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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. addebted, adj. View full entry a1400
...= indebted (in various senses)....
3. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
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. beadsman, n. View full entry ?c1225
...lit. A man of prayer; one who prays for the soul or spiritual welfare of another....
8. † bust, n.1 View full entry a1250
...A box, a container. Cf. boist, boost, buist...
9. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. 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. chaffer, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...Traffic, trade; buying and selling, dealing. Obs. exc. as in 1b....
12. 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...
13. chamberlain, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A male personal attendant of a king or nobleman, who waits on him in his bedchamber; (rarely also) a lady's maid. Also fig.Obs....
14. change, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The act or fact of changing (see change12); substitution of one thing for another; succession of one thing in place of another....
15. 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...
16. 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,...
17. conscience, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The internal acknowledgement or recognition of the moral quality of one's motives and actions; the sense of right and wrong as regards things for which one is responsible; the faculty or principle...
18. crop, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To cut off or remove the ‘crop’ or head of (a plant, tree, etc.); to poll, to lop off the branches of (a tree)....
19. cry, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To entreat, beg, beseech, implore, in a loud and emoved or excited voice....
20. debt, n. View full entry ?c1225
...That which is owed or due; anything (as money, goods, or service) which one person is under obligation to pay or render to another:...
