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1. alter, v. View full entry a1398
...trans....
2. amber, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1398
...orig. = ambergris (In 17th c. greece of amber, gris ambre, gray amber.) Obs....
3. asthma, n. View full entry a1398
...Difficulty of breathing; spec. a disease of respiration, characterized by intermittent paroxysms of difficult breathing, with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, cough, and expectoration....
4. bum, n.1 View full entry a1387
...‘The buttocks, the part on which we sit’ (Johnson); the posteriors....
5. cane, n.1 View full entry 1398
...The hollow jointed ligneous stem of various giant reeds or grasses, as Bamboo and Sugar cane, and the solid stem of some of the more slender palms, esp. the genus Calamus...
6. count, v. View full entry a1387
...To tell over one by one, to assign to (individual objects in a collection) the numerals one, two, three, etc. so as to ascertain their number; to number, enumerate; to reckon, reckon...
7. dray, n.1 View full entry a1387
...A sled or cart without wheels, formerly much used for dragging wood, turf, etc. Obs....
8. freezing, n. View full entry 1398
...The action of freeze; also, freezing in, freezing out, etc.: see freeze5b7at freezing = at freezing-point (see freeze2)....
9. German, n. and adj. View full entry a1387
...hist. A member of any of the ancient Germanic-speaking peoples of north and central Europe, a Teuton....
10. horny, adj. and n. View full entry 1398
...Consisting of horn; of a texture resembling that of horn; corneous....
11. knob, n. View full entry 1398
...A small rounded lump or mass, esp. at the extremity or on the surface of something, as on a stick, a branch or trunk of a tree, a plate of glass (see...
12. log, n.1 View full entry 1398
...A bulky mass of wood; now usually an unhewn portion of a felled tree, or a length cut off for use as firewood. in the log: in an unhewn condition....
13. melon, n.1 View full entry a1398
...Any of various kinds of edible gourd. Now chiefly: the fruit of any of the varieties of Cucumis melo, typically large and globose to oblong, with smooth, netted, or warty...
14. opal, n. and adj. View full entry a1398
...An amorphous form of hydrated silica resembling chalcedony, often white or colourless (common opal), but varying through blue-green and orange almost to black and valued in those forms showing colourful...
15. opportunity, n. View full entry a1387
...As a mass noun: a time, condition, or set of circumstances permitting or favourable to a particular action or purpose....
16. piss, n. View full entry a1387
...Urine, esp. evacuated urine....
17. rabbit, n.1 View full entry a1398
...A gregarious, burrowing, plant-eating mammal, Oryctolagus cuniculus (family Leporidae, order Lagomorpha), which has long ears, typically brownish-grey fur, and a short, white tail, has been domesticated...
18. rosary, n. View full entry a1387
...hist. A coin made in imitation of the English silver penny of Edward I (12721307) by European mints, mostly in the Low Countries, the bust on the obverse...
19. scrub, n.1 View full entry 1398
...A low stunted tree. Cf. shrub...
20. wrenching, n. View full entry 1398
...The action of the verb in various senses; an instance of this....
