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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
3. bamboo, n. View full entry 1598
...A genus of giant-grasses (genus Bambusa), numerous species of which are common throughout the tropics. Also the stem of any of these used as a stick, or as material....
4. bioscope, n. View full entry 1812
...A circular scale for representing a person's life, having seventy divisions corresponding to seventy years (ten of which represent one of the seven supposed stages of human life), with a pointer for...
5. 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)...
6. black spot, n. View full entry 1832
...A place or area of anxiety or danger; spec. (in later use) a section of a road noted for accidents; (also) an area where crime is prevalent. See also ...
7. Boer, n. View full entry 1834
...A Dutch-speaking colonist in South Africa, esp. one engaged in agriculture or cattle-farming (now hist.); an Afrikaner....
8. 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....
9. bush, n.1 View full entry c1315
...A shrub, particularly one with close branches arising from or near the ground; a small clump of shrubs apparently forming one plant....
10. camel, n. View full entry c950
...A large hornless ruminant quadruped, distinguished by its humped back, long neck, and cushioned feet; it is nowhere found wild, but is domesticated in Western Asia and Northern Africa, in the arid...
11. China, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1555
...The country so called, in Asia....
12. coloured | colored, adj. and n. View full entry a1325
...Having a colour or colours; that is or has been coloured. Also as the second element in compounds....
13. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
14. coon, n. View full entry 1742
...The raccoon (Procyon lotor), a carnivorous animal of North America....
15. Dutch, adj., n., and adv. View full entry c1380
...Of or relating to the people of Germany; German. Obs. exc. as a historical archaism, and in some parts of U.S.: see B. 1 and Dutchman...
16. egg, n. View full entry 805-31
...The (more or less) spheroidal body produced by the female of birds and other animal species, and containing the germ of a new individual, enclosed within a shell or firm membrane. ...
17. fly, n.1 View full entry c950
...Any winged insect; as the bee, gnat, locust, moth, etc. Obs. Cf. 2–4 below, and butterfly...
18. freedom, n. View full entry eOE
...Exemption or release from slavery or imprisonment; = liberty1b....
19. garter, n. View full entry c1350
...A band worn round the leg, either above or below the knee, to keep the stocking from falling down....
20. girl, n. View full entry c1300
...Chiefly in pl. A child of either sex; a young person. Now Irish English (Wexford)....
