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1. wrist n.

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(a) The joint that connects and permits flection between the hand and the forearm, the carpus; wrist of the honde, honde wrist [OE hand-wyrst] (b) the bones connecting the lower leg and the foot;……

2. werst(e adv. superlative

Additional spellings: werste
27 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) In the worst manner; most unpleasantly, most grievously; most maliciously; also, with intensive force [the precise gloss is highly contextual]: most keenly, most intensely, most; werst willed……

3. werst(e adj. superlative

Additional spellings: werste
90 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Most evil, most wicked, most sinful, most morally reprehensible; very evil, very wicked, very iniquitous; alder werst, evilest of all; on the werst sinne, one of the evilest sins, one of the worst……

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