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1. abstinence, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The practice or discipline of resisting self-indulgence; self-restraint....
2. advance, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To promote or help the progress, success, or completion of (something); to further....
3. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
4. beadsman, n. View full entry ?c1225
...lit. A man of prayer; one who prays for the soul or spiritual welfare of another....
5. bolt, v.2 View full entry ?c1225
...To start, spring. Obs....
6. burgess, n. View full entry ?c1225
...An inhabitant of a borough; strictly, one possessing full municipal rights; a citizen, freeman of a borough....
7. 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...
8. chapter, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A main division or section of a book (whether the latter is an entire literary work, or one of the divisions or parts of a large work). Esp. used of the main...
9. 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...
10. clause, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A short sentence; a single passage or member of a discourse or writing; a distinct part or member of a sentence, esp. in Gramm. Analysis, one containing a...
11. counsellor | counselor, n. View full entry ?c1225
...One who counsels or advises; an adviser....
12. dialogue, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A conversation carried on between two or more persons; a colloquy, talk together....
13. estate, n. View full entry ?c1225
...State or condition in general, whether material or moral, bodily or mental. In Middle English occas.: Constitution, nature. arch.; now almost exclusively in Biblical phrases....
14. general, adj. and n. View full entry c1230
...Including, participated in by, involving, or affecting, all, or nearly all, the parts of a specified whole, or the persons or things to which there is an implied reference; completely or approximately...
15. kill, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To strike, hit; to beat, knock. Also with off, and absol. or intr. Also fig.Obs....
16. mad, adj. View full entry c1275
...Of an animal: abnormally aggressive; spec. (esp. of a dog) suffering from rabies, rabid....
17. messenger, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another; a courier. Formerly also: †an envoy or ambassador; a person who brings news or other intelligence; a spy, a...
18. parlour | parlor, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or place for talking; spec. an apartment in a monastery or (esp. in later use) a convent, in which residents may converse with people from outside the establishment...
19. point, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A separate or single item, article, or element in an extended whole (usually an abstract whole, as a course of action, a subject of thought, a treatise, a discourse, a set of...
20. polling, n. View full entry a1400
...The cutting of hair; shearing, cropping, clipping; an instance of this. Obs....
