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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
3. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
4. agency, n. View full entry 1600
...The process of acting as an agent (agent2); the position, role, or function of an agent, deputy, or representative; an instance of this. Now somewhat rare....
5. analyse | analyze, v. View full entry 1587
...trans. To differentiate or ascertain the elements of (something complex) in order to determine its structure or nature, and hence to explain or understand it; to examine closely and methodically for...
6. and, conj.1, adv., and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Simply connective....
7. article, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Each of the separate items of a summary of faith; spec.each of the separate clauses or statements of the Apostles' Creed; (freq. with capital initial) any of the...
8. 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...
9. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
10. bastardization, n. View full entry 1818
...The declaring or rendering bastard....
11. better, adj. and adv. (and n.1) View full entry c888
...Of greater excellence, of superior quality....
12. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
13. bogy | bogey, n.1 View full entry 1840
...As quasi-proper name: The evil one, the devil....
14. book, n. View full entry 872-915
...A writing; a written document; esp. a charter or deed by which land (hence called bócland) was conveyed. Obs....
15. borrow, v.1 View full entry a1000
...trans....
16. break, v. View full entry 851
...trans. generally....
17. breath, n. View full entry c893
...Odour, smell, scent. Obs....
18. broad, adj., n.1, and adv. View full entry 971
...Extended in the direction measured from side to side; wide. Opposed to narrow....
19. buzz, n.1 View full entry 1612
...A sibilant hum, such as is made by bees, flies, and other winged insects....
20. buzz, v.1 View full entry 1398
...intr. To make the humming sibilant sound characteristic of bees and other insects; to fly out, in, etc. with such a sound....
