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1. † aboast, v. View full entry c1390
...trans. To address in a boastfully defiant manner....
2. alchemy, n. and adj. View full entry c1390
...The branch of study and practical craft in the medieval and early renaissance period concerned with the nature and transformation of physical substances, esp. the transmutation of baser metals into gold; the...
3. † aliry, adv. View full entry c1390
...to lay one's legs aliry: to arrange one's legs so as to appear malformed or paralysed....
4. † a-ˈmornings, adv. View full entry 1377
...In the morning, every morning....
5. amortize | amortiise, v. View full entry 1377
...trans. To deaden, render as if dead, destroy....
6. angrily, adv. View full entry 1393
...Vexatiously, grievously. Obs.rare....
7. † aniˈente, v. View full entry 1393
...= anientise (which is the commoner form)....
8. antecedent, n. View full entry 1393
...A thing or circumstance which goes before or precedes in time or order; often also implying causal relation with its consequent....
9. antler, n. View full entry 1399
...orig. The lowest (forward-directed) branch of the horn of a stag or other deer; afterwards extended to any branch, the lowest being then called the brow-antler, and the next...
10. 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,...
11. † aˈpprenticehood, n. View full entry 1377
...= apprenticeship...
12. appurtenance, n. View full entry 1377
...Law and gen. A thing that belongs to another, a ‘belonging’; a minor property, right, or privilege, belonging to another more important, and passing in possession with it; an...
13. † aˈrate, v. View full entry 1377
...To rate, rebuke, reprove....
14. arguer, n. View full entry 1377
...One who argues, adduces reasons, or engages in discussion; a disputant, a reasoner....
15. † aˈspare, v. View full entry 1377
...To spare, afford....
16. a-twain, adv. View full entry 1377
...In or into two parts; in two....
17. auditor, n. View full entry 1377
...A hearer, listener; one of an audience....
18. † aˈwill, v. View full entry 1399
...To will....
19. back, v. View full entry 1362
...To cover the back, clothe. Obs....
20. baleys, v. View full entry 1377
...To birch, to flog....