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1. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
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. 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...
4. 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....
5. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry 1297
...One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child....
6. bat, n.1 View full entry a1300
...An animal, a member of the Mammalian order Cheiroptera, and especially of the family Vespertilionidæ; consisting of mouse-like quadrupeds (whence the names Rere-mouse, Flitter-mouse),...
7. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
8. bray, v.1 View full entry a1300
...intr. To cry out, to utter a loud harsh cry; esp. of grief or pain. Obs....
9. bull, n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...The male of any bovine animal; most commonly applied to the male of the domestic species (Bos taurus); also of the buffalo, etc....
10. carl | carle, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A man of the common people; more particularly a countryman, a husbandman. arch....
11. chattering, adj. View full entry a1250
...That chatters (in various senses of the verb)....
12. chime, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A cymbal. Obs....
13. 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...
14. 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 ...
15. † ˈcongeon | ˈconjon, n. View full entry c1230
...A dwarf, or congenitally deformed man....
16. cry, n. View full entry c1275
...The loud and chiefly inarticulate utterance of emotion; esp. of grief, pain, or terror....
17. cuckold, n.1 View full entry a1250
...A derisive name for the husband of an unfaithful wife....
18. cur, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A dog: now always depreciative or contemptuous; a worthless, low-bred, or snappish dog. Formerly (and still sometimes dialectally) applied without depreciation, esp. to a watch-dog or shepherd's dog....
19. dirt, n. View full entry a1300
...Ordure; = excrement2b....
20. ditty, n. View full entry a1300
...A composition; a treatise: = dite1....