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1. arse, n. View full entry c1000
...The fundament, buttocks, posteriors, or rump of an animal....
2. ass, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A well-known quadruped of the horse kind, distinguished from the horse by its smaller size, long ears, tuft at end of tail, and black stripe across the shoulders. Found wild in western...
3. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
4. bellow, v. View full entry c1000
...prop. To roar as a bull, or as a cow when excited. (Ordinarily, a cow lows.)...
5. bit, n.2 View full entry c1000
...The portion of food bitten off at once; as much as is taken in the mouth at once; a mouthful; = bite4. Obs....
6. bottom, n. View full entry OE
...The lowest part of anything, considered as a material thing; the lower or under surface, that surface of a thing on which it stands or rests; the base. Applied spec....
7. brood, n. View full entry c1000
...Progeny, offspring, young....
8. brother, n. View full entry OE
...The word applied to a male being to express his relationship to others (male or female) as the child of the same parent or parents....
9. capon, n. View full entry c1000
...A castrated cock....
10. care, n.1 View full entry OE
...Mental suffering, sorrow, grief, trouble. Obs....
11. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
12. dung, n. View full entry c1000
...Excrementitious and decayed matter employed to fertilize the soil; manure....
13. fellow, n. View full entry 1016
...One who shares with another in a possession, official dignity, or in the performance of any work; a partner, colleague, co-worker. Also, one united with another in a covenant for common ends;...
14. frog, n.1 and adj. View full entry OE
...Originally: a widespread Eurasian amphibian, Rana temporaria (family Ranidae), which has a short, squat, tailless body, moist smooth skin, and long, web-footed hind legs for swimming and leaping;...
15. † gadling, n.2 View full entry OE
...Originally, a companion or fellow, in good sense; esp. a companion in arms....
16. ham, n.1 and adj. View full entry c1000
...That part of the leg at the back of the knee; the hollow or bend of the knee....
17. health, n. View full entry c1000
...Soundness of body; that condition in which its functions are duly and efficiently discharged....
18. hog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domestic pig reared for slaughter; spec. a castrated male pig. Also more widely: any domestic pig. Cf. pig1a....
19. Irish, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry OE
...Of a person: native to Ireland; that is a citizen of Ireland; (also) descended from emigrants from Ireland to another country, esp. the United States or Australia (cf. Irish-American, ...
20. Irishman, n. View full entry OE
...A man of Irish birth or nationality; (also, chiefly U.S.) a man of Irish descent. Cf. Anglo-Irishman, UlstermanUlster4b....
