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1. cat, n.1 View full entry a800
...A well-known carnivorous quadruped (Felis domesticus) which has long been domesticated, being kept to destroy mice, and as a house pet....
2. fan, n.1 View full entry a800
...An instrument for winnowing grain....
3. fathom, n. View full entry a800
...In pl. The embracing arms; in sing. = bosom1b. Old English only....
4. gather, v. View full entry c725
...(Only in forms with prefixed ge-.) To join or unite; to put together, form by union. Obs. since early Middle English....
5. goad, n.1 View full entry c725
...A rod or stick, pointed at one end or fitted with a sharp spike and employed for driving cattle, esp. oxen used in ploughing (cf. gad4)....
6. gold, n.1 View full entry c725
...The most precious metal: characterized by a beautiful yellow colour, non-liability to rust, high specific gravity, and great malleability and ductility. Chemical symbol Au....
7. grass, n.1 View full entry c725
...Herbage in general, the blades or leaves and stalks of which are eaten by horses, cattle, sheep, etc. Also, in a narrower sense, restricted to the smaller non-cereal Gramineæ (see...
8. green, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Of a colour intermediate between blue and yellow in the spectrum; of the colour of grass, foliage, an emerald, etc....
9. ground, n. View full entry c725
...Of the sea, a well, ditch, etc., and of hell; rarely of heaven. (Cf. bottom3) Obs....
10. hair, n. View full entry a800
...One of the numerous fine and generally cylindrical filaments that grow from the skin or integument of animals, esp. of most mammals, of which they form the characteristic coat; applied also to...
11. handle, n.1 View full entry a800
...That part of a thing which is made to be grasped by the hand in using or moving it....
12. heap, n. View full entry c725
...A collection of things lying one upon another so as to form an elevated mass often roughly conical in form. (A heap of things placed regularly one above another is more distinctively...
13. helm, n.2 View full entry c725
...The handle or tiller, in large ships the wheel, by which the rudder is managed; sometimes extended so as to include the whole steering gear....
14. hole, n. View full entry c725
...A hollow place or cavity in a solid body; a pit, cave, den, hiding-place in the earth; a deep place in a stream, pond, etc....
15. horn, n. View full entry c725
...A non-deciduous excrescence, often curved and pointed, consisting of an epidermal sheath growing about a bony core, on the head of certain mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, antelopes, etc., and serving as...
16. key, n.1 and adj. View full entry eOE
...A (usually metal) instrument shaped to fit the wards or pins of a particular lock, so that it may be inserted into the keyhole and turned, in order to lock or unlock...
17. kiln, n. View full entry c725
...A furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, of which various kinds are used in different industrial processes: e.g. a furnace for burning a substance, as in calcining lime (...
18. kite, n. View full entry c725
...A bird of prey of the family Falconidæ and subfamily Milvinæ, having long wings, tail usually forked, and no tooth in the bill....
19. land, n.1 View full entry c725
...The solid portion of the earth's surface, as opposed to sea, water. Cf. firm landfirm8, dry land †occas. classed as...
20. maund, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A basket made of wicker or other woven material, or (occas.) of wooden slats, with a handle or handles. Also maund basket....
