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1. gentility, n. View full entry 1340
...Gentle birth; honourable extraction; the fact of belonging to a family of gentle blood. Also, the personality of one who is well-born....
2. lion, n. View full entry c825
...A large carnivorous quadruped, Felis leo, now found native only in Africa and southern Asia, of a tawny or yellowish brown colour, and having a tufted tail. The male is...
3. millstone, n. View full entry eOE
...Either of a pair of circular stones which grind corn by the rotation of the upper stone on the lower (or nether) one....
4. officer, n. View full entry c1375
...A person who holds a particular office, post, or place....
5. ray, n.5 View full entry c1400
...A single line or narrow beam of light; each of the lines in which light (and accompanying radiant heat) may seem to emanate from the sun or other source. Also fig....
6. royal, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Befitting or appropriate to a monarch, esp. in quality, size, or ostentation; stately, magnificent, splendid, imposing....
7. Welsh, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...= British1a. Now hist....
