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1. bar, n.1 View full entry c1175
...gen. A straight piece of wood, metal, or other rigid material, long in proportion to its thickness....
2. council, n. View full entry 1125
...generally. An assembly called together for any purpose; a convocation or congregation. Obs....
3. court, n.1 View full entry 1154
...A clear space enclosed by walls or surrounded by buildings; a yard, a court-yard; e.g. that surrounding a castle, or that left for the sake of light, etc. in the...
4. ˈdrinking, adj. View full entry c1175
...That drinks....
5. grace, n. View full entry c1175
...The quality of producing favourable impressions; attractiveness, charm. Now usually with more restricted application: The attractiveness or charm belonging to elegance of proportions, or (especially) ease and refinement of movement, action, or...
6. granger, n. View full entry c1112
...One who is in charge of a grange; a farm-bailiff; also, ? a tenant-farmer....
7. Kaiser, n. View full entry c1160
...The Emperor: cf. emperor12...
8. lack, v.1 View full entry a1175
...intr. To be wanting or missing; to be deficient in quantity or degree. In early use const. with dative or to. Obs. (But to be lacking...
9. large, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c1175
...Liberal in giving; generous; bountiful, munificent; open-handed. Also, liberal in expenditure, prodigal, lavish. (Cf. fool-large) Const. of, in. Obs....
10. left, adj.1, adv., and n. View full entry a1175
...The distinctive epithet of the hand which is normally the weaker of the two (for examples see left hand), and of the other parts on the same side of the...
11. legate, n.1 View full entry lOE
...An ecclesiastic deputed to represent the Pope and armed with his authority. legate of the cross: one entitled to have a cross borne before him, as an emblem of dignity....
12. market, n. View full entry lOE
...A meeting or gathering together of people for the purchase and sale of provisions or livestock, publicly displayed, at a fixed time and place; the occasion or time of this. Also: the...
13. marshal, n. View full entry lOE
...A person who tends horses, esp. one who treats their diseases, a farrier. Cf. horse marshalhorse2a. Obs....
14. portmanmoot, n. View full entry 1185
...The assembly of the portmen of a borough or town; a court or common council of portmen....
15. press, n.1 View full entry lOE
...A device for compressing, flattening, giving a denser consistency to, holding, or shaping a substance by exerting pressure. Freq. with modifying word indicating the purpose of the instrument, the thing pressed, or...
16. purse, n. View full entry lOE
...A small receptacle made of leather or other flexible material and freq. having several inner compartments, used for carrying money on the person; (originally) a small bag closed at the mouth by...
17. † ˈsandesman, n. View full entry 1123
...A messenger, envoy, ambassador....
18. seat, n. View full entry a1200
...gen. The action of sitting. Also an assembly at a banquet. Obs....
19. swanimote | swainmote, n. View full entry 1189
...A forest assembly held three times a year in accordance with the Forest Charter of 1217, probably orig. ‘to enable the forest officers to superintend the depasturing of pigs in...
20. synagogue, n. View full entry c1175
...The regular assembly or congregation of the Jews for religious instruction and worship apart from the service of the temple, constituting, since the destruction of the temple, their sole form of public...