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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. accession, n. View full entry 1551
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an augmentation. Also: a person who joins a group of others....
3. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
4. adhesion, n. View full entry a1500
...Steadfast commitment to a person or thing; loyalty, allegiance; fidelity, devotion. Also: an instance of this. Cf. adherence1....
5. agrarian, adj. and n. View full entry 1593
...Roman Hist. Relating to the land or landholding; spec. designating a law (lex agraria) for the division of conquered lands....
6. 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...
7. blood, n. (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The red fluid flowing in the arteries, capillaries, and veins of humans and other vertebrates, carrying oxygen and nutrients to, and carbon dioxide and waste metabolites away from, the organs and tissues...
8. 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....
9. 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...
10. gas, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1662
...J. B. van Helmont's name for: water supposedly charged with a vital principle and thought to be contained in all bodies and released upon combustion in the form of extremely rarefied water...
11. motor, n. and adj. View full entry 1447
...A person who or thing which imparts motion. In full first (also prime) motor....
12. organic, adj. and n. View full entry a1400
...Anat. Designating the jugular vein. Obs.rare....
13. partition, n. View full entry 1429
...The action or process of dividing into shares or portions; distribution among a number....
14. pensioner, n. View full entry 1427
...An officer who collected and kept a record of pensions (pension5) in any of the Inns of Court and Chancery in London, and in the King's Inn in Dublin....
15. pig, n.1 View full entry OE
...An omnivorous, domesticated even-toed ungulate derived from the wild boar Sus scrofa, with a stout body, sparse bristly hair, and a broad flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept...
16. police, n. View full entry c1450
...= policy in various senses. Obs....
17. power, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Ability to act or affect something strongly; physical or mental strength; might; vigour, energy; effectiveness....
18. procurator, n.1 View full entry c1300
...A person who is employed to manage the affairs of another or is authorized to act on behalf of another in any business; an agent, an attorney....
19. protector, n. View full entry c1390
...A person who protects someone or something from danger, injury, etc.; a defender; a guardian, a patron....
20. proto-, comb. form View full entry 1576
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘earliest, original; at an early stage of development, primitive; incipient, potential’....
