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1. wẹ̄ adj.

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Woeful [could also be construed as we n. with proper noun in dative]. …

2. wē-mọ̄dī adj.

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Discontented, ill-humored. …

3. yāre adj.

56 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Prepared, ready; ready (for sth.); with inf.: ready (to do sth.) [sometimes difficult to distinguish from senses 2.(a) & (b) and vice versa]; yare to nede, at (one’s) service (b) completed,……

4. mittimus n.

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A writ by which documents or records are transferred from one department of government to another. …

5. bor(ch)-silver n.

Additional spellings: borch-silver
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A payment collected from a tithing man or frank-plegge [q.v.] at the time of the veue of frankplegge. …

6. wẹ̄-self pron.

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Emphatic 1st person pl. pron.: (a) used for a plurality of speakers: we ourselves; also, in apposition to a preceding pron.: ourselves [2nd quot.] (b) in indefinite usages: all of us, we; (c) used in……

7. smēre n.

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(a) Animal fat, tallow; grease, lard, etc.; also, fig. the richest part [quot. a1325(c1250)]; also, hot grease used in torture; smere gavel, a tax on sellers of suet; foxes (hertes, swines) smere, gos……

8. wẹ̄ pron.

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The 1st person nom. pl. pron.: we;—used for: (a) a plurality of speakers (b) the speaker as a spokesman for more than one person; (c) the speaker in conjunction with the person or persons addressed……

9. wassailen v.

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To drink healths, offer toasts, etc.; ?also, drink to the health of (sb.) [last quot.]. …

10. valū(e n.

Additional spellings: value
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(a) Material or monetary worth; of (gret, litel) valu (b) the equivalent of a certain sum of money in goods, land, etc.; to the valu of; (c) the specific monetary value of a commodity; also, the……

11. angar(d)lī adv.

Additional spellings: angardli
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(a) Fiercely; eagerly; (b) exceedingly, extremely. …

12. wẹ̄ interj.

31 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Used to attract attention; also used to vocalize physical effort; we lo (b) expressing surprise or astonishment; we we, o we; (c) expressing derision, gloating, anger, or contradiction; we fi……

13. shadwe n.

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(a) The dark image cast by someone or something when interposed between an object and a source of light, a shadow; also fig.; shadwe long, like a cylindrical shadow; ?symmetrical; shadwe of lines, the……

14. wōwe n.

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(a) Misery, wretchedness; a state or condition of wretchedness, misery, or distress (b) adversity, hardship; misfortune, bad luck; tribulation, affliction; also, an affliction, a hardship; sufferen……

15. hē̆rbẹ̄r n.(1)

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(a) A pleasure garden; herber side, the border of a garden; (b) an herb garden; (c) ?a vegetable garden; (d) fig. the garden of the heart; garden of philosophy; a religious house [quot.: a1425]; (e) a……

16. wẹ̄̆-mai interj.

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An exclamation expressing impatience or astonishment. …

17. ū̆s pron.

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(a) As direct obj. of a verb: us;—sometimes with complement or in elliptical clause; us alle (twein, bothe two), alle us (b) as direct obj. of an inf., inf. phrase, or a ppl.: us; us alle (bothe,……

18. wẹ̄ n.

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(a) Misery, trouble, woe; wand-reth and we; we sith, a time of woe or trouble; ?a trouble; (b) we is him, woe be to him. …

19. wei-lā̆ interj.

Additional spellings: weila
25 quotations in 2 senses
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An exclamation expressive of grief, dismay, or regret (a) alas, woe; ah; also, in comb.: a wei-la; wei-la the reuthe, alas the pity, oh the pity of it; (b) with clause, introduced by as, hou, that,……

20. wāveren v.

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(a) To move back and forth; shift, swing; move unsteadily, totter; also in fig. context [quot. a1450, 2nd occurrence]; also, bob; ben wavered, shift position (b) to wander; waveren abouten (here and……

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