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| backtalk | vb | talking behind someone's back; to gossip [compound back + talk]
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| bakehouse | n | a shop where breads are baked and sold; bakery [extension of existing word, from compound of bake 'to cook food in an oven' & house]
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| bane | n | a person or thing that ruins or spoils; that which causes death or destroys life; a deadly poison.; curse, nemesis, undoing [neologism, from OE bana slayer; that which destroys life; causes death, destruction, ruin or woe, as in a watery bane.]
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| banewave | n | a very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic explosion.; tsunami, killer wave [neologism, from OE bana slayer. Bane: that which destroys life; causes death, destruction, ruin or woe. Wave an advancing ridge or swell of liquid, as of the sea; a moving billow of water.]
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| banewyrm | n | a huge, winged serpent with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire; dragon, Grendel [neologism, from OE bana slayer. Bane: that which destroys life; causes death, destruction, ruin or woe. wyrm a worm, snake, or serpent]
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| bareback | adj | without a saddle on the back of a horse that is being ridden; [CED]
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| bawse | adj | purple, scarlet, crimson; clam [OE basu]
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| Bayerland | n | Bavaria; Bayern [calque from Icelandic Bæjaraland, derived from OE Bægware-, Bægere- 'The Bavarians' + -land]
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| beadle | n | warrant, officer; [OE bydel]
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| bearing | adj | fertile, fecund; [OE berend]
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| beclip | vb | encompass; [OED]
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| becloud | v | to obfuscate, or make muddled, to confuse an issue; confuse, beguile, deceive [existing rare English word, a compound of be- and cloud]
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| bede | vb | pray; [OE bedian]
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| befit | vb | to be appropriate for; literally " to be fit for"; [be- + fit]
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| beforemath | n | the events and situations that lead to a particualr end; antecedence, here-to-fore, foregoings [neologism & antonymn of aftermath. From the Old English words: before & math a mowing]
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| beghast | vb | to inspire, inspire; enthuse; fill with shock, awe, wonder, or amazement; begeist [existing word; be- + ghast]
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| beglide | vb | accompany; [calque: Fr. begeliede, Du.begeleiden, NHG begleiten]
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| behet | vb | promise; [OE behatan]
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| bellowharp | n | accordeon; [forbinding]
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| benim | vb | deprive; [OE beniman]
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| benoot | vb | to use, employ, utilise; brook,neet,note [From OE 'nyttian' plus prefix 'be-'(cf. German 'benutzen/benützen)]
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| berather | vb | to choose over or like better than something else; prefer [compound: be- + rather]
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| beshed | n/vb | n: distinction vb: dicriminate; [OE bescead(an)]
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| besnit | vb | pollute, dishonour; [OE besnitan]
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| besorrow | vb | to have compassion for; [OE besorgian]
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| beswape | vb | persuade; [OE beswapan]
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| beswike | vb | deceive; [OE beswican]
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| betoken | vb | 1. symbolise 2.designate; to gossip [2. OE betacnian]
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| bewarp | vb | pervert; [beweorpan]
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| beway | vb | to move; [calque: from German "bewegen"]
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| bilewhit | adj | innocent, sincere; [OE bilewit]
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| birl | vb | pour, serve drink to; [<ME birlen <OE byrelian]
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| bitter earth | n | in chemistry, an alkaline earth, now recognised as oxide of magnesium (MgO); magnesium [putting together of the OE words: bitter & earth]
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| bleeter | vb | to talk aimlessly; [Doric]
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| blissend | n | a quiet and easy death; means of procuring this; euthanasia [a blending of the OE words: bliss: happy end& send: easy death]
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| blome | n | metal; [OE blóma]
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| blood-month | n | the eleventh month of the year, so called because the heathen Anglo-Saxons sacrificed cattle to their gods; November [Anglo-Saxon, from Blōt-Mōnath]
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| bloomcole | n | cauliflower; [forbinding]
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| bookcraft | n | creative writing of recognized artistic value, the humanistic study of written work; literature [OE boccræft]
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| bookly | adj | literary; [OE boclic]
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| boroughman | n | town citizen; [OE burhman]
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| boundness | n | obligation; [OE bundennes]
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| brambling | n | a winter visitor to Britain that breeds in northern parts of Eurasia; [OED]
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| brath | n | Impetuousity, violence, ire; wrathful [dialectal, C15th-16th Northern dialects, from OE braþþe < ME:braþ & ON:brað]
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| breme | adj | famous; [OE]
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| brock | n | a small mammal of the kind Meles meles, with black and white stripes on its head; badger [dialectual, from OE brocc < Celtic]
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| brook | vb | to use, enjoy; [OED]
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| brownfield | n | an abandoned, contaminated industrial site; industrial wasteland, atterground [neologism; a putting together of OE words: brown & field]
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| by-gone | adj | that has gone-by; things that are passed; deceased; arrears; the past(rare); former, past, happened [a putting together of OE words: by & gone]
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| byspel | n | example, proverb; [existing word from OE bispel]
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