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1. absent, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Not present in a place or at an occasion; away. Freq. in predicative use....
2. address, v. View full entry a1325
...trans. (chiefly in pass.). To direct (a written communication) to a specific person or destination; spec. (in early use) to write and send (a writ, a petition,...
3. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
4. appease, v. View full entry 1330
...To bring to peace, pacify, quiet, or settle (strife or disorder)....
5. audit, n. View full entry 1435-6
...gen. A hearing, an audience; esp. a judicial hearing of complaints, a judicial examination. arch....
6. balance, n.1 View full entry 1297
...An apparatus for weighing, consisting of a beam poised so as to move freely on a central pivot, with a scale pan at each end....
7. band, n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...Anything with which one's body or limbs are bound, in restraint of personal liberty; a shackle, chain, fetter, manacle. arch....
8. beadsman, n. View full entry ?c1225
...lit. A man of prayer; one who prays for the soul or spiritual welfare of another....
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. blood, n. (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The red fluid flowing in the arteries, capillaries, and veins of humans and other vertebrates, carrying oxygen and nutrients to, and carbon dioxide and waste metabolites away from, the organs and tissues...
11. board, n. View full entry c897
...A piece of timber sawn thin, and having considerable extent of surface; usually a rectangular piece of much greater length than breadth; a thin plank. Rarely used without the article, as in...
12. cast, v. View full entry c1200
...trans. To project (anything) with a force of the nature of a jerk, from the hand, the arms, a vessel, or the like; to throw (which is now the...
13. castle, n. View full entry c1000
...Used to render Latin castellum of the Vulgate (Greek κώμη), village. Obs....
14. cell, n.1 View full entry OE
...A dwelling consisting of a single chamber inhabited by a hermit or anchorite....
15. chamber, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular person, a private room; (in later use) esp. a bedroom, typically on...
16. city, n. View full entry ?c1225
...orig. A town or other inhabited place. Not a native designation, but app. at first a somewhat grandiose title, used instead of the Old English burh, borough...
17. consistory, n. View full entry a1307
...A place where councillors meet, a council-chamber. (Almost always as a translation of the corresponding French or Latin word, and never applied to anything English.) Obs....
18. corn, n.1 View full entry a700
...gen. A small hard particle, a grain, as of sand or salt. In Old English and mod.dial. (In literary use in 16–17th c., chiefly transl. Latin grānum...
19. ˈcouncil-ˌtable, n. View full entry 1621
...= council-board...
20. cry, n. View full entry c1275
...The loud and chiefly inarticulate utterance of emotion; esp. of grief, pain, or terror....
