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1. above, adv., prep., n., and adj. View full entry lOE
...With regard to writing: further up on the present page; previously in the text; in a preceding paragraph, passage, etc. See also senses C. 3, D....
2. advent, n. View full entry lOE
...Christian Church Chiefly with capital initial. The ecclesiastical season immediately preceding Christmas....
3. alehouse, n. View full entry lOE
...A house or other premises where ale is sold; a public house, a tavern....
4. ball, n.1 View full entry 1166
...A rounded hill, a knoll. Now Eng. regional (south-west.)....
5. baron, n. View full entry a1200
...Hist. Originally, one who held, by military or other honourable service, from the king or other superior; afterwards restricted to the former or king's barons, and at length mostly...
6. bloodwite, n. View full entry lOE
...Feudal Law. A fine payable for the offence of shedding blood; (also) a legal action for this offence; (occas.) †the offence itself (obs.). Also: the right of levying this...
7. chequer | checker, n.1 View full entry 1178
...A chess-board; a square board divided into 64 small squares, coloured alternately dark and light. Obs....
8. churchyard, n. View full entry ?a1160
...The enclosed piece of consecrated ground in which a church stands, formerly almost universally used as a burial ground for the parish or district, and occasionally still used for Christian burials or...
9. † ˈcotland, n. View full entry a1150
...The piece of arable land (of about 5 acres) held along with his cot by the Old English cotset or cottar....
10. court, n.1 View full entry 1154
...A clear space enclosed by walls or surrounded by buildings; a yard, a court-yard; e.g. that surrounding a castle, or that left for the sake of light, etc. in the...
11. earldom, n. View full entry a1123
...The domain or territory governed by an earl (obs. exc. Hist.); the rank or dignity of an earl....
12. † ˈfrithborh, n. View full entry a1200
...The Old English name for frank-pledge...
13. grace, n. View full entry c1175
...The quality of producing favourable impressions; attractiveness, charm. Now usually with more restricted application: The attractiveness or charm belonging to elegance of proportions, or (especially) ease and refinement of movement, action, or...
14. Hanse, n. View full entry a1135
...A company or guild of merchants in former times; an association of merchants trading with foreign parts; the merchant guild of a town; also, the privileges and monopolies possessed by it; sometimes,...
15. harbinger, n. View full entry c1175
...One who provides lodging; an entertainer, a host; a harbourercommon herberger, a common lodging-house keeper. Obs....
16. hidage, n. View full entry a1195
...A tax payable to the royal exchequer, assessed at a certain quota for each hide of land....
17. Hock-day, n. View full entry c1175
...The second Tuesday after Easter Sunday; Hock Tuesday: in former times an important term-day, on which rents were paid, and the like, Hock-day and Michaelmas dividing the rural year into its summer...
18. housebote, n. View full entry lOE
...The right or privilege of a tenant to take wood from a landlord's estate for the upkeep of a house; (also) the rent paid for this privilege; (the clearing or taking of)...
19. housebreach, n. View full entry lOE
...In Anglo-Saxon and Norman England: the crime of breaking into a house, spec. in order to assault its occupants....
20. ˈIslandshire, n. View full entry c1100
...Short for Holy Island-shire, name of that division of the county palatine of Durham to which Holy Island belonged. Along with Norham-shire, it formed a detached portion of the county lying north...
