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1. ass, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A well-known quadruped of the horse kind, distinguished from the horse by its smaller size, long ears, tuft at end of tail, and black stripe across the shoulders. Found wild in western...
2. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
3. beyond, adv., prep., and n. View full entry a1000
...On the farther side, farther away, at a greater distance....
4. colt, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The young of the horse, or of animals of the horse kind. In Scripture applied also to the young of the camel....
5. fin, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An organ attached to various parts of the body in fishes and cetaceans, which serves for propelling and steering in the water. With prefixed adj., as anal, caudal,...
6. Job, n.1 View full entry OE
...(The name of) a patriarch of the land of Uz, the eponymous protagonist of a book of the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, taken as the type of extreme poverty, destitution, etc.,...
7. kemb, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To disentangle and smooth (hair) by drawing a comb through it; to dress or trim (the hair, head, a person, etc.) with a comb; to curry (a horse): = ...
8. kerf, n. View full entry c1000
...The act of cutting or carving; a cut, stroke; †power of cutting. Now rare....
9. lively, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...Living, animate; = live1. Obs....
10. O, n.1 View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
11. part, n.1 View full entry OE
...Grammar....
12. pride, n.1 View full entry OE
...A high, esp. an excessively high, opinion of one's own worth or importance which gives rise to a feeling or attitude of superiority over others; inordinate self-esteem....
13. turn, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To cause to move round on an axis or about a centre; to cause to rotate or revolve, as a wheel....
14. ware, n.3 View full entry c1000
...A collective term for: Articles of merchandise or manufacture; the things which a merchant, tradesman, or pedlar, has to sell; goods, commodities....
15. X, n. View full entry c1000
...The letter or its sound. x-height (rarely X-height (Typogr.), the height of a printed lower-case x, esp. as representative of the size of the...
