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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. acolyte, n. View full entry OE
...Christian Church (now chiefly R.C. Church). A person who attends a priest and performs subordinate duties, as assisting at the altar, lighting and bearing candles, etc. Also: the order...
3. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
4. beadle, n. View full entry c1000
...One who makes a proclamation (on behalf of another); a herald. Obs....
5. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
6. beaver, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An amphibious rodent, distinguished by its broad, oval, horizontally-flattened, scaly tail, palmated hind feet, coat of soft fur, and hard incisor teeth with which it cuts down trees; remarkable for its skill...
7. breed, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. Said of a female parent: To cherish (brood) in the womb or egg; to bring (offspring) forward from the germ to the birth; to hatch (young birds) from the egg;...
8. can, v.1 View full entry c1000
...trans. To know....
9. chancellor, n. View full entry OE
...General sense of secretary, official secretary. Obs. or alien....
10. chaplain, n. View full entry a1100
...gen. The priest, clergyman or minister of a chapel; in Middle English a chantry priest....
11. cram, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To fill (a receptacle) with more than it properly or conveniently holds, by force or compression; less strictly, to fill to repletion, fill quite full or overfull, ‘pack’. Const. ...
12. drop, v. View full entry c1000
...Of a liquid: To fall in drops or globules; to exude or distil in drops....
13. E, n.1 View full entry c1000
...simply....
14. eight, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
15. fellow, n. View full entry 1016
...One who shares with another in a possession, official dignity, or in the performance of any work; a partner, colleague, co-worker. Also, one united with another in a covenant for common ends;...
16. film, n. View full entry c1000
...A membrane, animal or vegetable. Obs....
17. 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....
18. † ˈforthwise, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To guide forth, direct; hence, to bring up (a child)....
19. further, adj. View full entry c1000
...That is before another in position, order, or rank; esp. of an animal's limbs or a part of the body: Front. Obs. (Cf. farther1.)...
20. hog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domestic pig reared for slaughter; spec. a castrated male pig. Also more widely: any domestic pig. Cf. pig1a....
