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- ABATETo lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
- ANTIPATHYOften followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious rea
- COIFA hairdo.
- CRUXThe basic, central, or essential point or feature.
- CUDGELA short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
- DEIGNTo consider it appropriate or worthy to do or give (something), often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to vouchsafe. To consider it appropriate or worthy to
- GUILEAstuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- GUISEA customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)
- HOVELAn open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
- LAIRA place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
- LATHETo invite; bid; ask.
- MEADAn alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
- PROBOSCISAn elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal. The tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms and molluscs. The trunk
- PUGILISTOne who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
- RIBALDCoarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way.
- SCANTNot full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
- SHIREAn administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a pre
- SHRIFTThe act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
- SPURNTo reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
- WAIFAn article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belon
- WENDTo direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
- WRITA written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.