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| backling or backlings | | "backwards"
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| backslittle | | "backbiting"
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| backtharm | | "rectum"
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| backtharms | | "entrails"
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| baft | | "behind"
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| bain | | "both"
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| bairn | | "child"
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| bairneak | | "pregnant"
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| bairnhood | | "childhood"
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| bairnteam | | "offspring, brood of children"
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| bakemeat | | "pie; baked food"
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| baken | | strong past participle of bake (like shaken)
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| bakern | | "bakery"
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| balecraft | | "baleful art"
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| balefight | | "deadly fight"
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| baleless | | "harmless"
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| balespel | | "baleful discourse"
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| ball | | strong past tense of bell
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| ballock | | "testicle"
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| ballockcod | | "scrotum"
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| barker | | "watchdog"
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| barm | | "lap; bosom"
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| barmcloth | | "apron"
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| barn | | strong past tense of burn
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| barnet | | "a burning; arson"
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| barrow | | "to protect"
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| barrow | | "hill; mound; burial mound"
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| barst | | strong past tense of burst (other spelling brast)
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| basten | | "of bast"
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| batharn | | "bathhouse"
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| bathvat | | "bathtub"
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| baxter | | "(female) baker"
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| bea | | "ring"
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| bead | | "prayer"
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| beadhouse | | "house of prayer"
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| beadman | | "worshipper"
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| beadred | | "prayer; intercession"
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| beanbellies | | "beanpods"
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| beanen | | "of beans"
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| beankin | | "a kind of bean"
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| bearend | | "bearing-one; bearer"
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| bearfell | | "bearskin"
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| bearling | | "young bear"
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| beathe | | "to warm"
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| bebathe | | "to bathe, to wash"
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| bebiddingly | | "imperative"
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| bebled | | "covered in blood"
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| bebleed | | "to cover with blood"
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| bebloody | | "to make bloody"
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| bebode | | "commandment"
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| bebodeday | | "appointed day"
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| bebodered | | "command, authority"
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| beburiedness | | "burial"
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| bebury | | "to bury"
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| beburying | | "burial"
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| bechar | | "to mislead"
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| becheap | | "to bargain; to sell; to buy"
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| bechirm | | "to scream at"
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| beckoningly | | "indicative; allegorical"
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| beclip | | "to embrace"
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| bedbower | | "bedchamber"
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| bedark | | "to darken"
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| bedaw | | "to dawn upon"
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| bedern | | "to conceal"
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| bedfere | | "bedfellow"
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| bedidder | | "to delude"
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| bedight | | "to adorn"
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| bedit | | "to shut"
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| bedolven | | "buried"
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| bedreaf | | "bedclothes"
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| bedrench | | "to soak"
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| bedship | | "cohabitation"
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| beeast | | "to the east of"
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| beeastnorth | | "to the northeast of"
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| beeastsouth | | "to the southeast of"
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| beech | | "books"
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| beechen | | "of beech"
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| beed | | "table"
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| beedarn | | "table-room"
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| beedreaf | | "tablecloth"
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| beedvat | | "table-cup"
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| beem | | "trumpet"
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| beemother | | "queen-bee"
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| been | | "prayer; request"
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| beenripe | | "service to a landowner at harvest time"
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| beership | | "feast"
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| beentide | | "prayer-time"
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| beet | | "boast"
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| beet | | "to amend"
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| beeting | | "amendment"
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| beetingness | | "amendment"
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| beetly | | "boastful"
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| beetness | | "reparation"
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| be-ew | | "to join in marriage; to marry"
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| befang | | "to envelope"
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| befasten | | "to fasten about; to entrust to"
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| befold | | "to envelope"
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| befoot | | "to cut off one's feet"
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| beforecome | | "to come before"
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| beforegird | | "to gird before"
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| beforego | | "to go before"
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| beforegoer | | "forerunner"
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| beforeknow | | "to foreknow"
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| beforerunner | | "forerunner"
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| beforesee | | "to foresee"
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| beforesend | | "to send before"
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| beforeset | | "to set before"
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| beforespeaker | | "spokesman"
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| beforespeaking | | "preface"
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| beforestretch | | "to hold out"
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| beforewalling | | "the outwork"
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| beforewarn | | "to warn before"
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| begale | | "to sing incantations over"
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| begang | | "a going about"
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| bego | | "to go about something; to surround"
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| begone | | "surrounded"
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| begrave | | "to bury"
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| begrow | | "to grow around"
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| begster | | "(female) beggar"
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| behang | | "to hang around"
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| behem | | "to hem around"
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| behence | | "on this side of"
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| behest | | "a promise; a command"
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| behest | | "to promise"
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| behew | | "to chop"
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| behide | | "to conceal"
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| behie | | "to make haste"
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| beholden | | past participle of behold
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| beholdend | | "beholder"
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| beholdness | | "observation"
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| behorrow | | "to defile"
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| behote | | "promise"
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| behote | | "to promise"
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| behoteland | | "promised land"
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| behoter | | "promiser"
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| behow | | "to observe clearly"
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| behue | | "to dissimilate"
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| beknow | | "to known about; to acknowledge"
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| beknowing | | "knowledge"
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| beknowledge | | "to acknowledge"
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| belaugh | | "to laugh at"
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| belew | | "to betray"
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| belewing | | "betrayal"
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| belieflest | | "lack of belief"
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| beliefly | | "credible"
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| beliefsome | | "faithful"
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| belight | | "to illumine"
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| belike | | "probably; perhaps"
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| belimb | | "to dismember"
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| belimp | | "event"
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| belimp | | "to befall; to appertain to"
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| belirt | | "to deceive"
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| belive | | "livelihood, means of living"
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| belive | | "to remain"
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| belive | | "quickly"
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| bell | | "to bellow"
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| bellringster | | "(female) bellringer"
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| belode | | "to excuse"
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| beloding | | "apology"
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| belodingly | | "apologetic"
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| belook | | "to behold"
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| belove | | "to love, to delight in"
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| bemaze | | "to confuse"
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| bemoan | | "a complaint"
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| bemole | | "to soil, to sully with moles/spots"
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| bemong | | "among"
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| ben | | "wound"
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| benake | | "to lay bare"
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| benim | | "to take away; to deprive of"
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| benorth | | "to the north of"
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| bent | | "grassy slope"
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| bepeach | | "to deceive"
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| berain | | "to rain upon"
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| bere | | "barley"
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| berecroft | | "barley-field"
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| bereleap | | "a basket for barley"
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| beren | | "of barley"
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| beride | | "to ride around; to overtake"
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| berine | | "to touch"
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| berise | | "to befit, to become"
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| bern | | "man"
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| berue | | "to repent, to comiserate"
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| berueness | | "comiseration"
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| besee | | "to see upon"
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| beseen | | "seen; appearing; clad"
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| besench | | "to submerge"
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| beshine | | "to shine upon"
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| beshite | | "to befoul with excrement"
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| beshitten | | past participle of beshite
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| beshote | | past tense of beshote
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| beshrew | | "to put a curse upon"
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| besmite | | "to defile"
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| besmoke | | "to blacken with smoke"
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| besoken | | "request"
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| besouth | | "to the south of"
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| bespringe | | "besprinkle"
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| bestalk | | "to move stealthly"
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| bestand | | "to stand by"
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| besweat | | "to cover with sweat"
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| beswicken | | past participle of beswike
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| beswike | | "to deceive"
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| beswiker | | "deceiver"
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| beswiking | | "deception"
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| beswoke | | past tense of beswike
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| bet | | "better"
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| bethinking | | "meditation"
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| betiding | | "occurance"
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| betield | | "to cover"
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| betimber | | "to construct"
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| betime | | "to happen"
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| betimes | | "at a good time"
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| betine | | "to hedge in"
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| betining | | "conclusion"
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| betread | | "to tread over"
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| betrend | | "to encircle"
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| betwixt | | "between; among"
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| betwixtsend | | "to send between"
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| bewall | | "to surround with a wall"
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| bewallow | | "to wallow about"
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| bewed | | "to betroth"
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| beweddingly | | "relating to marriage"
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| beweep | | "bewail"
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| beweepingly | | "lamentable"
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| bewend | | "to turn away or around"
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| bewest | | "to the west of"
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| bewield | | "to wholly control oneself"
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| bewimple | | "to cover with a wimple"
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| bewind | | "to envelope"
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| bewindle | | "hedge, border"
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| bewist | | "being, living"
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| bewray | | "to reveal, to accuse"
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| bield | | "boldness; a shelter"
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| bigh | | "a bend; corner; curve"
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| bigh | | "to bend"
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| bighingly | | "flexible"
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| bight | | "a bend"
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| bin | | "within"
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| bine | | "cultivated; inhabited"
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| bir | | "to pertain to"
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| birl | | "cupbearer"
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| birl | | "to act as cupbearer; to pour out drink"
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| birthbold | | "ancesteral mansion"
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| birther | | "child-bearing"
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| birththinen | | "midwife"
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| birthtide | | "nativity"
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| bisen | | "example"
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| bismer | | "disgrace"
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| bismer | | "to mock"
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| bisson | | "blind"
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| bitmeal | | "bit by bit"
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| bive | | "to tremble"
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| blackhorn | | "inkhorn"
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| blan | | past tense of blin
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| blead | | "a blast; an inspiration"
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| bleat | | "wretched"
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| blee | | "colour"
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| bleeboard | | "coloured board"
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| bleefow | | "variagated"
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| bleesteening | | "tessellated pavement"
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| blessedhood | | "blessedness"
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| blicken | | past participle of blike
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| blike | | "to shine"
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| blin | | "cessation"
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| blin | | "to cease"
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| blindfell | | "to strike blind"
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| blinness | | "cessation"
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| blissfulhood | | "blissfulness"
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| blissingly | | "exulting"
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| blissy | | "joyful"
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| blitheheart | | "happy"
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| blithemood | | "of cheerful mood"
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| bloke | | past participle of blike
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| blooddollow | | "bloody wound"
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| blooded | | "stained with blood"
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| blooden | | "of blood"
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| bloodfow | | "blood-stained"
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| bloodiron | | "lancet, fleam"
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| bloodsax | | "lancet"
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| bloodwite | | "fine for blood shedding"
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| bloodwreaker | | "avenger of blood"
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| bloot | | "sacrifice"
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| blooter | | "sacrificer"
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| blootmonth | | "November"
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| blow | | "to blossom"
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| blowingly | | "blooming"
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| blun or blunen | | past participle of blin
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| boardcloth | | "tablecloth"
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| boardfellow | | "companion"
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| boardknife | | "tableknife"
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| boardless | | "without a table"
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| boardwall | | "phalanx"
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| bode | | "messenger"
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| bode | | "command; message"
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| bodeship | | "command"
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| bodeword | | "commandment-word"
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| boding | | "announcement; preaching"
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| bodingday | | "Annunciation day"
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| bold | | "house"
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| bolder | | "prince"
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| boldhood | | "boldness"
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| book | | strong past tense of bake (like shook)
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| bookcraft | | "book-learning"
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| bookcrafty | | "booklearned"
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| booker | | "scholar, scribe, writer"
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| bookfodder | | "bookcase"
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| bookhouse | | "library"
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| bookspel | | "tale in a book"
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| bookstaff | | "letter"
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| bootday | | "day of atonement"
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| booten | | "to make or become better"
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| bootener | | "healer"
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| bootening | | "amendment"
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| bon | | "cup"
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| bondhood | | "servitude"
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| bondship | | "condition of a bondman"
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| bonen | | "made of bone"
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| bork | | strong past tense of bark
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| borken | | strong past participle of bark
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| boroughfolk | | "townfolk"
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| boroughknave | | "townlad"
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| boroughman | | "townsman"
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| boroughmoot | | "townmeeting"
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| boroughreeve | | "townreeve"
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| boroughtown | | "fortified town"
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| boroughwall | | "townwall"
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| boroughware | | "borough-citizens"
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| borsten | | strong past participle of burst
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| bosomy | | "sinuous"
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| bote | | strong past tense of bite (like wrote)
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| boughtling | | "one ransomed"
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| boul | | "bracelet; necklace; brooch"
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| bour | | "freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer"
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| bout | | "without"
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| bove | | "above"
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| bow | | "to dwell; to inhabit"
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| bowerknight | | "chamberlain"
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| bowerthane | | "page; chamberlain"
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| bowfodder | | "case for the bow"
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| brake | | a past tense of break.
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| brant | | "steep"
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| brast | | strong past tense of burst (other spelling barst)
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| breadleap | | "breadbasket"
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| breastthank | | "mind"
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| breem | | "glorious"
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| breem | | "to glorify"
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| breird | | "to incite"
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| breirdness | | "incitement"
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| brem | | "to roar"
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| bremming | | "roaring"
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| brerd | | "brim"
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| brerdful | | "brimful"
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| brewern | | "brew-house"
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| bridegift | | "giving in marriage"
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| brideleeth | | "epithalamium"
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| bridesong | | "epithalamium"
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| bridething | | "nuptials"
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| bridgeboot | | "repairing or restoration of a bridge"
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| bridgeward | | "bridgekeeper"
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| bridlethongs | | "reins"
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| brim | | "sea"
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| brimfowl | | "seabird"
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| Britland | | "Britain"
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| britten | | "to distribute"
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| brittening | | "distribution"
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| brittlehood | | "frailty"
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| brokebacked | | "hunchback"
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| brokefooted | | "broken footed"
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| brokelegged | | "broken legged"
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| brokeshanked | | "broken legged"
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| brookingly | | "serviceable"
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| brord | | "point"
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| brosen | | "to crumble; to decay"
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| broseningly | | "corruptable"
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| brotherred | | "fellowship"
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| brothersib | | "kinship of brothers"
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| brotherson | | "brother's son"
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| brow | | strong past tense of brew
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| brown | | strong past participle of brew
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| bud | | "beetle"
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| burien | | "burying-place; grave"
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| burielsong | | "dirge"
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| burl | | "trunk"
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| burn | | "stream; spring"
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| burnen | | strong past participle of burn
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| burst | | "calamity"
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| bursty | | "broken"
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| burthen | | "burden"
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| busihood | | "busy condition"
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| busiship | | "business"
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| busy | | "labour; occupation"
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| bylive | | "life-nourishment"
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| byname | | "pronoun"
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| byspell | | "proverb"
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| byspellbook | | "book of proverbs"
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| bytale | | "parable"
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| bywist | | "sustenance"
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| byword | | "proverb; adverb"
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