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1. adze | adz, n. View full entry eOE
...A tool similar to an axe, with a blade set at right angles to the shaft and curving inwards towards it, used for cutting or slicing away the surface of wood. Also:...
2. alexanders, n. View full entry eOE
...A tall biennial plant, Smyrnium olusatrum (family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae), native to southern Europe, with large, glossy compound leaves and clusters of tiny yellow-green flowers, formerly commonly...
3. anvil, n. View full entry a800
...The block (usually of iron) on which the smith hammers and shapes the metal which he is working....
4. Babylonish, adj. (and n.) View full entry eOE
...Of, from, or relating to the ancient city of Babylon (now in Iraq), or to the ancient Babylonian Empire (hist.). Also: resembling (that of) Babylon or Babylonia. In Old English...
5. † bache, n. View full entry a1000
...The vale of a stream or rivulet....
6. Bath, n.2 View full entry 973
...A well-known city in the west of England, so called from its hot springs. Cf. bath13....
7. † ˈbilewhit, adj. View full entry c890
...Mild, gentle, clement; innocent, simple....
8. blench, v.1 View full entry a1000
...trans. To deceive, cheat. Obs....
9. eddish, n. View full entry a700
...Old English edisc: A park or enclosed pasture for cattle....
10. gladdon, n. View full entry a700
...A popular name of the iris (Iris Pseudacorus and Iris fœtidissima; the latter is sometimes distinguished as ‘stinking gladdon’). corn-gladdon (quot. 1666) = ...
11. kipper, n.1 and adj. View full entry a1000
...A name given to the male salmon (or sea trout) during the spawning season. (The female is then called a shedder.)...
12. maslin, n.1 View full entry OE
...A shiny yellowish alloy of copper resembling brass (perh. a form of the copper-zinc alloy now called brass). In later use (esp. attrib.): such a metal as used...
13. † mete, v.2 View full entry eOE
...trans. (impers.). me (etc.) metes: it occurs to me (him, etc.) in a dream; I (he, etc.) dream. Also with noun complement, as me...
14. neap, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Designating or relating to a tide occurring just after the first or third quarters of the moon, when the high-water level is lowest and there is least difference between high- and low-water...
15. Noah's flood, n. View full entry OE
...= flood4b....
16. † Northumber, n. View full entry eOE
...A native or inhabitant of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. Usu. in pl. Cf. Northumbrian1....
17. play, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To exercise or occupy oneself, to be engaged with some activity; to act, operate, work. Now only as passing into other senses....
18. pray, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A wooden pin, spec. one used in thatching....
19. quake, v.1 View full entry eOE
...intr. Of a thing, esp. the earth: to shake or tremble as a result of an external or internal impulse, natural instability, etc....
20. raising, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A beam, plank, or piece of timber; spec. = wall-plate1. Cf. raising-piece, raising plate...
