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1. arblast, -blastē̆r n.

Additional spellings: arblaster
35 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A weapon for discharging quarrels, stones, etc., consisting of a bow set crosswise on a shaft; a crossbow, an arbalest; (b) a missile shot from a crossbow; arblast shute. …

2. assẹ̄th n.

43 quotations in 3 senses
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Fulfillment, satisfaction, reparation; maken (don) asseth, give satisfaction: (a) fulfillment of a wish, expectation or requirement; (b) fulfilling of a need; (c) satisfactory answer to a question or……

3. avail(e n.

Additional spellings: availe
68 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Benefit, advantage, profit; ben avail, to be useful or effective; ben litel avail, to be of little value; (b) of persons: worthiness. …

4. ā̆verāǧe n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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A service owed by the tenant to his feudal superior [orig. consisting of work performed by the tenant with his draft animals]. …

5. brācēr n.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The part of a suit of armor protecting the arm; (b) an arm guard or wrist guard used by archers; (c) a bracelet, an armlet. …

6. briganders, -ine(s n.

Additional spellings: brigandine, brigandines
21 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A light body armor, consisting of a front and a back half, worn by foot soldiers (later also by others); pair (of) briganders; (b) briganders maker; briganders nail. …

7. ches-treu n.

Additional spellings: chestreu
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. One of two small pieces of timber, perforated to receive the tack of a sail [see quot. 1625 below and quot. 1769 in OD under chesstree]. …

8. Māte-griffǒun n.

Additional spellings: Mategriffoun
8 quotations in 1 sense
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The name of a portable siege tower used by Richard I. …

9. mēne n.(3)

209 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A course of action, method, way; a means of attaining an end; (b) bi mene of, with menes of; bi no (manere of) mene; bi al menes; bi god menes, with great skill; menes and weies; weies and menes……

10. pikeis n.

42 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A pickax, a tool used for breaking up and digging up ground, breaking up walls, quarrying, etc. (often identified with other tools, such as a mattock, spade, hoe, etc.); also fig.; ?also, a tool……

11. quirrẹ̄ n.(1)

16 quotations in 2 senses
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Hunt. (a) The parts of a deer, usually placed on the animal's hide, which are given to the hounds as a reward for the chase; (b) the ceremony of giving the hounds their reward; (c) the collection of……

12. remenaunt n.

131 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The rest, remaining part or quantity; the residual portion of an estate; a remaining or reserved portion; also fig.; (b) the remaining part of a story, question, text, law, etc.; a remaining……

13. reprẹ̄ve n.

147 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Shame, disgrace, dishonor; with gret repreve, shamefully; (b) ben (lien) in repreve, to be in disgrace, be despised or rejected; don repreve, cause disgrace; don repreve to, cause disgrace to (sb……

14. rēre-ward(e n.

Additional spellings: rereward, rere-warde, rerewarde
22 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The rear of an army, rear guard; also, the rear of a horse; (b) fig.; (c) a weapon of some kind, perhaps a cudgel or club; (d) error for red water, i.e., the Red Sea. …

15. ?richẹ̄ n.(2)

4 quotations in 1 sense
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The state of possessing wealth, prosperity, affluence. …

16. riveling n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A rawhide shoe or boot; (b) as a derogatory nickname for a Scot. …

17. rǒund(e n.

Additional spellings: rounde
24 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) A spherical body or form; a globular lump; (b) the rounded end of a bone; (c) an eye socket; (d) ?a round nut or seed. …

18. rutei n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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In cpd.: rutei time, rutting season. …

19. rutson n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Rutting of male deer; rutson tide (time). York MGame 21: The hertes þat bene in greet hilles, whane it commeþ to Rut some [vr. Rutsonn] tyme [vr. ruttson; F temps du ruyt], þei come adoun in to grete……

20. sardoin(e n.

Additional spellings: sardoine
14 quotations in 1 sense
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Sardonyx; a sardonyx. …

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