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1. abstinence, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The practice or discipline of resisting self-indulgence; self-restraint....
2. advance, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To promote or help the progress, success, or completion of (something); to further....
3. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
4. amend, v. View full entry c1220
...To free (a person) from faults, correct, reform, turn from wrong, convert....
5. amendment, n. View full entry 1297
...Removal of faults, correction, reformation....
6. another, adj. and pron. (and adv.) View full entry c1225
...One more, one further; originally a second of two things; subsequently extended to anything additional or remaining beyond those already considered; an additional....
7. balance, n.1 View full entry 1297
...An apparatus for weighing, consisting of a beam poised so as to move freely on a central pivot, with a scale pan at each end....
8. band, n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...Anything with which one's body or limbs are bound, in restraint of personal liberty; a shackle, chain, fetter, manacle. arch....
9. beadsman, n. View full entry ?c1225
...lit. A man of prayer; one who prays for the soul or spiritual welfare of another....
10. bolt, v.2 View full entry ?c1225
...To start, spring. Obs....
11. booth, n. View full entry c1200
...A temporary dwelling covered with boughs of trees or other slight materials. arch. in gen. sense....
12. brotherhood, n. View full entry a1300
...The relation of a brother, or of brothers mutually; fraternal tie. Also in spiritual sense....
13. burgess, n. View full entry ?c1225
...An inhabitant of a borough; strictly, one possessing full municipal rights; a citizen, freeman of a borough....
14. cast, v. View full entry c1200
...trans. To project (anything) with a force of the nature of a jerk, from the hand, the arms, a vessel, or the like; to throw (which is now the...
15. cave, n.1 View full entry c1220
...A hollow place opening more or less horizontally under the ground; a cavern, den, habitation in the earth....
16. chair, n.1 View full entry 1297
...A seat for one person (always implying more or less of comfort and ease); now the common name for the movable four-legged seat with a rest for the back, which constitutes, in...
17. chamber, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular person, a private room; (in later use) esp. a bedroom, typically on...
18. chapter, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A main division or section of a book (whether the latter is an entire literary work, or one of the divisions or parts of a large work). Esp. used of the main...
19. charm, n.1 View full entry a1300
...orig. The chanting or recitation of a verse supposed to possess magic power or occult influence; incantation, enchantment; hence, any action, process, verse, sentence, word, or material thing, credited with such...
20. charter, n.1 View full entry ?a1250
...A written document delivered by the sovereign or legislature:...
