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1. Airey, n. View full entry 1945
...attrib. Designating a system for constructing houses from precast concrete sections. Of a house: built using this system....
2. airmail, n. View full entry 1911
...Mail conveyed by air; a service for conveying letters, parcels, etc., by air....
3. Aldwych farce, n. View full entry 1925
...Any of a series of farces, esp. those written by Ben Travers, presented at the Aldwych Theatre in the 1920s and early 1930s, typically characterized by broad satirical humour and featuring eccentric...
4. autogenic, adj. View full entry 1852
...Self-produced, self-generated; arising from oneself; self-induced; endogenous. Cf. autogenous1....
5. brass, v.1 View full entry 1859
...trans. To coat with brass by electro-plating or otherwise....
6. buildable, adj. View full entry 1927
...Capable of being built (on)....
7. cellulose, v. View full entry 1928
...trans. To treat or coat with a cellulose lacquer or paint....
8. ˈchartaline, adj. View full entry 1880
...Trade name for a thick paper produced as a material for blankets....
9. Clasp, n.2 View full entry 1958
...The initial letters of Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme, used to designate the organization and its system of planning, and spec. a method pioneered by them of building schools...
10. eˈditionizing, n. View full entry 1972
...The production of several editions of a newspaper....
11. electropaint, n. View full entry 1970
...A colloidal suspension of pigment applied to an article by the electocoat method; paint applied by electrophoresis....
12. electroplater, n. View full entry 1845
...A person or company engaged in electroplating....
13. electro-silver, n. View full entry 1843
...Metal with a coating of silver applied by electrolysis. Freq. attrib....
14. electro-silvered, adj. View full entry 1845
...Electroplated with silver; having a coating of silver applied by electrolysis....
15. electrotype, n. (and adj.) View full entry 1840
...A copy or duplicate of an object, esp. a printing plate, made by a process involving the electrolytic deposition of copper or other metal; a relief printing plate made in this way....
16. flatter, n.4 View full entry 1894
...One who couples and uncouples trucks at a flat in a coal-mine....
17. French-polish, v. View full entry 1821
...trans. To make smooth and glossy with French polish. Also fig. and intr....
18. galee, n. View full entry 1884
...One to whom a gale (gale4) has been granted; the tenant of a gale....
19. gas, v.1 View full entry 1825
...trans. To pass (a yarn or fabric) through a gas flame rapidly in order to remove superfluous fibres....
20. gudgeon, n.2 View full entry 1400
...A pivot, usually of metal, fixed on or let into the end of a beam, spindle, axle, etc., and on which a wheel turns, a bell swings, or the like; in recent...
