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1. absent, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Not present in a place or at an occasion; away. Freq. in predicative use....
2. agony, n. View full entry c1384
...Christian Church. In sing. and pl. The mental struggle or anguish of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26: 36–46)....
3. † alighten, v.1 View full entry c1384
...trans. To shed light on; to enlighten, illuminate (lit. and fig.)....
4. ascend, v. View full entry 1382
...intr. (occas. emphasized by a redundant up) To go or come up, originally by a gradual motion, to a relatively higher position....
5. aˈsyle, n. View full entry c1384
...The earlier form of asylum (in senses 1, 2, 3)....
6. blear-eyed, adj. View full entry 1382
...lit. Having blear eyes....
7. brittle, adj. View full entry a1382
...Hard but liable to break easily; fragile, breakable; †friable (obs.)....
8. broidery, n. View full entry 1382
...Ornamental needle-work wrought upon cloth; the art or practice of embroidering cloth; embroidery. Also attrib., as in broidery work, broidery frame....
9. communion, n. View full entry a1382
...The action or fact of sharing or holding something in common with others; mutual participation; the condition of things so held, mutuality, community, union....
10. coot, n.1 View full entry 1382
...A name originally given vaguely or generically to various swimming and diving birds. In many cases it seems to have been applied to the Guillemot (Uria troile), the Zee-koet or...
11. depth, n. View full entry a1382
...Measurement or distance from the top downwards (or from the surface inwards); also fig....
12. distinct, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Distinguished, differentiated. Obs....
13. enlighten, v. View full entry c1384
...trans. To remove dimness or blindness from (the eyes). Chiefly fig. and in figurative contexts. Now rare (chiefly in Biblical allusions) or merged in sense 2...
14. enwrap | inwrap, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. To wrap, envelop, enfold in or with (a garment, case, or covering, coils or folds of anything); also, with the thing enveloping as subject. lit....
15. express, v.1 View full entry 1382
...trans. To press, squeeze, or wring out; to press (juice, air, etc.) from, out of (anything). spec. to press or squeeze out (milk or other...
16. gender, v.1 View full entry a1382
...intr. To copulate. Freq. with with. Obs....
17. ˈhalting, adj. View full entry 1382
...That halts; limping, lame....
18. horror, n. View full entry 1382
...Roughness, ruggedness. (In 1382 a literalism of translation; now poet. or rhet. Cf. horrid1.)...
19. inbreathe, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. To breathe (something) in. lit. and fig....
20. languish, n. View full entry c1400
...An illness, a bout of weakness. Obs....
