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1. after, adv., prep., and conj. View full entry eOE
...Behind something in place or position; in the rear; further back....
2. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
3. against, prep., conj., adv., and n. View full entry eOE
...In reception of, in welcome of. Obs....
4. ale, n. View full entry eOE
...Any beer other than lager, stout, or porter; spec. beer brewed by top fermentation. Also: a type of this....
5. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
6. alms, n. View full entry eOE
...Charitable relief given to the poor or needy, usu. (now only) in the form of material gifts, typically of money or food; (in later use esp.) the goods given in...
7. angel, n. View full entry c950
...A ministering spirit or divine messenger; one of an order of spiritual beings superior to man in power and intelligence, who, according to the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other theologies, are the...
8. † ˈangild, n. View full entry a940
...In Old English law, payment in composition or atonement for njury. (Erroneously taken by later writers as meaning ‘single payment,’ as if Old English were ángild.)...
9. answer, v. View full entry c950
...intr. To speak in reply or opposition to a charge or accusation, to make a rebutting statement, defend oneself....
10. ape, n. View full entry a700
...An animal of the monkey tribe (Simiadæ); before the introduction of ‘monkey’ (16th c.), the generic name, and still (since 1700) sometimes so used poetically or rhetorically, or...
11. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
12. arise, v. View full entry c825
...To get up from sitting or kneeling, to stand up. arch.: see rise...
13. arm, n.1 View full entry c885
...The upper limb of the human body, from the shoulder to the hand; the part from the elbow to the hand being the fore-arm....
14. as, adv. and conj. View full entry OE
...Of quantity or degree: in that degree, to that extent (in or to which). Obs....
15. ask, v. View full entry c885
...trans. To call for, call upon (a person or thing personified) to come. Obs....
16. asking, n. View full entry c885
...The action of putting a question, interrogation, inquiry....
17. † aˈspend, v. View full entry c885
...To spend, expend....
18. bannock, n. View full entry a1000
...The name, in Scotland and north of England, of a form in which home-made bread is made; usually unleavened, of large size, round or oval form, and flattish, without being as thin...
19. bare, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c885
...Of the body or its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude....
20. be, v. View full entry eOE
...To have place in the objective universe or realm of fact, to exist; (spec. of God, etc.) to exist independently of other beings. Also: to exist in life, to live....
