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1. abatement, n.2 View full entry 1421
...The result of abating or lessening (in various senses of abateII.); the amount by which something is abated; a reduction, deduction, decrease....
2. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
3. addition, n. View full entry c1400
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an appendix, an augmentation; (also) a person who becomes part of a family or other group of people....
4. badge, n. View full entry 1440
...Originally: a heraldic symbol worn as an identifying mark by a knight and his retainers (= cognizance5a; sometimes more fully badge of arms). In later use: any...
5. bar, n.1 View full entry c1175
...gen. A straight piece of wood, metal, or other rigid material, long in proportion to its thickness....
6. baron, n. View full entry a1200
...Hist. Originally, one who held, by military or other honourable service, from the king or other superior; afterwards restricted to the former or king's barons, and at length mostly...
7. bend, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thin flat strip adapted to bind round....
8. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
9. blazon, n. View full entry c1325
...A shield used in war. Obs....
10. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
11. bonnet, n. View full entry 1399
...An article of apparel for the head; ‘a covering for the head, a hat, a cap’ (Johnson)....
12. brick, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A substance formed of clay, kneaded, moulded, and hardened by baking with fire, or in warm countries and ancient times by drying in the sun; used instead of stone as a building...
13. cake, n. View full entry c1230
...As name of an object, with plural: A baked mass of bread or substance of similar kind, distinguished from a loaf or other ordinary bread, either by its form or by its...
14. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
15. closet, n. View full entry ?1370
...A room for privacy or retirement; a private room; an inner chamber; formerly often = bower2a2b; in later use always a small room: see 4....
16. college, n. View full entry 1379
...An organized society of persons performing certain common functions and possessing special rights and privileges; a body of colleagues, a guild, fellowship, association:...
17. colour | color, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Any of the constituents into which light can be separated as in a spectrum or rainbow, and which are referred to by names such as blue, red, ...
18. crampet, n. View full entry 1489
...The chape of the scabbard of a sword; occasionally used in Heraldry as a charge....
19. cross, n. View full entry a1225
...A kind of gibbet used by the ancients (and in later times by some non-Christian nations); a stake, generally with a transverse bar, on which they put to a cruel and ignominious...
20. delf, n.1 View full entry 1388
...That which is delved or dug:...
