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1. acquit, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans....
2. advance, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To promote or help the progress, success, or completion of (something); to further....
3. arm, n.2 View full entry a1250
...Defensive covering or appendages for the body; armour, mail. Now poet....
4. 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...
5. assault, n. View full entry a1250
...gen. An onset or rush upon any one with hostile intent; an attack with blows or weapons....
6. authority, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Power or right to enforce obedience; moral or legal supremacy; the right to command, or give an ultimate decision....
7. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
8. 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....
9. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
10. burgess, n. View full entry ?c1225
...An inhabitant of a borough; strictly, one possessing full municipal rights; a citizen, freeman of a borough....
11. 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...
12. † caˈnonial, adj. View full entry c1230
...= canonical...
13. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. Obs....
14. case, n.1 View full entry a1250
...A thing that befalls or happens to any one; an event, occurrence, hap, or chance....
15. cause, n. View full entry ?c1225
...That which produces an effect; that which gives rise to any action, phenomenon, or condition. Cause and effect are correlative terms....
16. challenge, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To accuse, bring a charge against, arraign, impeach. Also absol.Obs. (or ? dial.)...
17. 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...
18. chapter, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A main division or section of a book (whether the latter is an entire literary work, or one of the divisions or parts of a large work). Esp. used of the main...
19. charge, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A (material) load, burden, weight. Obs....
20. 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,...
