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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. allay, v.1 View full entry OE
...trans. In physical sense: to lay, lay down, lay aside. Also fig.Obs....
3. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
4. baker, n. View full entry a1000
...One who bakes; spec. one whose business it is to make bread....
5. † ˈbaxter, n. View full entry c1000
...A baker:...
6. † bred, n. View full entry a1000
...A board; a tablet; in mod.Sc. applied to a bakeboard, and to the wooden lid of a pot, pan, water-butt, etc. (e.g. a pan-bred)....
7. buck, n.1 View full entry a1000
...The male of several animals....
8. burning, adj. View full entry c1000
...In a state of active heat, glowing, flaming....
9. cud, n. View full entry c1000
...The food which a ruminating animal brings back into its mouth from its first stomach, and chews at leisure. Usually in to chew the cud....
10. † drosen, n. View full entry c1000
...Dregs....
11. food, n. View full entry OE
...Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink in order to maintain life and growth; nourishment, provisions. ...
12. fork, n. View full entry c1000
...An implement, chiefly agricultural, consisting of a long straight handle, furnished at the end with two or more prongs or tines, and used for carrying, digging, lifting, or throwing; also with word...
13. 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;...
14. high, adv. View full entry c1000
...At or to a great distance or extent upward; in or into a high position; far up; aloft....
15. hop, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr....
16. keeve | kive, n. View full entry c1000
...A tub or vat; spec. a vat for holding liquid in brewing and bleaching; in Mining, a vessel in which tin or copper ore is washed....
17. kerf, n. View full entry c1000
...The act of cutting or carving; a cut, stroke; †power of cutting. Now rare....
18. kernel, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A seed; esp. the seed contained within any fruit; the pip of an apple or similar fruit; a grape-stone. Obs. exc. dial....
19. kiss, n. View full entry c1000
...A touch or pressure given with the lips (see kiss1), in token of affection, greeting, or reverence; a salute or caress given with the lips....
20. knit, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To tie in or with a knot; to tie, fasten, bind, attach, join, by or as by knotting. With cognate obj. to knit a knot. arch....
