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1. a, adj. View full entry ?a1160
...Used in an indefinite noun phrase referring to something not specifically identified (and, freq., mentioned for the first time) but treated as one of a class: one, some, any (the oneness, or...
2. 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....
3. accord, v. View full entry lOE
...trans....
4. advent, n. View full entry lOE
...Christian Church Chiefly with capital initial. The ecclesiastical season immediately preceding Christmas....
5. † alatch, v. View full entry lOE
...trans. To get hold of, to catch....
6. alder-, prefix View full entry ?a1160
...Prefixed to superlative adverbs with the sense ‘of all’, as alder-best, alder-first, alder-last, alder-most, etc. Usu. in cases where modern English uses an adverbial...
7. an, conj. and n. View full entry ?a1160
...Now usu. in form an'. = andI. (coordinating). Now regional and nonstandard....
8. † aˈnether | aˈnither, v. View full entry a1121
...To bring down, lower, reduce, humiliate....
9. asleep, adv. and adj. View full entry 1154
...In a state of sleep, sleeping....
10. † ˈaughtly, adv. and adj. View full entry a1121
...Estimably, worthily, nobly....
11. † aˈwonder, v. View full entry 1154
...impers. It astonishes, amazes (one)....
12. barley, n. View full entry 1124
...A hardy awned cereal (genus Hordeum), cultivated in all parts of the world; used partly as food, and largely (in Britain and the United States, mainly) in the preparation of...
13. both, adj., conj., and adv. View full entry 1154
...absol. From 14th c. sometimes the both (obs.). In early modern English sometimes inflected as a n., with genitive both's....
14. † ˈcantel-cape | ˈcantel-cope, n. View full entry a1121
...A kind of cope or cape....
15. cardinal, n. View full entry 1125
...One of the seventy ecclesiastical princes (six cardinal bishops, fifty cardinal priests, and fourteen cardinal deacons) who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college, and to whom the right of electing...
16. † carman, n.1 View full entry lOE
...A man, an adult male....
17. chapter-house, n. View full entry a1122
...A building attached to a cathedral, monastery, etc., in which meetings of the chapter are held....
18. charity, n. View full entry 1154
...Christian love: a word representing caritas of the Vulgate, as a frequent rendering of ἀγάπη in N.T. Greek. With various applications: as...
19. Chiltern, n. View full entry a1125
...Proper name of a range of hills, in some parts wooded, which extend from the south of Oxfordshire, near Wallingford, quite across Buckinghamshire into Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire....
20. 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...