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+ | |B ||n||The letter "B" |
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− | |Bac n.||Chaplet |
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− | |Bache n||The vale of a stream or rivulet |
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− | |Back n.||The surface of a river, the waves |
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− | |Backboneless adj.||Destitute of strength, character; weak |
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− | |Backcast vb.||Throw back |
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− | |Back-town n.||Hicksville, boondocks |
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− | |Backwardness n.||Retardation, regression |
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− | |Badling n.||Thug |
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− | |Baft adv.||Behind, to the rear of, aft |
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− | |Bairn n.||Child. Cognates: Bairnless: childless; Bairnly, Bairnish: childish; Bairnhood: childhood, infancy |
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− | |Bairn-bed n.||Womb |
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− | |Bale n.||Harm. injury |
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− | |Baleless adj||Harmless, innocent |
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− | |Bale-fire n.||Holocaust |
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− | |Baneful adj.||life destroying, pernicious esp. poisonous. Cognates: banefulness, banefully |
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− | |Baneless adj.||Innocent, harmless |
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− | |Banesman n.||Murderer, killer, assassin |
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− | |Banewort n.||Belladona, Deadly Nightshade |
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− | |Barefaceness n.||Effrontery, openness, shamelessness |
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− | |Bareness n.||Nakedness, nudity |
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− | |Bargh n.||Low detached ridge, hill, steep hill, road up a hill. From OE. beorgh, beorh: mount |
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− | |Barton n.||Farmstead, bere-earn, barley enclosure, enclosure, pen for poultry |
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− | |Be pref.||Causative rendering nouns, adjectives etc,. into verbs |
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− | |Bead n.||Small perforated body of glass, amber, wood, metal, etc., 2. Prayer. Cognates: '''beadfolk''', '''beadhouse''' |
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− | |Beadle vb.||Announce, proclaim |
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− | |Beadledom n.||Stupid officiousness, church bureaucracy |
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− | |Beam n.|| Tree. Cognates: '''beamless''': treeless. |
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− | |Beam n.||Throw out or radiate bems of light, emit rays. Cognates: '''beamish,''' '''beamless,''', '''beamsome''' |
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− | |Becall n.||Accuse, miscall, summons |
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− | |Be'clepe vb.||Complain, indict, accuse; summons, appeal (to a highr court) |
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− | |Be'dip vb.||Embrace, fold in arms, |
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− | |Be'close vb.||Enclose, shut up |
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− | |Be'deal vb.||Deprive, bereave, free of |
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− | |Be'do vb.||put to, shut, befoul, defile with ordure |
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− | |Be'dwellan vb.||Mislead, lead into error |
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− | |Beeishness n.||Busyness (extreme) |
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− | |Beforeness n.||Anteriority, pre-existence, priority |
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− | |Beforetime adv.||former, previously |
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− | |Be'god vb.||Deify |
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− | |Be'grede vb.||Cry, weep |
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− | |Be'grip vb.||Apprehend, seize, catch |
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− | |be'hap vb.||befall. happen, behappen |
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− | |be'hele vb.||Conceal, cover, envelope |
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− | |Behew vb.||Cut down |
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− | |Behight n.||Promise (behote) |
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− | |Bethither adv.||On this side |
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− | |Behoveful adj.||Advantageous, expedient, needful, necessary. Cognates: '''behovefully''', '''behovefulness''' |
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− | |Behoving adj.||Needful, incumbent, appropriate |
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− | |Behovesome adj.||Useful, of service |
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− | |Beingless n.||Non-existent, off no being |
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− | |Beingness n.||Entity, actuality, existence |
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− | |Bekend ||Known |
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− | |Bekenning n.||Knowledge; acquaintance |
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− | |Belewe vb.||Betray, |
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− | |Beliefful adj.||Full of faith, believing |
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− | |Beliefless adj.||Without faith or believing, atheistic, godless |
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− | |Belirt vb.||deceive, cheat, fool |
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− | |Belive vb.||Remain, live on, survive |
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− | |Bellow vb.||Roar |
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− | |Beme n.||Loud noise, din; 2. trumpet Cognate: '''Bemer''' a trumpeter. |
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− | |Bemouth vb.||Praise(verbally), Declaim, grandiloquize |
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− | |Ben vb.||Look at |
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− | |Bendsome adj.||Flexible |
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− | |Bendwise adv.||Diagonally |
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− | |Bene n.||Prayer, petition, boon, |
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− | |Beneap adj.||Lying beneath the reach of higher water |
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− | |Benight vb.||Overtaken by the darkness |
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− | |Benim vb.||Take away, remove, |
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− | |Benimming n.||Removal |
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− | |Bensy vb.||Bless, consecrate, make hallow, purify |
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− | |Benward adv||Towards the interior, inwards, innerly |
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− | |Beod n.||Table. Cf: '''Board''', as in board and lodgings. |
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− | |Beot n.||Vow, threat, boat, promise. Cognate: '''Beoten''' vb, threaten |
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− | |Berede vb.||To advise, counsel, inform, plan |
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− | |Berewick n.||Village, demesne farm, dwelling, habitation |
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− | |Berg n.||Mountain |
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− | |Bergfall n.||Avalanche |
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− | |Berman n.||Bearer, carrier, porter |
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− | |Bermother n.||Womb.uterus |
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− | |Berne n.||Warrior |
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− | |Berrhless n.||Salvation |
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− | |Berry vb.||Thresh, trod |
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− | |Berre n.||Grove, shady place. Survives in placenames as bere, beere, bear |
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− | |Besay vb.||To defend, apologise, speak for |
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− | |Beschrew vb.||Make evil, wicked, pervert,deprave, corrupt |
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− | |Besibbing n.||Affinity, resembling, having a likeness to |
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− | |Besmit vb.||Stain, contaminate, effect |
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− | |Bespeak vb.||To consider carefully |
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− | |Bestand vb.||To stand near, stand over in solitude (by the grave), mourn |
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− | |Bestead vb.||To help, assist, relieve, be of service, avail; go in stead of |
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− | |Bester n.||One who gets the best of others by fraud; fraudster |
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− | |Beshew vb.||To bestraught |
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− | |Beswart vb.||To blacken, denigrate |
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− | |Beswike vb.||To betray, deceive, cheat |
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− | |Beswiker n.||To cheat, betrayer, deceiever |
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− | |Beswikking ger.||Cheating, deceiving, betraying |
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− | |Be'tee vb.||To draw over as , cover, |
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− | |Beteem vb.||To pour over; give birth to, reproduce |
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− | |Beteeming adj.||Copious, profusive, |
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− | |Bethough adv.||Intended, contrived, purposed (of a thing); as in ill-bethoughed evil, |
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− | |Bethrall vb||To enslave |
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− | |Betide vb||To befall, happen to |
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− | |Betidings n.||Event, Fortune, accident, befalling |
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− | |Betoken vb.||To signify, mean, denote, express in words, symbolize |
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− | |Betokening n.||Signification, meaning, emblem, omen, portent |
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− | |Betroth vb.||To engage a woman in a contract of marriage |
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− | |Beet vb.||To make good, amend, better, correct, reform, mend, heal wound, reform |
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− | |Beeting vb||To repent, relieve hunger, thirst, any sign of want, assist, help |
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− | |Beeting n.||Making a fire (kindling) |
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− | |Betterhood n.||Superiority |
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− | |Betweche vb.||To exorcise, rid |
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− | |Betweenness n.||Intermediate stage or state |
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− | |Between-whiles n.||Intervals |
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− | |Bewain vb.||To profit, Take advantage, ('''wain''': gain) |
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− | |Bewend vb.||To turn round or away |
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− | |Bewhape vb.||To bewilder, amaze, confound utterly |
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− | |Bewist n.||Food, provisions, victuals; living |
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− | |Bewist n.||State or condition of life ('''Wist''': being, sense of being) |
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− | |Bewist n.||Dwelling, soujourn, living |
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− | |Bewist n.||Dwelling, place, abode, habitation |
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− | |Bewith n.||Stopgap, substitute |
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− | |Beword vb.||To happen, come to pass |
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− | |Bewray vb.||To accuse, malign, speak evil of, discredit,expose,reveal, disclose prejudishly. ALSO: bewrayer, bewrraying, bewrayness |
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− | |Bewreak vb.||to avenge, awreak |
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− | |Beyelp vb.||To talk loudly of |
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− | |Beyondness n.||Condition or quality of beyond |
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− | |Bibode n.||Commandment |
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− | |Bid vb.||to invite to a feast |
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− | |Bide n.||Byde-dwelling place, habitat |
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− | |Bideme vb.||To condemn |
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− | |Biding n.||Place, abode |
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− | |Bidstand n.||Highwayman, Bidstander, Bailupman |
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− | |Bi'dwellan vb.||To mislead into error |
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− | |Bield n.||Boldness, courage, 2. Shelter, comfort Also:Bieldness |
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− | |Bi'fele vb.||To commit, entrust, assign, grant |
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− | |Bigg vb.||To dwell, inhabit, place or locate oneself in, have an abode |
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− | |Bigger vb.||To build, erect, construct, form, fashion, pile up. |
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− | |Bi'gale vb.||to charm by incantation, enchant |
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− | |Bi'gang vb.||To worship |
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− | |Biggermost adj.||Vain, conceited, boastful, impudent |
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− | |Bi'hede vb.||To notice, percieve, pay attention to, take care care of, guard gainst, procure, prepare |
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− | |Bi'howe vb.||To benxious, becareful for |
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− | |Bi'kenned adj.||Begotten |
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− | |Bi'laub vb.||To mock, deride, laugh at |
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− | |Bi'melden vb.||To betray, Inform against |
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− | |Bi'peche vb.||To cheat, decieve, delude |
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− | |Bi'peching n.||Deception, fraud |
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− | |Birde n.||Birth, off-spring, family, nation |
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− | |Birle vb.||To pour Also: '''birling, birler''' |
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− | |Birthdom n.||Inheritance, birthhood, birthright |
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− | |Birthful adj.||Prolific, productive |
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− | |Birthright n.||Inheritance, bithright |
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− | |Bismer n.||Shame, disgrace, reproach, insult, mockery, scorn, derision |
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− | |Bisson n.||Blind, sightless, destitute of sight, Also: bissonness, bissonhood, bissondom |
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− | |Bi'theck vb.||To thatch, cover, bedeck |
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− | |Bi'trum vb & n..||Surround, beset, 2. n. trim, strong, fit, firm |
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− | |Bive n.||Shake, tremble |
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− | |Bi'wihele vb.||to soothsay, bewitch, overcome by witchcraft |
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− | |Bi'wit vb.||To look after, guard against, protect |
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− | |Bi'wite vb.||To beguile, ensorce 2. Go away, leave |
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− | |Bi'wrench vb.||to defeat, deprive |
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− | |Blædfast adj.||Prosperous, glorious (blaed:prosperous) |
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− | |Blake adj & n.||Become pale, ghostly, 2. abashed, spiritless, awkwardness, shamefaced, timid, bashful, diffident, slow, sheepish, insipid |
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− | |Blead n.||Breath, blowing, inspiration |
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− | |Blede n.||Flower, blossom, bloom, fruit |
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− | |Blench vb.||Cheat, elude, run away from, foil, turn away (eyes), shirk |
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− | |Blete adj.||Miserable |
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− | |Blethe adj.||Weak, timid, spiritless, |
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− | |Blethely adv.||Kindly, generously, benevolently, gladly |
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− | |Blick n.||Gold |
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− | |Blike vb.||Shine, glitter, glimmer |
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− | |Blin vb.||Cease, desist, leave off, stop, delay, tarry |
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− | |Blithe adj.||Cheery Also:Blitheful, blithesome, blithsomeness |
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− | |Byspel n.||Parable |
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− | |Byss n.||Fineness & value |
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− | |By-swelt vb.||Burn, scorch, |
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− | |By-swenke vb.||Work hard, exert, do with industry |
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− | |Bysybbe, (Bysib) n.||Relative, kin, kinfolk |
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− | |By-tale n.||Irrevelant tale or story |
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− | |By- time n.||Spare time |
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Old English | sp | English |
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