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1. a door, adv. View full entry 1533
...At the door; of the door. Only with preceding adverb, as in a door, out a door, etc. Cf. adoorsat doordoor1out of door...
2. advantageously, adv. View full entry 1562
...In an advantageous manner; beneficially, profitably; favourably....
3. Babylon, n.2 View full entry 1530
...derogatory. The city of Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church; (more generally) the Roman Catholic Church, its institutions, practices, etc....
4. bad mind, n. and adj. View full entry 1593
...An evil or suspicious mind. Now rare....
5. bad-minded, adj. View full entry 1588
...Evil, suspicious; malicious, spiteful; cynical....
6. ˈbald-head, n. View full entry 1535
...One who has a bald head; also attrib.; transf. a kind of pigeon....
7. bayberry, n. View full entry 1578
...The fruit of the bay-tree....
8. boiler, n. View full entry c1540
...One who boils (anything)....
9. buse, v. View full entry 1589
...trans. = abuse...
10. cockpit, n. View full entry 1587
...A pit or enclosed area in which game-cocks are set to fight for sport; a place constructed for cock-fighting....
11. conch, n. View full entry ?1527
...A shell-fish: originally a bivalve such as the mussel or oyster; in later times more frequently a large gastropod, esp. Strombus gigas....
12. gauze, n. View full entry 1561
...A very thin, transparent fabric of silk, linen, or cotton....
13. jump, v. View full entry 1511
...To make a spring from the ground or other base by flexion and sudden muscular extension of the legs (or, in the case of some animals, as fish, of the tail, or...
14. mama, n.1 (and int.) View full entry 1555
...= mother1a. Chiefly used in the vocative, or preceded by a possessive adjective (as ‘my mama’); also without article in the manner of a proper name....
15. mangosteen, n. View full entry 1598
...The fruit of the mangosteen tree (see sense 2), of the size of a small apple and with a thick dark-purple rind enclosing a sweet, white, juicy pulp....
16. matter, v. View full entry 1530
...intr....
17. mayflower, n. View full entry 1527
...Any of various plants flowering in May, esp. the primrose (Primula vulgaris), the cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis), the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), and (formerly) the...
18. maypole, n. and adj. View full entry 1529
...A high pole traditionally decorated with flowers and greenery and often painted with spiral stripes, set up on a green or other open space for people to dance around during May-time celebrations...
19. milkweed, n. View full entry 1592
...Any of various mostly small-leaved kinds of spurge; esp. sun spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia, petty spurge, E. peplus, (U.S.) flowering spurge, E. corollata,...
20. 'mongst, prep. View full entry 1567
...= amongst...
