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1. address, n. View full entry 1477
...Guidance; aid. Cf. address9. Obs....
2. adjective, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Grammar. That is an adjective (sense B. 1a)....
3. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
4. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
5. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
6. blank, n. View full entry 1480
...A small French coin, originally of silver, but afterwards of copper; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English. According to Littré,...
7. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
8. business, n. View full entry OE
...Anxiety, solicitude, care; distress, uneasiness. Obs....
9. chamber, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular person, a private room; (in later use) esp. a bedroom, typically on...
10. cross, v. View full entry c1340
...trans. To crucify. Obs....
11. D, n. View full entry c1000
...the fourth letter of the Roman alphabet, corresponding in position and power to the Phoenician and Hebrew Daleth, and Greek Delta, Δ, whence also its form was derived...
12. do, v. View full entry c825
...To put, place....
13. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
14. escape, n.1 View full entry c1300
...The action of escaping, or the fact of having escaped, from custody, danger, etc.; spec. in Law: see quot. 1641....
15. fall, v. View full entry c890
...intr. To drop from a high or relatively high position. Const. †in, into, to, on, upon; also, to the earth...
16. family jewel, n. View full entry 1744
...A jewel belonging to a particular family, handed down from generation to generation, esp. as an heirloom. Chiefly in pl. (freq. with the): a collection of such jewellery....
17. flesh, n. View full entry a800
...The soft substance, esp. the muscular parts, of an animal body; that which covers the framework of bones and is enclosed by the skin. raw flesh...
18. French, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...Esp. in early use: of or relating to the Romance-speaking peoples of western Europe (as opposed to the Germanic or Celtic peoples). In later use: of or relating to France....
19. front, n. (and adj.) View full entry c1290
...= forehead1. Now only poet. or in highly rhetorical language....
20. full, adj., n.3, and adv. View full entry c888
...Having within its limits all it will hold; having no space empty; replete. Const. of (in Old English with gen.) Often with intensive phrases, as full as...
