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1. advance, n. and adj. View full entry a1400
...The action of extolling or lauding something; ostentation, boasting. Cf. advancement2. Obs....
2. ambushed, adj. View full entry 1330
...Placed or lying in ambush....
3. ambushment, n. View full entry 1330
...A disposition or arrangement of troops in a wood or other place of concealment so as to fall on an enemy by surprise; the trap so constructed; ambush, ambuscade....
4. apparel, n. View full entry 1330
...abstr. The work of fitly preparing for anything, preparation, array. Obs....
5. † aˈraise, v. View full entry 1303
...To raise, lift up, elevate. lit. and fig....
6. ˈarbalester | ˈarbalister | ˈarblaster, n. View full entry 1330
...A soldier armed with an arbalest, a cross-bowman....
7. array, n. View full entry c1330
...Arrangement in line or ranks, esp. martial order. Phrases: in battle array, out of array (obs.)....
8. assay, n. View full entry 1330
...The trying (of a person or thing); trial imposed upon or endured by any object, in order to test its virtue, fitness, etc. Obs. exc. as fig. use of 6....
9. assembly, n. View full entry 1330
...Gathering together, meeting; the state of being collected or gathered; = assemblage1....
10. attach, v. View full entry 1330
...Law. To secure for legal jurisdiction and disposal, to place or take under the control of a court; to arrest or seize by authority of a writ of attachment:...
11. austere, adj. and n. View full entry 1330
...Uniting astringency with sourness or bitterness; harsh in flavour, rough to the taste....
12. awe, v. View full entry 1303
...To inspire with dread, strike fear into, terrify, daunt; to control, constrain, or restrain, by the influence of fear. (At first impers.)...
13. battle, v.1 View full entry 1330
...intr. To fight, to engage in war. (Now rare in literal sense, in which fight is usual.)...
14. bicker, v. View full entry 1330
...intr. To skirmish, exchange blows; to fight....
15. biscuit, n. View full entry 1330
...A kind of crisp dry bread more or less hard, prepared generally in thin flat cakes. The essential ingredients are flour and water, or milk, without leaven; but confectionery and fancy biscuits...
16. blind, v. View full entry 1303
...trans. To make blind, deprive of sight:...
17. broach, v.1 View full entry 1330
...trans. To pierce, stab, thrust through. Obs....
18. brush, n.1 View full entry 1330
...Loppings of trees or hedges; cut brushwood (now in U.S.)....
19. by and by, adv. and n. View full entry 1330
...Of a succession of (persons or things): One by one, one after another, in order:...
20. † carneled, adj. View full entry c1330
...Embattled....
