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1. † barse, n. View full entry c1000
...Name of a species of fish: the original form of the word subsequently corrupted to base, and bass; still retained in some dialects....
2. bass | basse, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The Common Perch (Perca fluviatilis), or an allied freshwater species....
3. beest, n. View full entry c1000
...The first milk drawn from a mammal, especially a cow, after parturition....
4. † beme, v. View full entry c1000
...intr. To blow on a trumpet....
5. bend, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thin flat strip adapted to bind round....
6. besmear, v. View full entry c1050
...trans. To smear over or about; to cover the surface generally or largely with any greasy, viscous, or sticky substance; usually with the notion of soiling or staining: to...
7. † beˈspar, v. View full entry a1100
...trans. To shut in; to lock up....
8. † bit, n.3 View full entry c1000
...A leathern bottle or flask; the uterus or womb; a fire-bucket....
9. bitch, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The female of the dog....
10. blay | bley, n. View full entry c1000
...The name of a small fish, the bleak....
11. bleach, n.1 View full entry c1050
...Whiteness, paleness. Obs....
12. † ˈbone-wort, n. View full entry c1000
...A name given, on account of their supposed bone-healing properties, to several different plants, as the common Daisy, Golden-Rod, Centaury (Erythræa), Yellow Mountain Pansy, Consolida minor, and Osmund...
13. bore, v.1 View full entry c1000
...trans. To pierce, perforate, make a hole in or through; in mod. use esp. to pierce by means of a rotatory movement like that of an auger or gimlet....
14. † borough-man, n. View full entry c1000
...A townsman, citizen, burgess....
15. borough-reeve, n. View full entry c1000
...A governor of a town or city; esp. the official who before the Norman Conquest represented the king's authority for fiscal and other purposes in boroughs, as the scír-geréfa...
16. boroughship, n. View full entry c1000
...A township; the fact of constituting a borough or township....
17. † brandise, n. View full entry c1000
...A trivet; perhaps used also in the other senses of brander, brandiron...
18. bride, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A woman at her marriage; a woman just about to be married or very recently married....
19. ˈbridely, adj. View full entry a1100
...Nuptial, bridal....
20. brier | briar | brere, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A prickly, thorny bush or shrub in general; formerly including the bramble, but now usually confined to wild rose bushes....
