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1. beta, n. View full entry a1400
...The second letter of the Greek alphabet, Β, β....
2. blue, n. View full entry a1400
...Blue colour. (It may have a plural.)...
3. break, n.1 View full entry a1400
...An act of breaking; breakage, fracture....
4. courser, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A runner; one who runs in a race, a racer....
5. devoir, n. View full entry a1300
...That which one ought to do, or has to do; (one's) duty, business, appointed task. (Chiefly in phr. to do one's devoir). arch....
6. former, n.1 View full entry c1340
...One who forms or gives form to something; a maker, creator, fashioner, framer....
7. getting, n. View full entry a1300
...The action of get in various senses....
8. hostel, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A place of sojourn; a house where one lodges; a lodging. Obs....
9. kenning, n.2 View full entry a1300
...Teaching, instruction. Obs....
10. raiser-up, n. View full entry a1400
...A person who raises someone or something up, in various senses; (in later use esp.) a helper, rescuer, or restorer. Usu. with of....
11. raith, n. View full entry a1400
...A quarter of a year, a period of three months; spec. a three-month term at school or university....
12. salting, n. View full entry a1300
...The curing of fish, meat, etc., with salt....
13. season, n. View full entry a1300
...Any one of the periods, longer or shorter, into which the year is naturally divided by the earth's changing position in regard to the sun, and which are marked by varying length...
14. spell, v.2 View full entry a1400
...To read (a book, etc.) letter by letter; to peruse, or make out, slowly or with difficulty....
15. study, v. View full entry a1300
...To apply the mind to the acquisition of learning, whether by means of books, observation, or experiment. †Const. in, on, upon (a book, a branch of...
16. sweat, n. View full entry a1300
...The life-blood: in phr. to tine, leave, lose the sweat: to lose one's life-blood, die. Obs....
17. task, n. View full entry a1400
...A fixed payment to a king, lord, or feudal superior; an impost, tax; tribute. Obs....
18. taste, n.1 View full entry 13..
...The sense of touch, feeling (with the hands, etc.); the act of touching, touch. Obs....
19. theme, n. View full entry a1300
...The subject of discourse, discussion, conversation, meditation, or composition; a topic....
20. tother, pron. and adj. View full entry a1300
...The other (of two): often opposed to tone (see tone). Phr. to tell tother (or t'other) from which (joc.), to tell one from the other...
