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1. 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....
2. 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...
3. asperity, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Unevenness of surface, roughness, ruggedness; concr. in pl. sharp, rough, or rugged excrescences....
4. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
5. 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....
6. 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....
7. benedicite, int. and n. View full entry ?c1225
...as expressing a wish: Bless you!...
8. † blas, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A blast, breath....
9. buffet, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To beat, strike, esp. with the hand; to thump, cuff, knock about....
10. 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...
11. capital, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...Of or relating to the head or top. Obs....
12. carving, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The action of the verb carve, in various senses....
13. catch, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. To chase, to drive. Obs....
14. 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...
15. 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....
16. chapter, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A main division or section of a book (whether the latter is an entire literary work, or one of the divisions or parts of a large work). Esp. used of the main...
17. charge, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To place a load on or in; to load (e.g. a vehicle, ship, beast of burden, etc.). Also, in pass.; charged with: laden with,...
18. chaste, adj. View full entry ?c1225
...Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; continent, virtuous. (Of persons, their lives, conduct, etc.)...
19. chastity, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Purity from unlawful sexual intercourse; continence....
20. circumstance, n. View full entry ?c1225
...That which stands around or surrounds; the totality of surrounding things; surroundings; environment. Obs. (exc. nonce-use as in 1832)....
