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| ae | n (plural ae) | life; life, ferrow [OE ǽ]
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| abaft | adj | behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of; [OED]
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| aban | v. | to publish, make known, bring out; proclaim, broadcast [OE. abannan]
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| abreast | adv | 1.Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted; 2.Side by side, facing forward; [First attested in the mid 15th century. From Middle English a (“on”) + brest (“breast”), in sense “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”;[1] roughly “breast-by-breast”. Other senses of “equally advanced” developed metaphorically. Phrase keep abreast “keep informed, up to the same level as oneself” is from the 1650s.]
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| acweath | vb | declare, express; [OE acweðan]
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| addled | adj | tampered with or rendered unproductive; tampered, corrupted [uncommon with extension in meaning, from ME adel, foul, from OE adela, mud]
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| adree | vb | endure, last, hold out.; suffer, bear, do [OE. dreogan: to do, endure, suffer]
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| adwell | vb | seduce; [OE adwellan]
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| afanding | n | experience; [a- + fand 'try, test out' +-ing]
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| afold | adj. | simple, single, one alone, singular, peculiar, matchless; onefold [OE. anfeald]
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| afgod | n | idol or false god; graven image [obsolete since AD1100, from OE af, of, aef, away + god 'superhuman deity']
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| aleasand | n | deliverer, redeemer, liberator; [OE aliesend]
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| alehouse | n | a building in which ale can be bought and drunk; pub, tavern [uncommon, from OE eala-hus]
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| almsly | adj | charitable; [OE ælmeslic]
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| andet | vb | admit, confess; [OE andhetan]
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| andward | adj | present; here; [from OE andweard]
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| andwork | n | physical substance; material, matter [from OE andweorc]
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| andy | adj | resentfully envious; jealous [OE andig]
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| anether | vb | humiliate; [ME anetheren]
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| anew | vb | renew; [OE edniwian]
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| anget | n | intellect; [OE andgiet]
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| anvil | n | the lock (usually of iron) on which the smith hammmers and shapes his metal; also fig; smithy's block [from OE anfilti an, & perh filtan to weld]
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| aquell | vb | kill, destroy; [OE acwellan]
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| aquern | n | squirrel; [from OE acweorna]
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| argh | adj | cowardly, fearful; inert,lazy,; reluctant; frightened, timid, hesitant, craven [OE, still in northern dialect]
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| arveth | n | labouor; [OE earfoðe]
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| ashun | vb | despise, reject; []
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| ask | n | a newt or eft, occ. also the lizard; asker, eft [OE aesxe: newt]
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| asking | n | a sentence or phrase that needs an answer; question, inquiry [neologism, formed on the basis of OE geáscung, an inquiry, using modern ask + -ING]
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| asp | n | a poplar (populus tremula), with greyish bark and spreading branches, the leaves of which are specialy tremulous. also attrib. the wood of this tree.; poplar [OE: æspae, æspe]
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| atel | adj | terrible; [OE atol]
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| athrick | vb | press, oppress; [OE aðryccan]
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| atspring | vb | to spring out; to gush forth, to rush forth, to spring up/forth/out, to spurt out [OE: ætspringan]
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| atstreng | n | to withhold wrongfully; suppress, repress [OE: ætstrengan]
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| atterloathe | n | antidote; [ME atterlothe]
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