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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. burster, n. View full entry 1611
...He who, or that which, bursts; spec. (Gunnery) a charge of gunpowder for bursting a shell, or the bag containing it. Hence burster-bag...
3. dogging, n.1 View full entry 1611
...The action of dog (in various senses), spec....
4. down, n.3 View full entry 1611
...The burden of a song. (Cf. down26.)...
5. furnisher, n. View full entry 1611
...One who furnishes, in senses of the vb.; spec. one who supplies furniture....
6. giggle, n. View full entry 1611
...= gigletb. Obs....
7. lamb, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. (passive only.) To bear or bring forth; to ‘drop’ (a lamb)....
8. red-legged, adj. View full entry 1611
...Chiefly in the names of birds and other animals: having red or reddish legs. See also ....
9. rock pigeon, n. View full entry 1611
...The rock dove, Columba livia. Also blue rock pigeon....
10. rouser, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who or thing which rouses, awakens, or stirs up someone or something; an arouser; an inciter. Cf. rabble-rouser...
11. scaler, n.2 View full entry 1611
...One who removes scales or scale from fish, boilers, etc....
12. take-, comb. form View full entry 1611
...the verb-stem in combinations and phrases used as ns. or adjs. (mostly nonce-wds.): See also take-in, take-off, take-up...
13. warbler, n. View full entry 1611
...One who, or something which, warbles or sings; a singer, songster....
