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1. being, n. View full entry c1330
...Existence in relationship to some place or condition; (formerly also) presence (obs.). Now somewhat rare....
2. body, n. View full entry eOE
...The complete physical form of a person or animal; the assemblage of parts, organs, and tissues that constitutes the whole material organism....
3. cause, n. View full entry ?c1225
...That which produces an effect; that which gives rise to any action, phenomenon, or condition. Cause and effect are correlative terms....
4. conceit, n. View full entry c1374
...That which is conceived in the mind, a conception, notion, idea, thought; device. Obs....
5. condition, n. View full entry c1315
...Something demanded or required as a prerequisite to the granting or performance of something else; a provision, a stipulation....
6. 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....
7. field, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Open country, esp. as opposed to woodland; a stretch of open land; a plain....
8. first, adj. (and n.2) and adv. View full entry OE
...In regard to time: Prior to all others in occurrence, existence, etc.; happening, existing, or presenting itself before the others; earliest....
9. frame, n. and adj.2 View full entry ?c1200
...Advantage, benefit, profit; = freme Also in to do frame: to do (someone) good, to benefit. Obs....
10. free, adj., n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Of a person: not or no longer in servitude or subjection to another; having personal, social, and political rights as a member of a society or state....
11. fuzzy, adj. View full entry 1616
...Not firm or sound in substance; spongy. Obs. exc. dial. (Cf. fozy)...
12. ghost, n. View full entry a800
...The soul or spirit, as the principle of life; also ghost of life. Obs. exc. in phrase to give up (†earlier to give, give away,:...
13. ground, n. View full entry c725
...Of the sea, a well, ditch, etc., and of hell; rarely of heaven. (Cf. bottom3) Obs....
14. heap, n. View full entry c725
...A collection of things lying one upon another so as to form an elevated mass often roughly conical in form. (A heap of things placed regularly one above another is more distinctively...
15. hook, n.1 View full entry a700
...A length of metal, or piece of wood or other material, bent back, or fashioned with a sharp angle, often forming a part of something, as a pole, chain, etc., adapted for...
16. horseshoe | horse-shoe, n. View full entry a1387
...A shoe for a horse, now usually formed of a narrow iron plate bent to the outline of the horse's hoof and nailed to the animal's foot....
17. I, pron. and n.2 View full entry eOE
...Used by the speaker or writer referring to himself or herself....
18. idee, n. View full entry 1542
...= idea (in various senses)....
19. make, n.2 View full entry a1325
...The manner in which a thing is made....
20. making, n.1 View full entry lOE
...The action of make in various senses; production, creation, construction, preparation; institution, appointment; doing, performance (of a specified action); conversion into or causing to become something; etc. Also (occas.): the...
