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1. bellow, v. View full entry c1000
...prop. To roar as a bull, or as a cow when excited. (Ordinarily, a cow lows.)...
2. bree, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thick pottage made of meal, pulse, etc. Obs....
3. † Britannish, adj. View full entry OE
...= British3. Also (rare): of or from Brittany in northern France....
4. brock, n.3 View full entry c1050
...? = Latin ophiomachus (Vulgate Lev. xi. 22), a kind of locust: cf. bruke Only Old English....
5. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
6. hog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domestic pig reared for slaughter; spec. a castrated male pig. Also more widely: any domestic pig. Cf. pig1a....
7. Irish, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry OE
...Of a person: native to Ireland; that is a citizen of Ireland; (also) descended from emigrants from Ireland to another country, esp. the United States or Australia (cf. Irish-American, ...
8. Job, n.1 View full entry OE
...(The name of) a patriarch of the land of Uz, the eponymous protagonist of a book of the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, taken as the type of extreme poverty, destitution, etc.,...
9. † mete, v.3 View full entry OE
...trans. and intr. To paint, depict; to design....
10. Michael, n. View full entry OE
...Michaelmas-tide. Also Michael's-tide. Obs....
11. narcissus, n. View full entry OE
...Any of numerous spring-flowering bulbous plants of the genus Narcissus (family Amaryllidaceae), native to Europe and the Mediterranean, which includes the daffodils; (also, in form Narcissus)...
12. Noah's Ark, n. View full entry OE
...The ark in which Noah, his family, and a pair of each of the animals were, according to biblical tradition, saved from the Flood (recounted in Genesis 6–8)....
13. nott, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...Close-cropped, short-haired, bald. Obs....
14. pig, n.1 View full entry OE
...An omnivorous, domesticated even-toed ungulate derived from the wild boar Sus scrofa, with a stout body, sparse bristly hair, and a broad flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept...
15. pill, n.1 View full entry OE
...A tidal inlet on the coast, a small creek or bay; a pool, spec. one in an inlet or at the confluence of a tributary stream....
16. pose, n.1 View full entry OE
...A cold in the head; catarrh....
17. pound, v.1 View full entry OE
...trans....
18. puff, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To blow out (air, one's breath, smoke, etc.), esp. in a short abrupt blast or blasts; to emit in puffs....
19. pull, v. View full entry OE
...trans....
20. quiver, adj. View full entry OE
...Active, nimble; quick, rapid; brisk, lively....
