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1. alpha, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1200
...(The name of) the first letter (Α, α) of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English a....
2. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
3. 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)...
4. blood, n. (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The red fluid flowing in the arteries, capillaries, and veins of humans and other vertebrates, carrying oxygen and nutrients to, and carbon dioxide and waste metabolites away from, the organs and tissues...
5. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
6. boy, n.1 and int. View full entry c1300
...A male servant, slave, assistant, junior employee, etc....
7. break, v. View full entry 851
...trans. generally....
8. bull-dog, n. View full entry ?1518
...A dog of a bold and fierce breed, with large bull-head, short muzzle, strong muscular body of medium height, and short smooth hair, formerly much used for bull-baiting....
9. cerulean, adj. and n. View full entry 1677
...Of the colour of the cloudless sky, pure deep blue, azure. Chiefly poetic....
10. chalk, n. View full entry c893
...? Lime. (Traces of this sense after the Old English period are very uncertain; quot. 1572 is doubtful.)...
11. child, n. View full entry c950
...The unborn or newly born human being; fœtus, infant. App. originally always used in relation to the mother as the ‘fruit of the womb’....
12. coach, n. View full entry 1556
...A large kind of carriage: in 16th and 17th centuries, usually a state carriage of royalty or people of quality (still occasionally used, as e.g. the Lord Mayor's coach); now,...
13. cockney, n. and adj. View full entry 1362
...An egg: the egg of the common fowl, hen's egg; or perh. one of the small or misshapen eggs occasionally laid by fowls, still popularly called in some parts ‘cocks' eggs’, in...
14. dame, n. View full entry a1225
...A female ruler, superior or head: = ‘lady’, as fem. of lord (‘our most gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen Victoria’); the superior of a nunnery, an abbess, prioress, etc.;...
15. dinner, n. View full entry 1297
...The chief meal of the day, eaten originally, and still by the majority of people, about the middle of the day (cf. German Mittagsessen), but now, by the professional and...
16. disciple, n. View full entry c900
...One who follows or attends upon another for the purpose of learning from him; a pupil or scholar....
17. doctor, n. View full entry 1303
...A teacher, instructor; one who gives instruction in some branch of knowledge, or inculcates opinions or principles. (Const. of.) Now rare....
18. doctorship, n. View full entry 1586
...The degree of Doctor; = doctorate...
19. doctress | doctoress, n. View full entry 1549
...A female teacher; a woman of eminent learning; a woman who has a doctoral degree. ? Obs....
20. dogwhipper, n. View full entry 1592
...Formerly: an official employed to whip dogs out of a church or chapel. Now hist.In later use: (Eng. regional (chiefly north.)) a sexton, beadle....
