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1. Academe, n. View full entry 1598
...orig. and chiefly literary. = academy2....
2. bail, v.3 View full entry 1609
...To confine. rare....
3. barber, v. View full entry a1616
...trans. To dress the beard and hair of, to trim. Also fig....
4. † barn, v. View full entry 1594
...To house or store in a barn; to garner. Often fig....
5. caparison, v. View full entry 1597
...trans. To put trappings on; to trap, deck, harness. Also fig....
6. † ˈcarlot, n. View full entry a1616
...A churl, carl, peasant....
7. daisied, adj. View full entry a1616
...Adorned with or abounding in daisies. (Chiefly poetic.)...
8. dead man's finger(s, n. View full entry 1604
...A local name for various species of Orchis, properly those with palmate tubers, as O. maculata and latifolia; in Shakespeare prob. the Early Purple Orchis, O. mascula...
9. dedicated, adj. View full entry 1609
...Sacredly, solemnly, or formally devoted; wholly given up, etc.; inscribed (as a book)....
10. † ˈdey-woman, n. View full entry 1598
...A dairy woman....
11. dobbin, n. View full entry 1600
...An ordinary draught or farm horse; sometimes contemptuously, an old horse, a jade....
12. end, v.2 View full entry a1616
...trans. To put (corn, hay, etc.) into (a barn, stack, etc.); to ‘get in’. Also fig....
13. engrafted, adj. View full entry 1609
...In the senses of the vb. lit. and fig.engrafted holding: = emphyteusis...
14. ˈfarm-ˌhouse, n. View full entry 1602
...The chief dwelling house attached to a farm. ...
15. forward, v. View full entry 1598
...trans. To help or push forward; to advance, assist, hasten, promote, urge on. Also, †to put forward, set on foot (obs.rare)....
16. gally, v. View full entry 1608
...trans. To frighten, daze, scare, startle. Now only dial. and in the whale fishery. Also dial. to scare away....
17. ˈgrass-plat | ˈgrass-plot, n. View full entry a1616
...A piece of ground covered with turf, sometimes having ornamental flower-beds upon it....
18. Joan, n. View full entry 1598
...A generic name for a female rustic....
19. parkward, adv. View full entry a1616
...Towards the park....
20. plantage, n. View full entry 1609
...Vegetation, herbage. Obs....
