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1. alderman, n. View full entry 1275
...The senior judicial person in an English hundred. Cf. High Constableconstable5b. Now hist....
2. ale conner, n. View full entry 1288
...An officer appointed by a court leet or other local authority to test for the assize (assize4) the ale brewed (and sometimes the bread baked) in his or her...
3. arm, v.1 View full entry 1250
...lit. To furnish with arms defensive or offensive. In early use: (chiefly) to cover (a man or horse) with armour or mail. Later: to provide (a man, garrison, stronghold, ship, etc.)...
4. array, v. View full entry 1297
...To set or place in order of readiness, to marshall. esp. To draw up prepared for battle, and in obs. phr. to array a battle....
5. attire, v.1 View full entry 1297
...To put in order, put to rights. Obs....
6. babbling, adj. View full entry a1250
...That talks rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way; chattering, prating, tattling; (also) full of or characterized by babble....
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. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry 1297
...One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child....
10. beaten, adj. View full entry a1300
...Struck with repeated blows....
11. beef, n. View full entry a1300
...The flesh of an ox, bull, or cow, used as food. Often preceded by words indicating the exact part of the animal, e.g. sirloin, ribs of beef, etc....
12. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
13. beverage, n. View full entry 1297
...Drink, liquor for drinking; esp. a liquor which constitutes a common article of consumption....
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. boil, v. View full entry a1225
...intr....
16. bolted | boulted, adj.1 View full entry ?c1200
...Sifted; fig. carefully selected, choice....
17. boned, adj. View full entry 1297
...Having bones. Chiefly in compounds, as big-boned, high-boned, strong-boned, etc....
18. † boultel, n. View full entry 1266
...A kind of cloth specially prepared for sifting; a sieve (= bolter2); hence degree of fineness as determined by the fineness of the sieve....
19. branch, n. View full entry 1297
...A portion or limb of a tree or other plant growing out of the stem or trunk, or out of one of the boughs; in a more specific sense, a branch...
20. breathe, v. View full entry a1300
...To exhale, steam, evaporate. Obs....
