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1. amusement, n. View full entry 1611

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

2. † druggle, n. View full entry 1611

...A term of contempt: a heavy, stupid, weak, or cowardly person....

3. pensioned, adj. View full entry 1611

...Of a person: receiving a pension. In early use usually: (depreciative) †hired, bribed, or controlled through the payment of a pension (obs.). Now chiefly: retired on a pension....

4. penster, n. View full entry 1611

...A person who uses a pen, esp. in a trivial way; a petty writer, a literary hack. Usu. humorous or mildly derogatory....

5. quitter, n.2 View full entry 1611

...A person who frees or discharges a person or thing. Obs.rare....

6. slope, n.1 View full entry 1611

...A stretch of rising or falling ground; a portion of the earth's surface marked by a gradual ascent or descent, whether natural or artificial. spec. in pl., ski-slopes....

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