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1. adder, n.1 View full entry eOE
...In generic sense: a snake, a serpent, esp. with reference to the serpent as a manifestation of the devil in the biblical account of the Fall in the Garden of Eden; (hence,...
2. beard, n. View full entry c825
...The hair that grows upon the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of an adult man's face; now usually excluding the moustache, or hair of the upper lip....
3. 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...
4. church, n.1 and adj. View full entry eOE
...A building for public Christian worship or rites such as baptism, marriage, etc., traditionally cruciform in shape, and typically having a tower, dome, or spire; distinguished originally from an oratory...
5. coal, n.1 View full entry c825
...A piece of carbon glowing without flame. (Now arch. or blending with 45.)...
6. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
7. cymbal, n. View full entry c825
...One of a pair of concave plates of brass or bronze, which are struck together to produce a sharp ringing sound. Also used singly and struck with a drumstick or the like....
8. 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....
9. do, v. View full entry c825
...To put, place....
10. door, n. View full entry c825
...A movable barrier of wood or other material, consisting either of one piece, or of several pieces framed together, usually turning on hinges or sliding in a groove, and serving to close...
11. drop, n. View full entry c825
...The smallest quantity of liquid that falls or detaches itself, or is produced, in a spherical or pear-shaped form; a globule of liquid....
12. ear, n.1 View full entry c825
...The external ear....
13. eat, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To take into the mouth piecemeal, and masticate and swallow as food; to consume as food. Usually of solids only....
14. eighty, adj. (and n.) View full entry c825
...The cardinal numeral equal to eight tens, represented by the symbols 80 or lxxx. Also with omission of n. and in comb. with numbers below ten (ordinal and cardinal), as eighty-one...
15. end, n. View full entry c825
...The extremity or outermost part (in any direction) of a portion of space, or of anything extended in space; utmost limit. Obs. in general sense; retained in phrase, the...
16. evil, adj. and n.1 View full entry c825
...Morally depraved, bad, wicked, vicious. Also absol.Obs. as applied to persons....
17. 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....
18. finger, n. View full entry c825
...One of the five terminal members of the hand; in a restricted sense, one of the four excluding the thumb. In this latter sense, the fingers are commonly numbered first to fourth,...
19. fire, n. View full entry c825
...The natural agency or active principle operative in combustion; popularly conceived as a substance visible in the form of flame or of ruddy glow or incandescence....
20. fish, n.1 View full entry c825
...In popular language, any animal living exclusively in the water; primarily denoting vertebrate animals provided with fins and destitute of limbs; but extended to include various cetaceans, crustaceans, molluscs, etc. In modern...
