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1. al-thing, al(le thing n. & (earlier) phr.

Additional spellings: althing, al thing, alle thing
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(a) All things, everything; (b) in al-thing, in all things, in everything; in full detail; in every way; (c) through al-thing, for everything, by all means; throughout; (d) nought alle thing, not by…

2. abǒute-gōn v.

Additional spellings: aboutegon, a boute gon
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(a) To surround (sb.); (b) to rotate about an axis, revolve around a center; (c) to try to do (sth.).

3. milne n.

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(a) A water mill for grinding grain; (b) a wind mill; (c) a military engine devised by Richard I; (d) any power-driven mill for grinding grain, etc.; (e) a hand mill, a quern; (f) a fulling mill; (g)…

4. icchen v.

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(a) To move; refl. rise; (b) to run; (c) to jump; ?move with jerks; (d) to move (sb. from a place), remove; (e) ?in surnames.

5. wel-fāren v.

Additional spellings: welfaren
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To prosper, do well, fare well.

6. traventǒur n.

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(a) A peddler, seller; also, a person who rents out his cart; (b) as surname.

7. tọ̄̆yernen v.

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To ask for (sth.), entreat, demand, request.

8. garnet n.

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A type of hinge shaped like a horizontal T; double garnet, ?a garnet hinge somehow doubled in form. [See also almerie garnet, out garnet, and peue garnet (s.v. peue n.(1)).]

9. cheuen v.(1)

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(a) To masticate or chew (sth.); cheuen cud, chew resin or gum; (b) to eat or consume (sth.); cheuen cud upon, feast upon (sth.); lat hem chewe as þei chese, let them eat (subsist) as they chose!

10. wel-fāring(e ppl.

Additional spellings: welfaring, wel-faringe, welfaringe
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(a) Of a person, a part of the body: good-looking, fair, handsome; of written letters: well formed; (b) of a document: properly drawn up, couched in proper legal terms.

11. squinance n.

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= squinaci(e n.

12. ?enchauncen v.

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To make prominent or important; to enhance or exalt.

13. commū̆n(e plāce phr.

Additional spellings: commun place
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(a) The Court of Common Pleas, a superior court sitting at Westminster for the trial of civil actions between subjects; (b) a Roman establishment regarded as in some measure equivalent to an English…

14. verī(e n.

Additional spellings: verie
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?An evil creature or spirit; ?coll. evil creatures or spirits.

15. harāǧeǒus adj.

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Cruel, stern, obstreperous, violent.

16. al-tọ̄ adv.

Additional spellings: alto
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To the fullest extent or degree; completely, utterly, altogether; severely, greatly; -- (a) with verbs & ppls.; (b) with adj.

17. shā̆kelok n.

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(a) A lock for a fetter; (b) in surnames.

18. summité n.

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The highest point, highest part; the top of something, topmost part of something.

19. trief n.

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A sail.

20. unwā̆rlī adj.

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(a) Incautious, imprudent [las quot. may also be parsed as unwarli adv.]; (b) unexpected, sudden.