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1. biwallen v.

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To enclose or fortify with a wall. …

2. wāle n.(3)

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(a) A foreigner, stranger; wale more [see wal-more n.]; wale note [see wal-not(e n.]; wale wort, q.v.; (b) a slave, servant; (c) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.242-4]. …

3. wal-wort n.

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(a) A plant, usu. Danewort or dwarf elder Sambucus ebulus; the name also applied to other plants: dropwort Filipendula vulgaris, chicory or endive, elecampane, hellebore, etc.;—usu. used medicinally……

4. wallen v.(2)

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(a) To construct a wall or walls [quot. 1431]; furnish (a city, castle, an abbey, etc.) with walls; surround (a city, plot of land, etc.) with walls; fortify (a city, camp, etc.) with walls or……

5. wallūre n.

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Walls. …

6. wallī adj.

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Furnished or fortified with walls, walled. …

7. wal-kirie n.

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A witch, sorceress. …

8. vær n.

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A group of slain warriors, the slaughtered. …

9. wōld n.(1)

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(a) A wooded region, forested land, the woods; ?a wooded tract, forest preserve [quot. c1330]; also, the forest as a wild place; wilde woldes (b) open country, a plain, meadow; also, grassy fields,……

10. rēde-wale n.

Additional spellings: redewale
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?Corn gromwell (Lithospermum arvense). …

11. wal-fair n.

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The plant wallflower (Cheiranthus cheiri). …

12. hegh-wal n.

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One of the varieties of English woodpeckers; esp. the European green woodpecker (Picus viridis). …

13. walsh-nǒt(e n.

Additional spellings: walshnot, walsh-note, walshnote
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(a) A walnut; also in fig. context [quot. a1450]; walsh-not shelle; (b) in comparisons and expressions of quantity or size: as gret as a walsh-not; bi a walsh-not; in (the) quantite of a walsh-not. …

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