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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. alive, adj. View full entry OE
...Of a person, animal, or plant: living, not dead....
3. arse, n. View full entry c1000
...The fundament, buttocks, posteriors, or rump of an animal....
4. arsed, adj. View full entry c1000
...Having an arse. (Chiefly in comb.) Usu. as a terminal element: half-arsed, smart-arsed, etc. (see first word)....
5. asparagus, n. View full entry c1000
...A plant (Asparagus officinalis, family Liliaceæ) cultivated for the sake of its vernal shoots, which form a well-known delicacy of the table. Bot. The genus which...
6. atom, n. View full entry OE
...In and with reference to the medieval period: the smallest unit of time, of which there are 376 in a minute and 22,560 in an hour, equal to 1594...
7. axe | ax, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A tool or instrument for hewing, cleaving, or chopping, trees, wood, ice, etc.; consisting of a squarish head, now usually of iron with a steel edge or blade, fixed by means of...
8. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
9. bake, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To cook by dry heat acting by conduction, and not by radiation, hence either in a closed place (oven, ashes, etc.), or on a heated surface (bakestone, griddle, live coals);...
10. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
11. beaver, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An amphibious rodent, distinguished by its broad, oval, horizontally-flattened, scaly tail, palmated hind feet, coat of soft fur, and hard incisor teeth with which it cuts down trees; remarkable for its skill...
12. beer, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An alcoholic liquor obtained by the fermentation of malt (or other saccharine substance), flavoured with hops or other aromatic bitters. Formerly distinguished from ale by being hopped; but now the...
13. begin, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. To open operations upon or in reference to (any action), to set oneself effectively to do (something), to be at the point of first contact with;...
14. bench, n. View full entry OE
...A long seat, with or without a back, usually of wood, but also of stone, etc. ‘Distinguished from a stool by its greater length’ (Johnson)....
15. bend, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To put in bonds, to fetter. Obs....
16. berry, n.1 View full entry c1000
...Any small globular, or ovate juicy fruit, not having a stone; in Old English chiefly applied to the grape; in mod. popular use, embracing the gooseberry, raspberry, bilberry, and their congeners, as...
17. binder, n. View full entry OE
...gen. One who binds. (See senses of the verb.)...
18. bit, n.2 View full entry c1000
...The portion of food bitten off at once; as much as is taken in the mouth at once; a mouthful; = bite4. Obs....
19. bitch, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The female of the dog....
20. bite, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To cut into, pierce, or nip (anything) with the teeth....
