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1. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
2. blood, n. (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The red fluid flowing in the arteries, capillaries, and veins of humans and other vertebrates, carrying oxygen and nutrients to, and carbon dioxide and waste metabolites away from, the organs and tissues...
3. brachycephalic, adj. View full entry 1849-52
...lit. Short-headed: used in Ethnol. to denote skulls of which the breadth is at least four-fifths of the length: opposed to dolichocephalic...
4. 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’....
5. edge, n. View full entry OE
...The thin sharpened side of the blade of a cutting instrument or weapon; opposed to the ‘back’ or blunt side; or to the ‘flat’ or broad surface of the blade. Often associated...
6. eurycephalic, adj. View full entry 1878
...lit. Broad-headed; applied to a subdivision of the brachycephalic or short broad-skulled races of mankind....
7. field, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Open country, esp. as opposed to woodland; a stretch of open land; a plain....
8. heaven, n. View full entry eOE
...The expanse in which the sun, moon, and stars are seen, (esp. in earlier use) regarded as having the appearance of a vast vault arched over the earth; the sky, the firmament....
9. lineage, n. View full entry 13..
...Lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry, pedigree....
10. manifest, adj. and adv. View full entry 1385
...Clearly revealed to the eye, mind, or judgement; open to view or comprehension; obvious....
11. material, adj., n., and adv. View full entry c1390
...Of or relating to matter or substance; formed or consisting of matter. In early use: †earthly (obs.)....
12. middle, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating that member of a group or series, or that part of a whole, so situated as to have the same number of members or parts on each side of it: said...
13. mobility, n.1 View full entry ?a1425
...The ability to move or to be moved; capacity for movement or change of place; movableness, portability....
14. mother, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The female parent of a human being; a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth; (also, in extended use) a woman who undertakes the responsibilities...
15. non-, prefix View full entry a1420
...Prefixed to nouns of action, condition, or quality with the sense ‘absence or lack of’, often corresponding semantically to ‘not doing, failure to do’ (where a verb is implied by the noun,...
16. peasant, n. and adj. View full entry a1450
...A person who lives in the country and works on the land, esp. as a smallholder or a labourer; (chiefly Sociol.) a member of an agricultural class dependent on subsistence...
17. pillar, n. View full entry c1180
...A tall vertical structure of stone, brick, wood, metal, etc., usually narrow in proportion to its height, used either as a support for a structure, or as a monument or ornament. Also:...
18. Pontic, adj.1 and n.1 View full entry ?a1425
...Tart, astringent, sour. Obs....
19. pre-, prefix View full entry 1559
...Combinations in which pre- is adverbial or adjectival, qualifying the verb, adjective, or noun to which it is prefixed....
20. process, n. View full entry 1357
...The passing or lapsing of time, years, seasons, etc. Chiefly in in (also †by) (the) process of time: in the course of time, as time goes...
