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1. † abysm, v. View full entry 1611
...intr. To sink into or form an abyss, to engulf....
2. adjust, v.2 View full entry 1611
...trans. To arrange, harmonize, or reconcile (different or contradictory things); to settle, to resolve (esp. a difficulty or problem)....
3. adonize, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To adorn, beautify; to titivate. Chiefly refl. (used chiefly of men). Formerly also with †it, with reflexive meaning. Now hist....
4. † advest, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To put (a person) in possession of something....
5. apostrophize, v. View full entry 1611
...Rhetoric. To address with or in an apostrophe....
6. † aˈsservant, v. View full entry 1611
...To reduce to the position of a servant....
7. † baboonize, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. With it: to act like a baboon; to fool around....
8. † beal, v. View full entry 1611
...intr. To suppurate, to ‘gather.’ Still in regular use in Scotland....
9. † beˈclumpse, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To benumb....
10. befeather, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To deck with feathers....
11. befringe, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To border, furnish, or adorn with (or as with) a fringe....
12. beˈhoney, v. View full entry 1611
...To smear or sweeten with honey, or fig. with honied words....
13. bemuffle, v. View full entry 1611
...To muffle up; often fig....
14. beplaster, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To plaster over or about; to cover or smear thickly....
15. † beˈsquirt, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To asperse or befoul by squirting; also fig. in reference to abuse or defamation....
16. † bleach, v.2 View full entry 1611
...trans. To blacken, make black....
17. bloat, v.1 View full entry 1611
...trans. To cure (herrings) by a process which leaves them soft and only half-dried. This is now done by leaving them in dry salt on a floor for 24 hours, washing...
18. ˈbottle, v.2 View full entry 1611
...To make up (hay) into bottles....
19. † ˈbuffoonize | ˈbuffonize, v. View full entry 1611
...To act the buffoon....
20. bunt, v.1 View full entry 1611
...trans. ‘To haul up the middle part of (a sail) in furling’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.)....
