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1. arming, n.2 View full entry c1386
...The action or process of furnishing (oneself or others) with arms or armour; †concr. arms, armour (obs.)....
2. barb, n.1 View full entry c1374
...The beard of a man. Obs.rare....
3. blaze, v.2 View full entry c1384
...To blow (e.g. with a musical instrument); to puff. Also with out. Obs....
4. 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.)...
5. coat-armour | coat-armor, n. View full entry c1384
...A vest of rich material embroidered with heraldic devices, worn as a distinction by knights over their armour, by heralds, etc.; = coat of arms1. (See armour10...
6. collared, adj. View full entry c1405
...Wearing a collar (round the neck)....
7. departed, adj. View full entry c1386
...Divided into parts, etc.: see depart12....
8. differ, v. View full entry c1374
...The earlier form of defer in all senses....
9. dormant, adj. and n. View full entry c1405
...Sleeping, lying asleep or as asleep; hence, fig. intellectually asleep; with the faculties not awake; inactive as in sleep....
10. embattled, adj.2 View full entry c1386
...Archit. Furnished with battlements, crenellated....
11. enhance, v. View full entry c1374
...trans. To lift, raise, set up; also, to raise the level of (ground). Obs....
12. erect, adj. and n. View full entry c1386
...Upright, in an upright posture; not bending forward or downward. Of straight lines and plane surfaces: Vertical. erect vision, the fact that we see objects ‘the right way up’, notwithstanding...
13. flowery, adj. View full entry c1374
...Abounding in or covered with flowers; producing flowers....
14. fret, n.1 View full entry c1385
...Ornamental interlaced work; a net; an ornament (esp. for the hair) consisting of jewels or flowers in a network....
15. hearse, n. View full entry c1368
...A triangular frame somewhat similar in form to the ancient harrow, designed to carry candles, and used at the service of Tenebræ in Holy Week....
16. joinant, adj. View full entry c1405
...Adjoining, adjacent: = joining2.Obs....
17. Jove, n. View full entry c1374
...A poetical equivalent of Jupiter, name of the highest deity of the ancient Romans: = Jupiter1....
18. luna, n. View full entry c1386
...The moon (personified)....
19. lure, n.2 View full entry c1385
...An apparatus used by falconers, to recall their hawks, constructed of a bunch of feathers, to which is attached a long cord or thong, and from the interstices of which, during its...
20. officer, n. View full entry c1375
...A person who holds a particular office, post, or place....
