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21. ē̆rning, -ung n.(1)

Additional spellings: ernung
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(a) The fact of deserving or meriting; merit, worthiness; (b) that which one deserves, desert; (c) gain, profit. …

22. sprig(ge n.(2)

Additional spellings: sprigge
16 quotations in 1 sense
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A small, square-bodied nail, a brad; -- also coll.; sprig nail. …

23. knad n.

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?A stick or club. …

24. helmen v.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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To provide (sb.) with a helmet, cover, protect; ppl. helmed, helmeted. …

25. fō̆ndinge, -unge ger.

Additional spellings: fondunge
25 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The action of trying to find out something; a trial or test; (b) fondinge on the mouth, taste. …

26. dafeneþ v. (singular3)

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me dafeneþ, it behooves me; etc. …

27. kennen v.(2)

34 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To give birth to (a child, offspring); dwale-kenned [see dwale n. 1. (d)]; (b) to conceive (offspring); also, beget (a child), engender; (c) of God: to generate (the Son). …

28. lēnsen v.

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To make lean (the body); of the body: become lean. …

29. lọ̄mlīc adj.

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Frequent, constant. …

30. lauen v.

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To establish (sth.) by law, authorize, ordain. …

31. fāden v.(2)

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(a) To arrange; (b) to suit; (c) to propitiate (the gods). …

32. gọ̄den v.

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(a) To improve (sth.), make (the heart) better, endow or enrich (a church, monastery); benefit or help (sb.); (b) to get better, recover; become better spiritually. …

33. rō̆ten v.(1)

133 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Of animal substances: to undergo natural decomposition, putrefy, rot; of a corpse or part of a dead body: become putrid, decay; of cheese: spoil; roten awei, rot away, disintegrate completely……

34. rōde n.(4)

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(a) Reckoning, account; (b) rode aker, a service of plowing. …

35. rẹ̄ve n.

55 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) An officer of the king, usually charged with the administration of the affairs of a town or district, a local magistrate or municipal official; beren reve, to hold the office of reeve at the……

36. fēren v.(1)

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To frighten (someone), terrify; feren fro, to scare (someone) away from (truth, etc.). …

37. flīt n.(1)

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(a) Strife, quarreling; a brawl; quarrelsome speech, a taunt; (b) an argument; an argumentative treatise; (c) fig. the tumult or brawling (of the winds). …

38. dwīld n.

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(a) False belief, heresy, error; (b) an illusion, a false omen. …

39. bēre-bag n.

Additional spellings: berebag
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One who carries a bag; contemptuous term for a Scot; also, pers. name. …

40. blessed ppl.

77 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Blessed by God, enjoying the blessing of God; spiritually blessed; deserving of blessing, pleasing to God, devout, pious, saintly, holy; blessed of bounte; (b) chosen to eternal blessedness……

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