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1. arrow, n. View full entry a835
...A slender pointed missile shot from a bow, usually feathered and barbed. Sometimes also applied to the bolts, or quarrels, with thickened heads, discharged from the cross-bow....
2. 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.)...
3. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
4. bear, v.1 View full entry c893
...trans. To support the weight of (anything) whilst moving it from one place to another; to carry. Now usually restricted in prose to the carrying of something weighty or which requires...
5. 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)...
6. 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.)...
7. carbuncle, n. View full entry eOE
...A large precious stone of a red or fiery colour: in early use of unsettled identity, as a ruby, garnet, spinel, etc.; (also) a mythical gem said to give out light in...
8. crown, n. View full entry c950
...An ornamental fillet, wreath, or similar encircling ornament for the head, worn for personal adornment, or as a mark of honour or achievement; a coronal or wreath of leaves or flowers....
9. field, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Open country, esp. as opposed to woodland; a stretch of open land; a plain....
10. fleece, n. View full entry a1000
...The woolly covering of a sheep or similar animal....
11. float, n. View full entry OE
...The action of floating or †swimming. Now rare. †Formerly also, the condition of floating or of being on the water; esp. in phrase on (rarely...
12. foot, n. View full entry c825
...The lowest part of the leg beyond the ankle-joint....
13. give, v. View full entry a855
...To hand over (a thing) as a present; to confer gratuitously the ownership of (some possession) on another person (with or without actual delivery of the object)....
14. gore, n.2 View full entry c893
...A triangular piece of land....
15. green, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Of a colour intermediate between blue and yellow in the spectrum; of the colour of grass, foliage, an emerald, etc....
16. half-, comb. form View full entry c893
...With adjectives and pa. pples. Already in Old English: see above. Very common in later use, esp. with pa. pples., to which half- may be prefixed whenever the sense suits:...
17. height | highth, n. View full entry OE
...Distance or measurement from the base upwards; altitude; stature (of the human body); the elevation of an object above the ground or any recognized level (e.g. the sea)....
18. helm, n.1 View full entry c725
...That part of the armour which covers the head; a helmet. Now poet. and arch....
19. horse, n. View full entry c825
...A solid-hoofed perissodactyl quadruped (Equus caballus), having a flowing mane and tail, whose voice is a neigh. It is well known in the domestic state as a beast of burden...
20. hurst, n. View full entry 822
...An eminence, hillock, knoll, or bank, esp. one of a sandy nature....
