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1. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
2. ampul, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A small bottle or flask; a phial. Obs. in general sense....
3. anniversary, adj. and n. View full entry c1230
...‘Returning with the revolution of the year; annual; yearly’ (Johnson); returning or commemorated at the same date in succeeding years....
4. † arche, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Noah's ark; = ark3....
5. 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...
6. ave, int. and n. View full entry ?c1225
...Hail! welcome!—Farewell! adieu!...
7. Ave Maria | Ave Mary, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The Hail Mary! the angelic salutation to the Virgin (Luke i. 28), combined with that of Elizabeth (v. 42), used as a devotional recitation, with the addition (in...
8. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
9. banner, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...prop. A piece of stout taffeta, or other cloth, attached by one side to the upper part of a long pole or staff, and used as the standard of an emperor,...
10. 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....
11. beadsman, n. View full entry ?c1225
...lit. A man of prayer; one who prays for the soul or spiritual welfare of another....
12. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
13. benedicite, int. and n. View full entry ?c1225
...as expressing a wish: Bless you!...
14. blasphemy, n. View full entry c1230
...Profane speaking of God or sacred things; impious irreverence....
15. bloodshedding, n. View full entry c1230
...= bloodshed1....
16. buying, n. View full entry a1250
...The action of buy; purchase....
17. † caˈnonial, adj. View full entry c1230
...= canonical...
18. 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....
19. 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...
20. charge, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A (material) load, burden, weight. Obs....
