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1. aching, adj. View full entry ?c1225
...Of a part of the body, a wound, etc.: painful, sore; throbbing with pain; (of a need, desire, etc.) giving rise to continuous or recurring mental distress....
2. across, adv., prep., and adj. View full entry a1250
...In the form of a cross, crosswise; crossing each other, crossed. Now rare....
3. † ˈanguishous, adj. View full entry ?c1225
...actively, Fraught with anguish, attended with much suffering; tormenting, distressing....
4. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
5. 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....
6. bat, n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) arch. Still dial. (Kent, Sussex, etc.) = staff, walking-stick....
7. ˈberry, v.1 View full entry a1250
...trans. To beat, thrash....
8. brink, n. View full entry a1300
...The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, such as one might fall over, e.g. the ‘brink’ of a precipice, chasm, pit, ditch, grave. on the brink of the grave...
9. † ˈcader | cadar, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A cradle. Obs....
10. cause, n. View full entry ?c1225
...That which produces an effect; that which gives rise to any action, phenomenon, or condition. Cause and effect are correlative terms....
11. cellar, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...In general sense. A storehouse or storeroom, whether above or below ground, for provisions; a granary, buttery, or pantry. Obs. (in later use regional except as merged with...
12. challenge, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To accuse, bring a charge against, arraign, impeach. Also absol.Obs. (or ? dial.)...
13. chamber, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular person, a private room; (in later use) esp. a bedroom, typically on...
14. champion, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A fighting man, a combatant; a stout fighter, a man of valour. Also fig....
15. clap, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An abrupt explosive noise; the noise made by the sudden collision of two hard flat or concave surfaces; the bang or report of a gun. Obs. (except as in next,...
16. † ˈclaver, v.1 View full entry a1250
...intr. To climb, clamber. (Some take it in first quot. as = clutch, claw.)...
17. cleach | cleech, v. View full entry ?c1225
...intr. To clutch. (Const. to, toward.)...
18. clout, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To mend with a clout or patch; to patch (with cloth, leather, metal, etc.)....
19. clow, n.1 View full entry a1250
...A dam for water, a mill-dam. ? Obs....
20. clutch, n.1 View full entry c1230
...The claw of a beast or bird of prey, or of a fiend: mostly in pl. claws, talons, paws. Also contemptuously of a human hand: cf. paw2a....
