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1. cǒu-wẹ̄d n.

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A plant name: 'cow weed'. …

2. wed-setting(e ger.

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The act of mortgaging land. …

3. hairide n.

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One of the dodders; ?flax dodder (Cuscuta epilinum); ?clover dodder, hairweed (C. epithymum); ?greater dodder, hairweed (C. europæa). …

4. wed-setten v.

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To mortgage (land, property), pledge. …

5. wẹ̄dī adj.

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Overgrown with weeds, weedy. …

6. wedhōde n.

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The fact or state of being married. …

7. wed-brọ̄ther n.

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A man bound to another by oath or pledge of loyalty, sworn brother. …

8. wed-man n.

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A married man; pl. married men; also, married persons, spouses [quot. a1500, 1st]. …

9. wed-lowe n.

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A pledge breaker. …

10. wẹ̄de n.(3)

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Madness, insanity, fury; wede berȝe, q.v.; at wede, ?in a state of madness [perh. from misunderstanding of aweden v.]; oute of wede, ?because of madness or rage; gon to wede, to go mad. …

11. wẹ̄de n.(2)

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(a) A garment, an article of clothing; also, coll. & pl. clothes, apparel, attire; also fig. & in fig. context; wede brech [cp. OE wǣd-brēc], some kind of covering for the loins; cloth wede; hali-dai……

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