"kess" meaning in Middle English

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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "kissen"
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      "examples": [
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          "english": "[\"...] Now, dear wife, I see your steadfastness--\" / And he took her in his arms and began to kiss her.",
          "ref": "1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The [Clerkys] Tale [of Oxenford]”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 188, verso:",
          "text": "Now knowe I, dere wyf, thy stedfaſtneſſe / And hire in armes took and gan hir keſſe",
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        "Alternative form of kissen"
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  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "kissen"
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          "english": "[\"...] Now, dear wife, I see your steadfastness--\" / And he took her in his arms and began to kiss her.",
          "ref": "1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The [Clerkys] Tale [of Oxenford]”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 188, verso:",
          "text": "Now knowe I, dere wyf, thy stedfaſtneſſe / And hire in armes took and gan hir keſſe",
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        }
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