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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. academy, n. View full entry a1382
...With capital initial....
3. 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....
4. accidental, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1387-8
...Not essential to the existence of a thing; not necessarily present, incidental, secondary, subsidiary....
5. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
6. analyse | analyze, v. View full entry 1587
...trans. To differentiate or ascertain the elements of (something complex) in order to determine its structure or nature, and hence to explain or understand it; to examine closely and methodically for...
7. artist, n. View full entry 1563
...A person who pursues a craft or trade; a craftsperson, an artisan. Obs....
8. atom, n. View full entry OE
...In and with reference to the medieval period: the smallest unit of time, of which there are 376 in a minute and 22,560 in an hour, equal to 1594...
9. atomic, adj. and n. View full entry 1678
...Hist. Sci. Designating the doctrine of atoms taught by Leucippus and his pupil Democritus in the 5th cent. b.c.; relating to this doctrine. Cf. atom3....
10. atomize, v. View full entry 1645
...trans....
11. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
12. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
13. block, n. View full entry c1305
...A log of wood; part of the trunk of a tree, a stump....
14. body, n. View full entry eOE
...The complete physical form of a person or animal; the assemblage of parts, organs, and tissues that constitutes the whole material organism....
15. case, n.1 View full entry a1250
...A thing that befalls or happens to any one; an event, occurrence, hap, or chance....
16. cash, n.1 View full entry 1593
...A chest or box for money; a cash-box, till....
17. casual, adj. and n. View full entry c1374
...Subject to, depending on, or produced by chance; accidental, fortuituous....
18. cause, n. View full entry ?c1225
...That which produces an effect; that which gives rise to any action, phenomenon, or condition. Cause and effect are correlative terms....
19. chain, n. View full entry c1300
...A connected series of links (of metal or other material) passing through each other, or otherwise jointed together, so as to move on each other more or less freely, and thus form...
20. circle, n. View full entry c1000
...A perfectly round plane figure. In Geom. defined as a plane figure bounded by a single curved line, called the circumference, which is everywhere equally distant from a point within,...
