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1. canten v.

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To divide (sth.), share (booty, etc.). …

2. shraggen v.

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(a) To prune (trees), trim; (b) ppl. shragged, having a jagged edge. …

3. sleuthen v.

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(a) To be slothful; be slow (to do sth.); (b) to neglect (sth.), put off (some action); (c) impers. hit sleutheth nought, it will not be tedious (to detail sth.). …

4. feret(en v.

Additional spellings: fereten
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To hunt with ferrets. …

5. baptēmen v.

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To baptize (sb.). …

6. audī̆ten v.

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To examine and verify (accounts), audit. …

7. shelven v.

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(a) To separate (sb. or sth. from sth.), keep away; (b) ppl. shelving as adj.: sloping. …

8. red-ō̆keren v.

Additional spellings: red okeren
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To apply red ochre as a wash (on walls, etc.) …

9. fōr(e-bīsnen v.

Additional spellings: fore-bisnen
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(a) To use (something) as an example or illustration; (b) to teach (someone) by means of examples or parables. …

10. shalmen v.

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Of a duck: to make a sound like a shawm, honk. …

11. forsleuthen v.

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(a) To be slow to act, delay; (b) to neglect (something) through laziness, to neglect or leave undone; (c) to lose (something) through neglect or laziness; of food: spoil through neglect; idle away……

12. vī̆āǧen v.

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To carry out an enterprise, fare. …

13. turven v.

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To cover (a mound) with turf or sod. …

14. treuthen v.

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(a) To become betrothed; ben treuthed; (b) of a man: to marry or become engaged to (a woman). …

15. uncorsen v.

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In phrase: ben uncorsede, of a soul: to be removed from the body. …

16. unbō̆dīen v.

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To leave the body. …

17. tū̆telen v.

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To whisper, speak; also, whisper (sth.), suggest, say; whisper (sth. to sb., in someone's ear), tell;—usu. used of the devil; ppl. tutelinde as adj.: chattering. …

18. thrōten v.

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To cut the throat of (sb., a sheep), kill; also in fig. context [2nd quot.]. …

19. tilthen v.

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To cultivate (land), till. …

20. shā̆kelen v.

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To put (sb.) in shackles; also fig.; protect (legs) with a blacksmith's greaves; ppl. shakeled, bound in shackles. …

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