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1. amethyst, n. View full entry c1290
...A precious stone of a clear purple or bluish violet colour, of different degrees of intensity, consisting of quartz or rock-crystal coloured by manganese, or, according to Heintz, by a compound of...
2. arm, n.2 View full entry a1250
...Defensive covering or appendages for the body; armour, mail. Now poet....
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. armed, adj.1 View full entry 1297
...lit. Furnished with arms or armour; fully equipped for war. In intensive ‘Armed to the teeth.’ In armed demonstration, armed neutrality, it refers to the...
5. armour | armor, n. View full entry 1297
...collect. sing. Defensive covering worn by one who is fighting; mail. Cf. arm1....
6. attire, n. View full entry 1250
...Equipment of man or horse, outfit for war....
7. banner, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...prop. A piece of stout taffeta, or other cloth, attached by one side to the upper part of a long pole or staff, and used as the standard of an emperor,...
8. bearing, n. View full entry a1300
...The action of carrying or conveying. In Backgammon, see bear1d....
9. bezant | byzant, n. View full entry ?c1200
...A gold coin first struck at Byzantium or Constantinople, and seemingly identical with the Roman solidus or aureus, but afterwards varying in value between the English sovereign and...
10. cake, n. View full entry c1230
...As name of an object, with plural: A baked mass of bread or substance of similar kind, distinguished from a loaf or other ordinary bread, either by its form or by its...
11. charge, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A (material) load, burden, weight. Obs....
12. 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,...
13. † ˈchevetaine, n. View full entry c1275
...Earlier form of chieftain...
14. chief, n. View full entry 1297
...lit. The head (of the body). Obs.rare....
15. close, v. View full entry c1275
...trans. To stop up (an opening or channel) so that it ceases to be open or to allow of passage. Where the opening is provided with a gate, door, or lid,...
16. contrary, adj., n., adv., and prep. View full entry c1250
...Opposed in nature or tendency; diametrically different, extremely unlike. Const. to; often with sense: Repugnant, antagonistic....
17. coup | coupe, v.2 View full entry a1300
...trans. To cut, slash. Obs. (Only in pa. pple.)...
18. coward, n. and adj. View full entry ?a1289
...A reproachful designation for one who displays ignoble fear or want of courage in the face of danger, pain, or difficulty; an ignobly faint-hearted or pusillanimous person....
19. † croise, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To mark with the sign of the cross; to make the sign of the cross upon or over....
20. cross, n. View full entry a1225
...A kind of gibbet used by the ancients (and in later times by some non-Christian nations); a stake, generally with a transverse bar, on which they put to a cruel and ignominious...