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1. arm, v.1 View full entry 1250
...lit. To furnish with arms defensive or offensive. In early use: (chiefly) to cover (a man or horse) with armour or mail. Later: to provide (a man, garrison, stronghold, ship, etc.)...
2. augment, v. View full entry c1400
...trans. To make greater in size, number, amount, degree, etc.; to increase, enlarge, extend....
3. 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...
4. blaze, v.2 View full entry c1384
...To blow (e.g. with a musical instrument); to puff. Also with out. Obs....
5. blazon, v. View full entry a1533
...trans. To describe in proper heraldic language. Also absol....
6. canton, v. View full entry 1598
...trans. To quarter, divide:...
7. charge, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To place a load on or in; to load (e.g. a vehicle, ship, beast of burden, etc.). Also, in pass.; charged with: laden with,...
8. 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,...
9. coat, v. View full entry 1362
...trans. To provide with a coat; to clothe in a coat; to dress, clothe....
10. cotise, v. View full entry 1572
...trans. To border (a bend, fess, chevron, etc.) on both sides with cotises, barrulets, etc. See also cotise2)....
11. counterchange, v. View full entry 1598
...trans. To exchange against or for another....
12. coup | coupe, v.2 View full entry a1300
...trans. To cut, slash. Obs. (Only in pa. pple.)...
13. † croise, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To mark with the sign of the cross; to make the sign of the cross upon or over....
14. † deˈblaze, v. View full entry 1640
...= deblazon...
15. † deˈblazon, v. View full entry 1621
...= blazon (in various senses)....
16. debruise, v. View full entry 1297
...trans. To break down, break in pieces, crush, smash. Obs....
17. depart, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To divide into parts, dispart. Obs....
18. differ, v. View full entry c1374
...The earlier form of defer in all senses....
19. ˈdifference, v. View full entry c1450
...intr. To be different, to differ. Obs.rare....
20. dimidiate, v. View full entry 1623
...trans. To divide into halves; to halve; to reduce to the half....
