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1. acorn, n. View full entry eOE
...The fruit of any tree producing mast. Also as a mass noun: †= mast1a (obs.). Now rare and only with contextual indication....
2. African, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...A native or inhabitant of Africa; a person of African origin (contextually = black African(a)black5a); spec. (in local usage) such a person as distinguished from...
3. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
4. ale, n. View full entry eOE
...Any beer other than lager, stout, or porter; spec. beer brewed by top fermentation. Also: a type of this....
5. allay, v.1 View full entry OE
...trans. In physical sense: to lay, lay down, lay aside. Also fig.Obs....
6. angel, n. View full entry c950
...A ministering spirit or divine messenger; one of an order of spiritual beings superior to man in power and intelligence, who, according to the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other theologies, are the...
7. 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,...
8. ash, n.2 View full entry c950
...The powdery residue, composed chiefly of earthy or mineral particles, left after the combustion of any substance....
9. baker, n. View full entry a1000
...One who bakes; spec. one whose business it is to make bread....
10. bannock, n. View full entry a1000
...The name, in Scotland and north of England, of a form in which home-made bread is made; usually unleavened, of large size, round or oval form, and flattish, without being as thin...
11. bath, n.1 View full entry 864
...The action of bathing or immersing the body, or a part of it, in water or other liquid. (Used playfully of accidental or involuntary immersion.)...
12. Bath, n.2 View full entry 973
...A well-known city in the west of England, so called from its hot springs. Cf. bath13....
13. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
14. bead, n. View full entry c885
...Prayer; pl. prayers, devotions. Obs....
15. bean, n. View full entry 940
...A smooth, kidney-shaped, laterally flattened seed, borne in long pods by a leguminous plant, Faba vulgaris....
16. bear, n.2 View full entry c950
...Barley: the original English name, in later times retained only in the north, and esp. in Scotland; hence spec. applied to the coarse variety (Hordeum hexastichon or ...
17. beat, v.1 View full entry c885
...trans. To strike with repeated blows. to beat the breast: i.e. in sign of sorrow....
18. 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...
19. bee, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A well-known insect, or rather genus of insects, of the Hymenopterous order, living in societies composed of one queen, or perfect female, a small number of males or ‘drones,’ and an indefinite...
20. belay, v. View full entry c893
...trans. To lay (a thing) about with other objects (i.e. by putting them about or around it); to surround, environ, invest, enclose, etc. with. ...
