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1. accouplement, n. View full entry 1483
...The action or fact of coupling one person or thing to another; union, pairing, mating. Also: an instance of this....
2. address, n. View full entry 1477
...Guidance; aid. Cf. address9. Obs....
3. blank, n. View full entry 1480
...A small French coin, originally of silver, but afterwards of copper; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English. According to Littré,...
4. burette, n. View full entry 1483
...‘A small cruet, violl, or bottle for oyle, or vinegar’ (Cotgrave)....
5. compatible, adj. and n. View full entry 1490
...Participating in suffering; sympathetic. Obs....
6. conductor, n. View full entry 1481
...One who leads, guides, or escorts; a leader, guide (lit. and fig.)....
7. cubicle, n. View full entry 1483
...A bedchamber: in the general sense obs. since the l6th c., but re-introduced in modern use, esp. in English public schools, for one of the series of small...
8. effort, n. View full entry 1490
...Power: also, pl. powers, properties. Obs....
9. excitative, adj. View full entry 1490
...Able or tending to excite: in senses of the verb. Const. of....
10. expose, v. View full entry 1474
...trans. To put out; to put (a person) ashore; to expel from a country, etc. Also refl. of a river: To empty itself into. Obs.rare...
11. factor, n. View full entry 1485
...One who makes or does (anything); a doer, maker, performer, perpetrator; an author of a literary work. Obs. or arch....
12. government, n. View full entry 1484
...The action of governing (see senses of the vb.)....
13. instant, adj. (and adv.) View full entry 1477
...Pressing, urgent, importunate....
14. interrogate, v. View full entry 1483
...trans. To ask questions of, to question (a person), esp. closely or in a formal manner; to examine by questions....
15. intrinsic, adj. and n. View full entry 1490
...Situated within; interior, inner. Obs. (exc. as in A. 1b.)...
16. invoke, v. View full entry 1490
...trans. To call on (God, a deity, etc.) in prayer or as a witness; to appeal to for aid or protection; to summon or invite in prayer....
17. match, adj. View full entry 1483
...Equal in rank or ability; similar in appearance. With to. Obs....
18. mobile, adj.1 View full entry 1490
...Capable of or characterized by movement; movable, not fixed or stationary. Of a person's sight: wandering, not steady. Of a celestial object: †wandering, not fixed (obs.)....
19. † mud, n.2 View full entry 1483
...An old Dutch and (in later use) South African dry measure of capacity, varying in amount but usually equivalent to about three bushels (approx. 109 litres). Cf. muid1a....
20. poising, adj. View full entry ?1473
...That poises (in various senses)....
