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1. absolution, n. View full entry OE
...Christian Church....
2. acephali, n. View full entry OE
...Priests who are not subject to the authority of a bishop. Also: bishops who are not subject to the authority of a metropolitan or archbishop. Obs.rare....
3. † 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....
4. alabastrum, n. View full entry OE
...Ancient Hist. A vessel for holding perfume, unguents, or ointments; = alabaster2, alabastron...
5. atom, n. View full entry OE
...In and with reference to the medieval period: the smallest unit of time, of which there are 376 in a minute and 22,560 in an hour, equal to 1594...
6. axe | ax, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A tool or instrument for hewing, cleaving, or chopping, trees, wood, ice, etc.; consisting of a squarish head, now usually of iron with a steel edge or blade, fixed by means of...
7. bite, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To cut into, pierce, or nip (anything) with the teeth....
8. blade, n. View full entry OE
...The leaf of a herb or plant; originally perhaps (as in Icelandic) applied to those of all herbs, while leaf was used of the foliage of trees. Now applied ...
9. † ˈbordman, n. View full entry 1087
...A bordar, or tenant in bordage, a cottier....
10. brood, n. View full entry c1000
...Progeny, offspring, young....
11. cassia, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An inferior kind of cinnamon, esp. the bark obtained from Cinnamomum Cassia; thicker, coarser, less delicate in flavour, and cheaper than the true cinnamon. More fully cassia-bark....
12. castle, n. View full entry c1000
...Used to render Latin castellum of the Vulgate (Greek κώμη), village. Obs....
13. church grith, n. View full entry OE
...Security, peace, or protection guaranteed within a church or its precincts; the right of sanctuary. Cf. grith2....
14. church scot, n. View full entry OE
...In Anglo-Saxon England: a tax or customary payment rendered to the Church, typically in grain, and usually on or by St. Martin's day (11 November). In later medieval England: any of a...
15. circle, n. View full entry c1000
...A perfectly round plane figure. In Geom. defined as a plane figure bounded by a single curved line, called the circumference, which is everywhere equally distant from a point within,...
16. copper, n.1 View full entry c1000
...One of the well-known metals, distinguished by its peculiar red colour; it is malleable, ductile, and very tenacious, and is found native as well as in many ores. Chemically it is a...
17. D, n. View full entry c1000
...the fourth letter of the Roman alphabet, corresponding in position and power to the Phoenician and Hebrew Daleth, and Greek Delta, Δ, whence also its form was derived...
18. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
19. first, adj. (and n.2) and adv. View full entry OE
...In regard to time: Prior to all others in occurrence, existence, etc.; happening, existing, or presenting itself before the others; earliest....
20. fodder, n. View full entry c1000
...Food in general. Obs....
