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1. burn, v.1 View full entry c825
...Of fire, a furnace, or conflagration: To be in the state of activity characteristic of fire; to be in the state of combustion. Sometimes the prominent notion is that of intense heat...
2. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
3. deaf adder, n. View full entry eOE
...In Biblical translation or allusion: an asp or other snake, regarded as deaf or wilfully unhearing. Cf. as deaf as an adderdeaf1d, adder-deafadder2....
4. do, v. View full entry c825
...To put, place....
5. father, n. View full entry c825
...One by whom a child is or has been begotten, a male parent, the nearest male ancestor. Rarely applied to animals....
6. gum, n.1 View full entry c825
...Used in Old English and early Middle English sing. or pl. indifferently for the inside of the mouth or throat....
7. hand, n.1 View full entry c825
...The terminal part of the arm beyond the wrist, consisting of the palm and five digits, forming the organ of prehension characteristic of man. The name is also given to the similar...
8. hay, n.1 View full entry c825
...Grass cut or mown, and dried for use as fodder; formerly (as still sometimes) including grass fit for mowing, or preserved for mowing....
9. head, n.1 View full entry c825
...The anterior part of the body of an animal, when separated by a neck, or otherwise distinguished, from the rest of the body; it contains the mouth and special sense-organs, and the...
10. high, adj. and n.2 View full entry c825
...Of great or considerable upward extent or magnitude; extending far upward; ‘long upwards’ (Johnson); lofty, tall....
11. horse, n. View full entry c825
...A solid-hoofed perissodactyl quadruped (Equus caballus), having a flowing mane and tail, whose voice is a neigh. It is well known in the domestic state as a beast of burden...
12. iron, adj. View full entry c825
...Of iron; consisting or formed of iron. (Latin ferreus.)...
13. lady, n. View full entry eOE
...The female head of a household; a woman who has authority over servants, attendants, or slaves (now chiefly arch. or hist.). Cf. lady of the house1a(a)...
14. live, v.1 View full entry eOE
...intr....
15. 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...
16. meat, n. View full entry eOE
...Food, as nourishment for people and fodder for animals; esp. solid food, as opposed to drink (but see quots. 1450 and 1575). Now ...
17. mighty, adj. (and int.), n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Possessing might or power; powerful, potent, strong. Freq. rhetorical, connoting a pre-eminent or imposing degree of power....
18. new, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Not previously existing; now made or brought into existence for the first time....
19. night, n. and int. View full entry eOE
...The period of darkness occurring between one day and the next; that part of a 24-hour period during which a place receives no light from the sun; the time between evening and...
20. old, n.1 View full entry eOE
...An old person. Now rare....
