List of Old English Words in the OED/BA

Old English	sp	English
Bac	n	Chaplet
Bache	n	The vale of a stream or rivulet; a beck
Back	prf	Situated, located and towards the rear. 2. backwards or in reverse. 3. in return, again.
Back	n	The surface of a river, the waves
Back	phr	"Answer Back" - reply with cheek.
Back	phr	"At One's Back" - following closely.
Back	phr	"At the Back of" - ultimately responsible.
Back	phr	"At the Back of One's Mind" - remaining, but not prominent, in one's thoughts.
Back	phr	"Back and Fill" - a nautical term denoting a mode o tacking when the tide is with the vessel and the wind against it. 2. metaphorically, to be irresolute.
Back	phr	"Back and Fore" - back and forth; to and fro.
Back	phr	"Back and Forth" - an exchange of words, view. 2. reciprocity, give and take. 3. to and fro; from one place to another and back again.
Back	phr	"Back at You" - used to return a greeting or insult, 'you're an idiot.'
Back	phr	"Back Away"- to retreat or move in an opposite direction, whilst keeping your attention to things or situations.
Back	phr	"Back Down" - withdraw (charges), retreat. 2. relinquish give up any claim to something.
Back	phr	"Back In" - to reverse a vehicle into a space, to back into.
Back	phr	"Back Into" - drive a vehicle backwards into something (another vehicle, barrier etc), especially through carelessness or inexperience.
Back	phr	"Back of Beyond" - a very remote, or inaccessible, place or location.
Back	phr	"Back of the Day" - in the past. 2. at one time, esp. a time which is fondly remembered.
Back	phr	"Back Off" - back away a vehicle from a position too close to something else. 2. back down or retreat from a stance in some matter or situation.
Back	phr	"Back Onto" - to reverse a vehicle onto something. 2. to overlook something from the rear. 3. have at its back; face at the back.
Back	phr	"Back Out of" - withdraw from an undertaking, promise, contract, agreement.
Back	phr	"Back the Field" - in horse racing, to be against a horse or particular horse, that some or all the other horses, collectively called "the field."
Back	phr	"Back the Right Horse" - support at the beginning (with a bet) a horse, person, team, etc that eventually wins.
Back	phr	"Back the Wrong Horse" - support at the beginning (with a bet) a horse, person, team, etc that eventuallyloses.
Back	phr	"Back to the Drawing Board" - back to the beginning, or start, following a failed or unsuccessful attempt.
Back	phr	"Back to the Land" - a catchphrase applied to projects for turning some of the dwellers in crowded cities into rural settlers.
Back	phr	"Back Up" - to support, sustain, as to back up one's family, friend or team-mates.
Back	phr	"Back Water" - to retard the progress or reverse the motion of a vessel by reversing the action of the oars or of the propelling machinery.
Back	phr	"Bane is the Back of the Brother-less Man" - everyone is vulnerable unless he has a friend.
Back	phr	"Be Home on the Sheep's Back" - to be doing well because of your involvement in sheep-farming.
Back	phr	"Be On The Back Foot" - to be in a defensive posture. 2. (lit & fig)-to be off-balance.
Back	phr	"Behind One's Back" - secretly; treacherously.
Back	phr	"Break the Back of" - complete the larger part of.
Back	phr	"By the Back Stairs" - in an unofficial way, indirectly.
Back	phr	"Fed Up to the Back Teeth" - very tired of angry about something. 2. extremely bored.
Back	phr	"Get Back on One's Feet" - to recover from an illness or some other setback.
Back	phr	"Get Off Somebody's Back" - stop harassing somebody.
Back	phr	"Get One's Back Up" - provoke somebody into anger, obstinacy, annoy.
Back	phr	"Get One's Own Back (On Somebody)" - to extract one's revenge.
Back	phr	"Give the Shirt Off One's Back" - of a person who is very generous.
Back	phr	"Glad to See the Back of" - be pleased when somebody leaves or finish.
Back	phr	"Go Back On" - change one's mind, contradict.
Back	phr	"Go Back On One's Word" - to withdraw from what has promised.
Back	phr	"Go Behind Someone's Back" - act in a way that deliberately conceals an activity from someone.
Back	phr	"Hang Back" - be reluctant to go forward.
Back	phr	"Have a Broad Back" - be willing, able to blame for the errors of others.
Back	phr	"Have Eyes in the Back of One's Head" - to know more of what's going on than is generally realized.
Back	phr	"Have No Backbone" - lacking courage.
Back	phr	"Have One's Back to the Wall" - a very difficult situation with no beneficial options available for acting upon. 3. in difficulties with no retreat
Back	phr	"In Back of" - behind, to the rear of
Back	phr	"In Through the Back Door" - in an unofficial way; indirectly. 2. secretly without formal permission.
Back	phr	"Laid On One's Back" - laid up with ill-health; helpless.
Back	phr	"Lean Over Backwards" - take great trouble to be accommodating or helpful.
Back	phr	"Like the Back of One's Hand" - intimately; extremely well and in detail.
Back	phr	"Like Water off a Duck's Back" - without any effect.
Back	phr	"Make a Rod For ne's Back" - cause trouble for oneself by one's own actions.
Back	phr	"On One's Back" - harassed by others. 2. bedridden or disabled.
Back	phr	"On the Backburner" - receiving little attention.
Back	phr	"On the Back of Something" - by virtue of something.
Back	phr	"Put One's Back Into" - make a strenuous physical effort.
Back	phr	"Put Someone on the Back Foot" - to cause a person to adopt a lower profile.
Back	phr	"Put Something Back on its Feet" - to repair something.
Back	phr	"Ride on the Sheep's Back" - to benefit from the production of wool.
Back	phr	"See the Back of" - to get rid of; be finished with.
Back	phr	"Take a Back Seat" - take a position of lesser importance, responsibility in the dealing or management of affairs.
Back	phr	"Talk Through the Back of one's Neck" - talk nonsense.
Back	phr	"Thrown on One's Back" - completely beaten. A figure taken from wrestling.
Back	phr	"To the Backbone" - absolutely, unquestioningly.
Back	phr	"To the Back Of" - behind, at the back of.
Back	phr	"Turn One's Back On" - to decline to further assist or deal with a person.
Back	phr	"With One's Hand Tied Behind One's Back" - very easily.
Backache	n	Continuous pain in the back.
Back-along	adv	Back in the direction of time.
Back-answer	n	An answering back, reply, retort, repartee.
Back answer	vb	To reply, answer back, retort.
Back-beat	n	Any of the even musical beats, as opposed to odd downbeats.
Back bench	n	In the House of Legislative according to the Westminster system. 2. any bench behind either of the front benchs and occupied by rank-and-file politicians.
Backbencher	n	An MP. without a ranking in cabinets, and therefore sits on one of the bank benches or rows of the legislation.
Back-berend	adj	Bearing on the back. 2. In OE. law used to describe a thief caught in the act of carrying off of stolen property. (sometimes modernized to back-bearing.)
Back-bite	vb	To wound by clandestine detraction. 2. to censure meanly or spitefully a person who is not present.3. to slander or speak evil of someone absent. 4. to censure or revile the absent.
Back-biter	n	A secret calumninator or detractor.
Back-biting	n	Secret slander, detraction, calumniator.
Back-bitingly	adv	In a secret, mean or detracting way or manner.
Backblow	n	A blow struck from the back or from behind.
Backboard	n	A board which supports the back when one is sitting. 2. a board serving as a back part of anything, spec. a tailboard of a wagon or cart. 3. thin boards for the back of a picture frames.
Backbone	n	The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals. 2. spine, sinal column, vertrbral column. 3. the stem, keel, and stern timbers of a ship. 4. any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure, as railways. 5. courage, fortitude, or strength
Backboned	adj	Vertebrated, spined.
Backboneless	adj	Destitute of strength, character; weak
Backboneless-ness	n	The state or condition of having no backbone. 2. weakness, timidity, cowardness.
Back-breaker	n	A strenuous, taxing exhausting backbreaking task.
Back-breaking	adj	Arduous, as 'back-breaking work.'
Back-breakingly	adv	In a backbreaking manner
Back-burning	n	The act of lighting a controlled fire in the path of a bush fire or a forest fire, in order to starve it of combustible fuel.
Back-cloth	n	Stage backdrop, painted black to depict secenery.
Back-cloth star	n	An actor who stands upstage, making the other actors to face him, and with their backs to the audience, in order to gain more attention too himself.
Backcomb	vb	To hold the hair away from the head and comb it towards the back.
Backcome	n	Return, arrive back, comeback.
Back-coming	n	Return
Back-door	n	An entrance at the rear of a building. 2. a secret or underhanded means of access.
Back-door	vb	To undermine someone in a cunning and sneaking way.
Back-door	adj	Secret, clandestine, unworthy. 2. acting from behind and in concealment. 3. backstabbing, as in a backdoor intrigue.
Backdown	n	Complete surrender of claims. 2. a retreat from a position taken up or from a stand or stated position. 3. a retraction from a previous held position. 4. a withdrawal, climb-down, a giving-up.
Back down	vb	To retreat from a position previously held. 2. to withdraw, climb down from, give up. 3. to surrender rights, claims, position.
Backdraft	n	Back-draft, a reverse drawing or movement of air, gas liquid. 2. an explosion that occurs when air reaches a fire that has used up all available oxygen, often occurring when a door is opened to a room the fire.
Back-drop	n	Scenery hung at the back of a stage. 2. in USA, theatrical argot. 3. the background, or that which is going on behind the scene in a situation, incident, confrontation..
Backed	adj	Provided with a back; having a back, background, or backing, used particularly in compositions, e.g. broad-backed. 2. supported at the back, seconded, endorsed, abetted, betted on, marked. 3. broken into the saddle. 4. printed on the back. 5. moved or laid back.
Backen	vb	To put, keep, throw or lay back. 2. retard 9in progress.) 3. to draw back.
Back-end	n	Of things with two ends. 2. in the latter part or end of a season or a season of the year, such as a late autumn (of the back-end of fall.)
Backening	n	The action or drawing or moving back.
Backening	adj	Keeping back, retarding growth of (vegetables, crops)
Backer	n	One who, or that which, backs. 2. a supporter; esp., one who bets on horses or some other event. 3. one who supports by money or credit. 4. one who finances the production and staging of a play or film.
Backer	adj	Farther, hinder, posterior.
Backermore	adv	Farther back, more to the rear.
Backermost	ppl	Hindermost.
Backfall	ppl	A 'grace' in old English music. 2. a fall or the throw on the back inwrestling. 3. a piece of hardwood, up to three foot long, rotating on a centre and operated by a tracker in a pipe organ.
Backfallen	n	One who falls back; a renegade,
Backfill	n	The material that has been used to refill an excavation. 2. reserve-support personnel. 3. that which backfills, a replacement. 4. material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
Backfill	vb	To refill a hole with the material dug out of it. 2. to refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and then to pressure the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated. 3. to provide reserve support. 4. to replenish, to restock due to attrition or loss.
Back-filling	n	The action of refilling a hole with the material dug out of it. 2. action of refilling an excavation to its former state. 3. the providing of reserve support. 4. replenishment, restoration.
Backfire	n	A fire purposely lit ahead of an advancing bush-fire, field or prairie in order to deprive it of fuel and so to extinguish it. 2. a premature ignition or explosion in an internal-combustion engine of a car, etc.
Backfire	n	A controlled fire set in the way of a large, out-of-controlled wildfire, or bush fire in order to limit the spread of the large fire by removing its fuel. 2. an explosion of a combustion engine.
Back-firing	n	The premature ignition or explosion of an internal combustion engine.
Back flow	n	The flow of fluid through a pipe in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.
Back flow	vb	To flow in the opposite direction.
Back foot	vb	To be on the back foot. 2. to be in a defensive posture; off balance (lit.& fig.)
Backfriend	n	A pretended or false friend. 2. a friend who does not step forward to help and assist. 3. an enemy or foe who feigns friendship. 4. a secret or not openly avowed enemy.
Back-ganging	n	Backgain, a going-back, a returning, back-going. 2. a retrograde step, esp. in health, circumstances, or conditions, a relapse.
Back-ganging	adj	Behind or late in payment; in arrears. 2. not thriving or prosperous.
Backgate	n	A gate at the rear of a property.
Back-going	n	Returning, going back, backggain. see 'back-ganging.'
Background	n	One's social heritage; what one did in the past/previously. 2. a part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. 3. information relevant to the current situation about past events; history. 4. less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground). 5. the image or color, over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows). 6. activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
Background	vb	To form a background to or in relation to. 2. to put in the background, to make hard to see or inonspicious. 3. to tell someone or 'fill in' the background of the circumstances relating to a particular situation, esp. its cause, history, likely outcome.
Background	phr	"Keep in the Background" - be deliberately inconspicuous.
Backgrounded	adj	Moved to the backgrounded. 2. in computing: made interactive. 3. that which is provided as information, reasons, explanation etc. for course of action, present situation or likely outcome.
Back-grounder	n	A handout of information in the form of publicity material backgrounding the reasons etc., for a decision or course of action. 2. a media conference or interview which outlines and explains the background of an organisation and it policies.
Back-half	n	Backside, rear, back part.
Backhand	n	The reverse side of the human hand. 2. a shot made in tennis. 3. handwrting that leans to the left.
Backhand	vb	To hit or strike with back of the hand. 2. to execute a backhand shot or throw. 3. to slap with the back of the hand.
Back-handed	adj	With the back of the hand. 2. directed backwards, or oon the hand or arm crossing the body. 3. keeping back ones's hand, backwards, remissing. 4. indirect.
Backhander	n	A blow or stroke with the back of the hand, a backhand. 2. a tip or a bribe made surreptitously, a secret payment.
Back-handedly	adv	In an indirect or back-handed manner.
Backhanded-ness	n	The quality of being back-handed. 2. the use of tactics
Back-heel	n	(Soccer) a kick played by the heel (back-heeling) which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing. 2. (wrestling) a method (back-heeling) of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.
Back-heel	vb	(Soccer) to perform such a kick. 2. (wrestling) to perform such a trip or throw by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back. 3. to perform a backheel kick.
Backhoe	n	A piece of excavating and earth-moving equipment with a bucket on the end of an articulating arm. 2. in Australia and Canada, a multi-purpose tractor.
Backhouse	n	A building which situates or is found at the back of the main building. 2. a privy or outdoor toilet.
Backhoe	vb	To excavate using a backhoe.
Backing	n	The act or action of giving support to someone or something. 2. the mounting of horses; the breaking-in of a colt. 2. a motion or movement backwards; esp. of the wind in a direction contrawise to the sun's. 4. the shaping of a ship rafter or arching rib to the dihedral angle. 5. the last board in a converted log, to which the carriage dogs were attached.
Backing	phr	"Backing and Filling" - of a ship, drifting back and forth without making progress.
Backing	phr	"Backing Out" - the action of reversing a vehicle from a confined space. 2. to withdraw from something one has agreed to do. 3. to dare someone not to withdraw from achallenge. 4. in computing, to undo a change.
Backing-deals	n	Vertical planks behind the curbs in mine shaft.
Back iron	n	The cap, or cover, iron that stiffens the cutting iron for a plane. It also breaks the shavings and prevents the fibres tearing along the grain.
Backing-off	n	Imparting a clearance back from the edge of tools and cutter , such as reamers and milling cutters.
Backland	n	The back tract or part of a piece of land. 2. a building constructed behind the main building.
Backless	adj	Without or not having a back, often applied to a woman's dress or gown cut low at the back.
Backlight	n	A spotlight that illumines a photographic subject frm behind. 2. a rear window of a motor car.
Backlight	vb	To illuminate something from behind; backlit.
Back-linings	n	Thin rough boards fixed to the edges of the linings of a sash and frame window frame to form an enclosed for the balance and to keep the box free from mortar.
Back-load	n	The amount that can be carried on the back.
Backload	vb	To load towards the back, or towards the end of a period. 2. to load cargo, shipment, etc., after the loading has been completed.
Back-looking	n	A looking back (lit & fig.) 2. looking into or to the past. 3. backwar looking.
Backman	n	Follower, retainer, attendant.
Back marker	n	A competitor in a race, etc. who concedes a start or an initial advantage to his opponents.
Backness	n	In phonetics: quality of being a back vowel. 2. any vowel sound produced in the back of the mouth.
Back-of-beyond	n	An Australian phrase describing the vast inland spaces, The Outback.
Back out	n	An act of withdrawing from a position. 2. inclination to back out or withdraw.
Back over	n	An accident in which a driver reverses a motor vehicle over an unseen person.
Back read	vb	To interpret what one has read previously in light of later experience and knowledge.
Back-reckoning	n	A reckoning for past transactions or deeds.
Back-rest	n	The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.
Back road	n	A minor or secondary road, often through a rural area and sometimes used as an alternate to a main road.
Backroom	n	A room near the rear of a premise, esp. one only accessible to a priveleged few and that can be used as an inconspicious meetin place.
Backroom	adj	Of, relating to, or happening or dealing in a backroom.2. characterized by secrecy or anonymity.
Back seat	n	Any of the seats in the rear of a vehicle, theatre, hall, auditorium etc.
Backseat driver	n	A person sitting in the backseat of a motor vehicle giving unasked for and usually unwanted advice or instructions to the driver. 2. a self-opiniated or opinion-ridden individual who gives unasked-for advice on the best way to handle or solve a problem.
Backshadowing	n	A literary device in which the writer shows how an event that has already occurred affects the future. 2. life must be lived looking forward, but can only be understood looking back.
Back-settler	n	One who lives in the back settlements of a colony or new country. 2. a settler living in the backwoods.
Backshop	n	A small and usually private shop behind the main one. 2. a secret place of business or intrigue.
Back-sight	n
Backside	n	Hinder or back part. 2. behind or rear. 2. the back premises, backyard. 3. out-building, attached to a dwelling. 4. posterior or rump. 5. the under surface of a leaf. 6. the reverse side of a document, page, book, etc. 7. the wrong side, the opposite or reverse side.
Back-sitter	n	One who sits back or takes no stand on situations or matters. 2. a fence-sitter (fig.)
Back-sitting	n	Sitting back, fence-sitting, non-committal.
Back-slide	vb	To regress, to slip backwards or revert to a previous worse state. 2. to shirk responsibilty, renege on one's obligation or commitment.
Back-slider	n	An apostate, renegade, recividist. 2. one who falls away from an adopted course, esp in a religious sense.
Backsliding	n	An occasion on which one backslides, in a moral sense. 2. recividism.
Back-sliding	adj	The act of sliding back, reneging, shirking one's responsibilities and duties. 3. recividal.
Back-spin	n	Reverse rotation of a round object that is moving forward, causing it to rebound.
Backstairs	n	A staircase at the back of a building, normally used by servants and tradesmen. 2. a staircase for the servants' quarters in a large home. 4. an indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.
Backstairs	adj	Clandestine, secret, furtive. 2. scandalous.
Backstand	n	Support.
Back-step	n	A retrograde movement
Back-stop	n	A device that prevents railroad cars from rolling off a railroad track.
Back-stop	vb	To serve as a backstop for. 2. to bolster support.
Back straight	n	The straight part of a running track or similar, as opposed to the finishing line or home straight.
Back street	n	Associated with neighourhood situated on back streets, often in old neighborhood with poorer residents.
Back-stretch	n	That part of a race course farthest from the spectators; opposite of home stretch.
Backstroke	n	A swimming stroke done lying on one's back.
Backswept	adj	Swept or pushed back.
Back-talk	n	Back chat. 2. a retort or reply which is regarded as superfluous or impertinence.
Back-to-back	adj	Of houses withh a party wall at the back or rear. 2. consecutive.
Back-to-back	adv	With backs adjacent and opposite to each other.
Back tooth	n	A molar.
Back-to-the-lander	n	A city dweller turn into a rural settler.
Back-town	n	One-horse town, hicksville, boondocks
Back-up	n	A reserve or substitute reinforcements. 2. a copy of a computer file, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed. 3 a stand-in or spare. 4. in computing - that which is intended as a back-up. 5. an accumulation of material that halts the flow or movement of something, such as water or liquid.
Back up	adj	Who, or that which, stands in, stands for, stands by orin reserve.
Backward	vb	To put or keep in a backward position. 2. to delay or retard.
Backward	adv	To go backward, recede, retreat. 2. to relapse, backslide.
Backward	adj	Rear-guard, rearward.
Backward	phr	"Backward in Coming Forward" - hesititate, shy, reserved, timid in dealing with difficult people and situations.
Backward-bending	adj	Able to bend backwards.
Backwarding	n	The action of going backwards.
Backward-looking	adj	Nostalgically romantic.
Backwardly	n	In a backwards direction. 2. again, over again. 3. perversely. 4. reluctantly, sluggishly,
Backwardness	n	Retardation, regression. 2. something of being behind in progress or preparation. 3. the backward state of the seasons or crops. 4. reluctance, disinclination, slowness of conception, sluggishness, bashfulness, slow mental alertness.
Backwards	adv	Going or moving backwards or to the rear.
Backwards	phr	"Bend Over Backwards" - to go a to a great trouble to accommodate another person's wishes.
Backwards	phr	"Know Backwards" - be entirely familiar with.
Backwards	phr	"Not Backwards in Coming Forward" - attention seeking; not shy or withdrawn.
Backwards	phr	"Take a Step Backwards" - move further away from one's goals.
Backwash	n	The motion of a receding wave. 2. a backward current (also, transfig & fig.)
Backwash	vb	To effect with backwash (about e.g. with that from the oars of a boat in front. 2. a consequence (slang).
Backwater	n	The water held back by a dam or other obstruction. 2. a remote place, remaining somewhat unaffected unaffected by new events, progressions, ideas.
Backwater	vb	To row or paddle a backward stroke. 2. to vacillate on a long-held position.
Back-waterish	n	Like a backwater; retrograde.
Backway	n	A by-path. 2. away at the back or leading to the back, of any place; hence, an indirect way, an about way.
Backwoodish	adj	Somewhat like something or someone from the backwards.
Backwoodish-ness	n	State or quality typical of something or someone from the backwoods.
Backwoods	n	Wild, uncleared forest land. 2. a remote or sparsely inhabited region.
Backwoodsy	adj	Of the nature of the backwoods.
Backword	n	Withdraw from a promise or from an accepted invitation. 2. a contradiction, a rude answer.
Backwort	n	Old name for comfrey; symphylum officinale.
Backyard	n	A yard at the back or rear of a house or bulding. 2. a person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's home or place of work, and where the person is likely to go. 3. an area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
Backyard	phr	"Not in My Backyard" - a person who supports an idea or project but does not want it taking place or being constructed near his place or residence.
Badling	n	A hermaphrodite. 2.womanish or effeminate man. 3. thug
Baft	adv	Of place: behind, to the rear of, aft. 2. in later use only nautical : astern, aft, abaft. 3. of time: later, afterwards.
Bairn	n	Child: son or daughter (expressing relatioship, rather than age.)
Bairn	phr	"A Shy Bairn Gets Nowt" - if you are too shy, and don't ask, you won't get what yo want.
Bairn-bed	n	Womb
Bairn-dole	n	Child's portion; a smaller amount.
Bairnhood	n	Childhood, infancy, cradlehood.
Bairnish	adj	Childish, peurile.
Bairnishness	n	The state or quality of being childlike.
Bairn-less	adj	Without child or off-spring; childless.
Bairn-like	adj	Childlike.
Bairnly	adv	In a childlike manner; child-like, in childhood, puerilely.
Bairn-team	n	Brood of children, off-spring, family, posterity.
Bake	n	The act or process, result of baking. 2. a biscuit.
Bake	vb	To cook (something) in an oven. 2. to dry by heat. 3. to prepare food by baking it. 4. to be baked to heating or drying. 5. to be hot. 6. to smoke marijuana. 7. to harden by cold.
Bake	phr	"One’s bread is baked" - One’s fortune is assured.
Bake-apple	n	The dried fruit of the cloudberry.
Baked-beans	n	A food consisting of beans taken or stewed in a usually tomato-sauce.
Baked goods	n	Bread, cakes, biscuits or similar food stuffs that are baked.
Bakehead	n	A person employed to tend a fire or furnace on a steam locomotive
Baked-in	adj	Fixed or embedded into something, usually by the application of heat; spec. (of dirt, a stain, etc.) deeply ingrained.
Baked-on	adj	Hardened, caked, or stuck on to something by heat.
Bakehouse	n	Bread making house or shop.
Bakemeal	n	A pie or pastie.
Bake out	vb	The heating of a sample device, apparutus in order to remove moisture or volatile substances, especially before some operation is carried out.
Bake pot	n	Any of the various pots used for cooking or baking, especially a cast-iron pot used over an open fire.
Baker	n	One who bakes and sells bread and cakes.
Bakerdom	n	Condition or state of being a baker.
Bakerly	adj	Baker-like, after the manner of a baker.
Baker's knee	n	Knocked knee.
Baker's yeast	n	Yeast used in baking bread and other baked goods.
Bakery	adj	Resembling or like a baker.
Bakeship	n	Skill as a baker.
Bake-shop	n	Bakery, bakehouse, baker's shop.
Bakestone	n	A flat stone or slate on what cakes are baked in a oven, 2. a plate of iron used for the same purpose.
Bakeware	n	Cooking equipment intended for use inside an an oven. 2. tins, trays, and other items for baking.
Baking	n	An action or way in which something is baked.
Baking	adj	Intended in use in baking. 2. fig. of a person, the weather, of an object, very hot.
Baking	adv	Especially of food: that is being baked. 2. used as an intensifier. Chiefly in baking hot.
Baking	adj	Especially of food: that is being baked. 2. used as an intensifier. Chiefly in baking hot.
Baking beans	n	Dried beans, metal or ceramic beads, or similar small objects used to weigh down a pastry case during blind baking (i.e. before adding the filling).
Bakingly	adv	So as to bake, baking hot (lit & fig.)
Baking stone	n	A thin slab of stone, unglazed ceramic, or occasionally steel, which may be placed in an oven or on an open fire as a cooking surface for baking.
Bald	adj	Without hair on the head. 2. without natural covering or growth,as a mountain. 3. unadorned; without embellishments. 4. without disguise. 5. having white feathers or fur on the head, as the bald eagle.
Bald	phr	"Go For Someone Baldheaded" - that is, without constraint or compunction, probably dating from the days when men wore wigs, and any any energetic action or fray required that the wig should thrown away.
Baldhead	n	One whose head is bald.
Bald-headed	adj	Having a bald head.
Bald-headed	adv	US. colloquially. roughly, precipitately: 'to go at something bald-headed.'
Balding	adj	To grow bold.
Baldness	n	The state or condition of being bald.
Baldy	adj	Having a bald head.
Bale	n	Evil, esp. considered in its active operation, as destroying, injury, hurting, paining, formerly fatal. 2. dire or malign in quality or influence; harm, injury; woe, destruction, mischief. 3. in earlier use: after death, infliction of death. 4. evil speaking, abuse. 5. evil in its passive aspect, physical suffering, torment, pain, woe. 6. mental suffering, misery, sorrow, grief.
Bale	n	A great consuming fire, a conflagration, blazing pile, a bonfire. 2. a funeral pile of pyre. 3. a signal or beacon fire.
Bale	phr	"Bale and Boot" - Pain and remedy.
Bale	phr	"Brew Bale" - to make mischief, prepare woe or misery, opposed alliteratively to bliss, blithe.
Bale	phr	"When the Bale is Highest Boot Is Nighest" - based of an Old Icelandic provrb meaning when things have come to the worst, they must need mend.
Balecraft	n	Magic, black magic, sorcery, wizardry.
Bale-death	adj	Sin.
Bale-fire	n	Holocaust; any great fire. 2. a great fire in the air. 3. a blazing pile, a heap kindled to consume everything. 4. a fire kindled as as signal, a beacon fire.
Baleful	adj	Full of malign. 2. deadly or noxious influence. 3. noxious, pernicious, destructive. 4. full of pain or suffering, painful. 5. unhappy, switched, wretched, miserable, distressed, sorrowful, mournful.
Balefully	adv	Injuriously, hurtfully, in a baleful manner, sadly, miserably.
Balefulness	n	Baleful condition or quality. 2. hurtfulness, distress, sadness.
Baleless	adj	Harmless, innocent
Bale-rope	n	The gallows rope, the deadly rope, the gallows.
Bale-sithe	n	Expedition, adventure. 2. fortune, lot. 3. death, destruction. 3. evil-doing, mischief, evil-fortune, calamity.
Bale-spell	n	Fatal news.
Bale-stour	n	Tumult, battle. 2. fatal struggle, death throes.
Bale-think	n	Malicious thought or thinking.
Balk	n	A baulk, ridge, esp. between furrows; a ridge left after ploughing. 2. a ridge in the way, a dividing ridge, obstacle, hindrance, check or defeat, a (sand)bar, stumbling block. 3. a disappointment, baulk (balk) 4. a dividing ridge of land; an isthmus, a heap or mound; a grave mound. 5. a baulk (balk), a strip of ground left unploughed as a boundary between two ploughed partitions. 6. a piece of land left unplowed either carelessly or accidentally.
Balk	n	A beam of timber or wood. 2 a tie-beam of a house. 3. a cross-beam or bar in a chimney or kiln. 4. a partition (late OE.) 5. a gang-way of a ship.
Balk	vb	To plough up or make ridges in ploughing. 2. pass over; to pass by a place , avoid in passing, shun 3. to pass over, overlook, refrain from noticing (what comes in one's way). 4. shirk, ignore, avoid responsiblity or duty, let slip, fail to use or sieze, keep, reach. 5. to refuse anything offered (e.g. food or drink) 6. stop at an obstacle, hestitate, jib, refuse to go on. 7. to miss or omit intentionally. 8. to lie out of the way. 9 to miss by error or inadvertence. 10. check, hinder, thwart, obstruct, foil, render unsuccessful. 11. to meet arguments with objects; quibble; bandy about words. 12. to disappoint expectations.
Balk	phr	"Make Balk" - to blunder, go wrong, slip up. 2. an omission or exception.
Balk	phr	"Make a Balk of Good Ground" - to waste or throw away a good chance. 2. to let an opportunity slip by.
Balk	phr	"Balk At" - hesititate or refuse to face or accept; jib at.
Balked	adj	Ridged, ribbed, heaped up, piled in heaps. 2. checked, foiled, disappointed.
Balkiness	n	The quality of being balky.
Balking	n	The action of balking.
Balkish	adj	Characterized by ridges, uneven, rough.
Balky	adj	(Usu. of a horse) - reluctant to proceed, jibberish. 2. contrary. perverse
Balkmonger	n	The maker or dealer of or in timber beams, spec. cross-beams stretching from wall to wall.
Balk-yard	n	Timber yard
Ballockwort	n	Orchis.
Balsam	n	Old English, via Latin from Greek balsamon. A fragnant, resinuos substance; the tree yielding it.
Ban	n	Formal or authoritative prohibition (on smoking etc). 2. tacit prohibition by public opinion. 3. a sentence of outlawry. 4. a curse or execration.
Ban	vb	To prohibit; forbid.
Bandwidth	n	Emotion or mental capacity.
Bane	n	A slayer, murderer, one who causes death and destruction of another. 2. that which causes misery, death and destruction. 3. that which is destructive to life and well-being. 4. affliction, curse. 5. poison, especially any of several poisonous plants, cowbane, dogbane, sowbane. 6. a killer, murderer, slayer. 7.(obsolete) destruction; death. 8. a disease of sheep. 9. in Old English law: a public denouncement of a malefactor. 10. a poison, insecticide, disinfectant, cleaner, deodarant, germicide found in products, as; wolfbane, foxbane, ratbane, fleabane, dustbane.
Bane	phr	"Bane is the Back of the Brother-less Man" - everyone is vulnerable unless he has a friend.
Bane	phr	"Bane of One's Life" - somebody someone that causes continually causes worry or trouble to another or others.
Baneberry	n	The poisonous berry of any species of Actaea
Baneful	adj	Life destroying, pernicious esp. poisonous. Cognates: banefulness, banefully
Banefully	adv	In a hurtful or pernicious manner.
Banefulness	n	The quality of being baneful or injurious.
Bane-ivy	n	A tenacious creeping plant with invasive weed-like qualities.
Baneless	adj	Innocent, harmless
Banesman	n	Murderer, killer, assassin
Banewort	n	Ranuculus fiammula, belladona, deadly nightshade. 2. ranunculus
Bannock	n	A round flat loaf, usually unleavened.
Banns	n	A notice read out on three successive sundays in a parish church, announcing an intended marriage and giving the opportunity for objections.
Banns	phr	"Forbid the Banns" - an objection to an intended marriage, esp. in church following the reading of the banns.
Bare	adj	Completely unclothed; without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked;naked from the waist up" au naturel, naked, nude. 2. with head uncovered; bareheaded. 3. lacking in amplitude or quantity; scanty, spare. 3. not having a protective covering; unsheathed. 4: lacking its natural or customary covering. 5. just barely adequate or within a lower limit; marginal. 6. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; mere, simple. 7. lacking a surface finish such as paint, unfinished. 8. providing no shelter or sustenance; barren, bleak, desolate, stark. 9. having everything extraneous removed including contents, stripped, destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished;as, a room bare of furniture. 10. lacking embellishment or ornamentation; plain, bare, spare, plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; threadbare, much worn,meager, unembellished, unornamented. 11. without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. 12. mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else.
Bare	vb	To lay bare; publicize, 2. publicize, air, bare. 3. lay bare; denude, strip. 4. to strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
Bare	n	Surface; body; substance, as in 'You have touched the very bare of naked truth. 2. In architecture that part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Bare	phr	"Bare Bones Of" - of a story; nothing but the essentail details of
Bare	phr	"Bare of (Something)" - without, not having something that is normally, or at other times, present, as a tree, flower; protection.
Bare	phr	"Bare One's Heart" - to make oneself vulnerable.
Bare	phr	"Bare One's Soul" - to reveal one's innermost feelings and thoughts , esp. concerning one's doubts, regrets, flaws. 2. to tell one's personal secrets to others. 3.
Bare	phr	"Bare One's Teeth" - as an animal: to show one's teeth as a sign of an aggression. 3. to show one's aggression.
Bare	phr	"Bare Outline of" - bare bones of; of a story, matter etc nothing but the essential details.
Bare	phr	"The Cupboard is Bare" - the wished-for resources are just not there.
Bare	phr	"With One's Bare Hands" - without using tools or weapons.
Bare-arse	n	The bird: the Little Grebe
Bare arse	adj	With buttocks exposed. 2. by extension: stark naked.
Bareback	adv	Riding without a saddle. 2. unsaddled
Bare back	vb	To ride without a saddle or unsaddled.
Bare backed	adj	Riding without a saddle.
Bare-backing	n	(Slang) A physical sexual activity, especially sexual penetration, without the use of a condom. It most commonly refers to anal sex between men who have sex with men without the use of a condom, and may be distinguished from unprotected sex because of the deliberate act of forgoing condom use that is associated with it.
Bare-bitten	adj	Bitten to a state of bareness.
Bare-bone	n	A skinny lean person.
Bare boned	adj	Of person: slim, not fleshy, fleshless, very lean, emaciated, gaunt. 2. so thin that the bones are visible under the skin.
Bare bones	n	A very lean person esp. one who bones show through the skin. 2. to the essential elements of something, described without going into details.
Bare-bottomed	adj	Having an uncovered bottom. 2. stark naked. 3. blatant, unashamed. 4. of objects: having an uncovered base or seat.
Bare-breasted	adj	Of a woman: having the breast and nipples exposed (usually implying a less salacious atmosphere than the word 'topless.'
Bare-chested	adj	Shirtless, without upper body clothing.
Bared	adj	Made bare, exposed to view. 2. stripped, denuded, cleared of covering
Bare-fallowed	adj	Left to fallow for one year. 2. (fig.) rested to recover from over-use.
Bare-fallowing	n	The action of resting land from production.
Bare-footed	adj	Not wearing or with nothing on the feet. 2. without shoes or socks. 3. of a vehicle on an icy road without snow chains. 4. shoeless, unshod, unshoed, not having anything on the feet.
Barefootedness	n	The condition or state of being without foot-coverings.
Bare-footing	n	Water-skiing without skis (on bare feet).
Barehanded	adj	With the hands bare. 2. having no coverings on the hands, without wearing no gloves. 3. without tools or weapons.
Barehandedly	adv	In one's bare hands. 2. without tools or weapons.
Bare-headed	adj	Having no covering on the head.
Bare-headedly	adv	In a bare-headed state.
Bare-headedness	n	The state or position of being without a head covering.
Barehide	n	A skin or hide with the hair removed.
Bare-knuckled	adj	Fighting without boxing gloves; barefisted. 2. severe, implacable.
Barely	adv	By a small margin. 2. a degree almost not all. 3. merely. hardly, scarely, just. 4. nakedly, without covering, nude.
Bareman	n	A bankrupt or 'broken man.'
Barenecked	adj	Having the neck bared.
Bareness	n	Nakedness, nudity, the state of being bare.
Bare-shouldered	adj	Of a woman's garment- not showing the shoulders. 2. off-the-shoulder.
Bargh	n	Low detached ridge, hill, steep hill, road up a hill. 2. a mine. From OE. beorgh, beorh: mount
Bark	vb	To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs. 2. to make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. 3. to speak sharply.  4. to latrate (obsolete)
Bark	n	The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog. 2. similar sound made by some other animals. 3. (figuratively) an abrupt loud vocal utterance.
Bark	phr	"Bark Against the Moon" - to clamor or agitate, mostly with little or no effect.
Bark	phr	"Barking Dogs Seldom Bite" - people who big threats never usually carry them out.
Bark	phr	"Bark Up the Wrong Tree" - to do, believe or pursue something wrong, or inappropriate branch. 2. to take a wrong approach. 3. to follow a false lead. 4. to blame or rebuke the wrong person. (an allusion for a situation in which a hunting dog mistakingly identifies the tree up which it has chased and positions itself at the foot of another tree, barking upward at the branch.)
Bark	phr	"Bark Worse than His Bite"" - not as bad, aggressive, ill-tempered than he gives the appearance of being.
Bark	phr	"Don't Keep a Dog and Bark Too" - don't employ somebody to do a job and do it yourself.
Barker	n	Some or something that barks. 2. a person who job it is entice customers by calling out to passers-by; eg. as a at carnival or outside a store. 3. a shelf-talker: a printed card affixed to a shelf in a store or super-market to draw attention to a specific item. 4. a speiler. 5. a pistol, gun.
Barking	adj	Who or that which barks. 2. short for 'barking mad.' 3. the action of barking.
Barking	adv	With barking sounds.
Barking	phr	"Barking Dogs Seldom Bite" - people who big threats never usually carry them out.
Barking deer	n	Muntjac.
Barking-head	n	A commentator who speaks in a loud voice and whose comments tend to be abrasive, aggressive, and partisan.
Barking iron	n	A pistol, gun.
Barkingly	adv	In a barking manner.
Barking spider	n	An Australian spider 'Selenacosmia crassipes' - which makes a hissing sound when disturbed. 2. an audible case or instance of flatulence.
Barkless	adj	Of a dog: that never no bark or rarely does so.
Barky	adj	Prone to barking. 2. to sound like a dog. 4. sounding like a barky cough.
Barley	n	Cereal of the species 'Hordeum vulgare' - or its grains often used as food to make beer and other malt drinks.
Barley corn	n	A grain of barley. 2. the length of such grain with unit of length approximately one-third of an inch (8cm.) still used as a basis for shoes sizes.
Barley-hood	n	A state of drunkenness or ill-humor or temper, brought on by an excess drinking of alcoholic beverages.
Barley-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of barley.
Barley-meal	n	Coarse flour.
Barley water	n	A soft drink made by boiling pearl barley in water, and adding flavouring and sugar. 2. a decoction of barley used as a nutritive and demulcent.
Barm	n	A bosom, lap. 2. edge, rim, breast, brow.
Barm	n	Yeast, froth on top of fermenting malt liquid. 2. the froth or the head on beer. 3. (transfig.)- that which ferments, a fermenting agent.
Barm	vb	To leaven, ferment, to use in froth or fermentation.
Barm-brain	n	A flighty empty-headed person.
Barming	n	The act or process of fermenting.
Barm-stick	n	A feeble-minded person. 2. a barm-brain.
Barmy	adj	Covered with froth. 2. (fig.) excitedly active or flighty.
Barn	n	Agricultural building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keepimg animals such as cattle. 2. in nuclear physics: a unit of surface area equal 10X24 sqm.
Barn	vb	To lay in a barn.
Barnboard	n	An antique board recovered from old barns, used in construction and the making of furniture.
Barnburner	n	An extremely exciting or successful event or person. 2. one who
Barndoor	n	The large door of a barn. 2. in humour, something large enough that a miss ought to be impossible. 3. euphenism, humour, the groin area of pants.
Barnfind	n	Idiomatic: a value item recovered from an undeserving storage, usually in the countryside, where it lay or more or less forgotten, esp. vintage automobiles.
Barnful	n	An amount that can fit into a barn.
Barnless	adj	Without or not having a barn.
Barnlike	adj	Resembling or like a barn.
Barn owl	n	Owl of a genus 'tyto' often having a white face and commonly found in barns and other farm buildings.
Barn spider	n	Araneus cavaticus.
Barnstickle	n	The stickleback.
Barnstorm	vb	To travel around the countryside making political speeches. 2. to be present at fairs and carnivals in exhibitions of stunt flying, or sporting events. 3. to travel from town to town performing in front of small crowds.
Barnstormer	adj	One who barmstorms; one whose profession is barnstorming.
Barmstorming	n	Highly theatrical (used often of a performer)
Barn swallow	n	Hirundo rustica - the most widespread species of the world.
Barnyard	n	The yard surrounding a barn.
Barnyard	adj	Of or pertaining to a barnyard.
Barrow	n	A mountain, berg. 2. in the UK - a hill or lower eminences. 3. a mound of earth or stones raised over a grave; a grave. 4. a heap of rubbish, attle or other such rubbish.
Barrow	n	A castrated boar. 2. a barrow-hog.
Barrow	n	A frame on which a load can be carried, in early use including a funeral bier, hand-barrow, stretcher (now largely restricted to a wheel barrow). 2. a wicker case in which salt is put to be drain.
Barrow	n	A long sleeveless, flannel garment worn by an infant. 2. (fig.) a covering or protective item.
Barrow	vb	To transport by barrow.
Barrowful	adj	The quantity that fits a barrow.
Barrowlike	adj	Resembling or charcteristic of a barrow (a hand-propelled vehicle.) 2. resembling a mound of earth or stone.
Barrow-maker	n	One who makes barrows (wheelbarrows) for a living.
Barrow-monger	n	A seller of apples and other fruits from a barrow on the footpath of a town or city; a barrowmonger.
Barrow-wight	n	In the graves where treasures are kept or hoarded the barrow-wights dwell, ghosts that were sentinels over the gold and other valuables.
Barrow-wightish	adj	Ghostly' funereal.
Barse	n	OE: baers - the bass, the bast, the perch.
Barton	n	Farmstead, bere-earn, barley enclosure, enclosure, pen for poultry.
Bass	n	A fish of the perch family; see 'barse.'
Bast	n	OE: baest - the inner bark of a tree from which rope was made. 2. a fibre from the vascular tissue (phloem) of land plants and used for matting and cord.
Bat	n	A club made from other materials such as aluminium and used in sports such as cricket and baseball to strike the ball.
Bat	vb	To hit a ball with a bat. 2. to take turns of hitting a ball with a bat in sports such as cricket and baseball. 3. to swipe or strike as though with a bat.
Batch	n	An amount of a load that is prepared or baked at one time. 2. quantity of a substance needed or produced at one time. 3. a number of things or people that are dealt with or handled together.
Bath	n	A tub or pool which is used for bathing; a bathtub. 2. a building or area where bathing takes place. 3. the act of bathing. 4. a substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
Bath	vb	To wash a person or animal in a bath.
Bath	phr	"Give Somebody a Bath" - to decisively beat someone/ somebody in a sporting contest.
Bath book	n	A waterproof book for children to use in a bath.
Bathe	n	The act of swimming or bathing, esp. in the sea, a lake, river or swinmming pool.
Bathe	vb	To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water to take a bath. 2. to immerse oneself in water or other liquid. 3. to cover or surround with water. 4. to apply water to; to suffuse or cover in liquid.
Bather	n	One who bathes or swims.
Bathful	adj	As much as a batch will hold.
Bath-house	n	A building with baths for communal use. 2. a building where swimmers change clothes
Bathing	n	The act of cleaning oneself or another by immersion in water.
Bathing	adj	Designed for use whilst bathing.
Bathless	adj	Without a bath. 2. not regularly bathing or taking a bath.
Bathlike	adj	Resembling a bath or some aspect of it.
Bathroom	n	A room containing a bath where one can bathe. 2. a room having a toilet
Bathroom break	n	A time set in various situations where one can attend to ablutions.
Bathroomless	adj	A building not having a bathroom.
Bathroomlike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a bathroom.
Bathroom singer	n	(A derogatory term.) - one with little or no talent who should sing only in the bathroom.
Baths	n	An enclosed public swimming pool originally a place having individual cubicles where people without baths in their residence could have a bath.
Bath salts	n	A perfumed mixture of crystal salts used to soften golden water.
Bath-stone	n	A building stone quarried from the oolite founded near Bath.
Batsman	n	A cricket player recieving the strike (or the ball from the bowler.)
Batsmanship	n	The skill of batting.
Baulk	n	Alternative spelling of 'balk'
Baxter	n	A female baker.