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1. airt, n. View full entry a1400
...A quarter of the heavens; a point of the compass; a direction. Hence more generally: a quarter, a locality....
2. † ande, v. View full entry a1400
...To breathe, blow....
3. † ˈbairnheid, n. View full entry a1300
...Childhood, infancy....
4. ˈbairnless, adj. View full entry a1400
...Childless....
5. bark, n.1 View full entry a1300
...The rind or outer sheath of the trunk and branches of trees, formed of tissue parallel with the wood. See quot. 1866....
6. beft, v. View full entry a1300
...intr. To strike, give blows. rare....
7. bestial, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A collective term for domestic animals, especially of the bovine kind, kept for food or tillage. It took the place of the Old English féoh, Middle English fee;...
8. bike, n.1 View full entry a1400
...A nest of wasps, hornets, or wild bees, as distinct from the hive or skep of domestic bees. Also, the whole nestful of bees; a swarm....
9. † blenk, n.2 View full entry a1400
...A sudden gleam of light....
10. † bow, n.4 View full entry a1400
...The stock of cattle on a farm, a herd....
11. † ˈbrathly | braithly, adj. and adv. View full entry a1300
...Impetuous, violent, angry....
12. break, n.1 View full entry a1400
...An act of breaking; breakage, fracture....
13. bude, v. View full entry a1400
...trans.impers. With object and bare infinitive. It behoved, was obligatory upon, was necessary for (a person to do something). Obs....
14. buirdly, adj. View full entry a1400
...‘Large and well-made’ (Jamieson); stately; stalwart; sturdy, stout, burly....
15. call, n. View full entry a1300
...A loud vocal utterance or speech, a shout, a cry; a loud vocal address or supplication....
16. calling, n. View full entry a1400
...The action of emitting a loud voice; crying, shouting, proclamation. Applied also to particular cries of animals. calling on or upon: invocation of....
17. carl | carle, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A man of the common people; more particularly a countryman, a husbandman. arch....
18. cast, n. View full entry a1300
...A throw of a missile, a bowl, or other object....
19. ˈcavel, n.1 View full entry a1400
...A lot (that is cast). Now applied in the Northumberland collieries to the lots which are cast from time to time to determine in which ‘bord’ each miner shall hew till the...
20. chaft, n. View full entry a1300
...The jaw, chap; usually in pl. (Chiefly north., and since 17th c. only dial.)...
