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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
3. Arctic, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Astron. Designating the celestial north pole, and the Pole Star that marks its position in the sky. Chiefly, and now only, in particular compounds, as Arctic Circle2 and...
4. auto-, comb. form1 View full entry c1833
...Forming chiefly scientific terms relating to chemical, biological, or organic processes, with the sense ‘originating within or acting on the body or organism in question; self-produced; self-induced’;human activity or behaviour,...
5. 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...
6. Big Mac, n. View full entry 1970
...A proprietary name for: the largest in a range of hamburgers sold by McDonald's fast-food outlets; (hence allusively) the biggest or best of a number of related things....
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. 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...
9. electric, adj. and n. View full entry a1626
...Of a (non-conducting) substance or object: possessing the property (first observed in amber) of developing static electricity when rubbed. Now hist....
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. 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....
12. 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)....
13. jet, n.3 View full entry a1500
...A projection, a protruding part; = jetty1. Obs....
14. 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,...
15. Mickey Finn, n. View full entry 1918
...A strong alcoholic drink (now rare or disused); an alcoholic or other drink that has been deliberately adulterated with a strong sedative (esp. chloral hydrate) or (U.S....
16. 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...
17. mutton, n. View full entry c1300
...The flesh of sheep, used as food....
18. native, n. View full entry 1381
...Under feudal and similar systems: a person born in bondage; a person born to servants, tenants, etc., and inheriting their status. Cf. naif1. Now hist....
19. Oxford, n. and adj. View full entry 1455
...The University of Oxford; the members of the University collectively, or the cultured or privileged lifestyle popularly associated with them....
20. pancreatize, v. View full entry 1890
...trans. To treat (a foodstuff or other substance) with pancreatin....
