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1. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
2. † bindbalk, n. View full entry c1425
...A tie-beam....
3. bloom, n.2 View full entry a1000
...‘A mass of iron after having undergone the first hammering.’ Weale. spec. An ingot of iron or steel, or a pile of puddled bars, which has been brought, by passing...
4. bolt, n.1 View full entry a1000
...An arrow; especially one of the stouter and shorter kind with blunt or thickened head, called also quarrel, discharged from a cross-bow or other engine. Often fig., esp....
5. bore, v.1 View full entry c1000
...trans. To pierce, perforate, make a hole in or through; in mod. use esp. to pierce by means of a rotatory movement like that of an auger or gimlet....
6. box, n.2 View full entry a1000
...A case or receptacle usually having a lid....
7. brine, n. View full entry a1000
...Water saturated, or strongly impregnated, with salt; salt water....
8. ˈbullˌhead, n. View full entry c1450
...A small freshwater fish with a large head (Aspidophorus cataphractes); the Miller's Thumb....
9. butt, n.3 View full entry c1450
...The thicker end of anything, esp. of a tool or weapon, the part by which it is held or on which it rests; e.g. the lower end of a spear-shaft,...
10. butterfly, n. View full entry a1000
...An insect belonging to any of those diurnal species of lepidoptera, or scaly-winged flies, which have knobbed antennæ, and carry their wings erect when at rest....
11. cap, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A hood, a covering for the head. (Precise sense not definable; in first quot. still in Latin form.)...
12. chapiter, n. View full entry c1425
...gen. Earlier spelling of chapter...
13. cheese, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A substance used as food, consisting of the curd of milk (coagulated by rennet) separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass....
14. clay, n. View full entry c1000
...A stiff viscous earth found, in many varieties, in beds or other deposits near the surface of the ground and at various depths below it: it forms with water a tenacious paste...
15. clean, v. View full entry c1450
...trans. To free from dirt, filth, or impurity....
16. cobble, n.1 View full entry ?a1500
...A water-worn rounded stone, esp. of the size suitable for paving. In earlier times often identified in use with pebble....
17. cotton, n.1 View full entry 14..
...The white fibrous substance, soft and downy like wool, which clothes the seeds of the cotton-plant (Gossypium); used (more extensively than any other material) for making cloth and thread, and...
18. crab, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The common name for decapod crustaceous animals of the tribe Brachyura; applied especially to the edible species found on or near the sea coast in most regions of the world....
19. cradle, n. View full entry c1000
...A little bed or cot for an infant: properly, one mounted on rockers, but often extended to a swing-cot, or a simple cot or basket-bed that is neither rocked nor swung....
20. cup, n. View full entry c1000
...A small open vessel for liquids, usually of hemispherical or hemi-spheroidal shape, with or without a handle; a drinking-vessel. The common form of cup (e.g. a tea-cup or coffee-cup) has...
