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1. bend, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thin flat strip adapted to bind round....
2. boar, n. View full entry c1000
...The male of the swine, whether wild or tame (but uncastrated)....
3. caltrop | caltrap, n. View full entry c1000
...A trap, gin, or snare, to catch the feet of beasts, of horses or men in war, and the like. Obs. (Still in French in sense ‘wolf-trap’.)(Quots. 1300...
4. Calvary, n. View full entry c1000
...The proper name of the place where Christ was crucified. (Rendered in Old English Headpan-stow.) Also used generically....
5. † crouch, n.1 View full entry c1000
...= cross, in its various early senses: the holy cross, or a representation or figure of it; the sign of the cross; a heraldic cross; the cross on a coin,...
6. crystal, n. and adj. View full entry OE
...Ice. Cf. sense A. 2a. Obs....
7. eight, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
8. false, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c1000
...Of opinions, propositions, doctrines, representations: Contrary to what is true, erroneous....
9. 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....
10. hill, n. View full entry c1000
...A natural elevation of the earth's surface rising more or less steeply above the level of the surrounding land. Formerly the general term, including what are now called mountains; after the introduction...
11. ˈhilted, adj. View full entry OE
...Furnished with or possessing a hilt; in Heraldry, having a hilt of a different tincture from the blade....
12. icicle, n. View full entry OE
...A hanging tapering length of ice produced by the freezing of successive drops of water falling or trickling from the point of attachment, as from the eaves of a house or other...
13. Irish, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry OE
...Of a person: native to Ireland; that is a citizen of Ireland; (also) descended from emigrants from Ireland to another country, esp. the United States or Australia (cf. Irish-American, ...
14. knot, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An intertwining or complication of the parts of one or more ropes, cords, or strips of anything flexible enough, made for the purpose of fastening them together or to another object, or...
15. Mars, n.1 View full entry OE
...(The name of) the god of war of the ancient Romans, ranking in importance next to Jupiter, and identified from an early period with the Greek god Ares. Also fig.:...
16. mask, n.1 View full entry OE
...The mesh of a net; (in pl.) the openings of such a mesh. In Old English: the net itself. Now Sc. and Eng. regional (north....
17. match, n.1 View full entry OE
...A husband or wife; a consort, a lover. Also: an animal's mate. Obs....
18. mercury, n. View full entry OE
...A god of the ancient Romans, the son of Jupiter and Maia, identified from an early period with the Greek Hermes....
19. mill-wheel, n. View full entry OE
...A wheel, esp. a waterwheel, used to drive a mill....
20. pard, n.1 View full entry OE
...A panther, a leopard; (also) an animal resembling these. Now arch....