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1. † acold, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To become cold; (fig.) to decline in ardour, to cool off. Cf. acool1....
2. adamant, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...Originally: a hard, strong rock or mineral, not otherwise identified, to which various other (often contradictory) properties were attributed. In later use chiefly a poetical or rhetorical name for: an embodiment of...
3. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
4. altar, n. View full entry eOE
...A block, table, stand, or other raised structure with a flat top used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a god or gods....
5. angle, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Originally: a fish hook. In later use also: the apparatus used for fishing in combination with this, as a line, rod, etc. Cf. angle-hook...
6. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
7. brain, n. View full entry eOE
...The organ contained in the skull of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of soft grey or white tissue with (esp. in mammals) a conspicuously convoluted surface. Also (as a mass noun): the...
8. carbuncle, n. View full entry eOE
...A large precious stone of a red or fiery colour: in early use of unsettled identity, as a ruby, garnet, spinel, etc.; (also) a mythical gem said to give out light in...
9. ealdordom, n. View full entry eOE
...Lordship, chief authority; = aldership1. Now rare....
10. earth, n.1 View full entry eOE
...The ground considered simply as a surface on which human beings, animals, and things associated with them rest or move....
11. elder, adj. and n.3 View full entry c888
...That has lived or existed longer; senior, more advanced in age....
12. † ˈethel, n. View full entry c888
...Ancestral land or estate, patrimony; native land....
13. field, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Open country, esp. as opposed to woodland; a stretch of open land; a plain....
14. free, adj., n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Of a person: not or no longer in servitude or subjection to another; having personal, social, and political rights as a member of a society or state....
15. gleeman, n. View full entry c897
...A professional entertainer at social gatherings; esp. a singer, musician, or minstrel....
16. great, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c888
...Composed of large particles; coarse of grain or texture. Of diet: Coarse, not delicate. In Old Cookery, applied sometimes to boiled meat in contradistinction to roast. Obs. exc....
17. home, adv. View full entry eOE
...To or towards one's home, house, or abode; to the place, region, or country where one lives....
18. long, adj.1 and n. View full entry c888
...Great in measurement from end to end. Said of a line, of distance, a journey; also, of a portion of space or a material object with reference to its greatest dimension. Opposed...
19. make, v.1 View full entry eOE
...trans....
20. mar, v. View full entry eOE
...trans. To hamper, hinder, interfere with, interrupt, or stop (a person, event, etc.). Now Sc....
