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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. 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...
3. bench, n. View full entry OE
...A long seat, with or without a back, usually of wood, but also of stone, etc. ‘Distinguished from a stool by its greater length’ (Johnson)....
4. bridge, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A structure forming or carrying a road over a river, a ravine, etc., or affording passage between two points at a height above the ground....
5. brother, n. View full entry OE
...The word applied to a male being to express his relationship to others (male or female) as the child of the same parent or parents....
6. castle, n. View full entry c1000
...Used to render Latin castellum of the Vulgate (Greek κώμη), village. Obs....
7. cell, n.1 View full entry OE
...A dwelling consisting of a single chamber inhabited by a hermit or anchorite....
8. chancellor, n. View full entry OE
...General sense of secretary, official secretary. Obs. or alien....
9. E, n.1 View full entry c1000
...simply....
10. five, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
11. gangway, n. and int. View full entry OE
...A road, a thoroughfare. Now rare (Irish English (north.) in later use)....
12. guild | gild, n. View full entry ?a1000
...A confraternity, brotherhood, or association formed for the mutual aid and protection of its members, or for the prosecution of some common purpose....
13. guild-hall, n. View full entry ?a1000
...The hall in which a guild met. From its use as a meeting-place for the town and corporation often synonymous with ‘town-hall’; spec. (spelt Guildhall), the hall of...
14. hit, v. View full entry a1075
...trans. To reach or get at with a blow or a missile; to give a blow to (something aimed at); to strike with aim or intent. When the success of the...
15. husting, n. View full entry a1030
...An assembly for deliberative purposes, esp. one summoned by a king or other leader; a council. rare (in general sense). Obs. exc. Hist....
16. Irish, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry OE
...Of a person: native to Ireland; that is a citizen of Ireland; (also) descended from emigrants from Ireland to another country, esp. the United States or Australia (cf. Irish-American, ...
17. L, n. View full entry c1000
...Illustrations of the literary use of the letter....
18. last, n.5 View full entry 1086
...= lathe Also as the designation of an administrative assembly (see quot. 1670); more fully last-court....
19. M, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
20. maiden, n. and adj. View full entry OE
...A girl; a young (unmarried) woman; = maid2a. Also: †a female infant (obs.). Now chiefly literary, arch., and regional....
