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1. ˈbannut, n. View full entry a1500
...A walnut; but in an early vocabulary applied to the filbert....
2. † barse, n. View full entry c1000
...Name of a species of fish: the original form of the word subsequently corrupted to base, and bass; still retained in some dialects....
3. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
4. bend, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thin flat strip adapted to bind round....
5. bolt, n.1 View full entry a1000
...An arrow; especially one of the stouter and shorter kind with blunt or thickened head, called also quarrel, discharged from a cross-bow or other engine. Often fig., esp....
6. bore, v.1 View full entry c1000
...trans. To pierce, perforate, make a hole in or through; in mod. use esp. to pierce by means of a rotatory movement like that of an auger or gimlet....
7. bourtree, n. View full entry c1450
...The Elder-tree (Sambucus nigra). attrib., as in bourtree-berry, bourtree-bush; bourtree-gun...
8. box, n.2 View full entry a1000
...A case or receptacle usually having a lid....
9. ˈbrander, n.2 View full entry c1450
...A gridiron. See also brandise, brandiron, brandreth...
10. † brandise, n. View full entry c1000
...A trivet; perhaps used also in the other senses of brander, brandiron...
11. breeze, n.1 View full entry a800
...A gadfly: a name given to various dipterous insects, esp. of the genera Œstrus (bot-flybot2) and Tabanus, which annoy horses and cattle. arch....
12. brock, n.3 View full entry c1050
...? = Latin ophiomachus (Vulgate Lev. xi. 22), a kind of locust: cf. bruke Only Old English....
13. ˈbullˌhead, n. View full entry c1450
...A small freshwater fish with a large head (Aspidophorus cataphractes); the Miller's Thumb....
14. † bun, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A hollow stem, esp. of an umbelliferous plant; a kex....
15. butt, n.3 View full entry c1450
...The thicker end of anything, esp. of a tool or weapon, the part by which it is held or on which it rests; e.g. the lower end of a spear-shaft,...
16. butt, n.6 View full entry c1450
...One of the parallel divisions of a ploughed field contained between two parallel furrows, called also a ‘ridge’, ‘rig’, ‘land’, or ‘selion’....
17. cade, n.2 (and adj.) View full entry c1450
...as or in comb. Of the young of animals, esp. lambs and colts: Cast or left by the mother and brought up by hand, as a...
18. cambrel, n. View full entry c1450
...A bent piece of wood or iron used by butchers to hang carcases of animals on....
19. cheese, n.1 View full entry a1000
...A substance used as food, consisting of the curd of milk (coagulated by rennet) separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass....
20. churn, n. View full entry c1000
...A vessel or machine for making butter, in which cream or milk is shaken, beaten, and broken, so as to separate the oily globules which form the butter from the serous parts....
