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1. argent, n. and adj. View full entry c1500
...The metal silver. arch. or poet.spume of argent (Latin argenti spuma): litharge of silver....
2. arm, n.2 View full entry a1250
...Defensive covering or appendages for the body; armour, mail. Now poet....
3. arm, v.1 View full entry 1250
...lit. To furnish with arms defensive or offensive. In early use: (chiefly) to cover (a man or horse) with armour or mail. Later: to provide (a man, garrison, stronghold, ship, etc.)...
4. armed, adj.1 View full entry 1297
...lit. Furnished with arms or armour; fully equipped for war. In intensive ‘Armed to the teeth.’ In armed demonstration, armed neutrality, it refers to the...
5. arrow, n. View full entry a835
...A slender pointed missile shot from a bow, usually feathered and barbed. Sometimes also applied to the bolts, or quarrels, with thickened heads, discharged from the cross-bow....
6. bath, n.1 View full entry 864
...The action of bathing or immersing the body, or a part of it, in water or other liquid. (Used playfully of accidental or involuntary immersion.)...
7. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
8. blaze, v.2 View full entry c1384
...To blow (e.g. with a musical instrument); to puff. Also with out. Obs....
9. chief, n. View full entry 1297
...lit. The head (of the body). Obs.rare....
10. chieftain, n. View full entry c1330
...The head of a body of men, of an organization, state, town, party, office, etc.; head-man, ruler, chief. Obs. in gen. sense....
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. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
13. cordon, n. View full entry 1578
...Fortification. A course of stones along the line of junction of the rampart and parapet, or forming the coping of the escarp or inner wall of the ditch....
14. couchant, adj. View full entry 1496-7
...Lying down; couching: esp. of an animal: see couch16b. (Often with allusion to the heraldic use.)...
15. crystal, n. and adj. View full entry OE
...Ice. Cf. sense A. 2a. Obs....
16. dejected, adj. View full entry 1581
...lit. Thrown or cast down, overthrown. arch....
17. depart, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To divide into parts, dispart. Obs....
18. descendant | descendent, adj. and n. View full entry 1572
...lit. Descending; coming or going down. rare....
19. descending, adj. View full entry 1642
...lit. Moving downwards, coming down....
20. descent, n. View full entry c1330
...The action of descending; a going or coming down; downward motion (of any kind)....
