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1. altar, n. View full entry eOE
...A block, table, stand, or other raised structure with a flat top used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a god or gods....
2. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
3. floor, n.1 View full entry c888
...The layer of boards, brick, stone, etc. in an apartment, on which people tread; the under surface of the interior of a room. Phr. to mop or wipe the: see...
4. home, adv. View full entry eOE
...To or towards one's home, house, or abode; to the place, region, or country where one lives....
5. neck, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Originally: the back portion of the part of the body between the head and the shoulders; the nape. Later: the whole of this part of the body; the part connecting the head...
6. nose, n. View full entry eOE
...That part (usually more or less prominent) of the head or face in humans and other mammals which lies above the mouth and contains the nostrils, and functions as the organ of...
7. silk, n. and adj. View full entry c888
...The strong, soft, lustrous fibre produced by the larvæ of certain bombycine moths which feed upon mulberry leaves, etc., and by certain spiders; silken thread or filament....
8. sore, adj.1 View full entry c897
...Causing or involving bodily pain; painful, grievous; distressing or severe in this respect:...
9. sun, n.1 View full entry c888
...The brightest (as seen from the earth) of the heavenly bodies, the luminary or orb of day; the central body of the solar system, around which the earth and other planets revolve,...
10. tell, v. View full entry c888
...To mention or name (a series of things) one after another in order; to recount, enumerate; to give a list of. Obs....
11. tower, n.1 View full entry c897
...A building lofty in proportion to the size of its base, either isolated, or forming part of a castle, church, or other edifice, or of the walls of a town....
12. white, adj. View full entry c888
...Of the colour of snow or milk; having that colour produced by reflection, transmission, or emission of all kinds of light in the proportion in which they exist in the complete visible...
13. whole, adj., n., and adv. View full entry c888
...Of a person or an animal, the body, limbs, skin: Uninjured, unwounded, unhurt; (contextually) recovered from injury or a wound; †(of a wound) healed. to lick whole: see to...
