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1. action, v. View full entry 1734
...trans. To bring a legal action against. Now chiefly Caribbean....
2. advantage, v. View full entry ?1459
...trans. To profit, benefit (a person or thing); to advance, promote; to be of advantage to. Cf. disadvantage...
3. alarm, v. View full entry 1485
...trans. (refl.). To ready and equip oneself for battle. Cf. alarmed1. Obs....
4. bad-talk, v. View full entry 1938
...trans. To speak badly of, disparage; to speak maliciously about (a person who is absent). Cf. bad-mouth...
5. big, v.2 View full entry 1884
...trans.Eng. regional. To enlarge; (fig.) to magnify, inflate. Now rare....
6. buse, v. View full entry 1589
...trans. = abuse...
7. cotch, v. View full entry 1895
...intr.Jamaican....
8. friend, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans. (refl.). To gain friends for oneself; to make friends. Obs.rare....
9. jook, v. View full entry 1877
...trans. To stab, pierce, or prick; to poke or jab....
10. jump, v. View full entry 1511
...To make a spring from the ground or other base by flexion and sudden muscular extension of the legs (or, in the case of some animals, as fish, of the tail, or...
11. lime, v.4 View full entry 1973
...intr. To hang about the streets. Cf. limer...
12. make, v.1 View full entry eOE
...trans....
13. mash, v.3 View full entry 1924
...trans.Caribbean. To spoil, damage, or destroy by violence. Also: to cause trouble for (a person), esp. by careless talk. With up....
14. matter, v. View full entry 1530
...intr....
15. mauvais langue, v. View full entry 1952
...trans. To disparage, criticize, or abuse (a person, esp. someone who is not present). Also intr....
16. merry, v. View full entry OE
...intr. To be merry or (formerly) pleasant; to act or play merrily. Now chiefly literary and fig. (esp. of the weather, nature, etc.)....
17. min, v.4 View full entry 1868
...As an auxiliary verb forming the past tense of a main verb: had (been), was, did. Also, as past tense of the copula: was....
18. mind, v. View full entry a1382
...trans....
19. miss, v.1 View full entry OE
...intr. To go wrong, make a mistake, err. In Old English impers. with dative of person. In later use (occas.) refl. (Eng. regional). Now also...
20. mould | mold, v.3 View full entry 1530
...trans. To bury, inter; = mool2. Now Sc. and Irish English....
