(a) Used anaphorically, pointing to previously mentioned persons, things, actions, etc.: these, they; also, these, them [quots. 1st & c1450(?a1400)]; alle thir; also, pointing to one of two previously……
(a) The feeling of having offended against propriety or decency; the feeling of having done something disgraceful; an instance of such feeling; embarrassment or revulsion caused by awareness of one's……
(a) The physical property of heaviness, mass; weight as an attribute of objects, living creatures, or substances; also, the abstract quality of weight as a component of due proportion in nature; also……
With adjectives, adjectival phrases, etc. in the pred.: (a) of persons, their countenance, speech, etc.: to appear to be (sick, honest, of great age, etc.); ppl.seminge as adv.: outwardly……
As anaph. or pers. pron.: (a) the persons referred to, they; (b) used pleonastically or for emphasis; (c) with antecedent in apposition following; (d) as obj. of verb or prep.: them, those; (e) with……
(a) A hand-held weapon for throwing stones or similar missiles, a sling; also fig.; honde sling; sling slaughte, game killed with a sling; sling ston, a stone used as a missile to be thrown from a……
