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1. hōl(e adj.(2)

Additional spellings: hole
405 quotations in 13 senses
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(a) Of a person, animal, the body, part of the body: healthy, cured, healed, free from disease or defect; also fig.; maken hol, to heal (sb.); (b) hol and fere (quert, sound), heil (herti, strong) and……

2. halling(e ger.

Additional spellings: hallinge
13 quotations in 1 sense
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A piece of tapestry, painted or stained cloth, etc., used as a hanging on the walls of a hall. …

3. haller n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The marshal of a hall; (b) as surname: perh., one who dwells or serves in a manorial hall. …

4. hōl-vast adj.

Additional spellings: holvast
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Pious. …

5. matsal n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Cloth made at Mattishall, Norfolk. …

6. halouen v.

20 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To shout in the chase, either at the hunted animal or at the hunting dogs to incite them to attack, halloo; (b) to pursue (a hunted animal) with shouts; also fig.; (c) to incite (hunting dogs)……

7. halberd n.

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A long weapon consisting of a pikestaff combined with an axe. …

8. mọ̄t-halle n.

Additional spellings: mothalle
25 quotations in 1 sense
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A hall used as administrative headquarters or for the administration of justice; town or city hall; court of law, courtroom; council chamber; maken the mot-halle, to hold court. …

9. halpeni-worth n.

Additional spellings: halpeniworth
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The quantity a halfpenny will purchase; a halfpenny's worth. …

10. hal-penī n.

45 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) An English coin [made of silver from the time of Edw.I], worth half a penny, a halfpenny; (b) a halfpenny given in charity; Goddes hal-peni; (c) a coin of Biblical times; a small foreign coin……

11. hal-imọ̄t n.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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The court of the lord of a manor, a court baron, a hallmoot; also, a court held by the Devil; -- often with L inflection. …

12. self-hēle n.

Additional spellings: selfhele
13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A plant regarded as having healing properties and freq. used in salves, esp. the plant selfheal Prunella vulgaris; ?also, burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga [some quots. may belong to any of……

13. hal(le n.

173 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) A large private residence, a manorial hall; a royal residence, palace, castle; (b) a large public building for the transaction of business, holding court, worship, etc.; [see also both hal, mot……

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