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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
3. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
4. 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....
5. agriological, adj. View full entry 1878
...Of or relating to agriology....
6. agriology, n. View full entry 1878
...Friedrich Max Müller's name for: the comparative study of the history and culture of primitive peoples....
7. anthropologic, adj. View full entry 1850
...Of anthropology....
8. anthropometer, n. View full entry 1883
...One who studies or practises anthropometry. rare....
9. anthroponomy, n. View full entry 1857
...A name proposed by several writers for the study of human function or behaviour, in various spec. senses....
10. archi-, prefix View full entry c1598
...= arch-; chief, principal, first in authority or order....
11. autonym, n. View full entry 1854
...One's own name, a person's real name; esp. the real name of an author, as distinguished from a pseudonym (pseudonym1). Hence: a person who publishes a book...
12. biologism, n. View full entry 1852
...= electrobiology2. Obs.rare....
13. biologistic, adj. View full entry 1891
...Employing electrobiology. Cf. biologism1. Obs.rare....
14. biology, n. View full entry 1686
...A biographical history of a person, place, etc.; a biography. Later also: the study of human life, character, or society. Now rare....
15. 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...
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. cranio-, comb. form View full entry 1804
...In combinations, chiefly in sense ‘belonging or relating to the cranium and…’....
19. cultural, adj. and n. View full entry 1856
...Of or relating to intellectual and artistic pursuits....
20. culture, n. View full entry c1450
...The action or practice of cultivating the soil; tillage; = cultivation1. Now chiefly with of....
