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1. † afaite, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To incline, dispose, or discipline (the heart)....
2. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
3. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
4. 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....
5. banner, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...prop. A piece of stout taffeta, or other cloth, attached by one side to the upper part of a long pole or staff, and used as the standard of an emperor,...
6. bat, n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) arch. Still dial. (Kent, Sussex, etc.) = staff, walking-stick....
7. beating, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The infliction of repeated blows; spec. the action of inflicting blows in punishment; the dashing of waves against the shore; the whipping up of a fluid; the flapping of wings;...
8. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
9. bounce, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans.Obs....
10. brink, n. View full entry a1300
...The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, such as one might fall over, e.g. the ‘brink’ of a precipice, chasm, pit, ditch, grave. on the brink of the grave...
11. brooch, n. View full entry ?c1225
...An ornamental fastening, consisting of a safety pin, with the clasping part fashioned into a ring, boss, shield, or other device of precious metal or other material, artistically wrought, set with jewels,...
12. cage, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A box or place of confinement for birds and other animals (or, in barbarous times, for human beings), made wholly or partly of wire, or with bars of metal or wood, so...
13. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. Obs....
14. chamber, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular person, a private room; (in later use) esp. a bedroom, typically on...
15. change, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The act or fact of changing (see change12); substitution of one thing for another; succession of one thing in place of another....
16. chapter, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A main division or section of a book (whether the latter is an entire literary work, or one of the divisions or parts of a large work). Esp. used of the main...
17. clout, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To mend with a clout or patch; to patch (with cloth, leather, metal, etc.)....
18. cope, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A long cloak or cape worn as an outer garment, chiefly out of doors. Obs. Cf. cape...
19. coverture, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Anything used to cover. Formerly used of the cover or lid of a cup or dish; the cover of a book; the cover of a letter; now only in the general and...
20. crop, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To cut off or remove the ‘crop’ or head of (a plant, tree, etc.); to poll, to lop off the branches of (a tree)....
