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1. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
2. ˈbrander, n.2 View full entry c1450
...A gridiron. See also brandise, brandiron, brandreth...
3. † brede, n.1 View full entry a1000
...Roast meat. Obs. (but cf. sweetbread)...
4. † brewern | browern, n. View full entry c1450
...A brewhouse....
5. brine, n. View full entry a1000
...Water saturated, or strongly impregnated, with salt; salt water....
6. butt, n.3 View full entry c1450
...The thicker end of anything, esp. of a tool or weapon, the part by which it is held or on which it rests; e.g. the lower end of a spear-shaft,...
7. calf's-foot | calves-foot, n. View full entry c1450
...lit. The foot of a calf; hence, calves-foot jelly....
8. cambrel, n. View full entry c1450
...A bent piece of wood or iron used by butchers to hang carcases of animals on....
9. can, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A vessel for holding liquids; formerly used of vessels of various materials, shapes, and sizes, including drinking-vessels; now generally restricted to vessels of tin or other metal, mostly larger than a drinking-vessel,...
10. cap, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A hood, a covering for the head. (Precise sense not definable; in first quot. still in Latin form.)...
11. cheese, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A substance used as food, consisting of the curd of milk (coagulated by rennet) separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass....
12. chewing, n. View full entry c1000
...The action of the vb. to chew; mastication. Also fig....
13. clay, n. View full entry c1000
...A stiff viscous earth found, in many varieties, in beds or other deposits near the surface of the ground and at various depths below it: it forms with water a tenacious paste...
14. clean, v. View full entry c1450
...trans. To free from dirt, filth, or impurity....
15. cotton, n.1 View full entry 14..
...The white fibrous substance, soft and downy like wool, which clothes the seeds of the cotton-plant (Gossypium); used (more extensively than any other material) for making cloth and thread, and...
16. cup, n. View full entry c1000
...A small open vessel for liquids, usually of hemispherical or hemi-spheroidal shape, with or without a handle; a drinking-vessel. The common form of cup (e.g. a tea-cup or coffee-cup) has...
17. † dorcake, n. View full entry 14..
...A kind of cracknel....
18. dresser, n.1 View full entry 14..
...A sideboard or table in a kitchen on which food is or was dressed; formerly also, a table in a dining-room or hall, from which dishes were served, or on which plate...
19. elbow, n. View full entry c1000
...The outer part of the joint between the fore and the upper arm....
20. ˈfire-pan, n. View full entry c1000
...A pan or receptacle for holding or carrying fire, e.g. a brazier, a chafing dish, a portable grate....
