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1. artful, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1583
...Displaying or characterized by technical skill. Cf. art6. Now rare....
2. Babylonian, n. and adj. View full entry 1534
...A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Babylon (now in Iraq), or the ancient Babylonian Empire. hist....
3. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
4. big-endian, n. and adj. View full entry 1726
...In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels: a person who believes that eggs should be broken at the larger end before they are eaten. Hence allusively, esp....
5. brave, adj., n., and int. View full entry 1568
...Of persons and their attributes: Courageous, daring, intrepid, stout-hearted (as a good quality)....
6. camelious, adj. View full entry 1902
...Jocular word invented by Kipling (in form cameelious) to describe the hump given to the lazy camel in Just So Stories. Hence allusively (with ref. to...
7. Chorasmian, adj. View full entry 1816
...Belonging to the Chorasmii, a tribe of Sogdiana. Chorasmian waste (poet.), the desert land south of the Sea of Aral and about the lower course of the Oxus; also ...
8. Christian, adj. and n. View full entry 1285
...Of persons and communities: Believing, professing, or belonging to the religion of Christ....
9. circumcised, adj. View full entry 1561
...Having the prepuce cut off; that has undergone circumcision. (Allusively used for ‘Jewish’ or ‘Muslim’.)...
10. cloven, adj. View full entry ?c1200
...Divided lengthwise; split....
11. conscript, adj. and n. View full entry a1533
...Enrolled or elected a senator. In pl. conscript fathers, fathers conscriptLatinpatres conscripti, properly patres, conscripti, i.e. patres et conscripti fathers: a collective title...
12. ˈEdomitish, adj. View full entry 1641
...Pertaining to Edom; characteristic of the Edomites. In 17th c. sometimes used allusively with reference to Ps. cxxxvii. 7....
13. elect, adj. and n.2 View full entry ?a1400
...Picked out, chosen; also, chosen for excellence or by preference; select, choice. Also absol. a person or persons chosen....
14. elephantine, adj. View full entry 1631
...Of or pertaining to an elephant, or elephants. elephantine epoch (Geol.): the period marked by the abundance of large pachydermata....
15. eye-glassy | eyeglassy, adj. View full entry 1871
...Pertaining to or characteristic of one who wears an eye-glass; allusively, haughtily superior or contemptuous....
16. fool, n.1 and adj. View full entry ?c1225
...One deficient in judgement or sense, one who acts or behaves stupidly, a silly person, a simpleton. (In Biblical use applied to vicious or impious persons.)...
17. forky, adj. View full entry 1693
...Shaped like a fork, forked....
18. four, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
19. Gadarene, adj. View full entry 1820
...Of or pertaining to Gadara; used allusively, esp. of a headlong rush or flight, with reference to the story in Matt. viii. 28 of the swine that rushed down a steep cliff...
20. Gordian, adj. and n. View full entry 1561
...Gordian knot...
