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1. article, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Each of the separate items of a summary of faith; spec.each of the separate clauses or statements of the Apostles' Creed; (freq. with capital initial) any of the...
2. bag, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack....
3. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
4. chattering, adj. View full entry a1250
...That chatters (in various senses of the verb)....
5. city, n. View full entry ?c1225
...orig. A town or other inhabited place. Not a native designation, but app. at first a somewhat grandiose title, used instead of the Old English burh, borough...
6. 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.)...
7. form, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The visible aspect of a thing; now usually in narrower sense, shape, configuration, as distinguished from colour; occasionally, the shape or figure of the body as distinguished from the face....
8. glutton, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1225
...One who eats to excess, or who takes pleasure in immoderate eating; a gormandizer....
9. groom, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A man-child, boy. Obs....
10. merit, n. View full entry c1230
...Theol. The quality (in actions or persons) of being entitled to reward from God....
11. † ocker, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...The lending of money at (excessive) interest, usury; interest gained from this....
12. peril, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The position or condition of being imminently exposed to the chance of injury, loss, or destruction; risk, jeopardy, danger....
13. piece, n. View full entry c1230
...A portion or quantity of a substance....
14. preach, v. View full entry ?c1225
...intr....
15. prelate, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A cleric of high rank and authority, as a bishop, archbishop, or the superior of a religious house or order....
16. relic, n. View full entry ?c1225
...In the Christian Church, esp. the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches: the physical remains (as the body or a part of it) of a saint, martyr, or other deceased holy person, or...
17. ruck, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A heap or stack of combustible material, esp. when to be used as fuel. Freq. with of. Now rare....
18. term, n. View full entry ?c1225
...That which limits the extent of anything; a limit, extremity, boundary, bound (e.g. of a territory, region, or space). Usually in pl. Limits, bounds, borders, confines. Now rare...
19. womanly, adj. View full entry ?c1225
...Freq. depreciative....
