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1. 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...
2. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
3. do, v. View full entry c825
...To put, place....
4. drop, n. View full entry c825
...The smallest quantity of liquid that falls or detaches itself, or is produced, in a spherical or pear-shaped form; a globule of liquid....
5. 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,...
6. 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....
7. 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...
8. 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...
9. 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...
10. 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...
11. 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....
12. 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...
13. heart, n. View full entry c825
...The hollow muscular or otherwise contractile organ which, by its dilatation and contraction, keeps up the circulation of the blood in the vascular system of an animal....
14. heavy, adj.1 and n. View full entry c825
...Of great weight; weighty, ponderous. The opposite of light....
15. 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....
16. horse, n. View full entry c825
...A solid-hoofed perissodactyl quadruped (Equus caballus), having a flowing mane and tail, whose voice is a neigh. It is well known in the domestic state as a beast of burden...
17. iron, adj. View full entry c825
...Of iron; consisting or formed of iron. (Latin ferreus.)...
18. lady, n. View full entry eOE
...The female head of a household; a woman who has authority over servants, attendants, or slaves (now chiefly arch. or hist.). Cf. lady of the house1a(a)...
19. leaf, n.1 View full entry c825
...An expanded organ of a plant, produced laterally from a stem or branch, or springing from its root; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage....
20. light, adj.2 View full entry c825
...Bright, shining, luminous. Of a fire: Burning brightly. Phrase, on (of, in) a light fire: in a blaze (very common in 16–18th c.). Obs....
