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1. arrow, n. View full entry a835
...A slender pointed missile shot from a bow, usually feathered and barbed. Sometimes also applied to the bolts, or quarrels, with thickened heads, discharged from the cross-bow....
2. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
3. beard, n. View full entry c825
...The hair that grows upon the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of an adult man's face; now usually excluding the moustache, or hair of the upper lip....
4. before, adv., prep., conj., adj., and n. View full entry OE
...Of motion: Ahead, in advance, in front....
5. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
6. brass, n. View full entry c1000
...Historically: The general name for all alloys of copper with tin or zinc (and occasionally other base metals). To distinguish alloys of copper and tin, the name bronze has...
7. brave, adj., n., and int. View full entry 1568
...Of persons and their attributes: Courageous, daring, intrepid, stout-hearted (as a good quality)....
8. bus, n.1 View full entry 1832
...A large public vehicle carrying passengers by road, running on a fixed route and typically requiring the payment of a fare; = omnibus1. Also: this as a form of...
9. Capitol, n. View full entry a1387
...The temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, on the Saturnian or Tarpeian (later called Capitoline) Hill at Rome, the smallest of its seven hills; the hill itself. Also more generally: any citadel on...
10. cloak, n. View full entry c1300
...A loose outer garment worn by both sexes over their other clothes....
11. commandment, n. View full entry c1250
...An authoritative order or injunction; a precept given by authority. (arch.)...
12. conscript, adj. and n. View full entry a1533
...Enrolled or elected a senator. In pl. conscript fathers, fathers conscriptLatinpatres conscripti, properly patres, conscripti, i.e. patres et conscripti fathers: a collective title...
13. curtain, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A piece of cloth or similar material suspended by the top so as to admit of being withdrawn sideways, and serving as a screen or hanging for purposes of use or ornament;...
14. die, n.1 View full entry c1330
...A small cube of ivory, bone, or other material, having its faces marked with spots numbering from one to six, used in games of chance by being thrown from a box or...
15. 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...
16. four, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
17. 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...
18. Hannibal, n. View full entry 1585
...allusively. A great general. (Also, in Shakespeare, humorously confounded with cannibal...
19. home, adv. View full entry eOE
...To or towards one's home, house, or abode; to the place, region, or country where one lives....
20. 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...
