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1. brēd n.(1)

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(a) Bread as a staple food; any food baked from dough or paste, such as leavened or unleavened bread, rolls, biscuit, cake, and pastry; (b) bred and water (milk), the diet of fasting or penance; (c) c……

2. reffreit n.

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?A donation of food. …

3. pigge n.

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(a) A young pig, piglet; also, a young porcupine; (b) a pig, regardless of age or sex; antoni pigge, a stray pig [see also under Antony]; barou pigge, a barrow; pigge ele, some kind of eel; pigges-hou……

4. Maunǧe-pain n.

Additional spellings: Maungepain
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Bread-eater, name of one of the hands of Avarice. …

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