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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. alight, v.1 View full entry OE
...trans. To make light, or less heavy; to lighten, alleviate (a burden); to relieve (a person) of a burden. Also fig.Obs....
3. 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...
4. 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...
5. baker, n. View full entry a1000
...One who bakes; spec. one whose business it is to make bread....
6. 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. ...
7. bestride, v. View full entry c1000
...To sit upon with the legs astride....
8. boar, n. View full entry c1000
...The male of the swine, whether wild or tame (but uncastrated)....
9. 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....
10. brood, n. View full entry c1000
...Progeny, offspring, young....
11. buck, n.1 View full entry a1000
...The male of several animals....
12. burning, adj. View full entry c1000
...In a state of active heat, glowing, flaming....
13. burst, n. View full entry c1000
...Damage, injury, harm; loss. Obs....
14. colt, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The young of the horse, or of animals of the horse kind. In Scripture applied also to the young of the camel....
15. cram, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To fill (a receptacle) with more than it properly or conveniently holds, by force or compression; less strictly, to fill to repletion, fill quite full or overfull, ‘pack’. Const. ...
16. D, n. View full entry c1000
...the fourth letter of the Roman alphabet, corresponding in position and power to the Phoenician and Hebrew Daleth, and Greek Delta, Δ, whence also its form was derived...
17. E, n.1 View full entry c1000
...simply....
18. F, n. View full entry c1000
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
19. fetch, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To go in quest of, and convey or conduct back. The first part of the notion is often additionally expressed by go or come....
20. fin, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An organ attached to various parts of the body in fishes and cetaceans, which serves for propelling and steering in the water. With prefixed adj., as anal, caudal,...
