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1. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
2. love, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A feeling or disposition of deep affection or fondness for someone, typically arising from a recognition of attractive qualities, from natural affinity, or from sympathy and manifesting itself in concern for the...
3. 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...
4. no, adj. View full entry lOE
...With a singular or plural noun. Not any....
5. thing, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A meeting, an assembly; esp. a deliberative or judicial assembly, a court, a council. Cf. ThingObs....
6. time, n., int., and conj. View full entry eOE
...A finite extent or stretch of continued existence, as the interval separating two successive events or actions, or the period during which an action, condition, or state continues; a finite portion of...
7. use, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To celebrate, keep, or observe (a religious rite); spec. to partake of or receive (the Eucharist). Now rare (chiefly hist.)....
8. you, pron., adj., and n. View full entry eOE
...As direct object of a verb (originally accusative)....
