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1. Actaeon, n. View full entry 1567
...(A type of) a cuckold; the husband of an unfaithful wife....
2. 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....
3. asquint, adv. and adj. View full entry a1250
...(To look) to one side instead of straight forward; obliquely, out at the corners of the eyes....
4. banter, n. View full entry 1700
...Wanton nonsense talked in ridicule of a subject or person; hence, humorous ridicule generally; (now usually) good-humoured raillery, pleasantry....
5. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
6. bat, n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) arch. Still dial. (Kent, Sussex, etc.) = staff, walking-stick....
7. blunt, adj. and n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...Dull, insensitive, stupid, obtuse: said, it appears, originally of the sight, whence of the perceptions generally, and the intellect. (Now generally with some antithesis to sharp, as in sense ...
8. brabble, v. View full entry c1500
...intr. To dispute captiously or obstinately; to cavil or quibble. Const. with, against a person; about, on, at, for...
9. brunt, n.1 View full entry c1400
...A sharp blow. Obs....
10. bully, n.1 View full entry ?1548
...A term of endearment and familiarity, orig. applied to either sex: sweetheart, darling. Later applied to men only, implying friendly admiration: good friend, fine fellow, ‘gallant’. Often prefixed as a sort of...
11. coil, n.2 View full entry 1567
...Noisy disturbance, ‘row’; ‘tumult, turmoil, bustle, stir, hurry, confusion’ (Johnson)....
12. dandiprat, n. View full entry c1520
...Applied to a small coin, worth three half-pence, current in England in the 16th c. Obs....
13. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
14. ermelin, n. View full entry 1555
...The animal called ermine; = ermine1....
15. Ethiopian, adj. and n. View full entry 1552
...Of or belonging to Ethiopia (in the various historical uses of the name), or to the peoples known to the ancients as Æthiopes. Often used (now only humorously) as =...
16. flash, v.1 View full entry 1387
...intr. Of the sea, waves, etc.: To rush along the surface; to rise and dash, esp. with the tide. Also with up. In later use with mixture...
17. flatter, v.1 View full entry ?c1225
...intr. Of an animal, bird, etc.: To show delight or fondness (by wagging the tail, making a caressing sound, etc.). Const. upon, with. Obs....
18. gad, v.2 View full entry a1500
...intr. To go from one place to another, to wander; esp. to wander about with no serious object, stopping here and there, to rove idly. Also to gad...
19. gam, n.1 View full entry ?a1500
...In pl. Large teeth, tusks....
20. Geneva print, n. View full entry 1606
...Roman type, esp. the small roman type typically used in pocket editions of the Geneva Bible, such as were commonly and characteristically carried by English Puritans and members of separatist...
