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1. accent, n. View full entry OE
...Any of a set of marks originally used with a letter to indicate the nature and position of the spoken accent, later of stress, in a written word; (also) any of these...
2. accent, v. View full entry 1530
...intr. To place the accent or stress in a word or musical phrase; to mark a rhythm or beat. Usu. with adverb or adverbial phrase. In later use chiefly U.S....
3. an, conj. and n. View full entry ?a1160
...Now usu. in form an'. = andI. (coordinating). Now regional and nonstandard....
4. and, conj.1, adv., and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Simply connective....
5. antecedent, n. View full entry 1393
...A thing or circumstance which goes before or precedes in time or order; often also implying causal relation with its consequent....
6. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
7. book, n. View full entry 872-915
...A writing; a written document; esp. a charter or deed by which land (hence called bócland) was conveyed. Obs....
8. breath, n. View full entry c893
...Odour, smell, scent. Obs....
9. breathed, adj. View full entry 1430
...Exercised, put into breath, in (good) wind; esp. in well-breathed, and the like....
10. catch-, comb. form View full entry 1592
...With ns., etc., in objective relation. (The resulting combination is a , but capable also of being used attrib. or as )...
11. chant, n. View full entry 1671
...A song, melody; singing. poetic (also in rogues' cant.)....
12. child, n. View full entry c950
...The unborn or newly born human being; fœtus, infant. App. originally always used in relation to the mother as the ‘fruit of the womb’....
13. circumstance, n. View full entry ?c1225
...That which stands around or surrounds; the totality of surrounding things; surroundings; environment. Obs. (exc. nonce-use as in 1832)....
14. clip, v.2 View full entry ?c1200
...trans....
15. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
16. coinable, adj. View full entry 1839
...That may be coined (lit. and fig.)....
17. coining, n.1 View full entry 1483
...lit....
18. concrete, adj. and n. View full entry 1471
...United or connected by growth; grown together. Obs....
19. contamination, n. View full entry 1599
...The action of contaminating, or condition of being contaminated; defilement, pollution, infection....
20. contract, adj. and n.2 View full entry c1386
...Past participle, as:...
