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Nor of musk nor of amber I ween was his frame;

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  1. transitive verb Archaic To think; suppose.

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  • Beyond the drab foreground there were the green hills that sloped down from Norland to the railway cutting bet-ween Copley and Sowerby Bridge.
  • Like kcee anthony Misty has a thing for the ween!! —  Blogger News Network
  • CANU sources acknowledge that thus far information has not been forthcoming from the Canadian authorities and this may in part be due to the weak cooperation bet-ween the two sides in the last decade or so. —  Stabroek News
  • "There's no obvious compromise bet-ween those two positions." —  San Francisco Sentinel
  • The "thread of love" that a sister ties on the wrist of her brother on this festival cost the equivalent of bet - ween RM1 and a few hundred ringgit last week, depending on your fancy and ability to spend.
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  1. Middle English wenen, from Old English wēnan; see wen-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wene, wen, from Anglo-Saxon wēn, feminine, wēna, masculine, hope, weening, expectation, = Old Saxon wān = OFries. wēn, hope, = Dutch waan, opinion, conjecture, = Old High German Middle High German wān, German wahn, illusion, false hope, = Icelandic vān, expectation, = Goth, wēns, expectation; from the root of win: see win.
  2. from Middle English wenen, from Anglo-Saxon wēnan (preterit wende, past participle wende, wente), hope, expect, imagine, = Old Saxon wānian = OFries. wēna = Dutch wanen, think, fancy, = Low German wanen, fancy, = Old High German wānan, wānnan, Middle High German wænen, German wähnen = Icelandic vāna, hope (cf. Swedish vänta = Danish rente), = Goth, wēnjan, expect; from the noun.
 

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