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1. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
2. agisted, adj. View full entry 1669
...Of an animal: that has been put to pasture, usually for hire on land not belonging to their owner. Also of land: used by livestock that has been agisted....
3. bagging, n.1 View full entry 1611
...The action of the verb bag in different senses....
4. bail, v.3 View full entry 1609
...To confine. rare....
5. banker, n.3 View full entry 1666
...[Cf. French banquier in same sense.] A ship employed in cod-fishing on the Bank of Newfoundland....
6. bap, n.1 View full entry c1600
...A small loaf or ‘roll’ of bakers' bread, made of various sizes and shapes in different parts of Scotland....
7. barb, n.3 View full entry a1610
...A horse of the breed imported from Barbary and Morocco, noted for great speed and endurance....
8. bather, n. View full entry a1610
...A bath-keeper, or attendant at a bath. Obs....
9. beat, n.1 View full entry a1625
...A stroke or blow in beating....
10. belly, v. View full entry 1609
...trans. To cause to swell out....
11. blacksnake, n. View full entry 1694
...Any of various dark-coloured snakes; esp.U.S. either of two harmless colubrids, the racer (Coluber constrictor) and the rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta);Austral. the venomous snake...
12. blight, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. Any baleful influence of atmospheric or invisible origin, that suddenly blasts, nips, or destroys plants, affects them with disease, arrests their growth, or prevents their blossom from ‘setting’; a diseased...
13. bloodwood, n. View full entry 1697
...Any of various tropical trees having reddish wood or sap; esp. either of two leguminous trees, Gordonia haematoxylon of the West Indies, and the logwood, Haematoxylum campechianum...
14. bluestone | blue stone, n. View full entry 1651
...Copper sulphate....
15. ˈbolter, n.2 View full entry 1699
...One that bolts or runs; esp. a horse that bolts....
16. bomb, v. View full entry 1694
...trans....
17. boundary, n. View full entry 1626
...That which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself....
18. burster, n. View full entry 1611
...He who, or that which, bursts; spec. (Gunnery) a charge of gunpowder for bursting a shell, or the bag containing it. Hence burster-bag...
19. bust, v.2 View full entry 1639
...intr. To burst, esp. as a result of internal pressure; (also) to break, fall to pieces; (hence) to stop working. Also with adverb, as open, out, ...
20. buster, n. View full entry 1614
...With of. A person who or thing which ‘busts’ a specified thing, or causes it to break or burst. See also -buster....
