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- BETIDEOften used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall.
- BLITHECasually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant.
- COMELYAttractive; visually pleasing; good-looking. Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
- FAINOften followed by of: glad, well-pleased. Glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative. Compelled or obliged to.
- FIKETo feign; dissemble; flatter.
- HIVEA structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
- HOLTA small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
- INGLEAn open fireplace.
- KYRIEA short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning “Lord, have mercy”.
- MOORAn extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
- NIGHNear, close by.
- OVERFinished; ended; concluded.
- PUGILISTOne who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
- QUEANA woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
- SHRIFTThe act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
- WHILOMAt some time in the past; formerly, once upon a time.
- WHINGETo whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.