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1. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
2. bend, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thin flat strip adapted to bind round....
3. bleach, n.1 View full entry c1050
...Whiteness, paleness. Obs....
4. bolt, n.1 View full entry a1000
...An arrow; especially one of the stouter and shorter kind with blunt or thickened head, called also quarrel, discharged from a cross-bow or other engine. Often fig., esp....
5. bore, v.1 View full entry c1000
...trans. To pierce, perforate, make a hole in or through; in mod. use esp. to pierce by means of a rotatory movement like that of an auger or gimlet....
6. box, n.2 View full entry a1000
...A case or receptacle usually having a lid....
7. bride, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A woman at her marriage; a woman just about to be married or very recently married....
8. † ˈbrowdster, n. View full entry c1450
...An embroiderer....
9. ˈbullˌhead, n. View full entry c1450
...A small freshwater fish with a large head (Aspidophorus cataphractes); the Miller's Thumb....
10. butt, n.3 View full entry c1450
...The thicker end of anything, esp. of a tool or weapon, the part by which it is held or on which it rests; e.g. the lower end of a spear-shaft,...
11. butterfly, n. View full entry a1000
...An insect belonging to any of those diurnal species of lepidoptera, or scaly-winged flies, which have knobbed antennæ, and carry their wings erect when at rest....
12. can, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A vessel for holding liquids; formerly used of vessels of various materials, shapes, and sizes, including drinking-vessels; now generally restricted to vessels of tin or other metal, mostly larger than a drinking-vessel,...
13. candle-wick, n. View full entry c1000
...The wick of a candle. Also attrib....
14. cap, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A hood, a covering for the head. (Precise sense not definable; in first quot. still in Latin form.)...
15. carder, n.1 View full entry c1450
...One who cards wool, etc.; one who attends to a carding machine....
16. cheese, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A substance used as food, consisting of the curd of milk (coagulated by rennet) separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass....
17. chin, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The part of the face below the under-lip formed by the prominent extremity of the lower jaw....
18. churn, n. View full entry c1000
...A vessel or machine for making butter, in which cream or milk is shaken, beaten, and broken, so as to separate the oily globules which form the butter from the serous parts....
19. clay, n. View full entry c1000
...A stiff viscous earth found, in many varieties, in beds or other deposits near the surface of the ground and at various depths below it: it forms with water a tenacious paste...
20. † colle, n. View full entry ?a1500
...A cask, wine-vessel, tub....
