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1. blight, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. Any baleful influence of atmospheric or invisible origin, that suddenly blasts, nips, or destroys plants, affects them with disease, arrests their growth, or prevents their blossom from ‘setting’; a diseased...
2. † blought, adj. View full entry 1611
...? Swollen, plump....
3. carling | carline, n.1 View full entry 1611
...Naut. One of the pieces of timber about 5 inches square in section, lying fore and aft under the deck of a ship, with their ends let culvertail-wise into the beams....
4. coaming, n. View full entry 1611
...In pl.: The raised borders about the edge of the hatches and scuttles of a ship, which prevent water on deck from running below....
5. † croo, v. View full entry 1611
...= crood...
6. drape, n.2 and adj. View full entry 1611
...A sheep or cow culled or drafted from the flock or herd to be fatted off for slaughter; esp. a cow or ewe whose milk is dried up or that...
7. † ˈfubble, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. ? To jumble (up)....
8. † ganefish, n. View full entry 1611
...= garfish...
9. † garguill, n. View full entry 1611
...(See quot. 1611.)...
10. goggle, v.2 View full entry 1611
...trans. = gobble1....
11. guggle, v.1 View full entry 1611
...intr. To make a sound like that made by liquid pouring from a small-necked bottle. (Said chiefly of persons, with reference to speech or laughter.)...
12. † helo, adj. View full entry 1611
...Bashful, modest, shamefaced....
13. † hulch, n. and adj. View full entry 1611
...A hump....
14. † lare, n.2 View full entry 1611
...A turner's lathe....
15. menil, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1611
...Formerly gen.: (of an animal) spotted, speckled, dappled. Now only: spec. (of a deer) having pale fawn fur with white spots (also in extended use). Also as ...
16. Newfoundlander, n. View full entry 1611
...A native or inhabitant of Newfoundland....
17. Pantagruelist, n. View full entry 1611
...An admirer or imitator of Pantagruel; a person who resembles Pantagruel in outlook, ideas, or manners....
18. † Pernize, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. = Perne...
19. † pitot, n.1 View full entry 1611
...A kind of marine bivalve mollusc (in quot. 1611 app.: a razor shell)....
20. preke, n. View full entry 1611
...An octopus; a cuttlefish....
