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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
3. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
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. adopt, v. View full entry c1429
...trans....
6. adoption, n. View full entry 1340
...The action or practice of legally or informally taking a person into any relationship; esp. the taking of a minor who is not one's offspring into the legal relationship of...
7. aefauldly, adv. View full entry OE
...Once, singly. Also: (Grammar) in the singular. Obs....
8. aggregate, n. and adj. View full entry a1425
...A complex whole, mass, or body formed by the union of numerous units or particles; an assemblage, a collection....
9. agree, v. View full entry a1413
...trans....
10. an, conj. and n. View full entry ?a1160
...Now usu. in form an'. = andI. (coordinating). Now regional and nonstandard....
11. and, conj.1, adv., and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Simply connective....
12. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
13. 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)...
14. broken, adj. View full entry c1200
...Separated forcibly into parts; in fragments; in pieces. (The resulting damaged state is often the main notion.)...
15. catch, n.1 View full entry c1430
...The act or fact of catching in various senses; see the vb....
16. child, n. View full entry c950
...The unborn or newly born human being; fœtus, infant. App. originally always used in relation to the mother as the ‘fruit of the womb’....
17. class, n. and adj. View full entry 1533
...Roman Hist. A group of Roman citizens who could meet a certain minimum wealth qualification; spec. each of the five groups into which property owners were divided for military...
18. clipping, n.2 View full entry a1325
...The action of cutting with (or as with) shears or scissors....
19. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
20. colour | color, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Any of the constituents into which light can be separated as in a spectrum or rainbow, and which are referred to by names such as blue, red, ...
