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1. melled adj.

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Like a hammer or a maul. …

2. maltalentī̆f adj.

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Angry, vengeful. …

3. māleful n.

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A bagful. …

4. mōl n.(3)

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(a) A spot or stain; a mark or blemish; (b) a mole, spot, blemish, or sore on the human body; (c) a chilblain. …

5. mal(e adj.(1)

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Evil; -- only in phrases: males daies, male journei, etc. [See mal- pref. for other examples.] …

6. maltalent n.

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(a) Ill will, anger, hatred, hostility; (b) foryeven maltalent, to give up (one's) anger, hatred, or displeasure; with indirect obj. or to- phr.: give up (one's) anger, etc. (toward sb.). …

7. mōl n.(1)

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(a) Language, speech; (b) a council chamber or hall; (c) in place name. …

8. mal(e- pref.

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A prefix appearing in nouns of OF origin: maleaventure, malecheif, Malebouche, malefortune, malengine, malese, malfetour, maltalent, maudisour, etc.; occasionally in adjectives: malapert, maleureux……

9. mandeslamyke n.

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A disease; ?failing eyesight. …

10. malencoliǒus adj.

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(a) Consisting of or mixed with black bile; of blood: mixed with melancholy or transformed into unnatural melancholy; (b) caused by the humor black bile; (c) of food: tending to produce black bile in……

11. mallen v.

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(a) To beat (sb.) with hammers or mauls; crush (clods); mallen to the erthe, beat down (a building), demolish; togeder malled, pounded together, hardened by pounding; (b) to drive (sth.) with a……

12. bon-grẹ̄ adv. & prep.

Additional spellings: bongre
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(a) To one's liking, agreeable to (sb.); (b) maugre bongre, whether one likes it or not, willy-nilly. …

13. amal n.

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Enamel; an enamel figure or ornament. …

14. wad-mōl n.

Additional spellings: wadmol
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A coarse woolen cloth, used for horse collars, sacks, etc. …

15. mōl n.(2)

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(a) A payment; tribute; rent; right mol, just rent or tax, fair payment; unright mol; (b) mol man, one who pays rent in place of feudal service; smal mol man, a lesser tenant; mol lond, land held by……

16. male-mort(e n.

Additional spellings: malemort, male-morte, malemorte
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An inflamed sore or a disease characterized by such sores; glanders in horses and dogs; a disease of sheep. …

17. mor-mal(e n.

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A dry-scabbed ulcer; sore; an abscess; also fig. …

18. mal(le n.

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(a) A hammer; usually, a heavy iron hammer used for driving posts, breaking rocks, etc.; a sledge hammer, a maul; (b) a kind of mace, a hammerlike club made of (or tipped with) iron or lead; (c) surg.……

19. malefīen v.

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?To grow faint, swoon. …

20. dismā̆l n. & adj.

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(a) in the dismal, in days of misfortune or disaster, under inauspicious circumstances, at an unlucky time; (b) dismal dai, one of the two days in each month which were considered unlucky, a day of……

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