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1. addition, n. View full entry c1400
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an appendix, an augmentation; (also) a person who becomes part of a family or other group of people....
2. arrow, n. View full entry a835
...A slender pointed missile shot from a bow, usually feathered and barbed. Sometimes also applied to the bolts, or quarrels, with thickened heads, discharged from the cross-bow....
3. 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,...
4. bar, n.1 View full entry c1175
...gen. A straight piece of wood, metal, or other rigid material, long in proportion to its thickness....
5. barb, n.1 View full entry c1374
...The beard of a man. Obs.rare....
6. baron, n. View full entry a1200
...Hist. Originally, one who held, by military or other honourable service, from the king or other superior; afterwards restricted to the former or king's barons, and at length mostly...
7. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
8. bath, n.1 View full entry 864
...The action of bathing or immersing the body, or a part of it, in water or other liquid. (Used playfully of accidental or involuntary immersion.)...
9. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
10. 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....
11. brick, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A substance formed of clay, kneaded, moulded, and hardened by baking with fire, or in warm countries and ancient times by drying in the sun; used instead of stone as a building...
12. budget, n. View full entry 1432-50
...A pouch, bag, wallet, usually of leather. Obs. exc. dial....
13. cake, n. View full entry c1230
...As name of an object, with plural: A baked mass of bread or substance of similar kind, distinguished from a loaf or other ordinary bread, either by its form or by its...
14. cap, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A hood, a covering for the head. (Precise sense not definable; in first quot. still in Latin form.)...
15. charge, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A (material) load, burden, weight. Obs....
16. charge, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To place a load on or in; to load (e.g. a vehicle, ship, beast of burden, etc.). Also, in pass.; charged with: laden with,...
17. check, n.2 View full entry c1450
...Heraldry and gen. A pattern of cross lines forming small squares, as in a chess-board....
18. 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.)...
19. close, v. View full entry c1275
...trans. To stop up (an opening or channel) so that it ceases to be open or to allow of passage. Where the opening is provided with a gate, door, or lid,...
20. closet, n. View full entry ?1370
...A room for privacy or retirement; a private room; an inner chamber; formerly often = bower2a2b; in later use always a small room: see 4....
