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1. † comfit, v. View full entry 1483
...To prepare, make into a ‘preparation’. Obs....
2. demi-lance, n. View full entry 1490
...A lance with short shaft, used in the 15th and 16th centuries....
3. enormity, n. View full entry 1477
...Divergence from a normal standard or type; abnormality, irregularity. Obs. or arch....
4. fore-foot, n. View full entry 1481
...One of the front feet of a quadruped....
5. liquefy, v. View full entry 1483
...trans. To reduce into a liquid condition. With obj. a solid substance; also in Physics, air, gases. †Formerly, to dissolve (in a liquid)....
6. mirific, adj. View full entry 1490
...That works wonders; exciting wonder or astonishment; marvellous. Also (humorously) in weakened sense....
7. parliament, v. View full entry a1492
...intr....
8. rogue, n. and adj. View full entry 1489
...An idle vagrant, a vagabond; one of a group or class of such people. Now arch. or hist....
9. scratch, v. View full entry 1474
...trans. To wound superficially by dragging the claws or finger-nails over the skin. Also, in wider sense: To wound superficially with anything pointed and hard dragged over the skin or in...
