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1. church, n.1 and adj. View full entry eOE
...A building for public Christian worship or rites such as baptism, marriage, etc., traditionally cruciform in shape, and typically having a tower, dome, or spire; distinguished originally from an oratory...
2. eat, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To take into the mouth piecemeal, and masticate and swallow as food; to consume as food. Usually of solids only....
3. father, n. View full entry c825
...One by whom a child is or has been begotten, a male parent, the nearest male ancestor. Rarely applied to animals....
4. 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....
5. fox, n. View full entry c825
...An animal of the genus Vulpes, having an elongated pointed muzzle and long bushy tail. Usually V. vulgaris, preserved in England and elsewhere as a beast of the...
6. god, n. View full entry c825
...A superhuman person (regarded as masculine: see goddess) who is worshipped as having power over nature and the fortunes of mankind; a deity. (Chiefly of heathen divinities; when applied to...
7. 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...
8. hell, n. and int. View full entry eOE
...The dwelling place of the dead; the abode of departed spirits; the infernal regions regarded as a place of existence after death; the underworld; the grave; Hades....
9. high, adj. and n.2 View full entry c825
...Of great or considerable upward extent or magnitude; extending far upward; ‘long upwards’ (Johnson); lofty, tall....
10. idle, adj. and n. View full entry c825
...Empty, vacant; void (of). Obs....
11. 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)...
12. 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...
13. man, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...A human being....
14. night, n. and int. View full entry eOE
...The period of darkness occurring between one day and the next; that part of a 24-hour period during which a place receives no light from the sun; the time between evening and...
15. plant, v. View full entry eOE
...trans. To set or place (a seed, bulb, or growing thing) in the ground so that it may take root and grow; to establish (a garden, orchard, etc.) by doing this....
16. right, adj. and int. View full entry eOE
...That is straight; not bent, curved, or crooked. Formerly also right with: in a line with (obs.). Now only in right line2....
17. 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...
18. send, v.1 View full entry c825
...trans. To commission, order, or request (a person) to go to or into a place or to a person. Chiefly, to dispatch as a messenger...
19. sheep, n. View full entry c825
...Any animal of the ruminant genus Ovis (sometimes horned), closely allied to the goats; esp. of the widely domesticated species Ovis aries, of which there are many varieties,...
20. sit, v. View full entry c825
...Of persons: To be or remain in that posture in which the weight of the body rests upon the posteriors; to be seated....
