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1. agrarian, adj. and n. View full entry 1593
...Roman Hist. Relating to the land or landholding; spec. designating a law (lex agraria) for the division of conquered lands....
2. Akkadian, adj. and n. View full entry 1856
...Of or relating to a non-Semitic people inhabiting the southern part of south Mesopotamia in the third millennium b.c., now identified as the Sumerians. Also: of or relating to this...
3. Arctic, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Astron. Designating the celestial north pole, and the Pole Star that marks its position in the sky. Chiefly, and now only, in particular compounds, as Arctic Circle2 and...
4. astro-, comb. form View full entry 1652
...Forming terms relating to stars, other celestial objects, or outer space....
5. bronze, n. View full entry a1721
...A brown-coloured alloy of copper and tin, sometimes also containing a little zinc and lead. Formerly included under the term brass, q.v.; the name bronze was introduced for...
6. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
7. green, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Of a colour intermediate between blue and yellow in the spectrum; of the colour of grass, foliage, an emerald, etc....
8. Homerite, n. View full entry 1613
...Chiefly in pl. A member of an ancient people who inhabited the south-western part of the Arabian peninsula and ruled much of southern Arabia until the 6th cent....
9. motor, n. and adj. View full entry 1447
...A person who or thing which imparts motion. In full first (also prime) motor....
10. mound, n.2 View full entry ?a1500
...A hedge, a fence, esp. as forming a boundary to a field or garden. Now rare (Eng. regional, south. and south-west midl.)....
11. native, n. View full entry 1381
...Under feudal and similar systems: a person born in bondage; a person born to servants, tenants, etc., and inheriting their status. Cf. naif1. Now hist....
12. nuclearity, n. View full entry 1929
...Math. A property of a point or collection of points in a topological space, variously defined according to context but generally indicating an inability to isolate the point or points from...
13. nucleus, n. View full entry 1668
...Astron....
14. organic, adj. and n. View full entry a1400
...Anat. Designating the jugular vein. Obs.rare....
15. pro-, prefix2 View full entry 1833
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘earlier, prior, before (in time)’; spec.chiefly Biol., forming nouns and derived adjectives denoting something that is an earlier or (supposedly)forming...
16. procurator, n.1 View full entry c1300
...A person who is employed to manage the affairs of another or is authorized to act on behalf of another in any business; an agent, an attorney....
17. protector, n. View full entry c1390
...A person who protects someone or something from danger, injury, etc.; a defender; a guardian, a patron....
18. proto-, comb. form View full entry 1576
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘earliest, original; at an early stage of development, primitive; incipient, potential’....
19. protocol, n. View full entry c1450
...A prologue; prefatory material. Obs.rare....
20. protolithic, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1863
...Archaeol. and Cultural Anthropol. (now disused). Also with capital initial....
