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1. absence, n. View full entry c1384
...The state of being absent or away from a place, or from the company of a person or persons. Also occas.: an instance of this. Freq. with possessive adjectives. Contrasted with ...
2. aeger, adj. and n. View full entry 1835
...Of a student or pupil: excused from attendance at lectures, classes, etc., on account of illness....
3. beak, n.3 View full entry 1799
...A magistrate or justice of the peace....
4. beefy, adj. View full entry 1743
...Abounding in beef; resembling beef; fleshy; obese; stolid or brawny....
5. Big-side, n. View full entry 1845
...A sporting event (esp. a rugby football match) participated in by senior boys; a team consisting of senior boys; (also) the ground where such matches take place. Also attrib....
6. bill, n.3 View full entry a1340
...A written document (originally sealed), a statement in writing (more or less formal); a letter, note, memorandum (cf. billet) Obs. in general sense, but retained in numerous legal...
7. Black Friday, n. View full entry 1610
...School slang. A Friday on which an examination is held. Cf. Black Monday2. Obs....
8. Black Monday, n. View full entry 1389
...(A name given to) Easter Monday. Now chiefly rare....
9. 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...
10. brosier | brozier, n. View full entry 1826
...dial. A bankrupt....
11. brosier | brozier, v. View full entry 1796
...pass. To be bankrupt. dial....
12. cabbage, n.3 View full entry 1663
...Offcuts of cloth appropriated by tailors and dressmakers as a perk when cutting out clothes....
13. calx, n. View full entry a1475
...A term of the alchemists and early chemists for a powder or friable substance produced by thoroughly burning or roasting (‘calcining’) a mineral or metal, so as to consume or drive off...
14. † ˈcampo, n.1 View full entry 1612
...Play-field, play-ground....
15. cavalier, n. and adj. View full entry 1562
...A horseman, esp. a horse-soldier; a knight....
16. cave, int. View full entry 1868
...Beware! A signal of warning, e.g. of the approach of a master. Also used subst. in phr. to keep cave....
17. Charterhouse, n. View full entry 1534
...A Carthusian monastery. arch....
18. cheese, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A substance used as food, consisting of the curd of milk (coagulated by rennet) separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass....
19. cheese, v.1 View full entry 1694
...intr. To become cheese....
20. colleger, n. View full entry 1560
...A member or inmate of a college....
