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1. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
2. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. Obs....
3. chamber, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular person, a private room; (in later use) esp. a bedroom, typically on...
4. commendation, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Giving in charge, entrusting, committal....
5. emperor, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The sovereign of the undivided Roman Empire, or of the Western or Eastern Empire....
6. fool, n.1 and adj. View full entry ?c1225
...One deficient in judgement or sense, one who acts or behaves stupidly, a silly person, a simpleton. (In Biblical use applied to vicious or impious persons.)...
7. medicine, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A substance or preparation used in the treatment of illness; a drug; esp. one taken by mouth. Also: such substances generally. Also in extended use....
8. metal, n. and adj. View full entry c1230
...Usually as a mass noun. Hard, shiny, malleable material of the kind originally represented by gold, silver, copper, etc. (see sense A. 1b), esp. as used in the manufacture of...
9. minstrel, n. View full entry ?c1225
...gen. A servant; a functionary. Obs.rare....
10. point, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A separate or single item, article, or element in an extended whole (usually an abstract whole, as a course of action, a subject of thought, a treatise, a discourse, a set of...
11. primogeniture, n. View full entry a1500
...The fact or condition of being the firstborn child in a family....
12. profession, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The declaration, promise, or vow made by a person entering a religious order; (hence) the action of entering such an order; the fact or occasion of being professed in a religious order....
13. purgatory, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Also with capital initial. A condition or place of spiritual cleansing and purification; (R.C. Church) a place or state where the souls of those who die in a state of...
14. roll, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A piece of parchment or paper which is written upon or intended to contain writing, music, etc., and is rolled up for ease of handling, carrying, or storing; a scroll....
15. ruling, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The action of governing; the exercise of authority, control, or influence....
16. servant, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A personal or domestic attendant; one whose duty is to wait upon his master or mistress, or do certain work in his or her household. (The usual sense when no other is...
17. sire, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Placed before personal names:...
18. tournament, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Originally, A martial sport or exercise of the middle ages, in which a number of combatants, mounted and in armour, and divided into two parties, fought with blunted weapons and under certain...
19. tread, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A footprint; the mark made in treading. rare....
