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1. fool, n.1 and adj. View full entry ?c1225
...One deficient in judgement or sense, one who acts or behaves stupidly, a silly person, a simpleton. (In Biblical use applied to vicious or impious persons.)...
2. minor, adj. and n. View full entry c1230
...Used chiefly as postmodifier....
3. ostrich, n. and adj. View full entry a1250
...A very large, swift-running, flightless bird, Struthio camelus, with a long, almost bare neck and long legs with two toes on each foot, inhabiting open, semi-arid areas of Africa and...
4. physician, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A person who is trained and qualified to practise medicine; esp. one who practises medicine as opposed to surgery....
5. pity, n. View full entry a1250
...The disposition to mercy or compassion; clemency, mercy, mildness, tenderness. Now only as in sense 2b....
6. placebo, n. View full entry ?c1225
...R.C. Church. Vespers in the Office for the Dead. Cf. dirge1. Now hist....
7. point, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A separate or single item, article, or element in an extended whole (usually an abstract whole, as a course of action, a subject of thought, a treatise, a discourse, a set of...
8. praise, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To express warm approbation of; to proclaim or commend the excellence or merits of; to speak highly of; to laud....
9. silence, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The fact of abstaining or forbearing from speech or utterance (sometimes with reference to a particular matter); the state or condition resulting from this; muteness, reticence, taciturnity. Occas. with a...
10. truce, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A suspension of hostilities for a specified period between armies at war (formerly also between combatants in a private feud or quarrel); a temporary peace or cessation from arms; an armistice; also,...
11. unicorn, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A fabulous and legendary animal usually regarded as having the body of a horse with a single horn projecting from its forehead (cf. 2note); the monoceros of the ancients....
12. veil, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A piece of linen or other material forming part of the distinctive head-dress of a nun, and worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders and down each side of...
