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1. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
2. addition, n. View full entry c1400
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an appendix, an augmentation; (also) a person who becomes part of a family or other group of people....
3. † afgod, n. View full entry 1769
...An idol, a heathen god. Also: a heraldic dragon associated with such an idol or god....
4. alicorn, n. View full entry 1678
...A (mythical) animal supposedly resembling a bull with wavy horns, sometimes used as a heraldic device....
5. badge, n. View full entry 1440
...Originally: a heraldic symbol worn as an identifying mark by a knight and his retainers (= cognizance5a; sometimes more fully badge of arms). In later use: any...
6. banner, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...prop. A piece of stout taffeta, or other cloth, attached by one side to the upper part of a long pole or staff, and used as the standard of an emperor,...
7. baron, n. View full entry a1200
...Hist. Originally, one who held, by military or other honourable service, from the king or other superior; afterwards restricted to the former or king's barons, and at length mostly...
8. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
9. 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)...
10. blanch, adj. View full entry 1330
...White, pale. Chiefly in specific uses, as blanch fever, blanch powder, blanch sauce. Obs....
11. blue, adj. View full entry 1366
...The name of one of the colours of the spectrum; of the colour of the sky and the deep sea; cerulean....
12. carbuncle, n. View full entry eOE
...A large precious stone of a red or fiery colour: in early use of unsettled identity, as a ruby, garnet, spinel, etc.; (also) a mythical gem said to give out light in...
13. Celtic, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Hist. and Archaeol. Of or belonging to the ancient Celtæ and their presumed congeners....
14. chaperon, n. View full entry c1380
...A hood or cap formerly worn by nobles, and. after the 16th c., by ladies. Obs. exc. Hist....
15. chevalier, n. View full entry 1377
...A horseman; esp. a mounted soldier, a knight. (Now hist. or arch.)...
16. 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....
17. coat of arms, n. View full entry 1490
...Hist. A coat or vest embroidered with heraldic arms; a tabard. (See armour10, coat-armour1.)...
18. college, n. View full entry 1379
...An organized society of persons performing certain common functions and possessing special rights and privileges; a body of colleagues, a guild, fellowship, association:...
19. 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, ...
20. crystal, n. and adj. View full entry OE
...Ice. Cf. sense A. 2a. Obs....
