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21. bou(e-līne n.

Additional spellings: bouline, boue-line, boueline
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Naut. Bowline. …

22. bǒus n.

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Intoxicating drink. …

23. Brabander n.

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A native or inhabitant of Brabant. …

24. brāke n.(1)

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An implement for crushing or pounding: (a) a (flax) brake; (b) a pestle; (c) a mallet or cudgel; lether brake. …

25. brekke n.

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A flaw of some kind; ?a wrinkle. …

26. brike n.(1)

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(a) Brick as building material; (b) a brick; -- pl. often uninflected. …

27. brīne n.(2)

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(a) Salt water, brine; (b) setten in brine, to make (land) salty (hence barren); lond of brine, a desert. …

28. budde n.

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(a) A bud (of a flower or spray); also, a fresh shoot or spray, the first stage in the development of fruit (as of grapes); (b) a seed pod. …

29. bught n.

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(a) A bend or curve; loop (of thread or yarn); fold (of cloth); loop (in a dragon's tail); (b) a hollow or curve in the body; bught of the arm, the angle of the elbow; bught of the kne (leg), the……

30. buil n.

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A curved handle. …

31. buk-horn n.

Additional spellings: bukhorn
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Cured fish (?whiting), stockfish [see OD buckhorn]. …

32. bulchin n.

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Bull-calf, bullock. …

33. bulwerk n.

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(a) A fortification outside a city wall or gate; a rampart, barricade; (b) fig. a bulwark, a source of strength. …

34. bunge n.

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The bung (of a cask, barrel). …

35. burgh-ma(i)ster n.

Additional spellings: burghmaister, burgh-master, burghmaster
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A member of the governing body of a Dutch or North German town, a burgess. …

36. bush n.(1)

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(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth. …

37. butte n.(4)

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(a) The end of a spear or pike opposite the head, butt; (b) naut.?the end of a plank in a ship's side; ?also, one of the planks. …

38. but(te n.(5)

Additional spellings: butte
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(a) A fish of the family Pleuronectidae, a flounder; (b) but tourte, a torte or pie containing this fish; -- used as personal name. …

39. cavel n.

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(a) The drawing of lots or a lot so drawn; casten cavel(es, draw lots; cavel fell, the lot fell (upon sb.); (b) a splinter or fragment. …

40. clamp n.

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(a) [cp. crampe n.(2)] A clamp or brace; clamp clout, ?a piece of iron used as a brace or clamp; (b) at a clamp, ?all at once; (c) [cp. crampe n.(1)] pang, twinge. …

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