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1. Abwehr, n. View full entry 1945
...In Germany: a military intelligence and counter-intelligence agency (192144) founded as a division of the defence ministry, and expanded to include foreign espionage assignments in 1934 by...
2. aerostat, n. View full entry 1784
...A lighter-than-air aircraft; spec. a balloon. In later use chiefly U.S. Now rare....
3. agent, n.1 and adj. View full entry a1500
...A person who or thing which acts upon someone or something; one who or that which exerts power; the doer of an action. Sometimes contrasted with the patient (instrument...
4. asset, n. View full entry c1523
...Law. In pl., originally as mass noun, subsequently with pl. concord....
5. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
6. beagle, n. View full entry ?c1475
...A small variety of hound, tracking by scent, formerly used in hunting hares, but now superseded by the Harrier, which sometimes takes its name....
7. bloodhound, n. View full entry c1330
...Any of several large breeds of hound with a keen sense of smell; esp. a breed (probably developed in either England or France) having pendulous ears and typically black and...
8. border, n. View full entry c1374
...A side, edge, brink, or margin; a limit, or boundary; the part of anything lying along its boundary or outline....
9. 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....
10. bug, n.2 View full entry 1622
...A name given vaguely to various insects, esp. of the beetle kind, also to grubs, larvæ of insects, etc. Now chiefly dial. and in U.S.; esp. with defining...
11. bug, v.1 View full entry 1869
...trans. To clear (plants, etc.) of insects....
12. C, n. View full entry 1420
...C springs: see cee (springs). C-scroll: a decorative scroll shaped like the letter C....
13. centre | center, n. and adj. View full entry c1374
...The point round which a circle is described; the middle point of a circle or sphere, equally distant from all points on the circumference....
14. circus, n. View full entry 1546
...Roman Hist. A large building, generally oblong or oval, surrounded with rising tiers of seats, for the exhibition of public spectacles, horse or chariot races, and the like....
15. cloak, n. View full entry c1300
...A loose outer garment worn by both sexes over their other clothes....
16. confidential, adj. View full entry 1651
...Confident, bold. Obs.rare....
17. consultant, n. View full entry 1697
...One who consults (an oracle)....
18. contre-espionnage, n. View full entry 1919
...= counter-espionage Also attrib....
19. control, n. View full entry 1597
...The fact of controlling, or of checking and directing action; the function or power of directing and regulating; domination, command, sway....
20. ˌcounter-ˈespionage, n. View full entry 1899
...Spying directed against an enemy's spy system. Cf. contre-espionnage...
