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1. argent, n. and adj. View full entry c1500
...The metal silver. arch. or poet.spume of argent (Latin argenti spuma): litharge of silver....
2. armory, n. View full entry 1489
...The science of blazoning arms, heraldry....
3. ˈazured, adj. View full entry 1490
...arch. orObs. Coloured azure; = azure (in various senses):...
4. † baston, n. View full entry c1308
...A staff or stick used as a weapon or a staff of office; a cudgel, club, bat, truncheon; = baton1, batoon1....
5. batoon, n. View full entry 1562
...A stout staff or stick used as a weapon, a cudgel, club, truncheon; = baston1, baton1....
6. bear, v.1 View full entry c893
...trans. To support the weight of (anything) whilst moving it from one place to another; to carry. Now usually restricted in prose to the carrying of something weighty or which requires...
7. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
8. canton, v. View full entry 1598
...trans. To quarter, divide:...
9. charge, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A (material) load, burden, weight. Obs....
10. chevalier, n. View full entry 1377
...A horseman; esp. a mounted soldier, a knight. (Now hist. or arch.)...
11. chief, n. View full entry 1297
...lit. The head (of the body). Obs.rare....
12. chieftain, n. View full entry c1330
...The head of a body of men, of an organization, state, town, party, office, etc.; head-man, ruler, chief. Obs. in gen. sense....
13. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
14. close, v. View full entry c1275
...trans. To stop up (an opening or channel) so that it ceases to be open or to allow of passage. Where the opening is provided with a gate, door, or lid,...
15. closet, n. View full entry ?1370
...A room for privacy or retirement; a private room; an inner chamber; formerly often = bower2a2b; in later use always a small room: see 4....
16. colour | color, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Any of the constituents into which light can be separated as in a spectrum or rainbow, and which are referred to by names such as blue, red, ...
17. contrary, adj., n., adv., and prep. View full entry c1250
...Opposed in nature or tendency; diametrically different, extremely unlike. Const. to; often with sense: Repugnant, antagonistic....
18. † conusance, n. View full entry 1523
...gen. = cognizance2: Knowledge, information....
19. cross, n. View full entry a1225
...A kind of gibbet used by the ancients (and in later times by some non-Christian nations); a stake, generally with a transverse bar, on which they put to a cruel and ignominious...
20. defence | defense, n. View full entry 1297
...The action of keeping off, or resisting the attack of (an enemy). Obs....
