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1. advent, n. View full entry lOE
...Christian Church Chiefly with capital initial. The ecclesiastical season immediately preceding Christmas....
2. bar, n.1 View full entry c1175
...gen. A straight piece of wood, metal, or other rigid material, long in proportion to its thickness....
3. 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...
4. bein, adj. and adv. View full entry a1200
...Pleasant, genial, kindly; ‘nice.’ (Latin amœnus, almus, benignus.) Obs....
5. boon, n.1 View full entry c1175
...A prayer, petition, entreaty, request. Obs....
6. breaker, n.1 View full entry c1175
...One who breaks, crushes, or destroys; so breaker off, etc.; and with defining n. as housebreaker, ship-breaker, etc., q.v....
7. Christmas, n. View full entry a1123
...The festival of the nativity of Christ, kept on the 25th of December. Usually extended more or less vaguely to the season immediately preceding and following this day, commonly observed as a...
8. comet, n. View full entry 1154
...A celestial body moving about the sun in a greatly elongated elliptical, or a parabolic orbit, and consisting (when near the sun) of a bright star-like nucleus surrounded with a misty light,...
9. 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...
10. 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....
11. hoop, n.1 View full entry a1175
...A circular band or ring of metal, wood, or other stiff material; esp. a circle of wood or flattened metal for binding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc....
12. Jew, n. View full entry c1175
...A person of Hebrew descent; one whose religion is Judaism; an Israelite. ...
13. 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....
14. Kaiser, n. View full entry c1160
...The Emperor: cf. emperor1a1b...
15. 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....
16. 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...
17. marble, n. and adj. View full entry c1180
...Limestone that has been recrystallized by metamorphism and is capable of taking a polish; esp. one that is pure white or has a mottled surface, such as is often used...
18. March, n.2 View full entry lOE
...The third month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, containing 31 days and falling between February and April....
19. May, n.2 View full entry lOE
...The fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendar, containing 31 days and falling between April and June....
20. nativity, n. View full entry lOE
...Christian Church. The feast of the birth of Jesus (celebrated on 25 December); Christmas Day. Also (with modifying phrase): the feast of the birth of the Virgin Mary (celebrated on 8...
