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1. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
2. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
3. ask, n.1 View full entry a1000
...Asking, inquiry; thing asked, request....
4. bare, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c885
...Of the body or its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude....
5. bean, n. View full entry 940
...A smooth, kidney-shaped, laterally flattened seed, borne in long pods by a leguminous plant, Faba vulgaris....
6. bed, n. View full entry c995
...A permanent structure or arrangement for sleeping on, or for the sake of rest. In some form or other it constitutes a regular article of household furniture in civilized life, as well...
7. bell, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A hollow body of cast metal, formed to ring, or emit a clear musical sound, by the sonorous vibration of its entire circumference, when struck by a clapper, hammer, or other appliance....
8. belly, n. View full entry c950
...A bag, skin-bag, purse, pod, husk. Freq. in comb. as béan bælg ‘bean-pod,’ blást-bælgbellows q.v., met-bæl(i)g ‘meat-bag, scrip,’ belly wínbel(i)g...
9. bin, n. View full entry c950
...gen. A receptacle (orig. of wicker- or basket-work): still used dialectally and technically in the most diverse senses, as seen in the following quotations....
10. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
11. blood, n. (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The red fluid flowing in the arteries, capillaries, and veins of humans and other vertebrates, carrying oxygen and nutrients to, and carbon dioxide and waste metabolites away from, the organs and tissues...
12. board, n. View full entry c897
...A piece of timber sawn thin, and having considerable extent of surface; usually a rectangular piece of much greater length than breadth; a thin plank. Rarely used without the article, as in...
13. book, n. View full entry 872-915
...A writing; a written document; esp. a charter or deed by which land (hence called bócland) was conveyed. Obs....
14. borough, n. View full entry c820
...A fortress, castle, or citadel. Obs. (Unequivocal instances of this sense are rare, even in Old English In quot. 1394 the word denotes simply a large building; and...
15. box, n.1 View full entry 931
...A genus (Buxus) of small evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Euphorbiaceæ; specially B. sempervirens, the Common or Evergreen Box-tree, a native of Europe and...
16. box, n.2 View full entry a1000
...A case or receptacle usually having a lid....
17. break, v. View full entry 851
...trans. generally....
18. brown, adj. View full entry a1000
...Dusky, dark. (Now only poetic, and regarded as transf. from sense 2.)...
19. buck, n.1 View full entry a1000
...The male of several animals....
20. bullock, n. View full entry a1000
...Orig. a young bull, or bull calf; but afterwards, and in later times always, a castrated bull, an ox....
