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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. agive, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To give up, give back; to render, surrender. Obs....
3. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
4. bake, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To cook by dry heat acting by conduction, and not by radiation, hence either in a closed place (oven, ashes, etc.), or on a heated surface (bakestone, griddle, live coals);...
5. barm, n.2 View full entry c1000
...The froth that forms on the top of fermenting malt liquors, which is used to leaven bread, and to cause fermentation in other liquors; yeast, leaven....
6. † ˈbaxter, n. View full entry c1000
...A baker:...
7. beer, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An alcoholic liquor obtained by the fermentation of malt (or other saccharine substance), flavoured with hops or other aromatic bitters. Formerly distinguished from ale by being hopped; but now the...
8. binder, n. View full entry OE
...gen. One who binds. (See senses of the verb.)...
9. ˈbishop, v.1 View full entry c1000
...To administer the rite of confirmation to (a person); to confirm. arch. or Obs....
10. blow, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and often with complement,...
11. bottom, n. View full entry OE
...The lowest part of anything, considered as a material thing; the lower or under surface, that surface of a thing on which it stands or rests; the base. Applied spec....
12. bree, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thick pottage made of meal, pulse, etc. Obs....
13. bridal, n. (and adj.) View full entry 1075-6
...A wedding feast or festival; a wedding....
14. burning, adj. View full entry c1000
...In a state of active heat, glowing, flaming....
15. butter, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The fatty substance obtained from cream by churning. It is chiefly used for spreading on bread (see bread and butter), and in cookery....
16. castle, n. View full entry c1000
...Used to render Latin castellum of the Vulgate (Greek κώμη), village. Obs....
17. chewing, n. View full entry c1000
...The action of the vb. to chew; mastication. Also fig....
18. 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...
19. cole, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A general name for various species of Brassica; now esp. Rape (B. napus); also applied to Sea-Kale (Crambe maritima)....
20. cook, n. View full entry c1000
...One whose occupation is the preparation of food for the table: see cook2....
