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1. abstinence, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The practice or discipline of resisting self-indulgence; self-restraint....
2. acquit, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans....
3. advance, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To promote or help the progress, success, or completion of (something); to further....
4. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
5. 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...
6. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
7. 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....
8. beforehand, adv. and adj. View full entry ?c1225
...In anticipation of something so as to be ready for it; in advance....
9. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
10. buying, n. View full entry a1250
...The action of buy; purchase....
11. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. Obs....
12. carrion, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1225
...A dead body; a corpse or carcass. Obs....
13. chaffer, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...Traffic, trade; buying and selling, dealing. Obs. exc. as in 1b....
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. chamberlain, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A male personal attendant of a king or nobleman, who waits on him in his bedchamber; (rarely also) a lady's maid. Also fig.Obs....
16. 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....
17. charge, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A (material) load, burden, weight. Obs....
18. charge, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To place a load on or in; to load (e.g. a vehicle, ship, beast of burden, etc.). Also, in pass.; charged with: laden with,...
19. † ˈcheapild, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A female trafficker....
20. † ˈcherte | ˈchertee, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Dearness, tenderness, fondness, affection; esp. in phr. to have (or hold) in chertee....
