trivet for supporting cooking utensils above a fire; (b) a gridiron for torture. …

34. bratthe n.

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(a) Violence, impetuosity; (b) anger, rage; -- also pl.; (c) the deadly sin of Wrath. …

35. brẹ̄ch n.

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(a) The undergarment covering the lower part of the body; underpants, drawers, or tights; brech and sherte, sark and brek; (b) brech, brek, as pl.; a pare brech, a pair of breeches. …

36. brēth n.(2)

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Wrath, anger, vengeful spirit; the fury (of battle); wreken breth, wreak vengeance. …

37. brim n.(1)

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A body of water, such as the sea, a pool, spring, river. …

38. brīn n. (plural)

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(a) Eyebrows, or the ridges of the eyebrows; (b) eyelid(s). …

39. brinke n.

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(a) The shore (of the sea); seashore, coast; se brinke; ?also, the top (of a mound) [quot.: 1607], ?a precipice [quot. a1425 Wycl.]; (b) the bank (of a stream); (c) the edge (of a spring); (d) in……

40. brixel n.

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Humiliating treatment or circumstances; shameless behavior, chiding. …

41. brod n.(1)

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(a) A sprout, a shoot; (b) a pointed instrument, a goad; (c) a nail (applied to several types and sizes); (d) brod smith, a maker of goads, ?a maker of nails. …

42. brǒnt n.

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(a) A sudden movement, a rush; at a bront, suddenly, speedily; (b) an attack, a charge; (c) a blow; also fig.; (d) the full force (of an attack, misfortune, etc.); a)biden (beren) the bront, endure……

43. brōth adj. & n.

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Sudden, hasty; of a person: quick, eager (to do sth.). …

44. bulk n.

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The cargo of a ship, a shipload (of a commodity). …

45. cæppe n.

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Warrior. …

46. cal n.

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(a) An outcry (against sb.), a charge, an accusation; maken cal; (b) a summons; an invitation. …

47. calf n.(2)

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The calf of the leg. …

48. cang adj. & n.

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(a) Foolish; also, lewd, worthless, ?wicked; cang eien, lustful eyes; (b) a fool. …

49. cānunk n.

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A clergyman living under a rule of canons, a canon. …

50. capel n.

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A horse or gelding; a warhorse, cart horse, riding horse, etc.; capel clauer, horse clawer, stable boy; cutted capel, a gelding. …

51. carald n.

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A cask; fig. a place of confinement. …

52. carl n.

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(a) A man (usually of low estate); often patronizingly or contemptuously: fellow; (b) a contemptuous term of address: fellow, knave, rascal; (c) as term of association: cloddre (cluster) of carles, a……

53. carling n.

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A kind of ship's timber; ?a timber in the kelson, ?the kelson, ?a mast-step. …

54. car-man n.

Additional spellings: carman
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A male human being, a man. …

55. carp n.

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(a) Talking, chatting, conversation, discourse; (b) a statement, a saying; a message (spoken or written); (c) a story, tale, poem, song; (d) mention, news; (e) meaning. …

56. cart n.

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(a) A cart, a wagon; also fig.; dong cart, [see dong n.(1), 5.]; fare cart, [see fare n. (1), 8.(b)]; iren-bounden cart, shod cart, a cart with wheels which are bound or reinforced with iron bands……

57. cast n.

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(a) The throwing of a dart, stone, etc.; casting with a sling; throwing or putting the stone as a sport; hurling missiles with a siege engine; (b) the throwing of dice; al is cast on a cast, all is……

58. cavel n.

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(a) The drawing of lots or a lot so drawn; casten cavel(es, draw lots; cavel fell, the lot fell (upon sb.); (b) a splinter or fragment. …

59. chaft n.

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(a) Jaw, jawbone; chaft bon; (b) pharynx; pl. tonsils. …

60. clege n.

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?A horsefly [see Craigie DOS]. …

61. clint n.

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(a) A ledge of rock; a cliff, steep bank; (b) in place names. …

62. clond n.

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Trouble, difficulty. …

63. club(be n.

Additional spellings: clubbe
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(a) A club or cudgel; club lome, club-like weapon; (b) a bat. …

64. crā n.

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A corner, nook. …

65. craft n.(2)

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(a) A kind of ship's timber, a knee or crotch in the bow; craft nail, a wooden peg for fastening such timbers; (b) ?a wooden brace. …

66. crāk n.(1)

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(a) A member of the genus Corvus; esp., the English carrion crow (C. corone); (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.6]; (c) crak brid, young of the crow or the raven; crak fot……

67. crepping n.

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?A fastener of some kind. …

68. crike n.(1)

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(a) An inlet of the sea, cove, small estuary; also, a small stream, creek; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.6]; (c) in personal names. …

69. cringle n.

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In place names only [see Smith PNElem. 2.7]: a circle, bend. …

70. crọ̄k n.

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(a) Any tool, implement, or utensil consisting of, or having as an important part, a curved piece of metal or hook, such as a grappling iron, a pot hook, a reaping hook or sickle, ?a hoe, ?a fork, a……

71. cros n.

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(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

72. cruk n.

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A pot or crock. …

73. cweise n.

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A boil or sore. …

74. dam n.

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(a) A dam; also, the bank (of a stream); (b) dam bord, a sluice gate. …

75. dank adj. & n.

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Wet, damp; dampness, moisture. …

76. dī̆ch(e n.

Additional spellings: diche
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(a) An excavated trench; a ditch for fencing an enclosure, marking a boundary, draining water, etc.; (b) fig. & prov. expressions: as water of dich, freely, unstintingly; commune as water in a dich……

77. dillidǒun n.

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A darling, a pet. …

78. dipt n.

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A deep place; derknes dipt, the pit of darkness, hell. …

79. dǒun n.

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The soft feathers of birds, down [used for stuffing pillows and featherbeds]; doun pilwe; Cuthbert doun, down of the Cuthbert duck. …

80. drag(ge n.(1)

Additional spellings: dragge
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(a) A dragnet; (b) a harrow or drag; (c) a barge or raft; (d) a grappling hook. …

81. dregges n.

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(a) The lees or dregs (of a liquid); (b) residue or refuse of grapes; (c) fig. refuse, dirt; (d) in a surname. …

82. drēm n.(2)

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(a) A vision experienced in sleep, a dream; a nightmare; a prophetic dream; (b) dremen drem, meten drem, sen drem, to have a dream; in drem, on drem, in a dream or dreams; sweven and drem, drem or……

83. dring n.

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Naut. Some kind of sling arrangement needed for the yards. …

84. drit n.

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(a) Excrement, droppings; dung; feces; (b) hunt. the dung of certain animals; (c) cattes drit, dove drit, gandres drit, gotes drit, hors drit, mannes drit, mous drit, swines drit. …

85. eg(ge n.(1)

Additional spellings: egge
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(a) The edible egg of a domesticated fowl; (b) glair or whit of an egge, the white of an egg; oil of egges, an oil extracted from eggs; yolk or yelk of an eg; (c) fried egge; hard eg, an egg roasted……

86. faster-man n.

Additional spellings: fasterman
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A surety or sponsor. …

87. fel n.(2)

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A hill or mountain; also, an upland waste or pasture; a moor or down; frith and fel. …

88. fē̆lau(e n.

Additional spellings: felaue
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(a) One of two or more persons in each other's company or society; one of a pair or group of persons associating or acquainted with each other; companion, associate, acquaintance; maken felau, to……

89. fẹ̄re n.(3)

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Ability, power; after fere, according to ability; in god fere, in good health, strong. …

90. flouht n.

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A state of agitation or turmoil; in flouht, in a flutter, agitated. …

91. frō̆ke n.

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Frog. …

92. gab(be n.

Additional spellings: gabbe
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(a) Falsehood, deceit; idle talk; (b) withouten (bithouten) gab, without deception or idle talk, truly, assuredly; nist gab, nor is it a lie, truly; (c) a gibe, taunt; (d) as surname. …

93. gāble n.(1)

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(a) A gable of a building; also, a façade; (b) gable ende, gable wal, gable wough, the end wall surmounted by a gable, gable end; gable forke, a gable; gable windou, a window in a gable; (c) in place……

94. gad(de n.

Additional spellings: gadde
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(a) A sharp-pointed metal spike; (b) a sharp-pointed stick used for driving oxen etc.; a goad; (c) gad nail, some kind of nail or spike. …

95. gaȝhen n.

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Advantage, benefit. …

96. gāle n.(2)

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(a) A way, course; fig. gon ilke (haven same) gale, to go the same way, meet the same fate; (b) course of action, way, means, expedient. …

97. galt n.(1)

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(a) A boar; also, a barrow; galt grese; (b) as surname; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.206]. …

98. gā̆ng, gō̆ng n.

Additional spellings: gong
62 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A going, walking; a journey; daies gang, one day's journey; thre daies gang; (b) ability to walk; (c) manner of walking; the way one carries oneself, bearing; (d) part of (?the circumference of) a……

99. gap n.

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(a) An opening in a wall or hedge, a break, a breach; (b) an opening in the forest; also, a break or opening between mountains [cp. Cum. place names under (e)]; (c) a break in a line of battle; (d) a……

100. garn n.

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(a) Woolen thread, yarn; ther is garn on the rel other, there is yarn on the other reel, there are other matters to think about; (b) garn whel, garn windel, a wooden reel from which yarn may be wound……

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