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1. Aaron's rod, n. View full entry 1631
...In similative and allusive use: a powerful force which devours or overwhelms everything around it....
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. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
4. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
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. 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...
7. fool, n.1 and adj. View full entry ?c1225
...One deficient in judgement or sense, one who acts or behaves stupidly, a silly person, a simpleton. (In Biblical use applied to vicious or impious persons.)...
8. four, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
9. grazier, n. View full entry c1503
...Used to render medieval Latin viridariusverderer...
10. 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...
11. horn, n. View full entry c725
...A non-deciduous excrescence, often curved and pointed, consisting of an epidermal sheath growing about a bony core, on the head of certain mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, antelopes, etc., and serving as...
12. imp, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To graft, engraft. Obs....
13. iris, n. View full entry a1387
...Greek Mythol. The goddess who acted as the messenger of the gods, and was held to display as her sign, or appear as, the rainbow; hence, allusively, a messenger....
14. Jack, n.1 View full entry 1362
...(As proper noun.) A familiar by-form of the name John; hence, a generic proper name for any representative of the common people....
15. lane, n.1 View full entry 971
...A narrow way between hedges or banks; a narrow road or street between houses or walls; a bye-way. blind lane, turn-again lane: a cul-de-sac (see also quot. ...
16. leek, n. View full entry eOE
...A culinary herb, Allium Porrum (family Liliaceæ), allied to the onion, but differing from it in having the bulbous part cylindrical and the leaves flat and broad....
17. lick, v. View full entry a1000
...trans....
18. lime, n.1 View full entry a700
...A viscous sticky substance prepared from the bark of the holly and used for catching small birds; = bird-lime Now only poet. (In Old English any adhesive substance,...
19. lime, v.1 View full entry a1225
...trans. To cement. Chiefly fig....
20. line, n.2 View full entry OE
...A rope, cord, string; †a leash for dogs or for hawks. Chiefly Naut. or as short for clothes-line, etc. Also applied with words prefixed to particular ‘makes’ of...
