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1. ardent, adj. View full entry c1374
...Burning, on fire, red-hot; fiery, hot, parching....
2. arming, n.2 View full entry c1386
...The action or process of furnishing (oneself or others) with arms or armour; †concr. arms, armour (obs.)....
3. army, n. View full entry c1386
...An armed expedition by sea or land. Obs....
4. arrest, n.1 View full entry c1385
...The act of standing still, halting, or stopping; stoppage, stop, halt, delay. Obs.without arrest: cf. without abodeabode1 (Chaucer, Lydgate, and Scottish poets)....
5. arrest, v. View full entry c1374
...To stop, come to a stand, halt. Obs....
6. † arrivage, n. View full entry c1384
...The act of coming to shore or into port; landing, arrival....
7. arrival, n. View full entry c1384
...The act of coming to shore, landing in a country, disembarkation. (Now merged in sense 3.)...
8. artillery, n. View full entry c1405
...As a count noun: an implement of war. In later use as a mass noun: military equipment; weaponry. Also in extended use: hunting gear; equipment in general. Obs....
9. † aˈssail, v.2 View full entry c1384
...To sail. (But possibly an absol. use of assail12 ‘to venture’.)...
10. border, n. View full entry c1374
...A side, edge, brink, or margin; a limit, or boundary; the part of anything lying along its boundary or outline....
11. † carrack | carack, n. View full entry c1386
...A large ship of burden, also fitted for warfare, such as those formerly used by the Portuguese in trading with the East Indies; a galleon....
12. carriage, n. View full entry c1386
...Carrying or bearing from one place to another; conveyance....
13. centaur, n. View full entry c1386
...Mythol. A fabulous creature, with the head, trunk, and arms of a man, joined to the body and legs of a horse. In early Greek literature the name appears as that...
14. centre | center, n. and adj. View full entry c1374
...The point round which a circle is described; the middle point of a circle or sphere, equally distant from all points on the circumference....
15. chime | chimb, n.2 View full entry c1405
...The projecting rim at the ends of a cask, formed by the ends of the staves. (Also applied loosely by coopers to the staves themselves; quot. 1580 takes it as...
16. collateral, adj. and n. View full entry c1374
...Situated or placed side by side (with one another); running side by side, parallel....
17. complain, v. View full entry c1374
...trans. To bewail, lament, deplore. Obs....
18. contagious, adj. View full entry c1374
...Of the nature of or characterized by contagion; communicating disease or corruption by contact; infectious. Also fig....
19. convertible, adj. and n. View full entry c1386
...That may be ‘converted’ or transposed each into the place of the other; interchangeable. Usually of terms: Equivalent, synonymous....
20. crow's foot | ˈcrow's-foot, n. View full entry c1374
...One of the small wrinkles formed by age or anxiety round the outer corner of the eye, ‘thought to resemble the impression of the feet of crows’ (Todd). Now commonly in ...
