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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. ˈarbalest | ˈarbalist | ˈarblast, n. View full entry a1100
...A cross-bow, consisting of a steel bow fitted to a wooden shaft, furnished with special mechanism for drawing and letting slip the bowstring, and used for the discharge of arrows, bolts, stones,...
3. † aˈreach, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To reach, get at; esp. to get at with a weapon, to strike....
4. atom, n. View full entry OE
...In and with reference to the medieval period: the smallest unit of time, of which there are 376 in a minute and 22,560 in an hour, equal to 1594...
5. axe | ax, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A tool or instrument for hewing, cleaving, or chopping, trees, wood, ice, etc.; consisting of a squarish head, now usually of iron with a steel edge or blade, fixed by means of...
6. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
7. 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. ...
8. † belie, v.1 View full entry OE
...trans....
9. bellow, v. View full entry c1000
...prop. To roar as a bull, or as a cow when excited. (Ordinarily, a cow lows.)...
10. bend, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To put in bonds, to fetter. Obs....
11. † beˈsit, v. View full entry a1100
...trans. To encamp about, besiege....
12. bill, n.1 View full entry OE
...A weapon of war mentioned in Old English poetry, a kind of broadsword, a falchion. Obs. (Probably passing with modified shape into sense 2.)...
13. bite, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To cut into, pierce, or nip (anything) with the teeth....
14. blade, n. View full entry OE
...The leaf of a herb or plant; originally perhaps (as in Icelandic) applied to those of all herbs, while leaf was used of the foliage of trees. Now applied ...
15. blow, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and often with complement,...
16. blowing, n.1 View full entry c1000
...gen. The action expressed by the vb. to blow...
17. bolster, n.1 View full entry OE
...A long stuffed pillow or cushion used to support the sleeper's head in a bed; the name is now restricted to the under-pillow, stuffed with something firm, which extends from side to...
18. bore, v.1 View full entry c1000
...trans. To pierce, perforate, make a hole in or through; in mod. use esp. to pierce by means of a rotatory movement like that of an auger or gimlet....
19. bow, n.1 View full entry OE
...gen. A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, a bent line....
20. brass, n. View full entry c1000
...Historically: The general name for all alloys of copper with tin or zinc (and occasionally other base metals). To distinguish alloys of copper and tin, the name bronze has...
