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1. adder, n.1 View full entry eOE
...In generic sense: a snake, a serpent, esp. with reference to the serpent as a manifestation of the devil in the biblical account of the Fall in the Garden of Eden; (hence,...
2. ark, n. View full entry c825
...A chest, box, coffer, close basket, or similar receptacle; esp....
3. beard, n. View full entry c825
...The hair that grows upon the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of an adult man's face; now usually excluding the moustache, or hair of the upper lip....
4. burn, v.1 View full entry c825
...Of fire, a furnace, or conflagration: To be in the state of activity characteristic of fire; to be in the state of combustion. Sometimes the prominent notion is that of intense heat...
5. cherub, n. View full entry c825
...In early use: (cherubin, -yn, -ym). A reproduction of the Latin form, app. treated as singular or collective, without article, and variously understood. ...
6. church, n.1 and adj. View full entry eOE
...A building for public Christian worship or rites such as baptism, marriage, etc., traditionally cruciform in shape, and typically having a tower, dome, or spire; distinguished originally from an oratory...
7. † clee, n. View full entry c825
...= claw1....
8. clip, v.1 View full entry c825
...trans. To clasp with the arms, embrace, hug. arch. and dial....
9. coal, n.1 View full entry c825
...A piece of carbon glowing without flame. (Now arch. or blending with 45.)...
10. † ˈcocker, n.1 View full entry c825
...A case for arrows; a quiver....
11. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
12. culver, n.1 View full entry c825
...A dove, a pigeon; now the name of the wood-pigeon in the south and east of England....
13. cymbal, n. View full entry c825
...One of a pair of concave plates of brass or bronze, which are struck together to produce a sharp ringing sound. Also used singly and struck with a drumstick or the like....
14. deaf, adj. View full entry c825
...Lacking, or defective in, the sense of hearing....
15. deaf adder, n. View full entry eOE
...In Biblical translation or allusion: an asp or other snake, regarded as deaf or wilfully unhearing. Cf. as deaf as an adderdeaf1d, adder-deafadder2....
16. deed, n. View full entry c825
...That which is done, acted, or performed by an intelligent or responsible agent; an act....
17. delve, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To dig; to turn up with the spade; esp. to dig (ground) in preparation for a crop. Now chiefly north. and Sc., where it...
18. do, v. View full entry c825
...To put, place....
19. drop, n. View full entry c825
...The smallest quantity of liquid that falls or detaches itself, or is produced, in a spherical or pear-shaped form; a globule of liquid....
20. ear, n.1 View full entry c825
...The external ear....
