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1. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
2. agist, v. View full entry a1450
...trans. To let or hire (land, originally woodland) for pasture....
3. agisted, adj. View full entry 1669
...Of an animal: that has been put to pasture, usually for hire on land not belonging to their owner. Also of land: used by livestock that has been agisted....
4. agisting, n. View full entry 1598
...The action of taking livestock in to pasture on agistment....
5. agistment, n. View full entry a1447
...The rate levied on or profit made from the pasturing of another person's cattle....
6. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
7. 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....
8. 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,...
9. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
10. bail | bayle, n.3 View full entry c1320
...pl. Outer line of fortification, formed of stakes; palisades, barriers....
11. bail, v.3 View full entry 1609
...To confine. rare....
12. ball, n.1 View full entry 1166
...A rounded hill, a knoll. Now Eng. regional (south-west.)....
13. bank, n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...A portion of the surface of the ground raised or thrown up into a ridge or shelf; a lengthened mound with steeply sloping sides. Hence, One side or slope of...
14. bare, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c885
...Of the body or its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude....
15. barrow, v.2 View full entry 1933
...(See quot. 1933.)...
16. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry 1297
...One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child....
17. bean, n. View full entry 940
...A smooth, kidney-shaped, laterally flattened seed, borne in long pods by a leguminous plant, Faba vulgaris....
18. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
19. beat, n.1 View full entry a1625
...A stroke or blow in beating....
20. 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...
