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1. anlace, n. View full entry 1297
...A short two-edged knife or dagger, broad at the hilt and tapering to the point, formerly worn at the girdle. (Obs. bef. 1500, erron. defined in early Dicts., and used...
2. appeal, n. View full entry 1297
...A calling to account before a legal tribunal; in Law: A criminal charge or accusation, made by one who undertook under penalty to prove it; spec....
3. archer, n. View full entry 1297
...One who shoots with bow and arrows, esp. one who uses them in war; a bowman. Also fig....
4. armed, adj.1 View full entry 1297
...lit. Furnished with arms or armour; fully equipped for war. In intensive ‘Armed to the teeth.’ In armed demonstration, armed neutrality, it refers to the...
5. armour | armor, n. View full entry 1297
...collect. sing. Defensive covering worn by one who is fighting; mail. Cf. arm1....
6. array, v. View full entry 1297
...To set or place in order of readiness, to marshall. esp. To draw up prepared for battle, and in obs. phr. to array a battle....
7. assemble, v.1 View full entry 1297
...trans. To bring together (persons) into one place or company; to gather, collect, convene....
8. † aˈssiege, v. View full entry 1297
...To besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset....
9. assize, n. View full entry 1297
...A sitting or session of a consultative or legislative body. Obs....
10. † aˈtil | aˈtyl, v. View full entry 1297
...To deck out, dress, equip, arm completely....
11. attire, v.1 View full entry 1297
...To put in order, put to rights. Obs....
12. balance, n.1 View full entry 1297
...An apparatus for weighing, consisting of a beam poised so as to move freely on a central pivot, with a scale pan at each end....
13. † banneour, n. View full entry 1297
...A banner-bearer, a standard-bearer....
14. banneret, n. View full entry 1297
...Originally, a knight able and entitled to bring a company of vassals into the field under his own banner, and who ranked next to a baron and above other knights: in this...
15. barony, n. View full entry 1297
...The domain of a baron:...
16. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry 1297
...One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child....
17. battle, n. View full entry 1297
...A hostile engagement or encounter between opposing forces on land or sea; a combat, a fight....
18. besiege, v. View full entry 1297
...trans. To sit down before (a town, castle, etc.) with armed forces in order to capture it; to lay siege to, beleaguer, invest....
19. bowman, n.1 View full entry 1297
...A man who shoots with a bow; esp. a fighting man armed with a bow....
20. bowyer, n. View full entry 1297
...One who makes, or trades in, bows....
