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1. beft, v. View full entry a1300
...intr. To strike, give blows. rare....
2. bike, n.1 View full entry a1400
...A nest of wasps, hornets, or wild bees, as distinct from the hive or skep of domestic bees. Also, the whole nestful of bees; a swarm....
3. † bulk, v.2 View full entry a1400
...intr. ? To beat....
4. † cole, v.1 View full entry a1300
...To cut off (e.g. the head)....
5. † crot | crote, n. View full entry a1300
...A particle, bit, atom, individual piece....
6. † ˈderner, n. View full entry a1300
...The lintel of a door....
7. † fade, adj.1 View full entry a1300
...Strong, doughty, brave, powerful. Also, of a thing: Great, large....
8. glee | gley, v. View full entry a1400
...intr. To look asquint; to have a cast in one or both eyes. Also, to look with one eye (see quot. 1866)....
9. † hirpled | hirpild, adj. View full entry a1400
...Contracted, wrinkled....
10. hone, v.1 View full entry a1300
...intr. To delay, tarry, hesitate....
11. Merry England, n. View full entry a1400
...Originally: England characterized by its pleasant landscape, etc. Later (freq. humorous or ironic): England characterized by the robust cheerfulness of its people, esp. in an imagined past golden...
12. † ontinkel, adj. View full entry a1400
...Similar, alike; resembling. to be ontinkel: to resemble (one another)....
13. pantener, n. and adj. View full entry a1400
...Either a scribal or later editorial misreading of pautener Cf. pantoner...
14. ruffle, v.1 View full entry a1400
...trans....
15. scoup, v. View full entry a1425
...intr. To bound, caper, skip. Of an animal: to go with leaps and bounds....
16. † siquare, n. View full entry a1400
...Period or point of time; moment. Chiefly in phr. in that siquare....
17. † sitisot, n. View full entry a1300
...Some kind of game (see quots.)....
18. skail, v. View full entry a1300
...trans. To scatter or disperse (a thing or collection of things)....
19. sough, n.2 View full entry a1300
...A boggy or swampy place; a small pool....
20. † spare, n.2 View full entry a1400
...An opening or slit in a gown, robe, etc., in later use in a woman's gown (see quot. 1597). ...
