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1. acceptation, n. View full entry c1400
...favouritism on personal grounds; undue partiality. Cf. acception2....
2. accounting, n. View full entry a1387
...The action or process of reckoning, counting, or computing; numeration, computation, calculation; (also) an instance of this. Occas. in extended uses. Now chiefly in sense 1b....
3. application, n. View full entry a1398
...The action of bringing something to bear upon a person or thing with practical results; the action of causing something to affect a person or thing....
4. assistance, n. View full entry 1398
...The being or remaining near; presence, attendance. Obs. except as assumedly French....
5. bearing, adj.1 View full entry 1398
...That bears, carries, supports, endures, drives, presses, pierces, stands out, etc. (See various meanings of the vb.)...
6. † beˈtravail, v. View full entry 1387
...trans. To work at; to compose (a book)....
7. † bouge, n.1 View full entry 1387
...A wallet or bag, esp. one made of hide; a skin-bottle; = bulge1. Obs....
8. bull, v.1 View full entry 1398
...trans. Said of a bull: To gender with (the cow)....
9. collection, n. View full entry a1387
...The action of collecting or gathering together; e.g. in Post Office use, the gathering of letters from receiving-houses, and pillar-boxes, into the Chief Office for dispatch or delivery....
10. compensation, n. View full entry 1387
...The action of compensating, or condition of being compensated; counterbalance, rendering of an equivalent, requital, recompense....
11. computist, n. View full entry a1398
...A person skilled in the computus or medieval calendar, or in chronological or calendrical reckoning. Now hist....
12. 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...
13. consumption, n. View full entry a1398
...The action or fact of destroying or being destroyed; destruction. Also: an instance of this....
14. consumptive, n. and adj. View full entry a1398
...A medicinal agent used to reduce or eliminate morbid humours or diseased tissue. Obs....
15. contribution, n. View full entry 1387
...The action of contributing or giving as one's part to a common fund or stock; the action of lending aid or agency to bring about a result....
16. co-operation, n. View full entry 1398
...The action of co-operating, i.e. of working together towards the same end, purpose, or effect; joint operation....
17. corner, v. View full entry a1387
...trans. To furnish with corners, give corners to. (Chiefly in pa. pple.)...
18. corporate, adj. and adv. View full entry 1398
...United into one body. arch....
19. corruptly, adv. View full entry a1387
...In a corrupt or depraved manner; pervertedly; by means of corruption or bribery....
20. 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...
