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1. agro-, comb. form View full entry 1893
...Forming esp. temporary and nonce-words with the sense ‘of or relating to agriculture’....
2. 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...
3. bio-, comb. form View full entry 1808
...With the sense ‘biographical’, ‘comprising elements of biography’....
4. mahal, n. View full entry 1610
...A house or palace for use in summer. Obs....
5. mali, n.1 View full entry 1759
...In South Asia: a member of a caste whose traditional occupation is gardening; any non-European gardener....
6. marriage, n. View full entry c1300
...The condition of being a husband or wife; the relation between persons married to each other; matrimony....
7. multi-, comb. form View full entry 1647
...Forming parasynthetic adjectives, with the sense ‘more than one, several, many’. From the adjectives are formed adverbs (e.g. multiserially) and nouns (e.g. multicellularity). Some formations of this kind...
8. mutton, n. View full entry c1300
...The flesh of sheep, used as food....
9. outstation, n. View full entry 1817
...A station, outpost, or settlement in a remote area or at a distance from a centre of population or operations; spec. (Austral. and N.Z.) a subordinate...
10. pinjrapol, n. View full entry 1808
...In South Asia: an enclosure or reserve where old or sick animals are kept....
11. rabi, n. View full entry 1783
...In South Asia: the spring season. Cf. kharif2....
12. raiyat, n. View full entry 1625
...In South Asia: a peasant, husbandman, or cultivating tenant....
13. round, n.1 View full entry a1325
...A circular band, a ring; a ring-shaped object; (in later use) spec. a representation or drawing of a ring-shaped object on a flat surface, esp. one used to...
14. sawah, n. View full entry 1783
...In Malaysia and Indonesia: an irrigated rice-field....
15. use, v. View full entry a1250
...trans. To celebrate, keep, or observe (a religious rite); spec. to partake of or receive (the Eucharist). Now rare (chiefly hist.)....
16. void, adj. and n.1 View full entry c1290
...Of a see, benefice, etc.: Having no incumbent, holder, or possessor; unoccupied, vacant....
