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1. across, adv., prep., and adj. View full entry a1250
...In the form of a cross, crosswise; crossing each other, crossed. Now rare....
2. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
3. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
4. anchor, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To secure (the ship) with an anchor; to place at, or bring to, anchor....
5. † arche, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Noah's ark; = ark3....
6. article, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Each of the separate items of a summary of faith; spec.each of the separate clauses or statements of the Apostles' Creed; (freq. with capital initial) any of the...
7. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
8. bag, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack....
9. bat, n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) arch. Still dial. (Kent, Sussex, etc.) = staff, walking-stick....
10. beak, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To strike or seize with the beak, to peck; to push the beak (or snout) into:...
11. beating, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The infliction of repeated blows; spec. the action of inflicting blows in punishment; the dashing of waves against the shore; the whipping up of a fluid; the flapping of wings;...
12. buffet, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A blow, stroke; now usually one given with the hand. †pl. Fisticuffs (rare). blindman('s) buffet (also blind and buffet) = blind-man's-buff...
13. cage, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A box or place of confinement for birds and other animals (or, in barbarous times, for human beings), made wholly or partly of wire, or with bars of metal or wood, so...
14. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. Obs....
15. carving, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The action of the verb carve, in various senses....
16. catch, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To chase, to drive. Obs....
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. change, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The act or fact of changing (see change12); substitution of one thing for another; succession of one thing in place of another....
19. charge, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A (material) load, burden, weight. Obs....
20. clutch, n.1 View full entry c1230
...The claw of a beast or bird of prey, or of a fiend: mostly in pl. claws, talons, paws. Also contemptuously of a human hand: cf. paw2a....
