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1. Aaronite, n. and adj. View full entry a1382
...A descendant or follower of Aaron; a member of the Jewish priesthood. Cf. Aaron...
2. abnormeth, n. View full entry 1374
...A misreading (in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1782) VIII) of vnourneth (see quot. 1374burn), itself prob. an error for anorneth...
3. Adullamite, n. and adj. View full entry a1382
...In biblical use, or allusions to this: a native or inhabitant of the Canaanite city of Adullam; (also) a frequenter of the nearby cave of Adullam, where a group discontented with the...
4. † alker, n. View full entry 1381
...A kind of pudding consisting of pieces of fruit set in a base of rice flour and almond milk. Cf. moile1....
5. Almain, n. and adj. View full entry c1330
...A native or inhabitant of Germany or the lands corresponding to modern Germany; a German. Chiefly arch. and literary in later use....
6. † ˈangard, n. View full entry a1325
...Brag, boastfulness, arrogance....
7. † aˈrate, v. View full entry 1377
...To rate, rebuke, reprove....
8. argol, n.1 View full entry c1386
...The tartar deposited from wines completely fermented, and adhering to the sides of the casks as a hard crust; crude bitartrate of potassium, which, when purified, becomes cream of tartar....
9. † aˈrout, v. View full entry c1390
10. † arr, v.1 View full entry a1400
...To anger, vex, worry....
11. † aˈrunt, v. View full entry 1399
...To rail at, revile, scold, rate; or ? to drive away. (If the latter is the sense, cf. Shakespeare's aroint)...
12. † aˈskance(s, adv.1 View full entry c1374
...As though, as if. (? On the pretence.)...
13. † aveˈtrol, n. View full entry c1300
...A bastard....
14. † aˈwhape, v. View full entry c1300
...To amaze, stupefy with fear, confound utterly....
15. † bad, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...A (domestic or wild) cat....
16. † bagge, v. View full entry 1369
...To look askew, or obliquely; to leer, ogle, or glance aside; cf. asquint2c....
17. baldmoney, n. View full entry 1393
...Gentian, of various species. Obs....
18. batter, v.2 View full entry 1398
...intr. Of walls, etc.: To incline from the perpendicular, so as to have a receding slope....
19. bawd, n.1 View full entry 1362
...One employed in pandering to sexual debauchery; a procurer or procuress; orig. in a more general sense, and in the majority of passages masculine, a ‘go-between,’ a pander; since ...
20. † ˈbawdy, adj.1 View full entry 1377
...Soiled, dirty, filthy....
