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1. advantage, v. View full entry ?1459
...trans. To profit, benefit (a person or thing); to advance, promote; to be of advantage to. Cf. disadvantage...
2. advantageous, adj. View full entry c1485
...Providing or conferring advantage; profitable, beneficial; opportune, favourable....
3. alarm, v. View full entry 1485
...trans. (refl.). To ready and equip oneself for battle. Cf. alarmed1. Obs....
4. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
5. cock's-comb | cockscomb, n. View full entry c1400
...The comb or crest of a cock....
6. cock's-head | cockshead, n. View full entry 14..
...Applied to some kinds of Trefoil and allied plants, including:...
7. hog meat, n. View full entry a1500
...Food for pigs; pig fodder. Obs....
8. hothouse, n. View full entry c1450
...A bathhouse with hot baths, steam baths, etc.; = bagnio1. Now hist. and rare....
9. mainsheet, n. View full entry 1485
...Naut. The rope which controls the boom of the mainsail when set. Also fig....
10. Margaret, n. View full entry c1425
...A daisy; esp. the common daisy, Bellis perennis, and the ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare. More fully Margaret flower. Cf. herb Margaretherb2b...
11. moonshine, n. and adj. View full entry c1425
...= moonlight1a. Now chiefly poet. and Caribbean....
12. morass, n. View full entry 1489
...A wet swampy tract, a bog, a marsh; an area of very wet or muddy ground; (as a mass noun) boggy land....
13. nick, v.2 View full entry ?1440
...To make a notch or notches in; to mark with a notch or notches; to indent. Occas. intr. with object implied. Also fig....
14. nose-hole, n. View full entry c1450
...A nostril. Now chiefly Eng. regional and colloq., and Caribbean....
15. ordinary, adj. and adv. View full entry a1402
...Law. Of a judge: having regular jurisdiction, i.e. exercising authority by virtue of office and not by special deputation; esp. empowered ex officio to take jurisdiction of...
16. peck, n.2 View full entry 1481
...A projecting point, a peak. Also: a wedge-shaped piece of land, esp. at the corner of a field. Now Eng. regional (chiefly south-west midl.)....
17. peg, n.1 View full entry 1440
...A short pin or bolt, originally made of wood and later also of metal, plastic, etc., typically tapering slightly at one end, and used to fasten two things together, to plug a...
18. peppergrass, n. View full entry ?a1500
...An (unidentified) plant. Obs....
19. † pin-pillow, n. View full entry 1481
...A pincushion....
20. plantation, n. View full entry c1425
...Something that has been founded, established, or implanted, as an institution, a religion, a belief, etc. Obs....
