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1. aha, int. and n. View full entry a1400
...Expressing triumph, satisfaction, realization, discovery, or (now rarely) mockery or irony. Cf. ah34ha1b....
2. almondine, adj. View full entry a1400
...Of, resembling, or reminiscent of the almond tree or its fruit. Now rare....
3. † ande, v. View full entry a1400
...To breathe, blow....
4. ashen, adj.1 View full entry a1400
...Of or pertaining to an ash-tree. (Cf. aspen)...
5. attaint, v. View full entry a1400
...To touch, get at with a blow, to hit in tilting; = attaini. Obs....
6. axle-tree, n. View full entry a1400
...The fixed bar or beam of wood, etc., on the rounded ends of which the opposite wheels of a carriage revolve. The original and only surviving sense. axle-tree arms: the...
7. backward, adv., adj., and n.2 View full entry a1300
...Of motion: In the direction of one's back or of that to which one's back is turned, as to lean backward, bend backward, fall backward, ...
8. bar, v. View full entry a1300
...trans....
9. 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....
10. bark, v.2 View full entry a1400
...intr. (with over) To form a bark....
11. 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;...
12. beta, n. View full entry a1400
...The second letter of the Greek alphabet, Β, β....
13. Bible, n. View full entry a1300
...The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. (Sometimes in early use, and still dial., used for the Old Testament; e.g. ‘neither in the Bible nor the Testament.’) the...
14. 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....
15. † blend(e, adj. View full entry a1400
...= blended Also as past participle....
16. blister, n.1 View full entry a1400
...A thin vesicle on the skin, containing serum, caused by friction, a burn, or other injury, or the action of a vesicatory....
17. bodily, adj. View full entry a1300
...Of the nature of body, corporeal, material, physical; as opposed to spiritual. Obs....
18. † ˈbolning, adj. View full entry a1400
...Swelling....
19. † bouche, n.2 View full entry a1400
...A hump, swelling....
20. † bow, n.4 View full entry a1400
...The stock of cattle on a farm, a herd....
