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1. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
2. 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...
3. babu, n. View full entry 1763
...A title of respect typically appended (sometimes prefixed) to the surname of a Hindu man....
4. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
5. 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)...
6. cant, n.3 View full entry ?1553
...Singing, musical sound. cant organ...
7. coin, v.1 View full entry c1330
...trans. To make (money) by stamping metal....
8. colour | color, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Any of the constituents into which light can be separated as in a spectrum or rainbow, and which are referred to by names such as blue, red, ...
9. common, adj. and adv. View full entry 1297
...‘Belonging equally to more than one’ (Johnson); possessed or shared alike by both or all (the persons or things in question). to have (anything) common with: now, to have ...
10. feature, n. View full entry c1325
...Make, form, fashion, shape; proportions, esp. of the body; a particular example of this. Obs. exc. arch....
11. female, n. and adj. View full entry c1350
...A person of the sex that can bear offspring; a woman or a girl....
12. feminine, adj. and n. View full entry c1390
...Grammar. Designating the gender to which belong words classified as female on the basis of sex or some arbitrary distinction, such as form. Of a word: belonging to this gender. Of...
13. femininely, adv. View full entry 1575
...Grammar. In the feminine gender. Obs. (rare after 17th cent.)....
14. form, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The visible aspect of a thing; now usually in narrower sense, shape, configuration, as distinguished from colour; occasionally, the shape or figure of the body as distinguished from the face....
15. fossil, n. and adj. View full entry 1569
...= fossil fish(a). Obs.rare....
16. ghost, n. View full entry a800
...The soul or spirit, as the principle of life; also ghost of life. Obs. exc. in phrase to give up (†earlier to give, give away,:...
17. half-, comb. form View full entry c893
...With adjectives and pa. pples. Already in Old English: see above. Very common in later use, esp. with pa. pples., to which half- may be prefixed whenever the sense suits:...
18. humanity, n. View full entry c1384
...The quality of being humane (humane1a); (now) spec. kindness, benevolence....
19. individual, adj. and n. View full entry c1425
...One in substance or essence; forming an indivisible entity; indivisible. Obs....
20. 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, ...
