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1. beard, n. View full entry c825
...The hair that grows upon the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of an adult man's face; now usually excluding the moustache, or hair of the upper lip....
2. cheek, n. View full entry c825
...The jaw, jaw-bone; later called ‘cheek-bone’. Obs....
3. 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...
4. † ˈcocker, n.1 View full entry c825
...A case for arrows; a quiver....
5. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
6. 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....
7. ear, n.1 View full entry c825
...The external ear....
8. end, n. View full entry c825
...The extremity or outermost part (in any direction) of a portion of space, or of anything extended in space; utmost limit. Obs. in general sense; retained in phrase, the...
9. far, adv. View full entry c825
...At a great distance, a long way off. Const. from, (colloq.) off. Also with advbs. away, off, out....
10. few, adj. View full entry c825
...Not many; amounting to a small number. Often preceded by but, †full, so, too, very, †well....
11. 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,...
12. 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....
13. foot, n. View full entry c825
...The lowest part of the leg beyond the ankle-joint....
14. 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...
15. 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...
16. 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...
17. hate, n.1 View full entry c825
...An emotion of extreme dislike or aversion; detestation, abhorrence, hatred. Now chiefly poet....
18. 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...
19. 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...
20. heavy, adj.1 and n. View full entry c825
...Of great weight; weighty, ponderous. The opposite of light....
