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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. anima, n. View full entry OE
...Chiefly Philos. The animating principle in living things, the soul; some part or aspect of the soul, esp. the irrational part of the soul as distinguished from the...
3. animus, n. View full entry OE
...Chiefly Philos. The rational soul; mind, will, spirit. Contrasted with anima1. Now hist....
4. atom, n. View full entry OE
...In and with reference to the medieval period: the smallest unit of time, of which there are 376 in a minute and 22,560 in an hour, equal to 1594...
5. circle, n. View full entry c1000
...A perfectly round plane figure. In Geom. defined as a plane figure bounded by a single curved line, called the circumference, which is everywhere equally distant from a point within,...
6. E, n.1 View full entry c1000
...simply....
7. film, n. View full entry c1000
...A membrane, animal or vegetable. Obs....
8. first, adj. (and n.2) and adv. View full entry OE
...In regard to time: Prior to all others in occurrence, existence, etc.; happening, existing, or presenting itself before the others; earliest....
9. genesis, n. View full entry OE
...With capital initial. (The name of) the first book of the Bible, which includes the stories of the creation of the world, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and the patriarchs Abraham,...
10. mind, n.1 View full entry OE
...The state of being remembered; remembrance, recollection. Chiefly in phrases....
11. modus, n. View full entry OE
...Grammar. = mood1a. Obs....
12. O, n.1 View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
13. O, int. and n.2 View full entry OE
...Preceding a noun used vocatively....
14. pallium, n. View full entry OE
...A man's large rectangular cloak or mantle, worn esp. by Greek philosophers; = himationhist....
15. schoolman, n. View full entry OE
...A member of a band or company; a follower. Obs.rare....
16. turn, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To cause to move round on an axis or about a centre; to cause to rotate or revolve, as a wheel....
17. wit, n. View full entry OE
...The seat of consciousness or thought, the mind: sometimes connoting one of its functions, as memory or attention. Obs....
