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1. abominable, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1340
...That excites moral or physical revulsion or disgust; offensive, reprehensible; loathsome, odious, detestable....
2. accidentally, adv. View full entry a1398
...Non-essentially, incidentally; as a secondary or subsidiary effect....
3. accuser, n. View full entry a1382
...A person who accuses, blames, or criticizes. Also: spec. a plaintiff, a prosecutor....
4. ancient, adj. and n.1 View full entry 1366
...Of or belonging to time past, former, earlier, bygone. arch., exc. when approaching sense A. 2....
5. animal, n. View full entry a1398
...A living organism which feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and a nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli; any living creature, including man....
6. black humour | black humor, n. View full entry a1398
...Med. The humour black bile (see bile3); an unnatural, disease-causing humour derived from or resembling this; now hist. and rare. Later also (in extended...
7. blanch, v.1 View full entry 1398
...trans. To make white, whiten: chiefly, in mod. use, by depriving of colour; to bleach. Also fig....
8. boot, n.3 View full entry c1325
...A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, usually of leather. (Distinguished from a shoe by extending above the ankle. In earlier times used only by riders:...
9. bottle, n.2 View full entry c1375
...A vessel with a narrow neck for holding liquids, now usually made of glass; originally of leather....
10. bowsprit, n. View full entry c1330
...A large spar or boom running out from the stem of a vessel, to which (and the jib-boom and flying jib-boom, which extend beyond it) the foremast stays are fastened....
11. boy, n.1 and int. View full entry c1300
...A male servant, slave, assistant, junior employee, etc....
12. brother-in-law, n. View full entry c1300
...prop. The brother of one's husband or wife; the husband of one's sister. Sometimes extended to the husband of one's wife's (or husband's) sister....
13. button, n. View full entry c1320
...A knob or stud of metal or other material sewn by a shank or neck to articles of dress, usually for the purpose of fastening one part of the dress to another...
14. cancer, n. and adj. View full entry c1392
...In form Cancer....
15. canicular, adj. and n. View full entry 1398
...the days immediately preceding and following the heliacal (in modern times, according to some, the cosmical) rising of the dog-star (either Sirius or Procyon), which is about the 11th of August; the...
16. canticle, n. View full entry a1325
...A song, properly a little song; a hymn....
17. captious, adj. View full entry c1380
...Apt to catch or take one in; fitted to ensnare or perplex in argument; designed to entrap or entangle by subtlety; fallacious, sophistical....
18. ˈcart-wheel, n. View full entry c1386
...The wheel of a cart....
19. celestial, adj. and n. View full entry c1384
...Of or pertaining to the sky or material heavens. celestial equator = equator1 (cf. equinoctial1); celestial globe, celestial map: one...
20. Cockaigne | Cockayne, n. View full entry c1305
...Name of an imaginary country, the abode of luxury and idleness....