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1. abraid, v.1 View full entry OE
...trans. To move (something) suddenly or violently, to wrench, snatch; to pull out; to draw (a sword). Also fig.Obs....
2. † acknow, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To know, recognize; to come to know, understand....
3. afear, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To frighten, terrify; to make afraid....
4. afeared, adj. View full entry OE
...In a state of fear or apprehension; afraid, scared; moved or influenced by fear....
5. arse, n. View full entry c1000
...The fundament, buttocks, posteriors, or rump of an animal....
6. as, adv. and conj. View full entry OE
...Of quantity or degree: in that degree, to that extent (in or to which). Obs....
7. † ˈbaxter, n. View full entry c1000
...A baker:...
8. beck, n.3 View full entry c1000
...An agricultural implement with two hooks, for dressing turnips, hops, etc.; a kind of mattock....
9. boar, n. View full entry c1000
...The male of the swine, whether wild or tame (but uncastrated)....
10. bough, n. View full entry c1000
...The shoulder of an animal. Obs....
11. bouk, n. View full entry c1000
...The belly, paunch, or abdomen. Obs....
12. bowk | bouk, n. View full entry c1000
...A milk pail; a pail. Obs. or dial....
13. brass, n. View full entry c1000
...Historically: The general name for all alloys of copper with tin or zinc (and occasionally other base metals). To distinguish alloys of copper and tin, the name bronze has...
14. † bred, n. View full entry a1000
...A board; a tablet; in mod.Sc. applied to a bakeboard, and to the wooden lid of a pot, pan, water-butt, etc. (e.g. a pan-bred)....
15. breed, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. Said of a female parent: To cherish (brood) in the womb or egg; to bring (offspring) forward from the germ to the birth; to hatch (young birds) from the egg;...
16. bridge, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A structure forming or carrying a road over a river, a ravine, etc., or affording passage between two points at a height above the ground....
17. † chark, v.1 View full entry c1000
...To make a grating noise with the teeth. (Sc.)...
18. chirk, v. View full entry c1000
...intr. To make a strident noise; to grate (or otherwise make a noise with) the teeth; to creak as a door; to croak. Obs. exc. Sc.dial....
19. claw, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To scratch or tear with the claws, or (transf.) with the nails or a pointed instrument....
20. cleam | cleme, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To smear, anoint, bedaub, plaster; to rub, or daub (sticky matter) on, or (a place) with sticky matter....
