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1. asleep, adv. and adj. View full entry 1154
...In a state of sleep, sleeping....
2. ball, n.1 View full entry 1166
...A rounded hill, a knoll. Now Eng. regional (south-west.)....
3. bar, n.1 View full entry c1175
...gen. A straight piece of wood, metal, or other rigid material, long in proportion to its thickness....
4. 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...
5. Cinque Ports, n. View full entry 1191
...A group of sea-ports (originally five, whence the name) situated on the south-east coast of England, and having jurisdiction along the coast continuously from Seaford in Sussex, to Birchington near Margate, including...
6. council, n. View full entry 1125
...generally. An assembly called together for any purpose; a convocation or congregation. Obs....
7. crown, v.1 View full entry c1175
...trans. To place a crown, wreath, or garland upon the head of (a person), in token of victory or honour, or as a decoration, etc.; to adorn with the aureole of...
8. fruit, n. View full entry c1175
...Vegetable products in general, that are fit to be used as food by men and animals. Now usually in pl. Also fruits of the earth or the....
9. granger, n. View full entry c1112
...One who is in charge of a grange; a farm-bailiff; also, ? a tenant-farmer....
10. hanging, adj. (and prep.) View full entry c1170
...Supported above, and not below; suspended, pendulous; projecting downwards; drooping....
11. harbour | harbor, n.1 View full entry c1150
...Shelter, lodging, entertainment: sojourn, abode....
12. harbour | harbor, v. View full entry c1150
...To provide a lodging or lodging-place for; to shelter from the weather or the night; to lodge, entertain. Obs....
13. Jew, n. View full entry c1175
...A person of Hebrew descent; one whose religion is Judaism; an Israelite. ...
14. John, n. View full entry c1175
...A masculine Christian name, that of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist; hence from early Middle English times one of the commonest in England....
15. 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....
16. lightness, n.1 View full entry c1175
...The quality or fact of having little weight. Of a vessel: The fact of being lightly laden. Of a crop: Smallness of the quantity present....
17. lithsman, n. View full entry 11..
...A sailor in the navy under the Danish kings of England....
18. low, adj. and n.2 View full entry c1150
...Of small upward extent or growth; not tall; little, short. (Now rarely of persons, though still commonly said of stature.)...
19. making, n.1 View full entry lOE
...The action of make in various senses; production, creation, construction, preparation; institution, appointment; doing, performance (of a specified action); conversion into or causing to become something; etc. Also (occas.): the...
20. man, v. View full entry lOE
...trans....