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1. † agild, adj. View full entry OE
...Of a dead person: without payment of compensation or wergild (see wergild), unpaid for. Esp. in to lie agild....
2. almsful, adj. View full entry OE
...Liberal or generous in almsgiving; charitable; (in early use sometimes more generally) †compassionate, merciful (obs.)....
3. † aˈswolkeness, n. View full entry c1000
...Sloth, laziness....
4. back-board, n. View full entry OE
...= larboard Only in Old English....
5. church book, n. View full entry OE
...A book containing the services of a church; a service book....
6. church town, n. View full entry OE
...The enclosed piece of ground around a church, a churchyard. Obs....
7. † clake, n. View full entry c1000
...Hurt, injury, scathe....
8. earnest, n.1 View full entry c1000
...Ardour in battle; in wider sense, intense passion or desire. Obs....
9. earning, n.1 View full entry c1020
...The action of giving labour as an equivalent for wages, of acquiring money by labour. Also attrib....
10. every, adj. and pron. View full entry OE
...Used to express distributively the sense that is expressed collectively by all....
11. † ˈgod-ˌbairn, n. View full entry OE
...= god-child...
12. gossip, n. View full entry 1014
...One who has contracted spiritual affinity with another by acting as a sponsor at a baptism....
13. † hoker, n. View full entry OE
...Mockery, derision; scorn, contempt; abuse, reviling....
14. housel, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To administer the Eucharist to....
15. † i-lahe(n, v. View full entry 1014
...trans. To ordain or appoint by law....
16. law, v. View full entry a1023
...trans. To ordain (laws); to establish as a law; to render lawful. Obs....
17. † law-breach, n. View full entry OE
...A breach or breaking of the law....
18. leap, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A basket. Now dial. Cf. seed-lip...
19. lightness, n.2 View full entry a1023
...Brightness, light (lit. and fig.). Obs....
20. merry, adv. View full entry OE
...Merrily (in various senses). Now poet. and literary....
