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1. acreman, n. View full entry OE
...A cultivator of the ground, a farmer; a ploughman; spec. †a manorial tenant; (Sc.) a person who rents a piece of ground of a Scottish acre or more....
2. † atˈlie, v. View full entry c1000
...intr. To lie idle or fallow (with dat. = from)....
3. 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. ...
4. beaver, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An amphibious rodent, distinguished by its broad, oval, horizontally-flattened, scaly tail, palmated hind feet, coat of soft fur, and hard incisor teeth with which it cuts down trees; remarkable for its skill...
5. beck, n.3 View full entry c1000
...An agricultural implement with two hooks, for dressing turnips, hops, etc.; a kind of mattock....
6. boar, n. View full entry c1000
...The male of the swine, whether wild or tame (but uncastrated)....
7. breed, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. Said of a female parent: To cherish (brood) in the womb or egg; to bring (offspring) forward from the germ to the birth; to hatch (young birds) from the egg;...
8. brood, n. View full entry c1000
...Progeny, offspring, young....
9. buck, n.1 View full entry a1000
...The male of several animals....
10. calve, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. To give birth to a calf. Said of kine, deer, etc.; cf. calf13....
11. colt, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The young of the horse, or of animals of the horse kind. In Scripture applied also to the young of the camel....
12. cram, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To fill (a receptacle) with more than it properly or conveniently holds, by force or compression; less strictly, to fill to repletion, fill quite full or overfull, ‘pack’. Const. ...
13. † crow-leek, n. View full entry c1000
...A name given, according to Gerarde and later writers, to the wild hyacinth (Scilla nutans): by earlier writers sometimes to crow-garlic....
14. earth-tilling, n. View full entry OE
...The activity or process of tilling or cultivating the soil, husbandry. Also fig....
15. evening, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The coming on of ‘even’, the process or fact of growing dusk; the time at which this takes place, the time about sunset. Obs.; merged in 2....
16. F, n. View full entry c1000
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
17. fin, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An organ attached to various parts of the body in fishes and cetaceans, which serves for propelling and steering in the water. With prefixed adj., as anal, caudal,...
18. food, n. View full entry OE
...Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink in order to maintain life and growth; nourishment, provisions. ...
19. fore-, prefix View full entry c1000
...In verbs, ppl. adjs., agent-nouns and nouns of action. (Stress on the verb.)...
20. forestall, n. View full entry c1000
...In Old English; an ambush, plot; an intercepting, waylaying, rescue. Hence in Law, the offence of waylaying or ‘intercepting in the highway’; also, the jurisdiction in respect of this offence,...
