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1. ability, n. View full entry a1398
...Suitableness or adaptation for a purpose; fitness, aptitude; (also) an instance of this. Obs....
2. airy, adj. View full entry a1398
...Of or belonging to the air, esp. as distinguished from the earth, water, etc.; living or located in the air....
3. batter, v.2 View full entry 1398
...intr. Of walls, etc.: To incline from the perpendicular, so as to have a receding slope....
4. black man, n. View full entry a1398
...A dark-skinned man, esp. a man of sub-Saharan African or Australian Aboriginal origin or descent. Also: †a dark-haired or swarthy man (obs.). Cf. black3a....
5. bubble, v. View full entry 1398
...intr. To form bubbles (as boiling water, a running stream, etc.); to rise in bubbles (as gas through liquid, water from a spring, etc.; often with out or ...
6. bum, n.1 View full entry a1387
...‘The buttocks, the part on which we sit’ (Johnson); the posteriors....
7. canker, v. View full entry a1398
...trans. To cause (a part of the body) to become ulcerated or cancerous. Obs.rare....
8. cankery, adj. View full entry a1398
...Affected with or of the nature of (a) canker; infected, ulcerated; gangrenous. Now hist....
9. carrier, n. View full entry 1398
...A person who or thing that carries, in various senses of carry; a bearer....
10. castock, n. View full entry 1398
...The stalk or stem of a cabbage....
11. chap, n.1 View full entry 1398
...An open fissure or crack in a surface, made by chopping or splitting....
12. civil, adj., n., and adv. View full entry a1387
...Of warfare, conflict, etc.: occurring within a society or community; taking place between inhabitants of the same country or state, or between the populace and the ruling power; of or relating to...
13. clod, n. View full entry 1398
...A mass formed by the coagulation of anything liquid, esp. blood. Obs. (now clot)...
14. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
15. conservator, n. View full entry a1402
...An officer appointed to conserve or manage something; a keeper, administrator, trustee of some organization, interest, right, or resource; a member of a conservancy. Freq. in official or descriptive titles...
16. consume, v.1 View full entry a1398
...trans. To cause to evaporate or disappear; to disperse. Also with away. Obs....
17. count, v. View full entry a1387
...To tell over one by one, to assign to (individual objects in a collection) the numerals one, two, three, etc. so as to ascertain their number; to number, enumerate; to reckon, reckon...
18. crack, n. View full entry a1387
...A sudden sharp and loud noise as of something breaking or bursting; e.g. the crack of a rifle, a whip, of breaking ice, bones, etc. Formerly applied also to the...
19. crystalline, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Hist. Sci. In the medieval form of the Ptolemaic system: designating a sphere held to exist beyond the sphere of fixed stars, usually accounted the ninth sphere and located between the...
20. † diˈgest, adj. View full entry 1398
...as pa. pple. and Digested....
