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1. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
2. alpha, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1200
...(The name of) the first letter (Α, α) of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English a....
3. aunt, n. View full entry 1297
...The sister of one's father or mother. Also, an uncle's wife, more strictly called an aunt-in-law....
4. bachelor, n. View full entry 1297
...A young knight, not old enough, or having too few vassals, to display his own banner, and who therefore followed the banner of another; a novice in arms. [On this sense was...
5. cathedral, adj. View full entry 1297
...Of or pertaining to the bishop's throne or see....
6. chair, n.1 View full entry 1297
...A seat for one person (always implying more or less of comfort and ease); now the common name for the movable four-legged seat with a rest for the back, which constitutes, in...
7. challenge, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To accuse, bring a charge against, arraign, impeach. Also absol.Obs. (or ? dial.)...
8. † chaste, v. View full entry c1200
...trans. To correct or amend by discipline; to discipline, train; to bring up under restraint....
9. city, n. View full entry ?c1225
...orig. A town or other inhabited place. Not a native designation, but app. at first a somewhat grandiose title, used instead of the Old English burh, borough...
10. commencement, n. View full entry c1250
...The action or process of commencing; beginning; time of beginning....
11. common, adj. and adv. View full entry 1297
...‘Belonging equally to more than one’ (Johnson); possessed or shared alike by both or all (the persons or things in question). to have (anything) common with: now, to have ...
12. cope, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A long cloak or cape worn as an outer garment, chiefly out of doors. Obs. Cf. cape...
13. country, n. View full entry c1275
...A tract or expanse of land of undefined extent; a region, district....
14. course, n. View full entry c1290
...The action of running; a run; a gallop on horseback. Obs....
15. courser, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A runner; one who runs in a race, a racer....
16. cover, v.1 View full entry a1275
...trans. To put or lay something over (an object), with the effect of hiding from view, protecting, or enclosing; to overlay, overspread with....
17. dais, n. View full entry a1259
...A raised table in a hall, at which distinguished persons sat at feasts, etc.; the high table. (Often including the platform on which it was raised: see 2) Obs....
18. dame, n. View full entry a1225
...A female ruler, superior or head: = ‘lady’, as fem. of lord (‘our most gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen Victoria’); the superior of a nunnery, an abbess, prioress, etc.;...
19. degree, n. View full entry c1230
...A step in an ascent or descent; one of a flight of steps; a step or rung of a ladder. Obs. (exc. in Heraldry)....
20. 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....