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1. adder, n.1 View full entry eOE
...In generic sense: a snake, a serpent, esp. with reference to the serpent as a manifestation of the devil in the biblical account of the Fall in the Garden of Eden; (hence,...
2. after, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Designating the second of two or more people, things, occasions, etc., occurring in chronological sequence. Obs....
3. arise, v. View full entry c825
...To get up from sitting or kneeling, to stand up. arch.: see rise...
4. beard, n. View full entry c825
...The hair that grows upon the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of an adult man's face; now usually excluding the moustache, or hair of the upper lip....
5. burn, v.1 View full entry c825
...Of fire, a furnace, or conflagration: To be in the state of activity characteristic of fire; to be in the state of combustion. Sometimes the prominent notion is that of intense heat...
6. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
7. delve, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To dig; to turn up with the spade; esp. to dig (ground) in preparation for a crop. Now chiefly north. and Sc., where it...
8. do, v. View full entry c825
...To put, place....
9. eat, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To take into the mouth piecemeal, and masticate and swallow as food; to consume as food. Usually of solids only....
10. empt, v. View full entry c825
...intr. and refl. To be at leisure. Only in Old English....
11. far, adv. View full entry c825
...At a great distance, a long way off. Const. from, (colloq.) off. Also with advbs. away, off, out....
12. finger, n. View full entry c825
...One of the five terminal members of the hand; in a restricted sense, one of the four excluding the thumb. In this latter sense, the fingers are commonly numbered first to fourth,...
13. fire, n. View full entry c825
...The natural agency or active principle operative in combustion; popularly conceived as a substance visible in the form of flame or of ruddy glow or incandescence....
14. flood, n. View full entry c825
...The flowing in of the tide. Often in phrases, ebb and flood, tide of flood; also, young flood, quarter flood, half flood,...
15. flow, v. View full entry c825
...intr. Of fluids, a stream, etc.: To move on a gently inclined surface with a continual change of place among the particles or parts; to move along in a current; to...
16. foot, n. View full entry c825
...The lowest part of the leg beyond the ankle-joint....
17. grope, v. View full entry c825
...intr. To use the hands in feeling, touching, or grasping; to handle or feel something. Obs....
18. hand, n.1 View full entry c825
...The terminal part of the arm beyond the wrist, consisting of the palm and five digits, forming the organ of prehension characteristic of man. The name is also given to the similar...
19. hate, n.1 View full entry c825
...An emotion of extreme dislike or aversion; detestation, abhorrence, hatred. Now chiefly poet....
20. hay, n.1 View full entry c825
...Grass cut or mown, and dried for use as fodder; formerly (as still sometimes) including grass fit for mowing, or preserved for mowing....
