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1. aleberry, n. View full entry 1440
...A drink made from ale boiled with spices and sugar, served with sops of bread and freq. given to sick people. Also called alebrue, alemeat....
2. batch, n.1 View full entry 1440
...The process of baking. Obs....
3. bite, n. View full entry 1499
...The act or action of cutting, piercing, or wounding, with the teeth; also fig....
4. brake, n.3 View full entry c1440
...A toothed instrument for braking flax or hemp....
5. † bray, n.2 View full entry c1440
...A baker's pestle....
6. brewis, n. View full entry c1440
...Broth, liquor in which beef and vegetables have been boiled; sometimes also thickened with bread or meal. Now chiefly dial., and applied very variously in different localities....
7. broiled, adj. View full entry c1440
...Made very hot, scorched, charred; spec. grilled....
8. broiling, n.1 View full entry c1440
...The action or process of exposing to scorching heat; spec. grilling....
9. bulk, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A heap; spec. the pile in which fish are laid for salting; a pile of tobacco made up to undergo sweating. U.S....
10. bung, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A stopper; spec. a large cork stopper for the ‘mouth’ of a cask, i.e. the hole in the bulge by which it is filled....
11. caraway, n. View full entry c1440
...An umbelliferous plant (Carum carui): its small fruits, commonly called ‘caraway-seeds’, are aromatic and carminative; they are used in cakes, sweetmeats, etc., and yield a volatile oil....
12. ˈcheese-cake, n. View full entry c1440
...A cake or tart of light pastry, orig. containing cheese; now filled with a yellow butter-like compound of milk-curds, sugar, and butter, or a preparation of whipped egg and sugar....
13. chipping, n. View full entry c1440
...The action of the verb chip; the act of chopping lightly or breaking off small pieces, of cracking or breaking the shell of an egg, etc....
14. claret, n.2 (and adj.) View full entry c1440
...A name originally given (like French vin clairet) to wines of yellowish or light red colour, as distinguished alike from ‘red wine’ and ‘white wine’; the contrast with the former...
15. cole-rake | colrake, n. View full entry c1440
...An instrument used for raking the cinders or ashes out of an oven or furnace....
16. column, n. View full entry c1440
...Archit. A cylindrical or slightly tapering body of considerably greater length than diameter, erected vertically as a support for some part of a building; spec. in the classic orders,...
17. come, n.2 View full entry c1440
...The radicle of barley or other grain which in malting is allowed to develop to a certain point, and is then dried up by the process of roasting, and afterwards separated from...
18. cork, n.1 View full entry c1440
...The ‘bark’ or periderm of the cork-oak, which grows to a thickness of one or two inches, is very light, tough, and elastic, and is commonly used for a variety of purposes....
19. cracknel, n. View full entry c1440
...A light, crisp kind of biscuit, of a curved or hollowed shape. Cf. crackling4....
20. cream, v. View full entry c1440
...intr. Of milk: To form cream....
