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1. allowable, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Worthy of praise; praiseworthy, laudable. Obs....
2. amortize | amortiise, v. View full entry 1377
...trans. To deaden, render as if dead, destroy....
3. auditor, n. View full entry 1377
...A hearer, listener; one of an audience....
4. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
5. barker, n.1 View full entry 1393
...One who or that which barks; a dog....
6. benefit, n. View full entry 1377
...A thing well done; a good or noble deed....
7. briber, n. View full entry 1377
...A vagabond, strolling vagrant; = French bribeur, Italian and Spanish bribon. Obs. (The last quot. belongs doubtfully here.)...
8. † ˈbrokage | brocage, n. View full entry 1377
...The trade of a broker; the transaction of commercial business, as buying and selling, for other men....
9. broker, n. View full entry 1377
...A retailer; contemptuously, Pedlar, petty dealer, monger. (Now sunk in sense 2.)...
10. brush, n.2 View full entry 1377
...A utensil consisting of a piece of wood or other suitable material, set with small tufts or bunches of bristles, hair, or the like, for sweeping or scrubbing dust and dirt from...
11. † ˈchaffered, adj. View full entry 1377
...Trafficked or dealt in, bartered....
12. chancery, n. View full entry 1377
...The office of a chancellor; chancellorship....
13. clothier, n. View full entry 1362
...One engaged in the cloth trade:...
14. contra, prep., adv., and n.1 View full entry 1362
...Against. Chiefly in the phrase pro and contra (now generally abbreviated to con), ‘for and against’ (the motion, proposal, etc.)....
15. controller, n. View full entry 1393
...One who keeps a counter-roll so as to check a treasurer or person in charge of accounts....
16. cuff, n.1 View full entry 1362
...A mitten or glove. Obs....
17. defraud, v. View full entry 1362
...To deprive (a person) by fraud of what is his by right, either by fraudulently taking or by dishonestly withholding it from him; to cheat, cozen, beguile. Const. of (†...
18. deprave, v. View full entry 1362
...To make bad; to pervert in character or quality; to deteriorate, impair, spoil, vitiate. Now rare, exc. as in 2....
19. dime, n. View full entry 1377
...A tenth part, a tithe paid to the church or to a temporal ruler. Obs. or Hist....
20. draper, n. View full entry 1362
...Orig., One who made (woollen) cloth. Subsequently, A dealer in cloth, and now by extension, in other articles of textile manufacture: often qualified as woollen draper, linen draper....
