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1. † adub, v. View full entry ?1473
...trans. To invest with the insignia of knighthood, or the title of a knight; to dub; (in extended use) to invest with some other title. Freq. with noun complement. arch....
2. bank, n.3 View full entry 1474
...The table or counter of a money-changer or dealer in money. Obs. exc. Hist....
3. Britain, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1482
...= Briton1. Now hist. and rare....
4. chausses, n. View full entry 1484
...With pl. concord. Pantaloons or tight coverings for the legs and feet; esp. of mail, forming part of a knight's armour (in Old French chauces de fer...
5. chirograph, n. View full entry 1483
...Applied technically to various documents formally written, engrossed, or signed....
6. † clavichord, n. View full entry 1484
...A musical instrument with strings and keys; in its developed form resembling a square pianoforte, the tones being produced by the action on the strings of ‘tangents’ or small brass wedges attached...
7. coat of arms, n. View full entry 1490
...Hist. A coat or vest embroidered with heraldic arms; a tabard. (See armour10, coat-armour1.)...
8. ecclesiastic, adj. and n. View full entry 1483
...Of or pertaining to the church; concerned with the affairs of the church; opposed to civil or secular....
9. entremets, n. View full entry 1477
...Side dishes....
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. facing, n. View full entry 1481
...The action of boasting, swaggering, or browbeating; defiant behaviour; confrontation. Obs....
12. 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....
13. fermail, n. View full entry 1480
...A buckle or clasp; a setting....
14. ˈflancard, n. View full entry 1490
...A piece of armour for the thigh....
15. ˈforecastle, n. View full entry 1490
...Naut. A short raised deck at the fore end of a vessel. In early use raised like a castle to command the enemy's decks. Obs. exc. arch....
16. ˈfourrier, n. View full entry 1481
...= forayer...
17. goliard, n. View full entry 1483
...One of the class of educated jesters, buffoons, and authors of loose or satirical Latin verse, who flourished chiefly in the 12th and 13th c. in Germany, France, and England....
18. gorget, n.1 View full entry 1484
...A piece of armour for the throat. Obs. exc. Hist....
19. herse, n. View full entry 1480
...A harrow, for agricultural use....
20. lector, n. View full entry 1483
...Christian Church. An ecclesiastic belonging to one of the minor orders, whose duty originally consisted in reading the ‘lessons’....
