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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
3. active, adj. and n. View full entry 1340
...Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to ...
4. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
5. agterryer, n. View full entry 1824
...A mounted groom or other attendant; a military servant or batman, responsible esp. for the supervision of supplies and horses; = after-riderafter-3. Now hist....
6. Askari, n. View full entry 1889
...In East Africa: (a name for) an African soldier....
7. bamboo, n. View full entry 1598
...A genus of giant-grasses (genus Bambusa), numerous species of which are common throughout the tropics. Also the stem of any of these used as a stick, or as material....
8. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry 1297
...One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child....
9. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
10. black jack, n.2 View full entry c1540
...A large, tar-coated leather jug for beer. Cf. black bowlblack5a. Now hist....
11. blackthorn, n. View full entry a1325
...A Eurasian thorny shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa (family Rosaceae), with dark-coloured bark and stiff spiny branches, which produces white five-petalled flowers before the leaves appear, followed...
12. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
13. Boer, n. View full entry 1834
...A Dutch-speaking colonist in South Africa, esp. one engaged in agriculture or cattle-farming (now hist.); an Afrikaner....
14. boma, n. View full entry 1878
...An enclosure or stockade used for herding beasts and for defensive purposes....
15. BOSS, n.9 View full entry 1969
...The state security service of the Republic of South Africa, established in 1969 and renamed National Intelligence Service in 1978....
16. camel, n. View full entry c950
...A large hornless ruminant quadruped, distinguished by its humped back, long neck, and cushioned feet; it is nowhere found wild, but is domesticated in Western Asia and Northern Africa, in the arid...
17. camp, n.2 View full entry 1525
...The place where an army or body of troops is lodged in tents or other temporary means of shelter, with or without intrenchments. In common modern use the collection of tents, huts,...
18. cheesa, n. View full entry 1915
...Used attrib., esp. in cheesa stick (see quots.)....
19. coloured | colored, adj. and n. View full entry a1325
...Having a colour or colours; that is or has been coloured. Also as the second element in compounds....
20. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
