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1. sugre n.

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(a) The sweet crystalline substance sugar; -- freq. in combs. & phrases identifying place of origin: sugre babiloine (cipres, marrok, marrokes), sugre de cipres (marrok), sugre of alisaundre (cipres)……

2. sugre-cassǒun n.

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Lump sugar. …

3. lōf-sugre n.

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Sugar in the form of a lump or loaf. …

4. sugre-lōf n.

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A loaf or mass of sugar [cp. lof-sugre n.]. …

5. sugre-candī n.

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Crystallized sugar. …

6. cassǒun n.

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A lump or granule of sugar; cassoun sugre; poudre cassons, granulated or powdered sugar. …

7. caffatīn n. & adj.

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In phrases denoting a type of sugar, orig. from Caffa in the Crimea: sugre (de) caffatin. …

8. Cipre(s n.(1)

Additional spellings: Cipres
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(a) The island of Cyprus; (b) reisins of Cipre; sugre (of) Cipre; walnote of Cipre; (c) viaund de Cipre, [see quot.]; leshe Cipre, a dessert of some kind. …

9. rō̆sē̆t adj.

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(a) Made of a distillation of red or white roses, colored and flavored with roses; mel roset [see also mel n.(1)(b)]; oile roset [see also oil(e n.1b.(e)]; sugre roset (whit [see also sugre n.]; (b)……

10. rosāt(e adj.

Additional spellings: rosate
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Med. Containing a distillate of rose petals; mel rosat [see also mel n.(1)(b)]; oile rosat, oil of roses, a medicinal oil made by steeping rose petals in olive oil [cp. oile rose (rosete), s.v. oil(e……

11. lōf n.(2)

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(a) A loaf of bread; lof (of) bred; loves of proposicioun, the Biblical 'shewbread' [KJV, JPS1; otherwise variously rendered, including 'loaves of proposition (Douay); see also proposicioun n.]; lof……

12. motthe n.

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(a) The larva of the clothes moth; also, the clothes moth in its winged state; motthe eten (freten), moth-eaten; (b) in Bible and Biblical allusions [cp. Prov. 25.20, Mat. 6.19]: clothes moth; motthe……

13. blaunk adj.

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(a) White; -- frequent in surnames; (b) blaunk almaundes, blanched almonds; blaunk alum [see alum]; blaunk fever [see fever]; blaunk plum, q.v.; blaunk poudre, ?finely powdered white sugar and ginger……

14. vī̆olet n.

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(a) A plant of the genus Viola, esp. the sweet violet (Viola odorata); the flower of this plant, often used medicinally or in cooking; cook. the name of a dish or confection made with violets (b) in……

15. hǒnī n.

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(a) Honey; milk and honi; -- said of the richness or abundance of a land or country; (b) honi of the feld, wild honey; honi of roses, a preparation of honey and roses; comb of honi, a honeycomb; whit……

16. blā̆k adj.

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(a) Of a black color, black; (b) blak and blo, black and livid, black and blue [see blo adj.]; blak or whit, black or white, of any color or kind; blak as col (blacche, croue, inde, molde, pich, slo),……

17. cūte adj. & n.

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(a) Of wine: boiled down to one third of the original volume; (b) of iii (ii) cute, of a liquor: reduced to one third (one half) by boiling. …

18. candī n.

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Crystallized cane sugar. …

19. gailede n.

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Cook. A dish of some kind. …

20. sugrer n.

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A sugar bowl. …

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