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1. ambassy | embassy, n. View full entry 1598
...The mission, function, or office of an ambassador....
2. applause, n. View full entry 1600
...Approbation loudly expressed; acclamation....
3. courtship, n. View full entry 1597
...Behaviour or action befitting a court or courtier; courtliness of manners. Obs....
4. defeat, n. View full entry 1600
...Undoing; ruin; act of destruction. to make defeat upon (of): to bring about the ruin or destruction of. Obs....
5. enfranchisement, n. View full entry a1616
...Liberation from imprisonment, servitude, or political subjection. Also fig....
6. list, n.6 View full entry 1604
...A catalogue or roll consisting of a row or series of names, figures, words, or the like. In early use, esp. a catalogue of the names of persons engaged in...
7. mountaineer, n. and adj. View full entry a1616
...A person who is native to or lives in a mountainous region; (occas.) such a person regarded as ignorant, uncivilized, or uneducated; (U.S.) a hillbilly. Cf. mountain man1a...
8. silk stocking, n. View full entry 1600
...A stocking made of silk; usu. in pl....
9. unˈpolicied, adj. View full entry a1616
...(un-8.)...
10. unˈwhipped | unˈwhipt, adj. View full entry 1608
...Not punished (as) by whipping; not flogged or beaten....
11. upstairs, adv., and n., and adj. View full entry 1598
...So as to ascend a flight of stairs; to the floor at the top of a staircase....
12. waverer, n. View full entry 1597
...One who wavers; one who is undecided or vacillates in opinion or choice; one who falters in allegiance or hesitates to embrace a particular party or cause....
