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1. agriot, n. View full entry 1611
...The sour fruit of a Eurasian cherry, prob. a variety of the morello cherry, Prunus cerasus. Also: the wood of this tree or that of the related Eurasian wild cherry,...
2. † bara-picklet, n. View full entry 1611
...(See quots.)...
3. bedder, n.1 View full entry 1611
...One who puts to bed; one who litters cattle....
4. beˈhoney, v. View full entry 1611
...To smear or sweeten with honey, or fig. with honied words....
5. bloat, v.1 View full entry 1611
...trans. To cure (herrings) by a process which leaves them soft and only half-dried. This is now done by leaving them in dry salt on a floor for 24 hours, washing...
6. capiloˈtade, n. View full entry 1611
...A kind of dish (see quot.); fig. a cooked-up story, hash, medley....
7. ˈchirping, adj. View full entry 1611
...That chirps....
8. dropped | dropt, adj. View full entry 1611
...Fallen, lowered; allowed to drop or fall. spec. in Rugby Football, designating a goal scored by a drop-kick....
9. earning, n.3 View full entry 1611
...The curdling of milk for cheese....
10. fruggan, n. View full entry 1611
...(See quots.)...
11. giggle, n. View full entry 1611
...= gigletb. Obs....
12. hale, n.5 View full entry 1611
...pl. The two handles of a plough or wheel-barrow....
13. † merribowk, n. View full entry 1611
...= posset1....
14. omelette, n. View full entry 1611
...A dish traditionally made of beaten eggs fried in a pan, sometimes with the addition of other ingredients to the mixture, served plain or with a sweet or (esp.) savoury filling....
15. pot-pourri, n. View full entry 1611
...A dish made from different kinds of meat cooked together in a stew; a hotchpotch. Obs....
16. racker, n.2 View full entry 1611
...A person who racks wine or other liquor....
17. refrigerator, n. View full entry 1611
...That which has a refrigerating or cooling effect. Also fig. Now rare....
18. 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...
19. scaler, n.2 View full entry 1611
...One who removes scales or scale from fish, boilers, etc....
20. † ˈscullionry, n. View full entry 1611
...(See quot.)...
