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1. accessive, adj.2 View full entry 1583
...= excessive2b....
2. anagogical, adj. View full entry 1528
...Of words and their sense: mystical, spiritual, having a secondary spiritual sense, allegorical....
3. anyways, adv. and conj. View full entry c1560
...In any way, in any respect, at all....
4. beautify, v. View full entry 1526
...trans. To render beauteous or beautiful; to make fair or lovely; to adorn, embellish, decorate....
5. being, conj. View full entry 1528
...It being the case that, seeing that, since. Now regional and nonstandard....
6. bourne | bourn, n.2 View full entry 1523
...A boundary (between fields, etc.). Obs....
7. ˌcamiˈsado, n. View full entry 1548
...A night attack; originally one in which the attacking party wore shirts over their armour as a means of mutual recognition. (A very common word in 16–17th c.)...
8. cusp, n. View full entry 1579
...Astrol. The beginning or entrance of a ‘house’....
9. ephemeris, n. View full entry 1556
...A record of daily occurrences; a diary, journal. Obs....
10. escalade, n. View full entry 1598
...The action of scaling the walls of a fortified place by the use of ladders; also transf. and fig....
11. hay | hey, n.4 View full entry a1529
...A country dance having a winding or serpentine movement, or being of the nature of a reel....
12. hey-day | heyday, n. (and adj.) View full entry c1590
...State of exaltation or excitement of the spirits or passions....
13. † hippodame, n. View full entry 1590
...erron. used by Spenser for hippocamp...
14. hippodrome, n. View full entry 1585
...In Ancient Greek Hist. and Roman Hist. A course or circus for horse-races and chariot-races. Sometimes used as a high-sounding name for a modern circus....
15. ˈhollow-root, n. View full entry 1578
...A name for Corydalis tuberosa (C. cava), also called hole-wort and hollowwort); extended by Gerarde to other species of Corydalis....
16. hugger-mugger, n., adj., and adv. View full entry a1529
...Concealment, secrecy; esp. in phr. in hugger-mugger: in secret, secretly, clandestinely. Formerly in ordinary literary use, now archaic or vulgar....
17. idee, n. View full entry 1542
...= idea (in various senses)....
18. imperiality, n. View full entry 1534
...Imperial rank, power, or authority. Obs....
19. † inˈspersion, n. View full entry 1568
...The action of sprinkling on; also something sprinkled on....
20. † ˈJanian, adj. View full entry 1598
...Janus-like; two-faced....
