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1. arse, n. View full entry c1000
...The fundament, buttocks, posteriors, or rump of an animal....
2. ass, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A well-known quadruped of the horse kind, distinguished from the horse by its smaller size, long ears, tuft at end of tail, and black stripe across the shoulders. Found wild in western...
3. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
4. brood, n. View full entry c1000
...Progeny, offspring, young....
5. buck, n.1 View full entry a1000
...The male of several animals....
6. frog, n.1 and adj. View full entry OE
...Originally: a widespread Eurasian amphibian, Rana temporaria (family Ranidae), which has a short, squat, tailless body, moist smooth skin, and long, web-footed hind legs for swimming and leaping;...
7. health, n. View full entry c1000
...Soundness of body; that condition in which its functions are duly and efficiently discharged....
8. knape, n. View full entry c1000
...A male child, a boy (= knave1); a lad, young man, youth, fellow. Obs....
9. † mass, v.1 View full entry OE
...intr. To celebrate mass; to say or sing mass. (From the 16th cent. depreciative.)...
10. † monging, n. View full entry OE
...Trading, trafficking. Cf. mongering2....
11. pole, n.1 View full entry OE
...In early use: a stake, stave, or stick, regardless of length or thickness; spec. the straight stem of a slender tree stripped of its branches. Now: a long, straight, slender,...
12. souter, n. View full entry c1000
...A maker or mender of shoes; a shoemaker or cobbler....
13. stinking, adj. View full entry c1000
...That stinks; offensively smelling....
14. witch, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A female magician, sorceress; in later use esp. a woman supposed to have dealings with the devil or evil spirits and to be able by their co-operation to perform supernatural...
