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1. addition, n. View full entry c1400
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an appendix, an augmentation; (also) a person who becomes part of a family or other group of people....
2. arrow, n. View full entry a835
...A slender pointed missile shot from a bow, usually feathered and barbed. Sometimes also applied to the bolts, or quarrels, with thickened heads, discharged from the cross-bow....
3. bar, n.1 View full entry c1175
...gen. A straight piece of wood, metal, or other rigid material, long in proportion to its thickness....
4. barb, n.1 View full entry c1374
...The beard of a man. Obs.rare....
5. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
6. bearer, n. View full entry a1382
...One who carries or conveys; a carrier, a porter....
7. bearing, n. View full entry a1300
...The action of carrying or conveying. In Backgammon, see bear1d....
8. bend, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thin flat strip adapted to bind round....
9. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
10. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
11. boar, n. View full entry c1000
...The male of the swine, whether wild or tame (but uncastrated)....
12. † bouge, n.1 View full entry 1387
...A wallet or bag, esp. one made of hide; a skin-bottle; = bulge1. Obs....
13. brief, n.1 View full entry 1330
...A writing issued by official or legal authority; a royal letter or mandate; a writ, a summons. (Translating Latin breve and Anglo-Norman French bref in various legal meanings.)...
14. budget, n. View full entry 1432-50
...A pouch, bag, wallet, usually of leather. Obs. exc. dial....
15. cake, n. View full entry c1230
...As name of an object, with plural: A baked mass of bread or substance of similar kind, distinguished from a loaf or other ordinary bread, either by its form or by its...
16. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
17. contrary, adj., n., adv., and prep. View full entry c1250
...Opposed in nature or tendency; diametrically different, extremely unlike. Const. to; often with sense: Repugnant, antagonistic....
18. cony | coney, n. View full entry a1200
...A rabbit: formerly the proper and ordinary name, but now superseded in general use by rabbit, which was originally a name for the young only....
19. cross, n. View full entry a1225
...A kind of gibbet used by the ancients (and in later times by some non-Christian nations); a stake, generally with a transverse bar, on which they put to a cruel and ignominious...
20. delf, n.1 View full entry 1388
...That which is delved or dug:...
