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1. Artemia, n. View full entry 1835
...A genus of branchiopod crustaceans (order Anostraca) comprising small shrimp-like animals found in salt lakes, salt pans, and other aquatic habitats with a high salinity. Also: an animal of this...
2. barrow, n.3 View full entry c1300
...A utensil for the carrying of a load by two or more men; a stretcher, a bier; spec. a flat rectangular frame of transverse bars, having shafts or ‘trams’ before...
3. beany, adj. View full entry 1852
...In good condition (? like a bean-fed horse); spirited, fresh. slang....
4. bittern, n.2 View full entry 1682
...The mother water or lye which remains after the crystallization of common salt from sea-water or the brine of salt-springs. It contains sulphate and chloride of magnesium, bromine, iodine, etc....
5. brewage, n. View full entry 1542
...A concocted beverage; a decoction; something that has been brewed, a brewing....
6. brine, n. View full entry a1000
...Water saturated, or strongly impregnated, with salt; salt water....
7. briner, n. View full entry c1682
...A salt boiler, a salter....
8. brinjarry, n. View full entry 1793
...A travelling grain and salt merchant of the Deccan....
9. † ˈbullion, n.1 View full entry 1453
...A certain quantity of quicksilver; cf. ‘un bouillon de vif argent xxv livres pesant’ (Carpentier at Bullionum)....
10. 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....
11. clearer, n. View full entry 1599
...One who or that which clears (in various senses of the vb.)....
12. clod, n. View full entry 1398
...A mass formed by the coagulation of anything liquid, esp. blood. Obs. (now clot)...
13. crib, n. View full entry OE
...A barred receptacle for fodder used in cowsheds and fold-yards; also in fields, for beasts lying out during the winter; a cratch (In nearly all early quots. applied to the...
14. ditch, n.1 View full entry 1045
...An excavation narrow in proportion to its length; a long and narrow hollow dug in the ground; the trench or fosse of a fortification, etc....
15. dodge, v. View full entry 1568
...intr....
16. dodger, n. View full entry 1568
...One who dodges, in various senses of the vb.; in early use, esp. a haggler; later, esp. one who practises artful shifts or dodges....
17. drab, n.1 View full entry ?1518
...A dirty and untidy woman; a slut, slattern....
18. dross, n. View full entry c1050
...The scum, recrement, or extraneous matter thrown off from metals in the process of melting....
19. eˈvaporating, n. View full entry 1630
...The action of evaporate; lit. and fig....
20. feather, n. View full entry c850
...One of the epidermal appendages of a bird, usually in the form of a central shaft or midrib, of a horny nature, in part tubular, for the rest square in section and...
