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1. Burgoin(e n. and adj.

Additional spellings: Burgoine
13 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Burgundy; (b) a Burgundian. …

2. bokelē̆r n.(2)

6 quotations in 1 sense
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A maker of buckles; also in names. …

3. bugres(se n.

Additional spellings: bugresse
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A female heretic. …

4. bǒtǒun n.

29 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An ornamental knob or stud (on armor, a knife, etc.); a button on a garment (for either ornament or fastening); (b) a bud of a plant; esp., a rosebud; a rose hip; (c) something small or……

5. bọ̄cherīe, bǒch- n.

19 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) An establishment in which livestock is slaughtered and the meat prepared and sold; a slaughterhouse with its meat stalls, a butcher's shop; (b) a group of such establishments, butchers' row; (c)……

6. bokasin n.

10 quotations in 1 sense
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A kind of cloth, ?fustian. …

7. boghtling n.

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One who is redeemed. …

8. bugerīe n.

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Unfaithfulness toward God, heresy [cp. fornicacioun, sense 2]. …

9. boi(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: boie
7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A buoy; (b) boi rop, the rope for fastening a buoy to its anchor. …

10. bokeram n.

15 quotations in 1 sense
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A fine costly cloth, apparently of linen or cotton (for curtains, bedspreads, banners, lining, etc.). …

11. bǒtonen v.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To furnish (a garment) with buttons; provide (sth.) with knobs or studs; (b) to button (a garment); (c) to put forth buds. …

12. unbought adj.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Unpurchased, unpaid for; free of cost; also, belonging to another [1st quot.]; of a creature: unredeemed [quot. c1450]; (b) fig. without retribution, unrequited, unrewarded. …

13. bī n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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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……

14. bōthe num. (as n., adj., & conj.)

369 quotations in 6 senses
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As noun: Two together, both; -- in various constructions: (a) alone; (b) the two of them; the bothe; (c) both here (theire) hedes, the heads of both of them; etc.; (d) here bother (baþre, bothe,……

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