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1. apprentice, n. and adj. View full entry 1362
...A learner of a craft; one who is bound by legal agreement to serve an employer in the exercise of some handicraft, art, trade, or profession, for a certain number of years,...
2. † aˈpprenticehood, n. View full entry 1377
...= apprenticeship...
3. auditor, n. View full entry 1377
...A hearer, listener; one of an audience....
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. catechumen, n. View full entry 14..
...A new convert under instruction before baptism. Used in reference to the ancient church and in modern missionary churches. Sometimes applied to young Christians generally, and especially to those preparing for the...
6. cockney, n. and adj. View full entry 1362
...An egg: the egg of the common fowl, hen's egg; or perh. one of the small or misshapen eggs occasionally laid by fowls, still popularly called in some parts ‘cocks' eggs’, in...
7. commissary, n. View full entry 1362
...One to whom a special duty or charge is committed by a superior power; one commissioned to act as representative; a deputy, delegate....
8. curator, n. View full entry 1362
...A person appointed as guardian of the affairs of someone legally unfit to conduct them him- or herself, such as a minor, an insane person, etc....
9. fescue, n. View full entry 1377
...A straw, rush, twig; a small piece of straw, a mote in the eye (with ref. to Matt. vii. 3). Hence, a thing of little importance. Obs....
10. gown, n. View full entry 1377
...A loose flowing upper garment worn as an article of ordinary attire....
11. guide, n. View full entry 1362
...One who leads or shows the way, esp. to a traveller in a strange country; spec. one who is hired to conduct a traveller or tourist (e.g. over a mountain,...
12. licence, n. View full entry 1362
...Liberty (to do something), leave, permission. Now somewhat rare. †Also occas. exemption from (something). †Formerly often in phr. licence and leave; by, with,...
13. † lister, n.1 View full entry 1377
...A reader or lector. In first quot., app. a preaching friar....
14. lodging, n. View full entry 1362
...The action of the verb lodge (in various senses)....
15. logic, n. View full entry 1362
...The branch of philosophy that treats of the forms of thinking in general, and more especially of inference and of scientific method. (Prof. J. Cook Wilson.) Also, since the work of Gottlob...
16. † ˈloresman, n. View full entry 1377
...A teacher, instructor....
17. neighbourhood | neighborhood, n. View full entry a1425
...The people living near to a certain place or within a certain range; neighbours collectively....
18. Pauline, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...Church Hist. A member of any of various Christian religious orders named after St Paul....
19. prentice, n. View full entry c1390
...A person who learns a trade, craft, art, or profession from an employer; = apprentice1....
20. provincial, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Christian Church. Of or relating to an ecclesiastical province....
