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1. across, adv., prep., and adj. View full entry a1250
...In the form of a cross, crosswise; crossing each other, crossed. Now rare....
2. advance, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To promote or help the progress, success, or completion of (something); to further....
3. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
4. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
5. all over, adv. and prep. View full entry ?c1225
...In every respect; throughout; fully, totally. Now colloq....
6. anchor, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To secure (the ship) with an anchor; to place at, or bring to, anchor....
7. article, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Each of the separate items of a summary of faith; spec.each of the separate clauses or statements of the Apostles' Creed; (freq. with capital initial) any of the...
8. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
9. bag, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack....
10. banner, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...prop. A piece of stout taffeta, or other cloth, attached by one side to the upper part of a long pole or staff, and used as the standard of an emperor,...
11. bat, n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) arch. Still dial. (Kent, Sussex, etc.) = staff, walking-stick....
12. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
13. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
14. blaze, v.1 View full entry ?c1225
...intr. To burn with a bright fervent flame. Often with away, forth, out. to blaze up: to burst or flash into a blaze....
15. bounce, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans.Obs....
16. cackle, n. View full entry c1230
...A cackler. (Or ? cackling.)...
17. cage, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A box or place of confinement for birds and other animals (or, in barbarous times, for human beings), made wholly or partly of wire, or with bars of metal or wood, so...
18. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. Obs....
19. case, n.1 View full entry a1250
...A thing that befalls or happens to any one; an event, occurrence, hap, or chance....
20. catch, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To chase, to drive. Obs....
