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1. bird, n. View full entry a800
...orig. The general name for the young of the feathered tribes; a young bird; a chicken, eaglet, etc.; a nestling. The only sense in Old English; found in literature down to...
2. boat, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A small, typically open vessel for travelling over water, propelled by oars, sail, an engine, etc. Usu. contrasted with ship....
3. 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....
4. clothes, n. View full entry a800
...Covering for the person; wearing apparel; dress, raiment, vesture....
5. cow, n.1 View full entry a800
...The female of any bovine animal (as the ox, bison, or buffalo); most commonly applied to the female of the domestic species (Bos Taurus)....
6. devil, n. View full entry a800
...the Devilrepr. Greekὁ διάβολος of the LXX and New Testament: In Jewish and Christian theology, the proper appellation of the supreme spirit of evil, the tempter and spiritual enemy...
7. fan, n.1 View full entry a800
...An instrument for winnowing grain....
8. fern, n.1 View full entry a800
...One of a large group of vascular cryptogamous plants constituting the family Filices; a single plant or frond of the same; also collect. in sing.flowering fern...
9. foul, adj., n., and adv. View full entry a800
...Grossly offensive to the senses, physically loathsome; primarily with reference to the odour or appearance indicative of putridity or corruption....
10. gather, v. View full entry c725
...(Only in forms with prefixed ge-.) To join or unite; to put together, form by union. Obs. since early Middle English....
11. glede | gled, n. View full entry c725
...The kite (Milvus regalis). Now chiefly north. and Sc. (in form gled). ...
12. gold, n.1 View full entry c725
...The most precious metal: characterized by a beautiful yellow colour, non-liability to rust, high specific gravity, and great malleability and ductility. Chemical symbol Au....
13. grass, n.1 View full entry c725
...Herbage in general, the blades or leaves and stalks of which are eaten by horses, cattle, sheep, etc. Also, in a narrower sense, restricted to the smaller non-cereal Gramineæ (see...
14. green, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Of a colour intermediate between blue and yellow in the spectrum; of the colour of grass, foliage, an emerald, etc....
15. ground, n. View full entry c725
...Of the sea, a well, ditch, etc., and of hell; rarely of heaven. (Cf. bottom3) Obs....
16. hair, n. View full entry a800
...One of the numerous fine and generally cylindrical filaments that grow from the skin or integument of animals, esp. of most mammals, of which they form the characteristic coat; applied also to...
17. handle, n.1 View full entry a800
...That part of a thing which is made to be grasped by the hand in using or moving it....
18. hay, n.2 View full entry c725
...A hedge, a fence. (In some 17th c. writers distinguished as a ‘dead hedge’.)...
19. herd, n.2 View full entry c725
...A keeper of a herd or flock of domestic animals; a herdsman. Now usually with word prefixed, as cowherd, swineherd, but in Scotland and north of England still...
20. hive, n. View full entry c725
...An artificial receptacle for the habitation of a swarm of bees; a beehive....
