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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. absolution, n. View full entry OE
...Christian Church....
3. † agild, adj. View full entry OE
...Of a dead person: without payment of compensation or wergild (see wergild), unpaid for. Esp. in to lie agild....
4. † alfet, n. View full entry OE
...A type of cauldron, spec. one filled with scalding water and employed in trials of ordeal; (in later use) the ordeal itself....
5. anent, prep. and adv. View full entry OE
...In a line with, side by side with, in company with, beside. Obs. or dial....
6. † ˈarfname, n. View full entry c1000
...Inheritor, heir....
7. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
8. beadle, n. View full entry c1000
...One who makes a proclamation (on behalf of another); a herald. Obs....
9. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
10. † beˈclepe, v. View full entry c1030
...trans. To complain against; to indict, accuse....
11. bench, n. View full entry OE
...A long seat, with or without a back, usually of wood, but also of stone, etc. ‘Distinguished from a stool by its greater length’ (Johnson)....
12. † beˈqueath, n. View full entry c1000
...Byword, proverb. (Only in Old English)....
13. † ˈbernet, n. View full entry c1000
...Burning, combustion; hence, the crime of arson. Retained as a technical archaism in the Laws of Henry I, whence in 17th c. law dictionaries....
14. † beˈtell, v. View full entry 1048
...trans. To speak for, answer for, justify....
15. † borough-man, n. View full entry c1000
...A townsman, citizen, burgess....
16. borough-reeve, n. View full entry c1000
...A governor of a town or city; esp. the official who before the Norman Conquest represented the king's authority for fiscal and other purposes in boroughs, as the scír-geréfa...
17. boroughship, n. View full entry c1000
...A township; the fact of constituting a borough or township....
18. bough, n. View full entry c1000
...The shoulder of an animal. Obs....
19. capitulary, n. and adj. View full entry OE
...Christian Church. A service book containing the chapters (chapter3a) used in the liturgy, and usually also containing the collects. Hence sometimes (esp. in early use): = collectar(e...
20. capon, n. View full entry c1000
...A castrated cock....
