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1. billed ppl.

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Beaked. …

2. bilinge ger.(1)

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The beak or prow (of a ship). …

3. bīled ppl.

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Ulcerated, ulcerous; erupted, swollen. …

4. bīlinge ger.(2)

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Ulceration, festering, swelling. …

5. bil-fọ̄̆der n.

Additional spellings: bilfoder
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Food carried in the bill or snout of an animal and fed into the mouths of the young. …

6. bilen v.(1)

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(a) To strike with the beak, jab, peck; (b) to 'mouth' or blow (a horn). …

7. bile n.(1)

40 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The bill or beak (of a bird); (b) laien bile under winge, couchen doun bile, to rest, go to sleep; bile under the wing, stealthily, unobserved; shaken bi the bile, take hold of or grasp (an……

8. bilewhītnesse n.

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Kindness, gentleness. …

9. billen v.(1)

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(a) To scrape, scratch, jab (on sth.); (b) to hoe or grub. …

10. ?bīlen v.(2)

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Of a stream: ?to swell or rise; ?surge, rush along. …

11. bil n.

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A cutting, hacking, or grubbing implement: (a) a falchion, halberd, pike, gisarme; bil ibeat; blak bil [see blak adj., sense 4. (f)]; (b) a pruning hook or blade; bil hok; hegge bil, a bill hook used……

12. galle n.(1)

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(a) The gall bladder of man or animal; (b) the secretion of the liver, bile; chest (kist, hucche) of galle, the gall bladder; (c) as a type of the ultimate in bitterness: bitter as galle, bitterer……

13. bile-whīt adj.

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Pure in heart, virtuous; kind, gentle. …

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