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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
3. 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. ...
4. blowing, n.1 View full entry c1000
...gen. The action expressed by the vb. to blow...
5. buck, n.1 View full entry a1000
...The male of several animals....
6. eastern, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...Coming from the east; (esp. of a wind) blowing from the east....
7. flying, adj. View full entry c1000
...That moves through the air with wings. Sometimes with distinguishing word prefixed, as high-flying...
8. frog, n.1 and adj. View full entry OE
...Originally: a widespread Eurasian amphibian, Rana temporaria (family Ranidae), which has a short, squat, tailless body, moist smooth skin, and long, web-footed hind legs for swimming and leaping;...
9. health, n. View full entry c1000
...Soundness of body; that condition in which its functions are duly and efficiently discharged....
10. knock, v. View full entry c1000
...intr. To strike with a sounding blow, as with the fist or something hard; esp. to rap upon a door or gate in order to call attention or gain...
11. L, n. View full entry c1000
...Illustrations of the literary use of the letter....
12. laughing, adj. View full entry OE
...That laughs (in various senses); characterized by or suggestive of laughter....
13. Noah's Ark, n. View full entry OE
...The ark in which Noah, his family, and a pair of each of the animals were, according to biblical tradition, saved from the Flood (recounted in Genesis 6–8)....
14. O, n.1 View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
15. open, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To move or turn (a door, gate, window, tap, etc.) away from its closed position so as to allow passage or access. Also in figurative context....
16. outlaw, n. and adj. View full entry OE
...Law. A person declared to be outside the law and deprived of its benefits and protection; a person under sentence of outlawry (outlawry). Also fig. Now chiefly...
17. paradise, n. View full entry OE
...The abode of Adam and Eve before the Fall in the biblical account of the Creation; the Garden of Eden....
18. pear, n. View full entry OE
...The fleshy edible fruit (a pome) of the tree Pyrus communis (see sense 2a), typically having a broad base and tapering or constricted towards the stalk. Also (usu....
19. pebble, n. View full entry OE
...A small, smooth, rounded stone, worn by the action of water, ice, or sand....
20. pin, n.1 View full entry OE
...As part of a mechanism or construction....
