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1. belly, n. View full entry c950
...A bag, skin-bag, purse, pod, husk. Freq. in comb. as béan bælg ‘bean-pod,’ blást-bælgbellows q.v., met-bæl(i)g ‘meat-bag, scrip,’ belly wínbel(i)g...
2. bin, n. View full entry c950
...gen. A receptacle (orig. of wicker- or basket-work): still used dialectally and technically in the most diverse senses, as seen in the following quotations....
3. cripple, n. and adj. View full entry c950
...One who is disabled (either from birth, or by accident or injury) from the use of his limbs; a lame person....
4. day, n. View full entry c950
...‘The time between the rising and setting of the sun’ (Johnson); the interval of light between successive periods of darkness or night; in ordinary usage including the lighter part of...
5. dead, adj., n.1, and adv. View full entry c950
...That has ceased to live; deprived of life; in that state in which the vital functions and powers have come to an end, and are incapable of being restored:...
6. deer, n. View full entry c950
...A beast: usually a quadruped, as distinguished from birds and fishes; but sometimes, like beast, applied to animals of lower orders. Obs....
7. fly, n.1 View full entry c950
...Any winged insect; as the bee, gnat, locust, moth, etc. Obs. Cf. 2–4 below, and butterfly...
8. forty, adj. and n. View full entry c950
...The cardinal numeral equal to four tens, represented by the symbols 40 or xl. Also in comb. with numbers below ten (ordinal and cardinal), as forty-one, forty-first, etc....
9. grip, v.1 View full entry c950
...trans. To grasp or seize firmly or tightly with the hand; to seize with the mouth, claw, beak or other prehensile organ....
10. hen, n. View full entry c950
...The female of the common domestic or barn-door fowl, the male of which is the cock...
11. holiday, n. View full entry c950
...A consecrated day, a religious festival. Now usually written holy-day, q.v....
12. read, v. View full entry OE
...trans....
13. roar, v.1 View full entry OE
...intr....
14. shake, v. View full entry c950
...intr. A poetical word for: To go, pass, move, journey; to flee, depart. Said of persons and things, and both in physical and non-physical senses. Also with away, ...
15. shower, n.1 View full entry c950
...A fall of rain, of short duration and (usually) comparatively light. Also, a similar fall of sleet or hail, rarely of snow. See also hail-showerhail2a, rain shower...
16. spit, v.2 View full entry c950
...To eject saliva on (a person) as a sign of contempt. Obs....
17. stand, n.1 View full entry c950
...A pause, delay. (Old English rare.)...
18. straw, n.1 View full entry c950
...The stems or stalks (esp. dry and separated by threshing) of certain cereals, chiefly wheat, barley, oats, and rye. Used for many purposes, e.g. as litter and as fodder for...
19. teat, n. View full entry c950
...The small protuberance at the tip of each breast or udder in female mammalia (except monotremes), upon which the ducts of the mammary gland open, and from which the milk is sucked...
20. third, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c950
...The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral three; the last of three; that comes next after the second....
