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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. † abbotric, n. View full entry OE
...The benefice or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess; an abbacy. Also: an abbey....
3. acre, n. View full entry OE
...A plot or piece of land, a field; spec. a piece of tilled or arable land. Now arch. and in proper names, as Long Acre....
4. acreman, n. View full entry OE
...A cultivator of the ground, a farmer; a ploughman; spec. †a manorial tenant; (Sc.) a person who rents a piece of ground of a Scottish acre or more....
5. adderwort, n. View full entry OE
...The plant bistort, Persicaria bistorta; also called snakeweed; cf. adder's grass1.Dragon arum, Dracunculus vulgaris (obs.)....
6. † 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....
7. aglaophotis, n. View full entry OE
...A legendary plant to which various medicinal or magical properties have been attributed, sometimes identified with the peony....
8. alebench, n. View full entry OE
...A bench in or in front of an alehouse; a bench in a place where ale is served....
9. † 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....
10. almsland, n. View full entry OE
...Land held in alms (see alms3)....
11. anima, n. View full entry OE
...Chiefly Philos. The animating principle in living things, the soul; some part or aspect of the soul, esp. the irrational part of the soul as distinguished from the...
12. animus, n. View full entry OE
...Chiefly Philos. The rational soul; mind, will, spirit. Contrasted with anima1. Now hist....
13. ˈarbalest | ˈarbalist | ˈarblast, n. View full entry a1100
...A cross-bow, consisting of a steel bow fitted to a wooden shaft, furnished with special mechanism for drawing and letting slip the bowstring, and used for the discharge of arrows, bolts, stones,...
14. atom, n. View full entry OE
...In and with reference to the medieval period: the smallest unit of time, of which there are 376 in a minute and 22,560 in an hour, equal to 1594...
15. bloodless, adj. View full entry OE
...Having or containing no blood; lacking in blood; (also) not marked or stained with blood....
16. bloodletter, n. View full entry OE
...A person who extracts blood from a person or animal for therapeutic purposes, esp. a phlebotomist. Also: a thing used to extract blood or perform phlebotomy (rare)....
17. bloodletting, n. View full entry OE
...The action or process of extracting blood (from a person, animal, vein, or part of the body) for (supposed) therapeutic purposes; spec. = phlebotomy1; an instance of...
18. boatswain, n. View full entry OE
...A ship's officer in charge of equipment (in a sailing ship, esp. the sails, rigging, cables, etc.) and the work of the crew on deck. Cf. bosun...
19. brass, n. View full entry c1000
...Historically: The general name for all alloys of copper with tin or zinc (and occasionally other base metals). To distinguish alloys of copper and tin, the name bronze has...
20. buscarl, n. View full entry OE
...In (late) Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England: a member of a body of men retained, apparently usually by the king, to guard the coast....
