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1. fẹ̄len v.(1)

265 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) To experience a tactile or muscular sensation; to be aware of (something) by touch; to have a physical sensation of pain, pleasure, etc.; to feel (pain, heat, cold, a blow, the wind, etc.); also f……

2. rẹ̄ken v.(3)

20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To emit smoke; ppl. reking as adj.: smoking, smoky; (b) of smoke or stench: to rise, ascend; also, blow (upon sth.); (c) to grow hot or steam, as from exertion or anger; (d) to smoke (sth.)……

3. fatten v.

28 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To grow fat or obese; to become fattened for food; (b) to make (a person, the body) fat or obese; to fatten (animals) for food. …

4. folwen v.

282 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) To come after (something)in space; folwen face, to go forward without looking back; intr. to come after or behind, move later; (b) to come or occur after (something) in time, to succeed……

5. knaggen v.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To fasten (sth.), peg; knaggen up, hang (sth.) up, suspend; (b) to tie (sth.) in knots. …

6. i- pref.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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A prefix with various meanings affixed to various parts of speech: (a) in nouns from OE (rare after 1300): ibeat, ibedde, ibere, ibird, ibrotheren, iclova, icomp, idrevednesse, ifere, ifo,……

7. e- pref.(2)

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Variant of i- pref.: (a) prefix of the past ppl. in early ME and also in later Southern texts; (b) prefix of verbs in very early ME. …

8. frẹ̄sen v.

69 quotations in 4 senses
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Of the weather: to be cold enough to freeze water, to be severely cold; it freseth, the frost freseth, it is freezing weather, it freezes. …

9. aknoue(n ppl. (orig. adj.)

Additional spellings: aknouen
42 quotations in 1 sense
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ben aknoue, to acknowledge or admit (sth.): (a) acknowledge or admit the reality or validity (of sth.); (b) confess (a misdeed, sins, etc.); (c) disclose or reveal (sth.), disclose one's identity. --……

10. salten v.

32 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To preserve (sth.) with salt; -- also without obj.; also, ppl. salted as adj.; (b) to prepare (sth.) with salt for use as a medicine; rub (sb.) with salt; also, ppl. salted as adj.; (c) to flavor……

11. flẹ̄men v.(1)

53 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To expel, banish, exile, outlaw; -- often with from, of, out, out of; (b) flemed man, an exile, an outlaw; (c) to disgrace (someone); to condemn; ppl. flemed, disgraced, condemned, destitute of……

12. sīen v.(1)

31 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To descend, fall down; of the sun: set; sien a)doun; sien on, descend upon (sb.), befall; sien to ground, die; (b) to go, proceed; journey; pursue [1st quot.]; of days: pass; sien to, pursue……

13. rīsen v.

425 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) To stand up, rise to one's feet from a sitting, kneeling, or reclining position; get up from table; of an animal: get to its feet; of a toad: rear up (from a crouching position); risen ayen……

14. mẹ̄ten v.(4)

227 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To come across (sb.), chance upon, fall in with; meten with (to); (b) to encounter (sth. pleasant or unpleasant), experience; be afflicted by (sth.); meten with; ben met with, suffer (evil……

15. 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. …

16. smitten v.

14 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To smear (a body) with ointment, anoint; smudge (sth.), stain, tinge; (b) ppl. smittinge as adj., of a disease: infectious, contagious; (c) to disgrace (a kingdom), sully; ben smitted with (bi,……

17. 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……

18. 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……

19. mēnnesse n.(1)

4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Fellowship; mennesse halwen, the communion of saints; (b) land held in common. …

20. rōde n.(4)

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Reckoning, account; (b) rode aker, a service of plowing. …

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