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1. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
2. 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....
3. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
4. do, v. View full entry c825
...To put, place....
5. drop, v. View full entry c1000
...Of a liquid: To fall in drops or globules; to exude or distil in drops....
6. French, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...Esp. in early use: of or relating to the Romance-speaking peoples of western Europe (as opposed to the Germanic or Celtic peoples). In later use: of or relating to France....
7. get, v. View full entry ?c1200
...To obtain possession of (property, etc.) as the result of effort or contrivance....
8. hard, adj. and n. View full entry 971
...A primary adjective expressing consistency of matter: That does not yield to blows or pressure; not easily penetrated or separated into particles; firm and resisting to the touch; solid, compact in substance...
9. love, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A feeling or disposition of deep affection or fondness for someone, typically arising from a recognition of attractive qualities, from natural affinity, or from sympathy and manifesting itself in concern for the...
10. M, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
11. sugar, n. View full entry c1299
...A sweet crystalline substance, white when pure, obtained from a great variety of plant juices, but chiefly from those of the sugar-cane and sugar-beet, and forming an important article of human food....
12. touch, n. View full entry 1297
...The action or an act of touching (with the hand, finger, or other part of the body); exercise of the faculty of feeling upon a material object. †In quot. 1340,...
13. use, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To celebrate, keep, or observe (a religious rite); spec. to partake of or receive (the Eucharist). Now rare (chiefly hist.)....
