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1. aggravator, n.2 View full entry 1598
...A person who or thing which aggravates (in any sense)....
2. ailing, adj. View full entry 1598
...That ails, in various senses; esp. affected by or suffering from illness or poor health; poorly; sickly. Often with implication that the illness, indisposition, etc., is persistent, failing to improve,...
3. anbury | ambury, n. View full entry 1598
...A soft tumour or spongy wart on horses and oxen....
4. ante-, prefix View full entry 1611
...Forming nouns. (Main stress on ˈante-: ˈantechapel.)...
5. † ˈarsefoot, n. View full entry 1598
...A bird; identified by Willoughby with the Great and Little Dabchick, species of the Grebe; by Goldsmith with the Penguin....
6. aster, n. View full entry 1603
...A star. Obs. as English....
7. aurelia, n. View full entry 1598
...Entomol. The chrysalis or pupa of an insect, esp. of a butterfly. (Now scarcely in use, chrysalis being the ordinary term.)...
8. bald-rib, n. View full entry 1598
...A joint of pork cut from nearer the rump than the spare-rib, so called ‘because the bones thereof are made bald and bare of flesh’ (Minsheu). Humorously used of: A lean bony...
9. † battleness, n. View full entry 1598
...The quality of being ‘battle,’ fertility....
10. ˈbelcher, n.1 View full entry 1598
...One who belches....
11. † ˈberry, n.4 View full entry 1598
...A gust or blast (of wind)....
12. † bleise, n. View full entry 1598
...? A blay or bleak....
13. blindish, adj. View full entry 1611
...Somewhat blind....
14. bolus, n. View full entry 1603
...Med....
15. bombard, v. View full entry 1598
...intr. To fire off bombards or heavy guns. Obs. (exc. as absol. use of 2.)...
16. brayer, n.1 View full entry 1598
...One who brays; esp. an ass....
17. buddy, adj. View full entry 1598
...Full of buds....
18. † bumb, n. View full entry 1598
...A pimple....
19. burr | bur, n.4 View full entry 1611
...A rough ridge or edge left on metal or other substance after cutting, punching, etc.; e.g. the roughness produced on a copper-plate by the graver; the rough neck left on a bullet...
20. cattish, adj. View full entry 1598
...Belonging to or resembling a cat; feline....
