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1. active, adj. and n. View full entry 1340
...Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to ...
2. blackthorn, n. View full entry a1325
...A Eurasian thorny shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa (family Rosaceae), with dark-coloured bark and stiff spiny branches, which produces white five-petalled flowers before the leaves appear, followed...
3. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
4. bottle, n.2 View full entry c1375
...A vessel with a narrow neck for holding liquids, now usually made of glass; originally of leather....
5. bush, n.1 View full entry c1315
...A shrub, particularly one with close branches arising from or near the ground; a small clump of shrubs apparently forming one plant....
6. cancer, n. and adj. View full entry c1392
...In form Cancer....
7. coloured | colored, adj. and n. View full entry a1325
...Having a colour or colours; that is or has been coloured. Also as the second element in compounds....
8. crayfish | crawfish, n. View full entry a1400-50
...Formerly, like German krebs, a general name for all the larger edible crustacea. Obs....
9. Dutch, adj., n., and adv. View full entry c1380
...Of or relating to the people of Germany; German. Obs. exc. as a historical archaism, and in some parts of U.S.: see B. 1 and Dutchman...
10. endorse | indorse, v. View full entry 1381
...trans. To write on the back of (a document); to inscribe (words) on (the back of) a document....
11. garter, n. View full entry c1350
...A band worn round the leg, either above or below the knee, to keep the stocking from falling down....
12. girl, n. View full entry c1300
...Chiefly in pl. A child of either sex; a young person. Now Irish English (Wexford)....
13. just, adv. View full entry ?a1400
...Exactly, precisely; verily, actually; closely: cf. even6. Formerly often even just. Qualifying a prep., adv., or adv. phr.; or (in 1e–1g) an adj.,...
14. knob, n. View full entry 1398
...A small rounded lump or mass, esp. at the extremity or on the surface of something, as on a stick, a branch or trunk of a tree, a plate of glass (see...
15. lash, v.1 View full entry c1330
...intr. To make a sudden movement; to dash, fly, rush, spring, start. Of light: To flash. Of tears, water: To pour, rush. Occas. with allusion to lash2. Also...
16. madam, n. View full entry c1300
...A form of respectful or polite address (substituted for the name) originally used by servants in speaking to their mistress, and by people generally in speaking to a woman of high rank;...
17. mine, n. View full entry a1393
...An excavation or system of excavations made underground for the extraction of metals or metallic ores, coal, salt, precious stones, (less commonly) building stone, clay, etc.; an open-air excavation for the extraction...
18. mortgage, n. View full entry a1393
...gen. An arrangement or transaction whereby a benefit is acquired at the expense of exposure to some (esp. future) risk or constraint; the trading of something valued for profit, security, or...
19. native, n. View full entry 1381
...Under feudal and similar systems: a person born in bondage; a person born to servants, tenants, etc., and inheriting their status. Cf. naif1. Now hist....
20. partridge, n. View full entry c1300
...(Freq. with unmarked plural.)...
