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1. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
2. idle, adj. and n. View full entry c825
...Empty, vacant; void (of). Obs....
3. lady, n. View full entry eOE
...The female head of a household; a woman who has authority over servants, attendants, or slaves (now chiefly arch. or hist.). Cf. lady of the house1a(a)...
4. live, v.1 View full entry eOE
...intr....
5. man, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...A human being....
6. night, n. and int. View full entry eOE
...The period of darkness occurring between one day and the next; that part of a 24-hour period during which a place receives no light from the sun; the time between evening and...
7. ox, n. View full entry eOE
...A large cloven-hoofed, often horned ruminant mammal, Bos taurus (family Bovidae), derived from the extinct Eurasian aurochs and long domesticated for its milk, meat, and hide; a cow,...
8. play, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To exercise or occupy oneself, to be engaged with some activity; to act, operate, work. Now only as passing into other senses....
9. rain, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Condensed moisture of the atmosphere falling to the ground visibly in separate drops; the fall of such drops; rainwater....
10. sea, n. View full entry c825
...The continuous body of salt water that covers the greater part of the earth's surface. Often poet. with epithet as broad, deep (see deep1...
11. sheep, n. View full entry c825
...Any animal of the ruminant genus Ovis (sometimes horned), closely allied to the goats; esp. of the widely domesticated species Ovis aries, of which there are many varieties,...
12. sit, v. View full entry c825
...Of persons: To be or remain in that posture in which the weight of the body rests upon the posteriors; to be seated....
13. smear, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To anoint with oil, chrism, etc., as a symbolic ceremony. In later use only with contemptuous force....
14. stone, n. View full entry c825
...A piece of rock or hard mineral substance (other than metal) of a small or moderate size....
