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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. absolution, n. View full entry OE
...Christian Church....
3. absolve, v. View full entry ?a1475
...trans. To set free or discharge from (also of) an oath, obligation, liability, etc....
4. active, adj. and n. View full entry 1340
...Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to ...
5. 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....
6. Alhaji, n. View full entry 1951
...In Nigeria and other areas of West Africa: = Al-Hajj1....
7. baloi, n. View full entry 1871
...In southern Africa (in Sotho and Tswana society): practitioners of magic or witchcraft. Cf. moloi...
8. 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)...
9. 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....
10. bottle, n.2 View full entry c1375
...A vessel with a narrow neck for holding liquids, now usually made of glass; originally of leather....
11. Broederbond, n. View full entry 1935
...A largely secret society (founded in 1918) promoting the interests of and restricted in membership to male, Protestant Afrikaners....
12. burgher, n. View full entry ?1555
...An inhabitant of a burgh, borough, or corporate town; a citizen. Chiefly used of continental towns, but also of English boroughs, in a sense less technical than burgess. Now somewhat...
13. 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....
14. camp, n.2 View full entry 1525
...The place where an army or body of troops is lodged in tents or other temporary means of shelter, with or without intrenchments. In common modern use the collection of tents, huts,...
15. cancer, n. and adj. View full entry c1392
...In form Cancer....
16. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
17. coolie, n. View full entry 1622
...In India and (later also) China: a hired labourer (esp. one employed by a European); a porter (now esp. in a railway station). Hence also: an Asian labourer working abroad (now chiefly...
18. dominee, n. View full entry 1950
...A minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in S. Africa; = predikant...
19. drab, n.2, adj., and n. View full entry 1541
...A kind of cloth: see quots....
20. 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. ...
