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1. after, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Designating the second of two or more people, things, occasions, etc., occurring in chronological sequence. Obs....
2. arise, v. View full entry c825
...To get up from sitting or kneeling, to stand up. arch.: see rise...
3. awe, n.1 View full entry c825
...Immediate and active fear; terror, dread. Obs....
4. burn, v.1 View full entry c825
...Of fire, a furnace, or conflagration: To be in the state of activity characteristic of fire; to be in the state of combustion. Sometimes the prominent notion is that of intense heat...
5. † clepe, v. View full entry c825
...intr. To cry, call; to call on, appeal to (a person), for or after (a thing). Obs....
6. clip, v.1 View full entry c825
...trans. To clasp with the arms, embrace, hug. arch. and dial....
7. coal, n.1 View full entry c825
...A piece of carbon glowing without flame. (Now arch. or blending with 45.)...
8. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
9. delve, v. View full entry c825
...trans. To dig; to turn up with the spade; esp. to dig (ground) in preparation for a crop. Now chiefly north. and Sc., where it...
10. do, v. View full entry c825
...To put, place....
11. doom, n. View full entry c825
...A statute, law, enactment; gen. an ordinance, decree. Obs. exc. Hist....
12. ear, n.1 View full entry c825
...The external ear....
13. † eft, adv. View full entry c825
...A second time, again; back....
14. end, n. View full entry c825
...The extremity or outermost part (in any direction) of a portion of space, or of anything extended in space; utmost limit. Obs. in general sense; retained in phrase, the...
15. evil, adj. and n.1 View full entry c825
...Morally depraved, bad, wicked, vicious. Also absol.Obs. as applied to persons....
16. 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....
17. glad, v. View full entry c825
...intr. To become or to be glad; to rejoice. Const. on, in, of, for. Obs....
18. 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...
19. grin, n.1 View full entry c825
...A snare for catching birds or animals, made of cord, hair, wire, or the like, with a running noose. Obs. exc. dial. or arch....
20. halt, v.1 View full entry c825
...intr. To be lame, walk lame, limp. arch....
