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1. bird, n. View full entry a800
...orig. The general name for the young of the feathered tribes; a young bird; a chicken, eaglet, etc.; a nestling. The only sense in Old English; found in literature down to...
2. boat, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A small, typically open vessel for travelling over water, propelled by oars, sail, an engine, etc. Usu. contrasted with ship....
3. cat, n.1 View full entry a800
...A well-known carnivorous quadruped (Felis domesticus) which has long been domesticated, being kept to destroy mice, and as a house pet....
4. cinder, n. View full entry a800
...The refuse or dross thrown off from iron or other metals in the furnace; scoria, slag. (Usually in sing.) Now techn....
5. cow, n.1 View full entry a800
...The female of any bovine animal (as the ox, bison, or buffalo); most commonly applied to the female of the domestic species (Bos Taurus)....
6. devil, n. View full entry a800
...the Devilrepr. Greekὁ διάβολος of the LXX and New Testament: In Jewish and Christian theology, the proper appellation of the supreme spirit of evil, the tempter and spiritual enemy...
7. file, n.1 View full entry a800
...A metal (usually steel) instrument, having one or more of its surfaces covered with numerous small raised cutting edges or teeth, for abrading, reducing, or smoothing surfaces. to bite file,...
8. flesh, n. View full entry a800
...The soft substance, esp. the muscular parts, of an animal body; that which covers the framework of bones and is enclosed by the skin. raw flesh...
9. foul, adj., n., and adv. View full entry a800
...Grossly offensive to the senses, physically loathsome; primarily with reference to the odour or appearance indicative of putridity or corruption....
10. gold, n.1 View full entry c725
...The most precious metal: characterized by a beautiful yellow colour, non-liability to rust, high specific gravity, and great malleability and ductility. Chemical symbol Au....
11. grass, n.1 View full entry c725
...Herbage in general, the blades or leaves and stalks of which are eaten by horses, cattle, sheep, etc. Also, in a narrower sense, restricted to the smaller non-cereal Gramineæ (see...
12. green, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Of a colour intermediate between blue and yellow in the spectrum; of the colour of grass, foliage, an emerald, etc....
13. ground, n. View full entry c725
...Of the sea, a well, ditch, etc., and of hell; rarely of heaven. (Cf. bottom3) Obs....
14. hair, n. View full entry a800
...One of the numerous fine and generally cylindrical filaments that grow from the skin or integument of animals, esp. of most mammals, of which they form the characteristic coat; applied also to...
15. handle, n.1 View full entry a800
...That part of a thing which is made to be grasped by the hand in using or moving it....
16. hat, n. View full entry c725
...A covering for the head; in recent use, generally distinguished from other head-gear, as a man's cap (or bonnet) and a woman's bonnet, by having a more or less horizontal brim all...
17. heap, n. View full entry c725
...A collection of things lying one upon another so as to form an elevated mass often roughly conical in form. (A heap of things placed regularly one above another is more distinctively...
18. hole, n. View full entry c725
...A hollow place or cavity in a solid body; a pit, cave, den, hiding-place in the earth; a deep place in a stream, pond, etc....
19. 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...
20. I, pron. and n.2 View full entry eOE
...Used by the speaker or writer referring to himself or herself....
