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1. Aaron's rod, n. View full entry 1631
...In similative and allusive use: a powerful force which devours or overwhelms everything around it....
2. acceptance, n. View full entry 1528-30
...Law. An agreement to abide by the act or contract of another, such as a predecessor in an office, by some act which amounts to a recognition or approval of it,...
3. Alsatia, n. View full entry 1676
...orig. cant. The precinct of Whitefriars in London, where debtors and criminals were immune from arrest. Now hist....
4. artful, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1583
...Displaying or characterized by technical skill. Cf. art6. Now rare....
5. babe, n. View full entry a1393
...A very young child; a baby. Formerly also: †a child of any age (obs.). Now chiefly literary and somewhat arch., often in fixed phrases, as ...
6. before, adv., prep., conj., adj., and n. View full entry OE
...Of motion: Ahead, in advance, in front....
7. Benjamite, n. View full entry 1611
...A descendant of Benjamin. Also as , used allusively (see Benjamin)....
8. big-endian, n. and adj. View full entry 1726
...In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels: a person who believes that eggs should be broken at the larger end before they are eaten. Hence allusively, esp....
9. 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....
10. † ˈbitter-ˌsweeting, n. View full entry 1597
...The Bitter-sweet Apple. (In Shakespeare allusively.)...
11. boot-strap | bootstrap, n. View full entry 1891
...A strap sewn on to a boot to help in pulling it on or looped round a boot to hold down the skirt of a lady's riding habit; a boot-lace....
12. bus, n.1 View full entry 1832
...A large public vehicle carrying passengers by road, running on a fixed route and typically requiring the payment of a fare; = omnibus1. Also: this as a form of...
13. cake, n. View full entry c1230
...As name of an object, with plural: A baked mass of bread or substance of similar kind, distinguished from a loaf or other ordinary bread, either by its form or by its...
14. camelious, adj. View full entry 1902
...Jocular word invented by Kipling (in form cameelious) to describe the hump given to the lazy camel in Just So Stories. Hence allusively (with ref. to...
15. chalk-line, n. View full entry a1450
...(Of uncertain meaning.)...
16. champagne, n. View full entry 1664
...The name of a province of eastern France; hence, a well-known wine of different varieties, white and red, and still or sparkling, made in this district....
17. choker, n. View full entry 1552
...‘One that chokes or suffocates another....
18. Christendom, n. View full entry c893
...The state or condition of being Christian; = Christianity3to take Christendom: to accept Christianity, become Christian; see also 4....
19. church key, n. View full entry c1175
...Freq. in pl....
20. church mouse, n. View full entry 1566
...A mouse which lives in a church. Also fig. and allusive: a person likened to such a mouse (in terms of its proverbial attributes), esp. in being impoverished...