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1. bath, n.1 View full entry 864
...The action of bathing or immersing the body, or a part of it, in water or other liquid. (Used playfully of accidental or involuntary immersion.)...
2. 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)...
3. 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....
4. chief, n. View full entry 1297
...lit. The head (of the body). Obs.rare....
5. departed, adj. View full entry c1386
...Divided into parts, etc.: see depart12....
6. elevated, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1553
...Raised up; (of buildings, etc.) reared aloft; (of the hands) uplifted; (Geogr.) situated at a high level. elevated pole (see quot.). elevated railway: a railway supported...
7. ensign, n. View full entry c1400
...A signal; a rallying or battle-cry, watchword. Chiefly Sc.Obs....
8. fasces, n. View full entry 1598
...A bundle of rods bound up with an axe in the middle and its blade projecting. These rods were carried by lictors before the superior magistrates at Rome as an emblem of...
9. † gaspant, adj. View full entry 1831
...A mock-heraldic term for: gasping....
10. gentleman, n. View full entry a1275
...A man of gentle birth, or having the same heraldic status as those of gentle birth; properly, one who is entitled to bear arms, though not ranking among the nobility (see quot....
11. grain, n.1 View full entry c1290
...A single seed of a plant, esp. one which is small, hard, and roundish in form. (After 15th c. almost exclusively: The stone or pip of a fruit.)...
12. 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, ...
13. king, n. View full entry 836
...The usual title of the male sovereign ruler of an independent state, whose position is either purely hereditary, or hereditary under certain legal conditions, or, if elective, is considered to give to...
14. law, n.1 View full entry a1000
...The body of rules, whether proceeding from formal enactment or from custom, which a particular state or community recognizes as binding on its members or subjects. (In this sense usually the...
15. leg, n. View full entry 13..
...One of the organs of support and locomotion in an animal body; esp. one of the two lower limbs of the human body; in narrower sense, the part of the...
16. lion, n. View full entry c825
...A large carnivorous quadruped, Felis leo, now found native only in Africa and southern Asia, of a tawny or yellowish brown colour, and having a tufted tail. The male is...
17. man, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...A human being....
18. mermaid, n. View full entry c1350
...An imaginary, partly human sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish or cetacean....
19. mountain, n. and adj. View full entry c1275
...A large natural elevation of the earth's surface, esp. one high and steep in form (larger and higher than a hill) and with a summit of relatively small area....
20. per, prep. View full entry a1399
...In distributive sense: For each——, for every——. Used after a statement of number or quantity to express a rate or proportion, as per day, per dozen, per...
