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1. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
2. 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....
3. 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....
4. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
5. bare, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c885
...Of the body or its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude....
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. bite, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To cut into, pierce, or nip (anything) with the teeth....
8. 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)...
9. 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...
10. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
11. 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...
12. break, v. View full entry 851
...trans. generally....
13. burn, v.1 View full entry c825
...Of fire, a furnace, or conflagration: To be in the state of activity characteristic of fire; to be in the state of combustion. Sometimes the prominent notion is that of intense heat...
14. cast, n. View full entry a1300
...A throw of a missile, a bowl, or other object....
15. cast, v. View full entry c1200
...trans. To project (anything) with a force of the nature of a jerk, from the hand, the arms, a vessel, or the like; to throw (which is now the...
16. cattle, n. View full entry c1275
...Property, substance; strictly personal property or estate, wealth, goods. Obs....
17. chamber, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A room or suite of rooms in a house, typically one allotted to the use of a particular person, a private room; (in later use) esp. a bedroom, typically on...
18. clear, adj., adv., and n. View full entry 1297
...orig. Expressing the vividness or intensity of light: Brightly shining, bright, brilliant....
19. coast, v. View full entry 1382
...trans. To keep by the side of (a person moving on); esp. to march on the flank of. Obs....
20. colour | color, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Any of the constituents into which light can be separated as in a spectrum or rainbow, and which are referred to by names such as blue, red, ...
