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1. accipiter, n. View full entry a1398
...Originally (chiefly Falconry): a bird of prey, esp. a hawk. In later use spec. (in Ornithol.): a hawk of the genus Accipiter...
2. Amazon, n. View full entry a1398
...pl. A race of female warriors alleged by Herodotus, etc. to exist in Scythia....
3. angle, v.1 View full entry a1398
...Freq. with adverb or prepositional phrase indicating direction....
4. animal, n. View full entry a1398
...A living organism which feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and a nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli; any living creature, including man....
5. artificial, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Of a thing: made or constructed by human skill, esp. in imitation of, or as a substitute for, something which is made or occurs naturally; man-made....
6. backed, adj. View full entry 1398
... Provided with a back, having a back, background, or backing; used particularly in compounds, e.g. broad-backed, pig-backed. Cf. hog-backed...
7. barred, adj. View full entry a1387
...Secured, enclosed, or shut with bars....
8. bate, v.1 View full entry 1398
...To contend, fight, strive, with blows or arguments. Const. on. Obs....
9. bearing, adj.1 View full entry 1398
...That bears, carries, supports, endures, drives, presses, pierces, stands out, etc. (See various meanings of the vb.)...
10. bending, n.1 View full entry 1398
...Drawing tight with a string, tension. Obs....
11. ˈblazing, adj.1 View full entry a1387
...Flaming with force....
12. bud, n.1 View full entry 1398
...Bot. A little projection found at the axil of a leaf, composed of scales, which are small leaves, and forming the rudiment of a branch, cluster of leaves, or blossom. Hence,...
13. bunch, v.2 View full entry 1398
...intr....
14. cane, n.1 View full entry 1398
...The hollow jointed ligneous stem of various giant reeds or grasses, as Bamboo and Sugar cane, and the solid stem of some of the more slender palms, esp. the genus Calamus...
15. carrier, n. View full entry 1398
...A person who or thing that carries, in various senses of carry; a bearer....
16. ˈcart-ˌhorse, n. View full entry 1398
...A horse used to draw a cart. (In first quot. transl. bigalis ‘horse drawing two-wheeled chariot’. Now, a large thick-set horse used for heavy work.)...
17. cinnamon, n. View full entry 1398
...The inner bark of an East Indian tree (see 2), dried in the sun, in rolls or ‘quills’, and used as a spice. It is of a characteristic yellowish brown...
18. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
19. compile, v. View full entry a1387
...trans. To collect and put together (materials), so as to form a treatise; to collect into a volume....
20. core, n.1 View full entry 1398
...The dry horny capsule imbedded in the centre of the pulp and containing the seeds or pips of the apple, pear, quince, etc. (= colk)....
