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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. apple tree, n. View full entry OE
...A tree which bears apples; esp. any one of the many varieties cultivated for their fruit; = apple4a....
3. axe | ax, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A tool or instrument for hewing, cleaving, or chopping, trees, wood, ice, etc.; consisting of a squarish head, now usually of iron with a steel edge or blade, fixed by means of...
4. 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...
5. 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. ...
6. binder, n. View full entry OE
...gen. One who binds. (See senses of the verb.)...
7. bite, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To cut into, pierce, or nip (anything) with the teeth....
8. blade, n. View full entry OE
...The leaf of a herb or plant; originally perhaps (as in Icelandic) applied to those of all herbs, while leaf was used of the foliage of trees. Now applied ...
9. blowing, n.1 View full entry c1000
...gen. The action expressed by the vb. to blow...
10. bottom, n. View full entry OE
...The lowest part of anything, considered as a material thing; the lower or under surface, that surface of a thing on which it stands or rests; the base. Applied spec....
11. bow, n.1 View full entry OE
...gen. A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, a bent line....
12. clay, n. View full entry c1000
...A stiff viscous earth found, in many varieties, in beds or other deposits near the surface of the ground and at various depths below it: it forms with water a tenacious paste...
13. crab, n.1 View full entry c1000
...The common name for decapod crustaceous animals of the tribe Brachyura; applied especially to the edible species found on or near the sea coast in most regions of the world....
14. crack, v. View full entry c1000
...intr. To make a sharp noise in the act of breaking, or as in breaking; to make a sharp or explosive noise (said of thunder or a cannon (chiefly dial....
15. daisy, n. View full entry c1000
...The common name of Bellis perennis, family Compositæ, a familiar and favourite flower of the British Isles and Europe generally, having small flat flower-heads with yellow disk and...
16. 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...
17. fair, adv. View full entry OE
...In a beautiful or comely manner; agreeably, beautifully, brightly, handsomely, nobly....
18. first, adj. (and n.2) and adv. View full entry OE
...In regard to time: Prior to all others in occurrence, existence, etc.; happening, existing, or presenting itself before the others; earliest....
19. five, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
20. flying, adj. View full entry c1000
...That moves through the air with wings. Sometimes with distinguishing word prefixed, as high-flying...
