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1. above, adv., prep., n., and adj. View full entry lOE
...With regard to writing: further up on the present page; previously in the text; in a preceding paragraph, passage, etc. See also senses C. 3, D....
2. accord, v. View full entry lOE
...trans....
3. accurse, v. View full entry lOE
...trans. = curse (in various senses)....
4. † adraw, v. View full entry lOE
...trans. To pull or draw out (also forth, back, etc.)....
5. advent, n. View full entry lOE
...Christian Church Chiefly with capital initial. The ecclesiastical season immediately preceding Christmas....
6. † aforyen, prep. and adv. View full entry lOE
...Opposite; in front of. Also fig.: in the presence of....
7. † alatch, v. View full entry lOE
...trans. To get hold of, to catch....
8. alehouse, n. View full entry lOE
...A house or other premises where ale is sold; a public house, a tavern....
9. † aˈnether | aˈnither, v. View full entry a1121
...To bring down, lower, reduce, humiliate....
10. † ˈaughtly, adv. and adj. View full entry a1121
...Estimably, worthily, nobly....
11. barley, n. View full entry 1124
...A hardy awned cereal (genus Hordeum), cultivated in all parts of the world; used partly as food, and largely (in Britain and the United States, mainly) in the preparation of...
12. bloodwite, n. View full entry lOE
...Feudal Law. A fine payable for the offence of shedding blood; (also) a legal action for this offence; (occas.) †the offence itself (obs.). Also: the right of levying this...
13. † ˈcantel-cape | ˈcantel-cope, n. View full entry a1121
...A kind of cope or cape....
14. cardinal, n. View full entry 1125
...One of the seventy ecclesiastical princes (six cardinal bishops, fifty cardinal priests, and fourteen cardinal deacons) who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college, and to whom the right of electing...
15. † carman, n.1 View full entry lOE
...A man, an adult male....
16. chapter-house, n. View full entry a1122
...A building attached to a cathedral, monastery, etc., in which meetings of the chapter are held....
17. Chiltern, n. View full entry a1125
...Proper name of a range of hills, in some parts wooded, which extend from the south of Oxfordshire, near Wallingford, quite across Buckinghamshire into Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire....
18. Christmas, n. View full entry a1123
...The festival of the nativity of Christ, kept on the 25th of December. Usually extended more or less vaguely to the season immediately preceding and following this day, commonly observed as a...
19. ˈconveth, n. View full entry 1127
...One of the burdens upon land in Scotland under the Celtic kings: see quot. 1880. ...
20. † ˈcotland, n. View full entry a1150
...The piece of arable land (of about 5 acres) held along with his cot by the Old English cotset or cottar....
