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1. accepted, adj. View full entry c1384
...Satisfactory, acceptable, agreeable, esp. to a person. Obs....
2. Anti-ˈMason, n. View full entry 1828
...One who is opposed to Freemasonry, used esp. (in the U.S.) of a member of the Anti-Masonic (political) Party....
3. communication, n. View full entry a1382
...The fact of having something in common with another person or thing; affinity; congruity. Obs.rare....
4. cowan, n.2 View full entry 1598
...Sc. One who builds dry stone walls (i.e. without mortar); a dry-stone-diker; applied derogatorily to one who does the work of a mason, but has not been regularly apprenticed...
5. craft, n. View full entry c888
...Strength, power, might, force. Obs....
6. dais, n. View full entry a1259
...A raised table in a hall, at which distinguished persons sat at feasts, etc.; the high table. (Often including the platform on which it was raised: see 2) Obs....
7. deacon, n.1 View full entry c900
...Ecclesiastical. The name of an order of ministers or officers in the Christian church....
8. degree, n. View full entry c1230
...A step in an ascent or descent; one of a flight of steps; a step or rung of a ladder. Obs. (exc. in Heraldry)....
9. demit, n. View full entry 1856
...Written permission to leave a lodge, granted to a mason....
10. encampment, n. View full entry 1598
...The action of encamping; the state of being encamped....
11. Freemason, n. View full entry 1376
...A member of a certain class of skilled workers in stone. Now hist. except as merged in sense 2....
12. freemasonry, n. View full entry 1435
...The craft or occupation of a skilled mason (see Freemason1). Obs....
13. G, n. View full entry 1596
...G. g, g is used to denote anything occupying the seventh place in a series. (Cf. A, B, C, etc.)...
14. Good Templar, n. View full entry 1874
...A member of the ‘Independent Order of Good Templars’, an organization of total abstainers established in the U.S. in 1851, on the model of freemasonry, and introduced into England in...
15. † ˈGormogon, n. View full entry 1725
...A member of a society imitating the Freemasons, founded early in the 18th c....
16. grand, adj. and n. View full entry a1400-50
...the Grand: = ‘the Great’ Frenchle grand, la grande as an epithet of a famous person, city, or country. Obs....
17. grand master, n. View full entry 1549
...The chief officer of a royal household. Obs....
18. Gregorian, adj. and n. View full entry 1598
...Of or pertaining to Pope Gregory I (who reigned 590–600); chiefly applied to the ancient system of ritual music, otherwise known as plainchant or plainsong (characterized by free...
19. grip, n.1 View full entry OE
...Firm hold or grasp; the action of gripping, grasping, or clutching; esp. the tight or strained grasp of the hand upon an object (cf. handgrip); also, grasping power....
20. guard, n. View full entry 1412
...Keeping, guardianship, custody, ward. to take guard: to take care. Obs....
