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1. ark, n. View full entry c825
...A chest, box, coffer, close basket, or similar receptacle; esp....
2. burn, v.1 View full entry c825
...Of fire, a furnace, or conflagration: To be in the state of activity characteristic of fire; to be in the state of combustion. Sometimes the prominent notion is that of intense heat...
3. chalice, n. View full entry c825
...A drinking-cup or goblet. (Now only in poetic or elevated language.)...
4. church, n.1 and adj. View full entry eOE
...A building for public Christian worship or rites such as baptism, marriage, etc., traditionally cruciform in shape, and typically having a tower, dome, or spire; distinguished originally from an oratory...
5. delve, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To dig; to turn up with the spade; esp. to dig (ground) in preparation for a crop. Now chiefly north. and Sc., where it...
6. eat, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To take into the mouth piecemeal, and masticate and swallow as food; to consume as food. Usually of solids only....
7. finger, n. View full entry c825
...One of the five terminal members of the hand; in a restricted sense, one of the four excluding the thumb. In this latter sense, the fingers are commonly numbered first to fourth,...
8. fire, n. View full entry c825
...The natural agency or active principle operative in combustion; popularly conceived as a substance visible in the form of flame or of ruddy glow or incandescence....
9. fish, n.1 View full entry c825
...In popular language, any animal living exclusively in the water; primarily denoting vertebrate animals provided with fins and destitute of limbs; but extended to include various cetaceans, crustaceans, molluscs, etc. In modern...
10. foot, n. View full entry c825
...The lowest part of the leg beyond the ankle-joint....
11. fox, n. View full entry c825
...An animal of the genus Vulpes, having an elongated pointed muzzle and long bushy tail. Usually V. vulgaris, preserved in England and elsewhere as a beast of the...
12. gall, n.1 View full entry c825
...The secretion of the liver, bile. Now applied only (exc. in Comb.) to that of the lower animals, esp. to ox gall (see ox) as used...
13. gang, n. View full entry eOE
...The action of going or moving, esp. on foot; walking. In early use also: an act or instance of this; a walk, a step. Also in fig. context. Obs....
14. god, n. View full entry c825
...A superhuman person (regarded as masculine: see goddess) who is worshipped as having power over nature and the fortunes of mankind; a deity. (Chiefly of heathen divinities; when applied to...
15. hand, n.1 View full entry c825
...The terminal part of the arm beyond the wrist, consisting of the palm and five digits, forming the organ of prehension characteristic of man. The name is also given to the similar...
16. hay, n.1 View full entry c825
...Grass cut or mown, and dried for use as fodder; formerly (as still sometimes) including grass fit for mowing, or preserved for mowing....
17. head, n.1 View full entry c825
...The anterior part of the body of an animal, when separated by a neck, or otherwise distinguished, from the rest of the body; it contains the mouth and special sense-organs, and the...
18. heat, n. View full entry c825
...The quality of being hot; that quality or condition of matter which produces the sensation described in 1b; often regarded as a substance or thing contained in or issuing from...
19. heavy, adj.1 and n. View full entry c825
...Of great weight; weighty, ponderous. The opposite of light....
20. high, adj. and n.2 View full entry c825
...Of great or considerable upward extent or magnitude; extending far upward; ‘long upwards’ (Johnson); lofty, tall....
