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1. advancement, n. View full entry c1325
...The raising of a person to a higher rank or position; promotion, preferment; (also) an instance of this....
2. against, prep., conj., adv., and n. View full entry eOE
...In reception of, in welcome of. Obs....
3. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
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. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
6. alms, n. View full entry eOE
...Charitable relief given to the poor or needy, usu. (now only) in the form of material gifts, typically of money or food; (in later use esp.) the goods given in...
7. ambidexter, adj. and n. View full entry a1555
...lit. Right-handed on both sides, able to use the left hand as well as the right....
8. apparitor, n. View full entry 1528
...The servant or attendant of an officer or authority....
9. appendant | appendent, adj. and n. View full entry 1509
...Law. Attached or belonging to a possession or tenure as an additional but subsidiary right....
10. aˈpprove | aˈpprow, v.2 View full entry 1483
...lit. To make profit to oneself of (e.g. land), by increasing the value or rent. esp. Said of the lord of a manor enclosing or appropriating to...
11. arise, v. View full entry c825
...To get up from sitting or kneeling, to stand up. arch.: see rise...
12. arm, n.2 View full entry a1250
...Defensive covering or appendages for the body; armour, mail. Now poet....
13. array, n. View full entry c1330
...Arrangement in line or ranks, esp. martial order. Phrases: in battle array, out of array (obs.)....
14. 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....
15. arrest, n.1 View full entry c1385
...The act of standing still, halting, or stopping; stoppage, stop, halt, delay. Obs.without arrest: cf. without abodeabode1 (Chaucer, Lydgate, and Scottish poets)....
16. at, prep. View full entry 755
...The most general determination of simple localization in space, expressing, strictly, the simple relation of a thing to a point of space which it touches; hence, usually determining a point or object...
17. 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:...
18. audit, n. View full entry 1435-6
...gen. A hearing, an audience; esp. a judicial hearing of complaints, a judicial examination. arch....
19. 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....
20. bailieship, n. View full entry c1375
...Stewardship. lit. and fig.Obs....
