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1. abouts, adv. and prep. View full entry a1387
...= about (in various senses). Cf. nearabouts...
2. † adays, adv. View full entry a1387
...In the daytime (as opposed to the night); during the day; by day. Cf. aday2....
3. airy, adj. View full entry a1398
...Of or belonging to the air, esp. as distinguished from the earth, water, etc.; living or located in the air....
4. amber, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1398
...orig. = ambergris (In 17th c. greece of amber, gris ambre, gray amber.) Obs....
5. black man, n. View full entry a1398
...A dark-skinned man, esp. a man of sub-Saharan African or Australian Aboriginal origin or descent. Also: †a dark-haired or swarthy man (obs.). Cf. black3a....
6. † ˈbolking, n. View full entry 1398
...Belching, eructation, retching, vomiting....
7. † bouge, n.1 View full entry 1387
...A wallet or bag, esp. one made of hide; a skin-bottle; = bulge1. Obs....
8. bowing, n.1 View full entry 1398
...Bending, curving, twisting; flexure, inclination....
9. bubble, v. View full entry 1398
...intr. To form bubbles (as boiling water, a running stream, etc.); to rise in bubbles (as gas through liquid, water from a spring, etc.; often with out or ...
10. bud, n.1 View full entry 1398
...Bot. A little projection found at the axil of a leaf, composed of scales, which are small leaves, and forming the rudiment of a branch, cluster of leaves, or blossom. Hence,...
11. † ˈburnish, v.2 View full entry 1398
...intr. Of the human frame: To grow plump, or stout, to spread out; to increase in breadth....
12. † bush, v.2 View full entry a1387
...intr. To butt with the head; to push....
13. cankery, adj. View full entry a1398
...Affected with or of the nature of (a) canker; infected, ulcerated; gangrenous. Now hist....
14. carrier, n. View full entry 1398
...A person who or thing that carries, in various senses of carry; a bearer....
15. castock, n. View full entry 1398
...The stalk or stem of a cabbage....
16. † cham | chamm, v. View full entry 1398
...To bite, chew; = champ123....
17. chap, n.1 View full entry 1398
...An open fissure or crack in a surface, made by chopping or splitting....
18. ˈclitching, n. View full entry 1398
...Crooking, bending (of a joint). Obs....
19. clod, n. View full entry 1398
...A mass formed by the coagulation of anything liquid, esp. blood. Obs. (now clot)...
20. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
