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1. 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...
2. cuttle, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A cephalopod of the genus Sepia or family Sepiidæ, esp. the common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, also called ink-fish from its power of ejecting a...
3. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
4. imp, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To graft, engraft. Obs....
5. inn, n. View full entry c1000
...A dwelling-place, habitation, abode, lodging; a house (in relation to its inhabitant)....
6. Israel, n. View full entry c1000
...The people descended from Israel or Jacob, the ‘children of Israel’ collectively; the Jewish or Hebrew nation or people....
7. kitchen, n. View full entry c1000
...That room or part of a house in which food is cooked; a place fitted with the apparatus for cooking. Clerk of the Kitchen: see clerk6a....
8. limpet, n. View full entry c1050
...A gasteropod mollusc of the genus Patella, having an open tent-shaped shell and found adhering tightly to the rock which it makes its resting-place....
9. Lucifer, n. View full entry OE
...The morning star; the planet Venus when she appears in the sky before sunrise. Now only poet....
10. Mars, n.1 View full entry OE
...(The name of) the god of war of the ancient Romans, ranking in importance next to Jupiter, and identified from an early period with the Greek god Ares. Also fig.:...
11. narcissus, n. View full entry OE
...Any of numerous spring-flowering bulbous plants of the genus Narcissus (family Amaryllidaceae), native to Europe and the Mediterranean, which includes the daffodils; (also, in form Narcissus)...
12. pelican, n. View full entry OE
...In early and biblical use: a bird of uncertain identity, associated with the wilderness (see etymological note). In later use allusively. Now arch. and literary....
13. pot, n.1 View full entry OE
...A relatively deep vessel (typically with a cylindrical or otherwise rounded body and made of earthenware, metal, plastic, etc.) used chiefly to hold a liquid or solid substance....
14. pull, v. View full entry OE
...trans....
15. put, v. View full entry OE
...intr. To push, poke, knock, or strike (at, on, etc.); to deliver a thrust or blow; to nudge at. Now rare (Sc....
16. Q, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
17. Quicunque vult, n. View full entry OE
...The Athanasian Creed, so called from its opening words quicumque vult (see the etymology). Also fig. and in allusive use....
18. rat, n.1 View full entry OE
...Any rodent of the genus Rattus and related genera of the family Muridae, resembling a large mouse, often with a naked or sparsely haired tail; esp....
19. seven sleepers, n. View full entry c1000
...Seven youths of Ephesus said to have hidden in a cave during the Decian persecution and to have slept there for several hundred years....
20. shred, n. View full entry c1000
...A fragment cut or broken off; a strip; a scrap....
