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1. adder, n.1 View full entry eOE
...In generic sense: a snake, a serpent, esp. with reference to the serpent as a manifestation of the devil in the biblical account of the Fall in the Garden of Eden; (hence,...
2. ark, n. View full entry c825
...A chest, box, coffer, close basket, or similar receptacle; esp....
3. awe, n.1 View full entry c825
...Immediate and active fear; terror, dread. Obs....
4. blessing, n. View full entry c825
...Hallowing, consecration. Obs....
5. 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...
6. chalice, n. View full entry c825
...A drinking-cup or goblet. (Now only in poetic or elevated language.)...
7. cherub, n. View full entry c825
...In early use: (cherubin, -yn, -ym). A reproduction of the Latin form, app. treated as singular or collective, without article, and variously understood. ...
8. 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...
9. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
10. deed, n. View full entry c825
...That which is done, acted, or performed by an intelligent or responsible agent; an act....
11. † ˈeadi, adj. View full entry c825
...Rich, wealthy, luxurious....
12. ear, n.1 View full entry c825
...The external ear....
13. eighty, adj. (and n.) View full entry c825
...The cardinal numeral equal to eight tens, represented by the symbols 80 or lxxx. Also with omission of n. and in comb. with numbers below ten (ordinal and cardinal), as eighty-one...
14. evil, adj. and n.1 View full entry c825
...Morally depraved, bad, wicked, vicious. Also absol.Obs. as applied to persons....
15. far, adv. View full entry c825
...At a great distance, a long way off. Const. from, (colloq.) off. Also with advbs. away, off, out....
16. father, n. View full entry c825
...One by whom a child is or has been begotten, a male parent, the nearest male ancestor. Rarely applied to animals....
17. few, adj. View full entry c825
...Not many; amounting to a small number. Often preceded by but, †full, so, too, very, †well....
18. 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,...
19. 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....
20. 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...
