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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. annealed, adj. View full entry OE
...Set on fire. Obs....
3. ass, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A well-known quadruped of the horse kind, distinguished from the horse by its smaller size, long ears, tuft at end of tail, and black stripe across the shoulders. Found wild in western...
4. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
5. bench, n. View full entry OE
...A long seat, with or without a back, usually of wood, but also of stone, etc. ‘Distinguished from a stool by its greater length’ (Johnson)....
6. † beˈtimber, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To build....
7. binder, n. View full entry OE
...gen. One who binds. (See senses of the verb.)...
8. bit, n.2 View full entry c1000
...The portion of food bitten off at once; as much as is taken in the mouth at once; a mouthful; = bite4. Obs....
9. blade, n. View full entry OE
...The leaf of a herb or plant; originally perhaps (as in Icelandic) applied to those of all herbs, while leaf was used of the foliage of trees. Now applied ...
10. blow, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and often with complement,...
11. blowing, n.1 View full entry c1000
...gen. The action expressed by the vb. to blow...
12. boatswain, n. View full entry OE
...A ship's officer in charge of equipment (in a sailing ship, esp. the sails, rigging, cables, etc.) and the work of the crew on deck. Cf. bosun...
13. bolster, n.1 View full entry OE
...A long stuffed pillow or cushion used to support the sleeper's head in a bed; the name is now restricted to the under-pillow, stuffed with something firm, which extends from side to...
14. 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....
15. bottom, n. View full entry OE
...The lowest part of anything, considered as a material thing; the lower or under surface, that surface of a thing on which it stands or rests; the base. Applied spec....
16. bouk, n. View full entry c1000
...The belly, paunch, or abdomen. Obs....
17. bow, n.1 View full entry OE
...gen. A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, a bent line....
18. bowk | bouk, n. View full entry c1000
...A milk pail; a pail. Obs. or dial....
19. brass, n. View full entry c1000
...Historically: The general name for all alloys of copper with tin or zinc (and occasionally other base metals). To distinguish alloys of copper and tin, the name bronze has...
20. breast, n. View full entry OE
...Each of the two soft protuberances situated on the thorax in females, in which the milk is secreted for the nourishment of their young; the mamma; also the analogous rudimentary organ of...
