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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. acre, n. View full entry OE
...A plot or piece of land, a field; spec. a piece of tilled or arable land. Now arch. and in proper names, as Long Acre....
3. † again-, comb. form View full entry OE
...Against, in opposition to. Also: opposite (rare)....
4. alive, adj. View full entry OE
...Of a person, animal, or plant: living, not dead....
5. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
6. beer, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An alcoholic liquor obtained by the fermentation of malt (or other saccharine substance), flavoured with hops or other aromatic bitters. Formerly distinguished from ale by being hopped; but now the...
7. blade, n. View full entry OE
...The leaf of a herb or plant; originally perhaps (as in Icelandic) applied to those of all herbs, while leaf was used of the foliage of trees. Now applied ...
8. blow, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and often with complement,...
9. blowing, n.1 View full entry c1000
...gen. The action expressed by the vb. to blow...
10. bolster, n.1 View full entry OE
...A long stuffed pillow or cushion used to support the sleeper's head in a bed; the name is now restricted to the under-pillow, stuffed with something firm, which extends from side to...
11. bow, n.1 View full entry OE
...gen. A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, a bent line....
12. brass, n. View full entry c1000
...Historically: The general name for all alloys of copper with tin or zinc (and occasionally other base metals). To distinguish alloys of copper and tin, the name bronze has...
13. breast, n. View full entry OE
...Each of the two soft protuberances situated on the thorax in females, in which the milk is secreted for the nourishment of their young; the mamma; also the analogous rudimentary organ of...
14. bridge, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A structure forming or carrying a road over a river, a ravine, etc., or affording passage between two points at a height above the ground....
15. butter, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The fatty substance obtained from cream by churning. It is chiefly used for spreading on bread (see bread and butter), and in cookery....
16. cell, n.1 View full entry OE
...A dwelling consisting of a single chamber inhabited by a hermit or anchorite....
17. chaff, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A collective term for the husks of corn or other grain separated by threshing or winnowing....
18. circle, n. View full entry c1000
...A perfectly round plane figure. In Geom. defined as a plane figure bounded by a single curved line, called the circumference, which is everywhere equally distant from a point within,...
19. copper, n.1 View full entry c1000
...One of the well-known metals, distinguished by its peculiar red colour; it is malleable, ductile, and very tenacious, and is found native as well as in many ores. Chemically it is a...
20. cradle, n. View full entry c1000
...A little bed or cot for an infant: properly, one mounted on rockers, but often extended to a swing-cot, or a simple cot or basket-bed that is neither rocked nor swung....
