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1. backward, adv., adj., and n.2 View full entry a1300
...Of motion: In the direction of one's back or of that to which one's back is turned, as to lean backward, bend backward, fall backward, ...
2. bark, n.1 View full entry a1300
...The rind or outer sheath of the trunk and branches of trees, formed of tissue parallel with the wood. See quot. 1866....
3. belt, v. View full entry a1400
...trans. and refl. To gird with a belt; to engirdle; spec. to invest with a distinctive belt, e.g. of knighthood....
4. bestial, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A collective term for domestic animals, especially of the bovine kind, kept for food or tillage. It took the place of the Old English féoh, Middle English fee;...
5. bike, n.1 View full entry a1400
...A nest of wasps, hornets, or wild bees, as distinct from the hive or skep of domestic bees. Also, the whole nestful of bees; a swarm....
6. † bow, n.4 View full entry a1400
...The stock of cattle on a farm, a herd....
7. break, n.1 View full entry a1400
...An act of breaking; breakage, fracture....
8. burning, n. View full entry a1300
...The condition of being on fire; the action of sending up flames; hence concr. flame. Cf. 5b....
9. call, n. View full entry a1300
...A loud vocal utterance or speech, a shout, a cry; a loud vocal address or supplication....
10. carl | carle, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A man of the common people; more particularly a countryman, a husbandman. arch....
11. case, n.2 View full entry a1300
...A thing fitted to contain or enclose something else; a receptacle or holder; a box, chest, bag, sheath, covering, etc.; spec. in very early use (as in Old French) a...
12. cast, n. View full entry a1300
...A throw of a missile, a bowl, or other object....
13. channel, n.1 View full entry a1300
...The hollow bed of running waters; also, the bed of the sea or other body of water....
14. chastise, v. View full entry c1325
...To correct (authoritatively) the faults of; to amend, reform, improve (a person or thing). Obs....
15. cleft | clift, n. View full entry a1300
...gen. A space made by cleaving, splitting, or separation of parts; a split, fissure, crack, crevice....
16. coast, n. View full entry a1300
...The side of the body (of men or animals); the part fortified by the ribs. †by my coste: by my side (quot. 1591). Obs....
17. couple, n. View full entry a1300
...A brace or leash for holding two hounds together. Usually in pl.; also a pair of couples....
18. cross, v. View full entry c1340
...trans. To crucify. Obs....
19. curn, n. View full entry a1400
...pl. Grain, corn-crops. Obs....
20. † curtelain, n. View full entry a1300
...? A gardener; the monk in charge of the garden of a monastery....