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1. acceptance, n. View full entry 1528-30
...Law. An agreement to abide by the act or contract of another, such as a predecessor in an office, by some act which amounts to a recognition or approval of it,...
2. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
3. Capitol, n. View full entry a1387
...The temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, on the Saturnian or Tarpeian (later called Capitoline) Hill at Rome, the smallest of its seven hills; the hill itself. Also more generally: any citadel on...
4. Christian, adj. and n. View full entry 1285
...Of persons and communities: Believing, professing, or belonging to the religion of Christ....
5. conscript, adj. and n. View full entry a1533
...Enrolled or elected a senator. In pl. conscript fathers, fathers conscriptLatinpatres conscripti, properly patres, conscripti, i.e. patres et conscripti fathers: a collective title...
6. fifth column, n. View full entry 1936
...Orig. the column of supporters which General Mola declared himself to have in Madrid, when he was besieging it in the Spanish Civil War, in addition to the four columns of his...
7. floor, n.1 View full entry c888
...The layer of boards, brick, stone, etc. in an apartment, on which people tread; the under surface of the interior of a room. Phr. to mop or wipe the: see...
8. granola, n. View full entry 1886
...With capital initial. Formerly, a proprietary name for a breakfast cereal devised by W. K. Kellogg, consisting of wheat, oats, and cornmeal baked and ground into granules. Obs....
9. hand, n.1 View full entry c825
...The terminal part of the arm beyond the wrist, consisting of the palm and five digits, forming the organ of prehension characteristic of man. The name is also given to the similar...
10. joined-up, adj. View full entry 1983
...Connected, conjoined. Of writing: cursive (as learnt in elementary school as a stage beyond printing individual letters separately), esp. in joined-up writing, joined-up handwriting; freq. used allusively...
11. line, n.2 View full entry OE
...A rope, cord, string; †a leash for dogs or for hawks. Chiefly Naut. or as short for clothes-line, etc. Also applied with words prefixed to particular ‘makes’ of...
12. little, adj., n., and adv. View full entry c893
...Of material objects, portions of space, etc.: Small in size, not large or big. Of persons: Short in stature....
13. lord, n. View full entry 831
...A master of servants; the male head of a household. Obs....
14. lumber, n.1 View full entry 1552
...Disused articles of furniture and the like, which take up room inconveniently, or are removed to be out of the way; useless odds and ends....
15. money, n. View full entry a1325
...Any generally accepted medium of exchange which enables a society to trade goods without the need for barter; any objects or tokens regarded as a store of value and used as a...
16. Old Man of the Mountain, n. View full entry 1579
...(A name given to) Ḥasan-e Ṣabbāḥ (d. 1124), founder of the Assassins, who established a base for the sect at Alamut, a mountain fortress near Qazvin in northern Iran, and...
17. parish pump, n. and adj. View full entry 1840
...The pump supplying water to a parish, esp. regarded as an informal place of meeting and discussion for members of the parish. Hence allusively: matters of limited scope or outlook,...
18. parliamentary, adj. and n. View full entry 1616
...Enacted, ratified, or established by Parliament or a parliament....
19. phalanstery, n. View full entry 1839
...A cooperative community based on the egalitarian principles of French socialist Charles Fourier (17721837) and having shared property, possessions, etc.; a building or set of buildings occupied by such...
20. 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...
