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1. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
2. 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,...
3. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
4. bag, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack....
5. barmy, adj. View full entry 1535
...Of, full of, or covered with barm; frothing....
6. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry 1297
...One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child....
7. bed, n. View full entry c995
...A permanent structure or arrangement for sleeping on, or for the sake of rest. In some form or other it constitutes a regular article of household furniture in civilized life, as well...
8. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
9. 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)...
10. black and tan, adj. and n. View full entry 1786
...Of an animal, esp. a dog: having a coat of a black and tan (yellowish-brown) colour; spec. designating breeds of dog noted for such colouring (see sense B. 1...
11. black boy, n. View full entry 1530
...A dark-skinned boy or youth....
12. block, n. View full entry c1305
...A log of wood; part of the trunk of a tree, a stump....
13. 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...
14. blue, adj. View full entry 1366
...The name of one of the colours of the spectrum; of the colour of the sky and the deep sea; cerulean....
15. boiler, n. View full entry c1540
...One who boils (anything)....
16. bottom, n. View full entry OE
...The lowest part of anything, considered as a material thing; the lower or under surface, that surface of a thing on which it stands or rests; the base. Applied spec....
17. boy, n.1 and int. View full entry c1300
...A male servant, slave, assistant, junior employee, etc....
18. bread, n. View full entry c950
...(Only in Old English) Bit, piece, morsel (of food). See above in Etymology....
19. brick, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A substance formed of clay, kneaded, moulded, and hardened by baking with fire, or in warm countries and ancient times by drying in the sun; used instead of stone as a building...
20. bubble, n. View full entry 1481
...A thin globular (or hemispherical) vesicle of water or other liquid, filled with air or gas; applied alike to those produced by the agitation of a quantity of the liquid, or the...
