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1. advisement, n. View full entry a1387
...The action or an act of stipulating what action is required; an instruction, a directive, an injunction. Obs....
2. aˈnointment, n. View full entry 1398
...The action or process of anointing....
3. apprehend, v. View full entry a1398
...To lay hold upon, seize, with hands, teeth, etc. Also said of fire, and fig. of trembling, fear, etc. Obs. or arch....
4. apprehension, n. View full entry a1398
...The action of laying hold of or seizing (physically); prehension, grasping. rare....
5. apprehensive, adj. View full entry a1398
...In the habit of seizing, ready to seize or embrace (an offer or opportunity). Obs....
6. apt, adj. View full entry 1398
...Fitted (materially), fitting. rare....
7. audience, n. View full entry a1387
...The action, practice, or fact of holding a judicial hearing or hearings; Also: the opportunity to have a case or complaint heard in a formal assembly or court of law. Obs....
8. ˈbeauty, v. View full entry 1398
...trans. To render beautiful; to beautify, adorn, deck....
9. bloody flux, n. View full entry a1398
...Bloody diarrhoea; disease causing such diarrhoea, spec. dysentery of infectious origin; an instance of this; now hist. or arch. Also (now rare): (an instance...
10. buzz, v.1 View full entry 1398
...intr. To make the humming sibilant sound characteristic of bees and other insects; to fly out, in, etc. with such a sound....
11. chamber, v. View full entry a1402
...trans....
12. chirurgery, n. View full entry 1398
...That part of medical science and art which is concerned with the cure of diseases or bodily injuries by manual operation: = surgery...
13. clod, n. View full entry 1398
...A mass formed by the coagulation of anything liquid, esp. blood. Obs. (now clot)...
14. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
15. compact, adj.1 View full entry 1398
...Compacted, knit, firmly put together....
16. company, v. View full entry 1387
...trans. To go in company with, to accompany; to keep company with, have society with. arch....
17. consonancy, n. View full entry a1387
...Agreement or pleasing combination of sounds; harmony, concord....
18. corporate, adj. and adv. View full entry 1398
...United into one body. arch....
19. count, v. View full entry a1387
...To tell over one by one, to assign to (individual objects in a collection) the numerals one, two, three, etc. so as to ascertain their number; to number, enumerate; to reckon, reckon...
20. crack, n. View full entry a1387
...A sudden sharp and loud noise as of something breaking or bursting; e.g. the crack of a rifle, a whip, of breaking ice, bones, etc. Formerly applied also to the...
