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1. 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...
2. cheek, n. View full entry c825
...The jaw, jaw-bone; later called ‘cheek-bone’. Obs....
3. chill, n. View full entry c825
...The former equivalent of the modern cold, used, e.g., of the coldness of the weather, frost....
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. deaf, adj. View full entry c825
...Lacking, or defective in, the sense of hearing....
8. delve, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To dig; to turn up with the spade; esp. to dig (ground) in preparation for a crop. Now chiefly north. and Sc., where it...
9. 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...
10. 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....
11. 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....
12. 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...
13. 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,...
14. 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....
15. 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...
16. flow, v. View full entry c825
...intr. Of fluids, a stream, etc.: To move on a gently inclined surface with a continual change of place among the particles or parts; to move along in a current; to...
17. foot, n. View full entry c825
...The lowest part of the leg beyond the ankle-joint....
18. fox, n. View full entry c825
...An animal of the genus Vulpes, having an elongated pointed muzzle and long bushy tail. Usually V. vulgaris, preserved in England and elsewhere as a beast of the...
19. gall, n.1 View full entry c825
...The secretion of the liver, bile. Now applied only (exc. in Comb.) to that of the lower animals, esp. to ox gall (see ox) as used...
20. gang, n. View full entry eOE
...The action of going or moving, esp. on foot; walking. In early use also: an act or instance of this; a walk, a step. Also in fig. context. Obs....
