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1. adieu, int., n., and adv. View full entry a1393
...Used as an expression of farewell: ‘goodbye’....
2. alarm, int., n., and adv. View full entry c1400
...Used as a call to arms or warning of imminent danger, esp. of being attacked. Now literary (chiefly arch. and hist.)....
3. brave, adj., n., and int. View full entry 1568
...Of persons and their attributes: Courageous, daring, intrepid, stout-hearted (as a good quality)....
4. farewell, int., n. (and adj.), and adv. View full entry 1377
...An expression of good wishes at the parting of friends, originally addressed to the one setting forth, but in later use a mere formula of civility at parting; Goodbye! Adieu! Now ...
5. hail, int. View full entry c1200
...An exclamation of greeting or salutation; now poetic and rhetorical, and usually implying respectful or reverential salutation; = Latin ave, salve....
6. hell, n. and int. View full entry eOE
...The dwelling place of the dead; the abode of departed spirits; the infernal regions regarded as a place of existence after death; the underworld; the grave; Hades....
7. house, n.1 and int. View full entry eOE
...A building for human habitation, typically and historically one that is the ordinary place of residence of a family. (Cf. home2.)...
8. macte, int. View full entry 1573-80
...Expressing approval, encouragement, or good will: ‘all praise to you!’, ‘well done!’, ‘bravo!’; ‘good luck!’....
9. mercy, n. and int. View full entry a1225
...Clemency and compassion shown to a person who is in a position of powerlessness or subjection, or to a person with no right or claim to receive kindness; kind and compassionate treatment...
10. monstrous, adj., adv., int., and n. View full entry a1464
...Of a thing (material or immaterial): deviating from the natural or conventional order; unnatural, extraordinary. Obs....
11. morning, n. and int. View full entry c1275
...Originally: the time of the approach or beginning of ‘morn’; the period around sunrise. In later use usually: the early part of the day, esp. from sunrise until noon or lunchtime....
12. morrow, n. (and adv.) and int. View full entry lOE
...= morning1a. †Also used adverbially. Now rare (chiefly poet.)....
13. murder, n.1 and int. View full entry OE
...The action or an act of killing....
14. my, adj., int., and pron. View full entry c1175
...Of or belonging to me; of or relating to myself; which I have, hold, or possess....
15. night, n. and int. View full entry eOE
...The period of darkness occurring between one day and the next; that part of a 24-hour period during which a place receives no light from the sun; the time between evening and...
16. not, adv., n., and int. View full entry 1299
...Preceding a simple tense or form of a verb. Now usually (chiefly N. Amer.) with a subjunctive verb in a subordinate clause....
17. O, int. and n.2 View full entry OE
...Preceding a noun used vocatively....
18. off and on, adv. (and prep.), adj., n., and int. View full entry 1535
...With interruption and resumption of action; intermittently, at intervals, now and again....
19. † ototoi, int. View full entry 1877
...Expressing grief or pain: alas; woe; = otototoi...
20. otototoi, int. (and n.) View full entry 1875
...Expressing grief or pain: alas, woe; = ototoi Also as : a cry of ‘ototoi’, an exclamation of pain or grief....
