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1. lunar, adj. and n. View full entry 1594
...Of or belonging to the moon; situated in the moon; formerly often, influenced by or dependent upon the moon, or supposed to be so. ...
2. Mesopotamia, n. View full entry 1827
...Used as the type of a word which is long, pleasant-sounding, and incomprehensible (see quot. 1870). Hence used allusively of any speech which gives irrational or inexplicable comfort...
3. mint, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A piece of money, a coin. Obs....
4. name, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...A proper noun; a word or phrase constituting the individual designation by which a particular person or thing is known, referred to, or addressed....
5. parcel, n., adv., and adj. View full entry a1382
...A part, portion, or division of something (material or immaterial), considered separately as a unit; a small part. Now arch. and rare....
6. pitch, n.2 View full entry a1382
...The angle of inclination of a stretch of ground, water, etc., from the horizontal; steepness. Also: a sloping part or place; spec. a downward slope or drop, esp. of a...
7. point, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A separate or single item, article, or element in an extended whole (usually an abstract whole, as a course of action, a subject of thought, a treatise, a discourse, a set of...
8. Q, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
9. second, adj. and n.2 View full entry 1297
...Coming next after the first according to any contextually understood principle of enumeration (e.g. in order of time, position, rank, quality, conventional or arbitrarily adopted sequence): the ordinal numeral corresponding to the...
10. sharp, adj. and n.1 View full entry c825
...Well adapted for cutting or piercing; having a keen edge or point: opposed to blunt....
11. static, n. and adj. View full entry 1570
...= statics1a. Obs....
12. superlative, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar. Of an adjective or adverb: having a form expressing the highest or a very high degree of a quality or attribute; of, relating to, or designating such a form or...
13. syncopate, v. View full entry 1605
...Grammar. trans. To cut short or contract (a word) by omitting one or more syllables or letters in the middle; also pass. to be produced by syncopation....
14. take, v. View full entry c1100
...To touch (intr. with on, also trans.: = ON. taka á, and taka). Obs....
15. telescope, n. View full entry 1648
...An optical instrument for making distant objects appear nearer and larger, consisting of one or more tubes with an arrangement of lenses, or of one or more mirrors and lenses, by which...
16. tense, n. View full entry c1315
...Time. Obs. or arch. (exc. in allusion to 2)....
17. text, n.1 View full entry c1369
...The wording of anything written or printed; the structure formed by the words in their order; the very words, phrases, and sentences as written....
18. third, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c950
...The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral three; the last of three; that comes next after the second....
19. tree, n. View full entry c825
...A perennial plant having a self-supporting woody main stem or trunk (which usually develops woody branches at some distance from the ground), and growing to a considerable height and size....
20. wheel, n. View full entry a785
...A circular frame of wood, metal, or other hard substance (sometimes in the form of a solid disc, but usually of a ring (rim or felloe) with spokes...
