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1. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
2. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
3. arm, n.2 View full entry a1250
...Defensive covering or appendages for the body; armour, mail. Now poet....
4. article, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Each of the separate items of a summary of faith; spec.each of the separate clauses or statements of the Apostles' Creed; (freq. with capital initial) any of the...
5. assault, n. View full entry a1250
...gen. An onset or rush upon any one with hostile intent; an attack with blows or weapons....
6. bag, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack....
7. banner, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...prop. A piece of stout taffeta, or other cloth, attached by one side to the upper part of a long pole or staff, and used as the standard of an emperor,...
8. bat, n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) arch. Still dial. (Kent, Sussex, etc.) = staff, walking-stick....
9. beak, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To strike or seize with the beak, to peck; to push the beak (or snout) into:...
10. beating, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The infliction of repeated blows; spec. the action of inflicting blows in punishment; the dashing of waves against the shore; the whipping up of a fluid; the flapping of wings;...
11. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
12. blaze, v.1 View full entry ?c1225
...intr. To burn with a bright fervent flame. Often with away, forth, out. to blaze up: to burst or flash into a blaze....
13. brink, n. View full entry a1300
...The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, such as one might fall over, e.g. the ‘brink’ of a precipice, chasm, pit, ditch, grave. on the brink of the grave...
14. cage, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A box or place of confinement for birds and other animals (or, in barbarous times, for human beings), made wholly or partly of wire, or with bars of metal or wood, so...
15. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. Obs....
16. chamber, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular person, a private room; (in later use) esp. a bedroom, typically on...
17. champion, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A fighting man, a combatant; a stout fighter, a man of valour. Also fig....
18. charge, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A (material) load, burden, weight. Obs....
19. charge, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To place a load on or in; to load (e.g. a vehicle, ship, beast of burden, etc.). Also, in pass.; charged with: laden with,...
20. city, n. View full entry ?c1225
...orig. A town or other inhabited place. Not a native designation, but app. at first a somewhat grandiose title, used instead of the Old English burh, borough...
