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1. boat, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A small, typically open vessel for travelling over water, propelled by oars, sail, an engine, etc. Usu. contrasted with ship....
2. cat, n.1 View full entry a800
...A well-known carnivorous quadruped (Felis domesticus) which has long been domesticated, being kept to destroy mice, and as a house pet....
3. green, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Of a colour intermediate between blue and yellow in the spectrum; of the colour of grass, foliage, an emerald, etc....
4. hole, n. View full entry c725
...A hollow place or cavity in a solid body; a pit, cave, den, hiding-place in the earth; a deep place in a stream, pond, etc....
5. kite, n. View full entry c725
...A bird of prey of the family Falconidæ and subfamily Milvinæ, having long wings, tail usually forked, and no tooth in the bill....
6. old wife, n. View full entry eOE
...An old woman. In later use (also): a person who tells old wives' tales. (Formerly sometimes as one word.) Now usu. derogatory....
7. rook, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A gregarious Eurasian crow, Corvus frugilegus, which has black plumage, a bare face, and a raucous voice, and nests in colonies in the tops of trees. Cf. crow1a...
8. set, v.1 View full entry c725
...trans. To place in a sitting posture; to cause to occupy a seat; to seat....
9. snite, n.1 View full entry c725
...= snipe1....
10. swarm, n. View full entry c725
...A body of bees which at a particular season leave the hive or main stock, gather in a compact mass or cluster, and fly off together in search of a new dwelling-place,...
11. swine, n. View full entry c725
...An animal of the genus Sus or family Suidæ, comprising bristle-bearing non-ruminant hoofed mammals, of which the full-grown male is called a boar, the full-grown female...
12. toe, n. View full entry c725
...Each of the five digits of the human foot....
13. whey, n. View full entry c725
...The serum or watery part of milk which remains after the separation of the curd by coagulation, esp. in the manufacture of cheese....
14. wood, n.1 View full entry c725
...A tree. Obs....
15. wool, n. View full entry c725
...The fine soft curly hair forming the fleecy coat of the domesticated sheep (and similar animals), characterized by its property of felting (due to the imbricated surface of the filaments) and used...
