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1. accord, n. View full entry c1275
...Opposed to discord....
2. acquit, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans....
3. advance, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To promote or help the progress, success, or completion of (something); to further....
4. affeer, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To determine, decide, assess; (Law) to fix or settle the amount of (a fine or amercement), typically by adjusting a generally prescribed penalty according to the particular circumstances...
5. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
6. alderman, n. View full entry 1275
...The senior judicial person in an English hundred. Cf. High Constableconstable5b. Now hist....
7. 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...
8. amend, v. View full entry c1220
...To free (a person) from faults, correct, reform, turn from wrong, convert....
9. amendment, n. View full entry 1297
...Removal of faults, correction, reformation....
10. ancestor, n. View full entry 1297
...One from whom a person is descended, either by the father or mother; a progenitor, a forefather. (Usually said of those more remote than a grandfather.) Also, of animals, and fig....
11. appeal, n. View full entry 1297
...A calling to account before a legal tribunal; in Law: A criminal charge or accusation, made by one who undertook under penalty to prove it; spec....
12. appear, v. View full entry c1250
...To come forth into view, as from a place or state of concealment, or from a distance; to become visible....
13. arch, n.1 View full entry 1297
...Any part of a curve; = arc12. Obs....
14. arm, n.2 View full entry a1250
...Defensive covering or appendages for the body; armour, mail. Now poet....
15. armour | armor, n. View full entry 1297
...collect. sing. Defensive covering worn by one who is fighting; mail. Cf. arm1....
16. 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....
17. 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...
18. assault, n. View full entry a1250
...gen. An onset or rush upon any one with hostile intent; an attack with blows or weapons....
19. assign, v. View full entry 1297
...trans. To allot as a share, portion, or allowance (to); to appoint, apportion, make over....
20. assize, n. View full entry 1297
...A sitting or session of a consultative or legislative body. Obs....