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1. addressing, n. View full entry ?c1400
...The action of address (in various senses); an instance of this; (esp. in early use) the action or an act of arranging or guiding something; (in later use)...
2. arc, n. View full entry c1386
...Part of the circumference of a circle or other curve....
3. argument, n. View full entry c1374
...Proof, evidence, manifestation, token. (Passing from clear proof in early, to proof presumptive in later usage; cf. argue3) arch....
4. audience, n. View full entry c1374
...The action of hearing; attention to what is spoken. to give audience: to give ear, listen....
5. barring, n.1 View full entry c1386
...The action of bar:...
6. border, n. View full entry c1374
...A side, edge, brink, or margin; a limit, or boundary; the part of anything lying along its boundary or outline....
7. breast-plate, n. View full entry c1386
...A piece of armour for protecting the breast; also, any plate worn on the breast....
8. carriage, n. View full entry c1386
...Carrying or bearing from one place to another; conveyance....
9. centre | center, n. and adj. View full entry c1374
...The point round which a circle is described; the middle point of a circle or sphere, equally distant from all points on the circumference....
10. chariot, n. View full entry c1374
...A wheeled vehicle, coach, or conveyance....
11. compound, v. View full entry c1374
...trans. To put together, to join; to apply....
12. concentric, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Having a common centre, described about the same centre. (Said of circles and spheres, etc.)...
13. constraint, n. View full entry c1374
...The exercise of force to determine or confine action; coercion, compulsion....
14. crow's foot | ˈcrow's-foot, n. View full entry c1374
...One of the small wrinkles formed by age or anxiety round the outer corner of the eye, ‘thought to resemble the impression of the feet of crows’ (Todd). Now commonly in ...
15. cushion, n. View full entry c1374
...A case of cloth, silk, etc. stuffed with some soft elastic material, used to give support or ease to the body in sitting, reclining, or kneeling....
16. direct, adj. and adv. View full entry c1400
...In reference to space: Straight; undeviating in course; not circuitous or crooked....
17. dissolve, v. View full entry c1374
...To loosen or put asunder the parts of; to reduce to its formative elements; to destroy the physical integrity; to disintegrate, decompose. (Now rare or Obs. exc. as...
18. distant, adj. View full entry c1400
...Separate or apart in space (by a specified interval). Const. from....
19. dormant, adj. and n. View full entry c1405
...Sleeping, lying asleep or as asleep; hence, fig. intellectually asleep; with the faculties not awake; inactive as in sleep....
20. elongation, n. View full entry c1400
...Astron....
