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1. Adamhood, n. View full entry 1828
...Manhood, humanity; (sometimes) spec. sinful and unregenerate human nature resulting from Adam's disobedience as described in Genesis (cf. Adam13)....
2. Aganippe, n. View full entry a1586
...Used allusively to denote the source of poetic inspiration, or a person's poetic power, voice, or method. Also attrib., as Aganippe spring, Aganippe well, etc....
3. Almain, n. and adj. View full entry c1330
...A native or inhabitant of Germany or the lands corresponding to modern Germany; a German. Chiefly arch. and literary in later use....
4. America, n. View full entry a1631
...A place which one longs to reach; an ultimate or idealized destination or aim; an (esp. newly identified) object of personal ambition or desire. Usu. with preceding possessive pronoun....
5. Capitolian, adj. View full entry 1614
...= Capitoline...
6. choke, v. View full entry 1303
...trans. To suffocate by external compression of the throat; to throttle, strangle; to produce a sensation of strangling. (Still the ordinary word for this sense in Scotland.)...
7. 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...
8. ermelin, n. View full entry 1555
...The animal called ermine; = ermine1....
9. fag, v.1 View full entry 1530
...intr. To flag, droop, decline (lit. and fig.); to fall off, swerve from, into. Obs. exc. dial....
10. falter, v.1 View full entry c1386
...Of a person or his steps; also of a horse: To stumble, stagger; to walk with an unsteady gait....
11. flash, v.1 View full entry 1387
...intr. Of the sea, waves, etc.: To rush along the surface; to rise and dash, esp. with the tide. Also with up. In later use with mixture...
12. frough | frow, adj. View full entry c1275
...Liable to break or give way, not to be depended on, frail, brittle. lit. and fig....
13. fuff, v. View full entry 1513
...intr. To puff. Said of a breeze, fire, etc.; also, of a person in anger or out of breath. Also, to fume and fuff, fuff and pegh....
14. gag, v.1 View full entry c1440
...trans. To strangle, suffocate. Obs....
15. gale, n.3 View full entry a1547
...A wind of considerable strength; in nautical language, the word chiefly ‘implies what on shore is called a storm’ (Adm Smyth), esp. in the phrases strong gale, hard gale...
16. galumph, v. View full entry 1888
...intr. Orig., to march on exultingly with irregular bounding movements. Now usu., to gallop heavily; to bound or move clumsily or noisily....
17. Gaul, n. and adj. View full entry 1601
...An inhabitant of ancient Gaul; also, in a more restricted sense, an individual of the ‘Gallic’ people or race, as distinguished from other peoples inhabiting Gaul....
18. gaze, v. View full entry c1386
...intr. †In early use: To look vacantly or curiously about; also, to stare, open one's eyes (with astonishment). In modern use: To look fixedly, intently, or deliberately at something. Now chiefly...
19. gimp, v.1 View full entry 1697
...trans. To give a scalloped or indented outline to....
20. glance, v.1 View full entry 1489
...intr. Of a weapon: To glide off an object struck, without delivering the full effect of the blow. Also to glance aside, off. to glance on: to...
