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1. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
2. box, n.2 View full entry a1000
...A case or receptacle usually having a lid....
3. breeze, n.1 View full entry a800
...A gadfly: a name given to various dipterous insects, esp. of the genera Œstrus (bot-flybot2) and Tabanus, which annoy horses and cattle. arch....
4. brier | briar | brere, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A prickly, thorny bush or shrub in general; formerly including the bramble, but now usually confined to wild rose bushes....
5. butt, n.6 View full entry c1450
...One of the parallel divisions of a ploughed field contained between two parallel furrows, called also a ‘ridge’, ‘rig’, ‘land’, or ‘selion’....
6. butterfly, n. View full entry a1000
...An insect belonging to any of those diurnal species of lepidoptera, or scaly-winged flies, which have knobbed antennæ, and carry their wings erect when at rest....
7. cade, n.2 (and adj.) View full entry c1450
...as or in comb. Of the young of animals, esp. lambs and colts: Cast or left by the mother and brought up by hand, as a...
8. camomile | chamomile, n. View full entry c1265
...The name of a Composite plant, Anthemis nobilis, an aromatic creeping herb, found on dry sandy commons in England, with downy leaves, and flowers white in the ray and yellow...
9. cap, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A hood, a covering for the head. (Precise sense not definable; in first quot. still in Latin form.)...
10. carder, n.1 View full entry c1450
...One who cards wool, etc.; one who attends to a carding machine....
11. chaff, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A collective term for the husks of corn or other grain separated by threshing or winnowing....
12. † chip, n.2 View full entry c1000
...The share-beam of a plough; also, perh., (like Latin dentalis) the share itself....
13. clean, v. View full entry c1450
...trans. To free from dirt, filth, or impurity....
14. cleaning, n. View full entry ?a1500
...The action of clean; freeing from dirt or filth, purifying, cleansing....
15. ˈcorn-house, n. View full entry c1000
...An ancient name for a granary. Obs....
16. cotton, n.1 View full entry 14..
...The white fibrous substance, soft and downy like wool, which clothes the seeds of the cotton-plant (Gossypium); used (more extensively than any other material) for making cloth and thread, and...
17. coulter | colter, n. View full entry c1000
...The iron blade fixed in front of the share in a plough; it makes a vertical cut in the soil, which is then sliced horizontally by the share....
18. cradle, n. View full entry c1000
...A little bed or cot for an infant: properly, one mounted on rockers, but often extended to a swing-cot, or a simple cot or basket-bed that is neither rocked nor swung....
19. † ˈculverfoot, n. View full entry c1450
...Dove's-foot, a small species of wild Geranium....
20. cutter, n.1 View full entry c1425
...One who cuts; one who shapes things by cutting: the name of operatives in many subordinate branches of industry....
