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1. boy, n.1 and int. View full entry c1300
...A male servant, slave, assistant, junior employee, etc....
2. † harrow | haro, int. View full entry 1340
...A cry of distress or alarm; a call for succour. to cry harrow (on any one): to denounce (a person's) doings. Obs. since 1600. (Modern instances...
3. hell, n. and int. View full entry eOE
...The dwelling place of the dead; the abode of departed spirits; the infernal regions regarded as a place of existence after death; the underworld; the grave; Hades....
4. house, n.1 and int. View full entry eOE
...A building for human habitation, typically and historically one that is the ordinary place of residence of a family. (Cf. home2.)...
5. memorandum, int. and n. View full entry 1394-1435
...In later use only in Law. ‘It is to be remembered (that)’; placed at the head of a note of something to be remembered or a record (for future reference)...
6. mercy, n. and int. View full entry a1225
...Clemency and compassion shown to a person who is in a position of powerlessness or subjection, or to a person with no right or claim to receive kindness; kind and compassionate treatment...
7. murder, n.1 and int. View full entry OE
...The action or an act of killing....
8. negative, adj., adv.2, and int. View full entry c1460
...Of a person: that denies something. Obs.rare....
9. night, n. and int. View full entry eOE
...The period of darkness occurring between one day and the next; that part of a 24-hour period during which a place receives no light from the sun; the time between evening and...
10. objection, n. and int. View full entry a1387
...A reason or argument put forward in opposition to others; a statement directed against a person, position, assertion, etc.; a dissenting opinion. Later also (more generally): an expression or feeling of disapproval,...
11. oyez, n., int., and v. View full entry c1440
...A call for silence and attention; a call or cry of ‘oyez!’ Obs....
12. right, adj. and int. View full entry eOE
...That is straight; not bent, curved, or crooked. Formerly also right with: in a line with (obs.). Now only in right line2....
13. righteous, adj., n., adv., and int. View full entry eOE
...Of a person: acting or disposed to act rightly or justly; conforming to the precepts of divine law or accepted standards of morality; upright, virtuous. Cf. self-righteous...
14. time, n., int., and conj. View full entry eOE
...A finite extent or stretch of continued existence, as the interval separating two successive events or actions, or the period during which an action, condition, or state continues; a finite portion of...
