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1. altogether, adj., n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Modifying the object or complement of a clause, indicating that the whole of what it refers to is involved: all of (something); constituting or representing the entirety of (a place, group, etc.);...
2. 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...
3. brain, n. View full entry eOE
...The organ contained in the skull of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of soft grey or white tissue with (esp. in mammals) a conspicuously convoluted surface. Also (as a mass noun): the...
4. British, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Of or relating to the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth before and during the Roman occupation....
5. earth, n.1 View full entry eOE
...The ground considered simply as a surface on which human beings, animals, and things associated with them rest or move....
6. green, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Of a colour intermediate between blue and yellow in the spectrum; of the colour of grass, foliage, an emerald, etc....
7. ice, n. View full entry eOE
...Frozen water; water made solid by cooling to a low temperature, either naturally (by weather or climate) or artificially (as by refrigeration)....
8. liver, n.1 and adj.2 View full entry eOE
...In vertebrate animals: a large glandular organ of the digestive system, located in the upper or anterior abdomen, which serves to secrete bile, to process and store nutrients absorbed from the intestines,...
9. mother, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The female parent of a human being; a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth; (also, in extended use) a woman who undertakes the responsibilities...
10. play, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To exercise or occupy oneself, to be engaged with some activity; to act, operate, work. Now only as passing into other senses....
11. queen, n. View full entry eOE
...A woman, esp. a noblewoman; a wife, esp. of an important man. Obs.rare....
12. red, adj. and n. (and adv.) View full entry eOE
...Designating the colour of blood, a ruby, a ripe tomato, etc., and appearing in various shades at the longer-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, next to orange and opposite to violet; of...
13. roof, n. View full entry eOE
...The external upper covering of a house or other building; the framing structure on top of a building supporting this. Also: a rooftop....
14. rose, n.1 and adj.1 View full entry eOE
...The flower or a flowering stem of any of numerous wild and cultivated plants of the genus Rosa (see sense A. 2a); esp. the large, many-petalled...
15. saddle, n.1 (and adj.) View full entry OE
...A seat for a rider, typically made of leather, which is raised at the front and rear, and which may be secured to the back of a horse or other animal by...
16. savin, n. View full entry eOE
...A small bushy juniper, Juniperus sabina, native to Europe and Western Asia, which has overlapping scale-like mature leaves and blue-black berry-like cones. In later use also more fully savin...
17. thorn, n. View full entry a700
...A stiff, sharp-pointed, straight or curved woody process on the stem or other part of a plant; a spine, a prickle....
18. time, n., int., and conj. View full entry eOE
...A finite extent or stretch of continued existence, as the interval separating two successive events or actions, or the period during which an action, condition, or state continues; a finite portion of...
