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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. absentee, n. and adj. View full entry 1537
...A landowner who resides abroad or at a distance from his or her estate; (formerly also) a clergyman who is habitually absent from his parish. Also more generally: a person who is...
3. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
4. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
5. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
6. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
7. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
8. aerial, adj. View full entry ?1545
...Dwelling, flying, or moving in the air, above the earth; occurring or taking place in the air; (spec. of birds or bats) spending much of the time airborne....
9. agistment, n. View full entry a1447
...The rate levied on or profit made from the pasturing of another person's cattle....
10. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
11. Albert, n.2 View full entry 1840
...(usually in pl.) a type of boot popularized by Prince Albert, orig. and esp. one having a fabric upper and patent leather toecap....
12. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
13. animated, adj. View full entry 1568
...Endowed with life; living, live....
14. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
15. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
16. assigned, adj. View full entry c1374
...Allotted, appointed, prescribed, specified, etc.: see the vb....
17. babbling, adj. View full entry a1250
...That talks rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way; chattering, prating, tattling; (also) full of or characterized by babble....
18. badger, n.2 View full entry ?1523
...A nocturnal burrowing Eurasian mammal, Meles meles (family Mustelidae), having a grey coat and a white head bearing two long black stripes. Also: a similar animal, Taxidea...
19. ball, n.1 View full entry 1166
...A rounded hill, a knoll. Now Eng. regional (south-west.)....
20. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
