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1. abuse, v. View full entry c1430
...trans. To use (something) improperly, to misuse; to make a bad use of; to pervert; to take advantage of wrongly....
2. acronarcotic, adj. View full entry 1816
...Of a poison or its effect: both corrosive or irritating and narcotic....
3. addicted, adj. and n. View full entry 1535
...Devoted or attached to a person, party, or cause; spec. †bound as, or as if, a servant (obs.). (In later use merging with sense A. 2.)...
4. afion, n. View full entry 1542
...Opium, esp. in a raw liquid form....
5. alligator, n.2 View full entry 1591
...Any of various broad-snouted crocodilians constituting the family Alligatoridae, found chiefly in the New World and including the caimans; (now) spec. either of two members of the genus...
6. bad, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1203
...Of poor quality or little worth....
7. baller, n.1 View full entry a1586
...Sport. A player of a ball game....
8. bend, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To put in bonds, to fetter. Obs....
9. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
10. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
11. black drop, n. View full entry 1801
...Med. In sing. or (rare) pl. A dark-coloured liquid medicine composed of opium in vinegar or verjuice with various spices. Now hist....
12. blast, v. View full entry c1300
...intr. To blow, to puff violently. Obs....
13. blaze, v.1 View full entry ?c1225
...intr. To burn with a bright fervent flame. Often with away, forth, out. to blaze up: to burst or flash into a blaze....
14. 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,...
15. 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....
16. bomb, n. View full entry 1588
...Transl. of Spanish bomba de fuego ‘a ball of wilde-fire,’ Minsheu. Obs....
17. boy, n.1 and int. View full entry c1300
...A male servant, slave, assistant, junior employee, etc....
18. bust, n.3 View full entry 1764
...Perh.: a distinctive mark. Obs.rare....
19. cabbage, n.1 View full entry 1391
...As a count noun. The compact round or conical head of thick, short-stemmed, typically green leaves, formed by numerous cultivated varieties of the plant Brassica oleracea (family Brassicaceae),...
20. † carpese, n. View full entry 1605
...A plant with narcotic juice mentioned by ancient authors....
