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1. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
2. agist, v. View full entry a1450
...trans. To let or hire (land, originally woodland) for pasture....
3. agistment, n. View full entry a1447
...The rate levied on or profit made from the pasturing of another person's cattle....
4. Arthur, n. View full entry c1425
...Astron. In the genitive, forming names for the distinctive group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major called the Plough (also the Big Dipper), and...
5. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
6. bitumen, n. View full entry a1464
...Originally, a kind of mineral pitch found in Palestine and Babylon, used as mortar, etc. The same as asphalt, mineral pitch, Jew's pitch, Bitumen judaicum....
7. blow, n.1 View full entry 1488
...A stroke, esp. a firm stroke; a violent application of the fist or of any instrument to an object....
8. boil, n.2 View full entry c1440
...An act of boiling. spec. in N.Z., the act of making tea in a billy. Cf. boil4c and boil-up...
9. box, v.1 View full entry 1477
...trans. To furnish or fit with a box....
10. bung, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A stopper; spec. a large cork stopper for the ‘mouth’ of a cask, i.e. the hole in the bulge by which it is filled....
11. cast, adj.2 View full entry 1487
...Thrown, that has been thrown. (See the vb.) cast shadow, in painting, a shadow cast by an object within the picture, and serving to bring it out against the objects...
12. catch, n.1 View full entry c1430
...The act or fact of catching in various senses; see the vb....
13. check-, comb. form View full entry 1487
...Used attrib. ‘that serves to “check” or control’....
14. chip, v.1 View full entry 1461-83
...to chip bread: to pare it by cutting away the crust. Obs....
15. clean-, adj. and adv. View full entry 1461-83
...With pa. pples., as clean-armed, clean-built, clean-made, clean-shaped, clean-shaved, clean-shaven, clean-swept, clean-washed, etc....
16. curl, v.1 View full entry 1447
...To bend round, wind, or twist into ringlets, as the hair....
17. cutter, n.1 View full entry c1425
...One who cuts; one who shapes things by cutting: the name of operatives in many subordinate branches of industry....
18. digger, n. View full entry c1400
...One who excavates or turns up the earth with a mattock, spade, or other tool; also an animal that turns up the earth. With adverb, as digger-up....
19. domain, n. View full entry c1425
...= demesne1. Also attrib. in domain lands. Obs.rare....
20. drag, v. View full entry c1440
...trans. To draw or pull (that which is heavy or resists motion); to haul; hence to draw with force, violence, or roughness; to draw slowly and with difficulty; to trail (anything)...
