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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. arse, n. View full entry c1000
...The fundament, buttocks, posteriors, or rump of an animal....
3. arsed, adj. View full entry c1000
...Having an arse. (Chiefly in comb.) Usu. as a terminal element: half-arsed, smart-arsed, etc. (see first word)....
4. as, adv. and conj. View full entry OE
...Of quantity or degree: in that degree, to that extent (in or to which). Obs....
5. 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...
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. beaver, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An amphibious rodent, distinguished by its broad, oval, horizontally-flattened, scaly tail, palmated hind feet, coat of soft fur, and hard incisor teeth with which it cuts down trees; remarkable for its skill...
8. begin, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. To open operations upon or in reference to (any action), to set oneself effectively to do (something), to be at the point of first contact with;...
9. berry, n.1 View full entry c1000
...Any small globular, or ovate juicy fruit, not having a stone; in Old English chiefly applied to the grape; in mod. popular use, embracing the gooseberry, raspberry, bilberry, and their congeners, as...
10. beyond, adv., prep., and n. View full entry a1000
...On the farther side, farther away, at a greater distance....
11. blowing, n.1 View full entry c1000
...gen. The action expressed by the vb. to blow...
12. 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...
13. buck, n.1 View full entry a1000
...The male of several animals....
14. burst, n. View full entry c1000
...Damage, injury, harm; loss. Obs....
15. 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....
16. church key, n. View full entry c1175
...Freq. in pl....
17. 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....
18. 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. ...
19. creeping, adj. View full entry c1000
...That creeps (as a reptile)....
20. crystal, n. and adj. View full entry OE
...Ice. Cf. sense A. 2a. Obs....
