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1. allocute, v. View full entry 1860
...intr. To deliver an allocution; to make a formal address or speech (in later use esp. in court; cf. allocution4). Also trans.: to address formally....
2. angle-park, v. View full entry 1937
...trans. To park (a vehicle) at an oblique angle to the kerb. Occas. in extended use....
3. Anglo-Saxonize, v. View full entry 1839
...trans. = anglicize1....
4. April fool, v. View full entry 1823
...To play an April Fool's Day trick upon (a person)....
5. automate, v. View full entry 1954
...trans. To convert (a process, system, or facility) to be operated by predominantly automatic equipment; to make automatic or automated (cf. earlier automated)....
6. bartend, v. View full entry 1948
...trans. To serve (drinks), esp. in a bar. Also: to work as a bartender at (an establishment, event, etc.)....
7. bear-hug, v. View full entry 1944
...trans. To give (a person) a bear-hug, esp. an affectionate one. Also intr.: to engage in a bear-hug....
8. bleep, v. View full entry 1957
...intr. To make a thin, high-pitched blipping sound or ‘bleep’....
9. † bleyke | bleike, v. View full entry c1327
...intr. To become pale; = blake1....
10. blouse, v. View full entry 1934
...intr. To assume a blouse-like form (Webster, 1909)....
11. bodyguard, v. View full entry 1880
...trans. To act as a bodyguard for (another person). Also intr....
12. boiler, v. View full entry 1890
...trans. To furnish (a steamship) with its boiler or boilers....
13. Bork, v. View full entry 1987
...trans. To defame or vilify (a person) systematically, esp. in the mass media, usually with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a...
14. brass, v.1 View full entry 1859
...trans. To coat with brass by electro-plating or otherwise....
15. burke, v. View full entry 1829
...trans. To murder, in the same manner or for the same purpose as Burke did; to kill secretly by suffocation or strangulation, or for the purpose of selling the victim's body...
16. burr, v.2 View full entry 1880
...trans. To fashion into a burr or rivet-head....
17. ˈcassock, v. View full entry 1883
...To dress in a cassock....
18. catfight, v. View full entry 1977
...intr. To have a vicious fight or altercation; spec. (of women) to fight in a vicious, cat-like manner, esp. by scratching, pulling hair, and biting....
19. cellulose, v. View full entry 1928
...trans. To treat or coat with a cellulose lacquer or paint....
20. ˈcensus, v. View full entry 1881
...trans. To take a census of, enumerate in a census....
