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"3": "",
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{
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"A column; pillar."
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"(now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar."
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"(now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building."
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"(now chiefly dialectal) The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base."
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"A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair."
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"(now chiefly dialectal) A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair."
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},
{
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],
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"4": "drain, sewer, sluice"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English silen, sylen, from Middle Low German silen (\"to let off water, filter, strain\"; > Low German silen, sielen), equivalent to sie (“to filter, strain”) + -le. Cognate with German sielen (“let off water, filter”), Swedish sila (“to strain, filter, sift”), German Siel (“drain, sewer, sluice”).",
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"third-person"
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"form": "siling",
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"participle",
"present"
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"(transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter."
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"To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink."
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"(intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink."
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"categories": [
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"To settle down; calm or compose oneself."
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"(intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself."
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"To go; pass."
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[
"pass",
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"(intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass."
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"kind": "other",
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"glosses": [
"To boil gently; simmer."
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[
"simmer",
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"(intransitive, UK dialectal) To boil gently; simmer."
],
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"All topics",
"Society",
"Fundamental"
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"_dis": "1 4 1 1 1 7 5 29 3 3 3 9 5 26",
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
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"Fish",
"Otocephalan fish",
"Vertebrates",
"Chordates",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
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"To pour with rain."
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[
"rain",
"rain"
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"(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain."
],
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{
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"A sieve."
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"That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth."
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"sediment",
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{
"args": {
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]
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"British English",
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[
"flow",
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[
"drip",
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[
"drop",
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"fall",
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"sink",
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"British English",
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"To settle down; calm or compose oneself."
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{
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"British English",
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"To go; pass."
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[
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"British English",
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"To boil gently; simmer."
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"To pour with rain."
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