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1. accidentally, adv. View full entry a1398
...Non-essentially, incidentally; as a secondary or subsidiary effect....
2. animal, n. View full entry a1398
...A living organism which feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and a nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli; any living creature, including man....
3. black humour | black humor, n. View full entry a1398
...Med. The humour black bile (see bile3); an unnatural, disease-causing humour derived from or resembling this; now hist. and rare. Later also (in extended...
4. blanch, v.1 View full entry 1398
...trans. To make white, whiten: chiefly, in mod. use, by depriving of colour; to bleach. Also fig....
5. canicular, adj. and n. View full entry 1398
...the days immediately preceding and following the heliacal (in modern times, according to some, the cosmical) rising of the dog-star (either Sirius or Procyon), which is about the 11th of August; the...
6. comb, v.1 View full entry 1398
...trans. To draw a comb through the hair for the purpose of cleaning, disentangling, or arranging; to dress with a comb; to curry a horse....
7. Egyptian, adj. and n. View full entry 1398
...Belonging or relating to Egypt....
8. grinder, n. View full entry 1398
...A molar tooth; hence colloq. or jocularly in pl., the teeth generally....
9. hempen, adj. and n. View full entry 1398
...Made of hemp; of or pertaining to hemp....
10. horny, adj. and n. View full entry 1398
...Consisting of horn; of a texture resembling that of horn; corneous....
11. infection, n. View full entry a1398
...Corruption or morbid condition of the blood, another humour (humour2b), or a body part; an instance of this or condition resulting from this. Obs....
12. latitude, n. View full entry 1398
...Transverse dimension; extent as measured from side to side; breadth, width of a surface, as opposed to length; also occas. spaciousness. Now only jocular....
13. litter, v. View full entry 1398
...trans. To carry in a litter. Obs.rare....
14. longitude, n. View full entry 1398
...Length, longitudinal extent; occas. an instance of this; a length; a long figure. †Also, tallness, height. Now chiefly jocular....
15. ordinary, adj. and adv. View full entry a1402
...Law. Of a judge: having regular jurisdiction, i.e. exercising authority by virtue of office and not by special deputation; esp. empowered ex officio to take jurisdiction of...
16. Ostrogoth, n. and adj. View full entry a1398
...An East Goth; spec. a member of the eastern branch of the Goths which towards the end of the 5th cent. conquered Italy under the leadership of Theoderic and established...
17. paralytic, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry a1398
...Affected by or suffering from paralysis; = paralysed Now rare....
18. † peerly, adv. View full entry a1398
...In the manner of an equal or compeer....
19. pestilential, adj. View full entry a1398
...Carrying, producing, or tending to produce pestilence or epidemic disease, esp. bubonic plague; unhealthy; (of a disease) infectious, epidemic....
20. pia mater, n. View full entry a1398
...The innermost of the three meninges, consisting of a thin, vascular, fibrous membrane which is closely applied to the surface of the brain and spinal cord. Also fig....
