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1. batter, v.2 View full entry 1398
...intr. Of walls, etc.: To incline from the perpendicular, so as to have a receding slope....
2. branderer, n. View full entry a1387
...? erron. form of brauderer, broiderer: but the passages are obscure....
3. bum, n.1 View full entry a1387
...‘The buttocks, the part on which we sit’ (Johnson); the posteriors....
4. † ˈburedely | burethely, adv. View full entry 1387
...? At random, heedlessly....
5. † ˈburnish, v.2 View full entry 1398
...intr. Of the human frame: To grow plump, or stout, to spread out; to increase in breadth....
6. † bush, v.2 View full entry a1387
...intr. To butt with the head; to push....
7. clammy, adj. View full entry 1398
...gen. Soft, moist, and sticky; viscous, tenacious, adhesive....
8. crank, adj.1 and adv. View full entry 1398
...Rank, lusty, vigorous, in good condition....
9. † ˈcurling, n.2 View full entry 1398
...Rumbling in the bowels....
10. Egyptian, adj. and n. View full entry 1398
...Belonging or relating to Egypt....
11. flag, n.1 View full entry a1387
...One of various endogenous plants, with a bladed or ensiform leaf, mostly growing in moist places. Now regarded as properly denoting a member of the genus Iris (esp. I....
12. flash, v.1 View full entry 1387
...intr. Of the sea, waves, etc.: To rush along the surface; to rise and dash, esp. with the tide. Also with up. In later use with mixture...
13. † gleim, v. View full entry a1387
...trans. To smear with a sticky substance. Also fig. in pass.: To be infected (as with a disease); to be attached to something (cf. engleim)....
14. † grolling, n. View full entry 1398
...? Rumbling....
15. hud, n.1 View full entry 1398
...The husk or sheath of a seed; the hull or shell of a fruit; a pod or seed-vessel; †fig. an empty person who has ‘nothing in him’. (See also quot....
16. hurr, v. View full entry 1398
...intr. To make or utter a dull sound of vibration or trilling; to buzz as an insect; to snarl as a dog; to pronounce a trilled r....
17. keach, v. View full entry 1387
...trans. To take up (water, etc.) with a shallow vessel; to scoop up, ladle out: = cleach3....
18. kibe, n. View full entry 1387
...A chapped or ulcerated chilblain, esp. one on the heel....
19. maffle, v. View full entry a1387
...intr. To stammer; to speak indistinctly, mumble. Also trans.: †to utter (obs.)....
20. nock, n.1 View full entry a1398
...Archery....
