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1. age, v. View full entry 1440
...intr. Of a person, animal, or thing: to grow old; to become or appear aged....
2. alphin, n. View full entry 1440
...In the early game of chess: each of four pieces able to move two squares diagonally, jumping over the middle square. hist. in later use....
3. barble, n. View full entry c1440
...= barb4....
4. base, n.3 View full entry 1440
...= prisoners' bars Cf. prisoners' base...
5. bat, v.1 View full entry c1440
...trans. To strike with, or as with, a bat; to cudgel, thrash, beat....
6. bat-fowl, v. View full entry c1440
...To catch birds at night by dazing them with a light, and knocking them down or netting them....
7. ˈbat-ˌfowler, n. View full entry c1440
...One who practises bat-fowling....
8. ˈbat-ˌfowling, n. View full entry c1440
...The catching of birds by night when at roost....
9. battledore, n. View full entry c1440
...A beetle or wooden ‘bat’ used in washing, also (when made cylindrical) for smoothing out or ‘mangling’ linen clothes; hence also applied to similarly shaped instruments, e.g. the...
10. † ˈbercel, n. View full entry c1440
...An archer's butt....
11. ˈbillet, n.2 View full entry c1440
...A thick piece of wood cut to a suitable length for fuel....
12. † ˈbird-bolt, n. View full entry c1440
...A kind of blunt-headed arrow used for shooting birds....
13. bird-lime, n. View full entry c1440
...A glutinous substance spread upon twigs, by which birds may be caught and held fast....
14. bite, n. View full entry 1499
...The act or action of cutting, piercing, or wounding, with the teeth; also fig....
15. boom, v.1 View full entry c1440
...intr. To hum or buzz, as a bee or beetle; to make a loud, deep sound with much resonance, as a cannon, a large bell, the waves of the sea, etc.;...
16. bowl, v.1 View full entry 1440
...intr. To play at bowls; to trundle or roll a bowl, etc. along the ground....
17. burr | bur, n.1 View full entry c1440
...General sense: A circle....
18. † ˈcaltrop, v. View full entry c1440
...trans. To catch or trap with a caltrop....
19. † ˈcamper, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A player at camp-ball; a foot-ball player....
20. caterpillar, n. View full entry c1440
...The larva of a butterfly or moth; sometimes extended to those of other insects, especially those of saw-flies, which are also hairy....
