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1. arrow, n. View full entry a835
...A slender pointed missile shot from a bow, usually feathered and barbed. Sometimes also applied to the bolts, or quarrels, with thickened heads, discharged from the cross-bow....
2. cake, n. View full entry c1230
...As name of an object, with plural: A baked mass of bread or substance of similar kind, distinguished from a loaf or other ordinary bread, either by its form or by its...
3. gourd, n.1 View full entry 1303
...The large fleshy fruit of the trailing or climbing plants of the family Cucurbitaceæ; spec. the fruit of Lagenaria vulgaris, which when dried and hollowed out...
4. guarded, adj. View full entry 1509-10
...Defended, protected, watched; having a guard or sentinel. In Fencing (hence fig., quot. 1821), protected by the ‘guard’....
5. lion, n. View full entry c825
...A large carnivorous quadruped, Felis leo, now found native only in Africa and southern Asia, of a tawny or yellowish brown colour, and having a tufted tail. The male is...
6. manchet, n. View full entry a1450
...Wheaten bread of the finest quality; = pandemain Now rare....
7. mark, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A boundary, frontier, or limit. Also: land within or near certain boundaries (cf. march). Obs....
8. Mars, n.1 View full entry OE
...(The name of) the god of war of the ancient Romans, ranking in importance next to Jupiter, and identified from an early period with the Greek god Ares. Also fig.:...
9. millstone, n. View full entry eOE
...Either of a pair of circular stones which grind corn by the rotation of the upper stone on the lower (or nether) one....
10. minotaur, n. View full entry eOE
...Chiefly Greek Mythol. A monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull....
11. moonlight, n. and adj. View full entry c1300
...The light of the moon; the moon's radiance. Also fig....
12. pelican, n. View full entry OE
...In early and biblical use: a bird of uncertain identity, associated with the wilderness (see etymological note). In later use allusively. Now arch. and literary....
13. point, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A separate or single item, article, or element in an extended whole (usually an abstract whole, as a course of action, a subject of thought, a treatise, a discourse, a set of...
14. poppy, n. View full entry eOE
...Any of various herbaceous plants constituting the genus Papaver (family Papaveraceae), mostly native to the northern hemisphere, which have milky latex often with narcotic properties, showy solitary flowers...
15. powder, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Solid matter in the form of dry particles; the mass of dry impalpable particles or granules produced by grinding, crushing, burning, or other disintegration of a solid substance; dust. Also fig....
16. raven, n.1 and adj. View full entry eOE
...A large black crow, Corvus corax (family Corvidae), widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, feeding chiefly on carrion and having a deep croaking call. Later also (usu. with...
17. rose, n.1 and adj.1 View full entry eOE
...The flower or a flowering stem of any of numerous wild and cultivated plants of the genus Rosa (see sense A. 2a); esp. the large, many-petalled...
18. rouge, adj. and n.1 View full entry a1425
...Of or being of the colour red. rare....
19. salamander, n. View full entry 1340
...A lizard-like animal supposed to live in, or to be able to endure, fire. Now only allusive....
20. seal, n.2 View full entry c1230
...A device (e.g. a heraldic or emblematic design, a letter, word, or sentence) impressed on a piece of wax or other plastic material adhering or attached by cords or parchment slips to...
