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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. acolyte, n. View full entry OE
...Christian Church (now chiefly R.C. Church). A person who attends a priest and performs subordinate duties, as assisting at the altar, lighting and bearing candles, etc. Also: the order...
3. † again-, comb. form View full entry OE
...Against, in opposition to. Also: opposite (rare)....
4. † alesedness, n. View full entry OE
...Deliverance, redemption, salvation. Cf. alesendness...
5. † alout, v. View full entry OE
...intr. To bow down, stoop, bend over....
6. † aˈmansing, n. View full entry c1000
...Excommunication, anathema....
7. † ˈanchor, n.2 View full entry a1000
...An anchorite...
8. archdeacon, n. View full entry c1000
...The chief deacon; orig. the chief of the attendants on a bishop, who, through the scope of his duties in relation to the services of the church and the administration...
9. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
10. beadle, n. View full entry c1000
...One who makes a proclamation (on behalf of another); a herald. Obs....
11. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
12. believe, v. View full entry OE
...intr. To have confidence or faith in, and consequently to rely on or trust to, a person or (Theol.) a god or the name of a god....
13. bibliotheca, n. View full entry c1000
...(in Old English) The Scriptures, the Bible....
14. † ˈbigeng, n. View full entry OE
...Worship....
15. breed, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. Said of a female parent: To cherish (brood) in the womb or egg; to bring (offspring) forward from the germ to the birth; to hatch (young birds) from the egg;...
16. bridge, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A structure forming or carrying a road over a river, a ravine, etc., or affording passage between two points at a height above the ground....
17. church key, n. View full entry c1175
...Freq. in pl....
18. † churchward, n.1 View full entry OE
...A custodian of a church; (in later use) = churchwarden1a. Cf. kirkward...
19. † ˈclauster | ˈclaustre, n. View full entry c1000
...A cloister, cell, or monastery....
20. creeping, adj. View full entry c1000
...That creeps (as a reptile)....
