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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. ankle | ancle, n. View full entry c1000
...The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the slender part of the leg between this joint and the calf....
3. ˈarbalest | ˈarbalist | ˈarblast, n. View full entry a1100
...A cross-bow, consisting of a steel bow fitted to a wooden shaft, furnished with special mechanism for drawing and letting slip the bowstring, and used for the discharge of arrows, bolts, stones,...
4. ass, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A well-known quadruped of the horse kind, distinguished from the horse by its smaller size, long ears, tuft at end of tail, and black stripe across the shoulders. Found wild in western...
5. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
6. back-board, n. View full entry OE
...= larboard Only in Old English....
7. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
8. beer, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An alcoholic liquor obtained by the fermentation of malt (or other saccharine substance), flavoured with hops or other aromatic bitters. Formerly distinguished from ale by being hopped; but now the...
9. bench, n. View full entry OE
...A long seat, with or without a back, usually of wood, but also of stone, etc. ‘Distinguished from a stool by its greater length’ (Johnson)....
10. bend, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To put in bonds, to fetter. Obs....
11. bestride, v. View full entry c1000
...To sit upon with the legs astride....
12. bitch, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The female of the dog....
13. bite, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To cut into, pierce, or nip (anything) with the teeth....
14. blade, n. View full entry OE
...The leaf of a herb or plant; originally perhaps (as in Icelandic) applied to those of all herbs, while leaf was used of the foliage of trees. Now applied ...
15. † blonk, n. View full entry OE
...Poetic word for ‘horse’; steed....
16. blow, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and often with complement,...
17. boar, n. View full entry c1000
...The male of the swine, whether wild or tame (but uncastrated)....
18. bolster, n.1 View full entry OE
...A long stuffed pillow or cushion used to support the sleeper's head in a bed; the name is now restricted to the under-pillow, stuffed with something firm, which extends from side to...
19. bore, v.1 View full entry c1000
...trans. To pierce, perforate, make a hole in or through; in mod. use esp. to pierce by means of a rotatory movement like that of an auger or gimlet....
20. bottom, n. View full entry OE
...The lowest part of anything, considered as a material thing; the lower or under surface, that surface of a thing on which it stands or rests; the base. Applied spec....
