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1. African, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...A native or inhabitant of Africa; a person of African origin (contextually = black African(a)black5a); spec. (in local usage) such a person as distinguished from...
2. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
3. agrimony, n. View full entry eOE
...Any of various plants constituting the genus Agrimonia (family Rosaceae), comprising perennial herbaceous flowering plants native chiefly to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere; esp. (more...
4. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
5. Alp, n.1 View full entry eOE
...In pl. The range of mountains occupying much of Switzerland and adjacent countries. In sing.: a mountain in this range....
6. ant, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Any of various small insects constituting the family Formicidae of the order Hymenoptera, which typically live in complex social colonies, are usually wingless except for fertile adults in...
7. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
8. ark, n. View full entry c825
...A chest, box, coffer, close basket, or similar receptacle; esp....
9. at, prep. View full entry 755
...The most general determination of simple localization in space, expressing, strictly, the simple relation of a thing to a point of space which it touches; hence, usually determining a point or object...
10. balk | baulk, n.1 View full entry c885
...A ridge, heap, or mound upon the ground; e.g. a grave-mound. Obs....
11. bare, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c885
...Of the body or its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude....
12. barn, n. View full entry c950
...A covered building for the storage of grain; and, in wider usage, of hay, straw, flax, and other produce of the earth....
13. barton, n.1 View full entry c950
...A threshing-floor. Obs.; only in Old English....
14. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
15. beam, n.1 View full entry 826
...A tree; only in Old English, exc. in the now unanalysed compounds, hornbeam, quickbeam, whitebeam or beam-tree, names of trees....
16. bean, n. View full entry 940
...A smooth, kidney-shaped, laterally flattened seed, borne in long pods by a leguminous plant, Faba vulgaris....
17. bear, n.2 View full entry c950
...Barley: the original English name, in later times retained only in the north, and esp. in Scotland; hence spec. applied to the coarse variety (Hordeum hexastichon or ...
18. beat, v.1 View full entry c885
...trans. To strike with repeated blows. to beat the breast: i.e. in sign of sorrow....
19. bed, n. View full entry c995
...A permanent structure or arrangement for sleeping on, or for the sake of rest. In some form or other it constitutes a regular article of household furniture in civilized life, as well...
20. bed, v. View full entry a1000
...intr. To spread or prepare a bed. Const. dat.; also with cognate object. Obs....
