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1. Dagon, n.2 View full entry 1382
...The national deity of the ancient Philistines; represented with the head, chest, and arms of a man, and the tail of a fish....
2. humanity, n. View full entry c1384
...The quality of being humane (humane1a); (now) spec. kindness, benevolence....
3. idiot, n. and adj. View full entry c1384
...A person without learning; an ignorant, uneducated person; a simple or ordinary person. Now arch. and rare....
4. male, adj. and n.1 View full entry a1382
...Designating the sex or (formerly) kind which can beget, but not bear, offspring....
5. middle, v. View full entry c1384
...intr. To intervene. Obs....
6. named, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Famous, renowned, highly spoken of; notorious. Cf. well(-)namedObs....
7. parcel, n., adv., and adj. View full entry a1382
...A part, portion, or division of something (material or immaterial), considered separately as a unit; a small part. Now arch. and rare....
8. perdition, n. View full entry a1382
...The fact or condition of being destroyed or ruined; utter destruction, complete ruin....
9. phylactery, n. View full entry c1384
...Judaism. Either of two small leather boxes, containing Hebrew texts of the Bible written on parchment, worn by Jewish males during morning prayer on all days except the sabbath and holidays,...
10. pippin, n. View full entry a1382
...A seed or pip of any of various fleshy fruits. Now Eng. regional (chiefly north.)....
11. religiosity, n. View full entry a1382
...Religiousness; religious feeling or belief....
12. schism, n. View full entry c1384
...In the versions of the New Testament, used to represent the Greek σχίσμα in some passages, where the sense is that of a (metaphorical) rent or cleft....
13. sucker, n. View full entry c1384
...A young mammal before it is weaned; †a child at the breast (even-sucker, see even-3); now spec. a sucking-pig; a young whale-calf....
14. womanish, adj. View full entry a1382
...That is considered to be characteristic of a woman; womanly, feminine. Freq. derogatory....
