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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. all over, adv. and prep. View full entry ?c1225
...In every respect; throughout; fully, totally. Now colloq....
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. babbling, adj. View full entry a1250
...That talks rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way; chattering, prating, tattling; (also) full of or characterized by babble....
5. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
6. 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....
7. 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....
8. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
9. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
10. blaze, v.1 View full entry ?c1225
...intr. To burn with a bright fervent flame. Often with away, forth, out. to blaze up: to burst or flash into a blaze....
11. bleeding, adj. View full entry a1250
...Losing or emitting blood, or transf. sap....
12. bolt, v.2 View full entry ?c1225
...To start, spring. Obs....
13. bounce, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans.Obs....
14. cackle, n. View full entry c1230
...A cackler. (Or ? cackling.)...
15. cage, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A box or place of confinement for birds and other animals (or, in barbarous times, for human beings), made wholly or partly of wire, or with bars of metal or wood, so...
16. case, n.1 View full entry a1250
...A thing that befalls or happens to any one; an event, occurrence, hap, or chance....
17. catch, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To chase, to drive. Obs....
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. champion, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A fighting man, a combatant; a stout fighter, a man of valour. Also fig....
20. 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....
