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1. ear, n.1 View full entry c825
...The external ear....
2. fire, n. View full entry c825
...The natural agency or active principle operative in combustion; popularly conceived as a substance visible in the form of flame or of ruddy glow or incandescence....
3. fish, n.1 View full entry c825
...In popular language, any animal living exclusively in the water; primarily denoting vertebrate animals provided with fins and destitute of limbs; but extended to include various cetaceans, crustaceans, molluscs, etc. In modern...
4. head, n.1 View full entry c825
...The anterior part of the body of an animal, when separated by a neck, or otherwise distinguished, from the rest of the body; it contains the mouth and special sense-organs, and the...
5. here, adv. and n. View full entry c825
...In this place; in the place (country, region, etc.) where the person speaking is, or places himself....
6. lady, n. View full entry eOE
...The female head of a household; a woman who has authority over servants, attendants, or slaves (now chiefly arch. or hist.). Cf. lady of the house1a(a)...
7. leaf, n.1 View full entry c825
...An expanded organ of a plant, produced laterally from a stem or branch, or springing from its root; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage....
8. lion, n. View full entry c825
...A large carnivorous quadruped, Felis leo, now found native only in Africa and southern Asia, of a tawny or yellowish brown colour, and having a tufted tail. The male is...
9. live, v.1 View full entry eOE
...intr....
10. love, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A feeling or disposition of deep affection or fondness for someone, typically arising from a recognition of attractive qualities, from natural affinity, or from sympathy and manifesting itself in concern for the...
11. man, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...A human being....
12. mighty, adj. (and int.), n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Possessing might or power; powerful, potent, strong. Freq. rhetorical, connoting a pre-eminent or imposing degree of power....
13. ox, n. View full entry eOE
...A large cloven-hoofed, often horned ruminant mammal, Bos taurus (family Bovidae), derived from the extinct Eurasian aurochs and long domesticated for its milk, meat, and hide; a cow,...
14. rest, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Sleep, repose; the feeling of having been refreshed or restored through this....
15. run, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To go with quick steps on alternate feet, never having both or (in the case of many animals) all feet on the ground at the same time; to make one's...
16. sea, n. View full entry c825
...The continuous body of salt water that covers the greater part of the earth's surface. Often poet. with epithet as broad, deep (see deep1...
17. sin, n. View full entry c825
...An act which is regarded as a transgression of the divine law and an offence against God; a violation (esp. wilful or deliberate) of some religious or moral principle....
18. star, n.1 View full entry c825
...Any one of the many celestial bodies appearing as luminous points in the night sky. Now usually restricted (in scientific and to some extent in popular language), to the fixed stars...
19. timber, n.1 View full entry c825
...A building, structure, edifice, house. Also fig.Obs. (? only Old English.)...
20. whelp, n.1 View full entry c825
...The young of the dog. Now little used, superseded by puppy....
