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1. aline, adv. View full entry c1400
...In a line or row....
2. ardour | ardor, n. View full entry c1386
...Fierce or burning heat; concr. fire, flame....
3. 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)....
4. artillery, n. View full entry c1405
...As a count noun: an implement of war. In later use as a mass noun: military equipment; weaponry. Also in extended use: hunting gear; equipment in general. Obs....
5. autumn, n. View full entry c1374
...The third season of the year, or that between summer and winter, reckoned astronomically from the descending equinox to the winter solstice; i.e. in the northern hemisphere, from 21 September to 21...
6. battled, adj.2 View full entry c1386
...Fortified with battlements; embattled....
7. blaze, v.2 View full entry c1384
...To blow (e.g. with a musical instrument); to puff. Also with out. Obs....
8. chant, v. View full entry c1405
...intr. To sing, warble. arch. or poet....
9. chariot, n. View full entry c1374
...A wheeled vehicle, coach, or conveyance....
10. circle, v. View full entry c1374
...trans. To surround or encompass with, or as with, a circle; to enclose in a circle; = encircle1 (Now chiefly poet.)...
11. clarion, n. View full entry c1384
...A shrill-sounding trumpet with a narrow tube, formerly much used as a signal in war. (Now chiefly poetical, or in historical narrative.)...
12. clasp, v. View full entry c1405
...trans. To fasten with a clasp; to secure or close with a clasp. Also with up....
13. commove, v. View full entry c1374
...trans. (lit.) To move violently, disturb, agitate, stir up, set in commotion....
14. complain, v. View full entry c1374
...trans. To bewail, lament, deplore. Obs....
15. † conject, v. View full entry c1374
...= conjecture3....
16. contagion, n. View full entry c1386
...The communication of disease from body to body by contact direct or mediate....
17. continuance, n. View full entry c1374
...Keeping up, going on with, maintaining, or prolonging (an action, process, state, etc.)....
18. contract, adj. and n.2 View full entry c1386
...Past participle, as:...
19. counterpoise, v. View full entry c1374
...trans. To balance by a weight on the opposite side or acting in opposition; to counterbalance:...
20. crowing, n. View full entry c1386
...lit....
