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1. accompanied, adj. View full entry 1611

...App. = consorteda. Obs.rare....

2. adjust, v.2 View full entry 1611

...trans. To arrange, harmonize, or reconcile (different or contradictory things); to settle, to resolve (esp. a difficulty or problem)....

3. amusement, n. View full entry 1611

...Musing, mental abstraction, reverie. Obs....

4. armer, n. View full entry 1611

...One who arms....

5. aˈvant-ˌmure, n. View full entry 1611

...The outer wall of a fortress, or in circumvallation. Obs....

6. back-sword, n. View full entry 1611

...A sword with only one cutting edge....

8. batterable, adj. View full entry 1611

...That can be battered or bruised by beating....

10. burster, n. View full entry 1611

...He who, or that which, bursts; spec. (Gunnery) a charge of gunpowder for bursting a shell, or the bag containing it. Hence burster-bag...

11. cantoned, adj. View full entry 1611

...Formed or divided into cantons....

12. canvass, n. View full entry 1611

...A shaking up; a tossing up and down. Obs....

14. casquet, n. View full entry 1611

...A light and open helmet or casque....

15. chase, n.3 View full entry 1611

...The hollow furrow or ‘gutter’ on a cross-bow wherein the arrow lies. Obs....

16. defendable, adj. View full entry 1611

...Capable of being defended or protected from assault or injury....

17. drill, n.2 View full entry 1611

...An instrument for drilling or boring; applied to contrivances of many kinds for boring holes in metal, stone, and other hard substances, from a pointed steel tool to an elaborate drilling machine....

18. engaging, n. View full entry 1611

...The action of engage, in various senses. Also attrib., as in engaging guard (Mil.)....

19. extractor, n. View full entry 1611

...One who extracts....

20. fraternize, v. View full entry 1611

...intr. To associate or sympathize with as a brother or as brothers; to form a fraternal friendship....

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