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1. certain, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1297
...Determined, fixed, settled; not variable or fluctuating; unfailing. To avoid ambiguity from confusion with sense A. 7, the adj. is sometimes put after its n., as a certain day...
2. duty, n. View full entry 1297
...The action and conduct due to a superior; homage, submission; due respect, reverence; an expression of submission, deference, or respect....
3. nephew, n. View full entry c1325
...A son of a person's brother or sister. Hence also: a son of a brother- or sister-in-law....
4. oblige, v. View full entry c1325
...trans. To bind (a person) by oath, promise, contract, etc.; to put under an obligation, to engage, commit. Freq. with to or infinitive. Obs....
5. release, v.1 View full entry c1325
...trans. To revoke, cancel (a sentence, punishment, condition, etc.). Obs. (arch. in later use)....
6. touch, n. View full entry 1297
...The action or an act of touching (with the hand, finger, or other part of the body); exercise of the faculty of feeling upon a material object. †In quot. 1340,...
