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1. a, int.1 View full entry ?c1200
...Expressing invocation, surprise, or admiration; (also) used to gain attention. Obs....
2. † areim-en, v. View full entry a1250
...To set at large, liberate....
3. † aˈslept, adj. View full entry a1300
...Overcome with sleep....
4. asquint, adv. and adj. View full entry a1250
...(To look) to one side instead of straight forward; obliquely, out at the corners of the eyes....
5. at, conj. View full entry 1297
...freq. misread or misprinted for ac but....
6. † awn(e, v.2 View full entry ?c1200
...trans. To put before a person's eyes; to show, manifest. refl. To manifest oneself, appear....
7. bad, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1203
...Of poor quality or little worth....
8. † ballart, n. View full entry ?a1300
...A hare; the fur of the hare....
9. † baseling, n.1 View full entry a1255
...A coin of poor standard, such as the kind withdrawn at the time of the recoinage by Henry II in 1158. Cf. basel...
10. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
11. bat, n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) arch. Still dial. (Kent, Sussex, etc.) = staff, walking-stick....
12. beek, v.1 View full entry c1230
...trans. and refl. To suffuse with genial warmth; to expose (oneself, one's limbs, etc.) to the pleasurable warmth of sun, fire, etc....
13. beft, v. View full entry a1300
...intr. To strike, give blows. rare....
14. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
15. † bell, v.1 View full entry ?c1225
...intr. To swell up (like a boil)....
16. † ˈbevar, adj. View full entry a1275
...Known only in bevar hore. Since Middle English hore (now hoar, q.v.) was both adj. ‘hoary,’ and n. ‘grey-beard’ (German greis), it remains uncertain...
17. blunt, adj. and n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...Dull, insensitive, stupid, obtuse: said, it appears, originally of the sight, whence of the perceptions generally, and the intellect. (Now generally with some antithesis to sharp, as in sense ...
18. boulder-stone, n. View full entry a1300
...A rounded water-worn stone larger than a pebble, a cobble-stone (= boulder1). Also, in later use, = boulder2....
19. bounce, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans.Obs....
20. † buff, v.1 View full entry 1297
...intr....