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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. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
3. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
4. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
5. brass, n. View full entry c1000
...Historically: The general name for all alloys of copper with tin or zinc (and occasionally other base metals). To distinguish alloys of copper and tin, the name bronze has...
6. bread, n. View full entry c950
...(Only in Old English) Bit, piece, morsel (of food). See above in Etymology....
7. cake, n. View full entry c1230
...As name of an object, with plural: A baked mass of bread or substance of similar kind, distinguished from a loaf or other ordinary bread, either by its form or by its...
8. Carey Street, n. View full entry 1922
...Used allusively to indicate a state of bankruptcy....
9. ˈcopy-book, n. View full entry 1557
...A book containing copies of documents, accounts, etc. Obs....
10. 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...
11. four, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
12. 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...
13. home, adv. View full entry eOE
...To or towards one's home, house, or abode; to the place, region, or country where one lives....
14. horn, n. View full entry c725
...A non-deciduous excrescence, often curved and pointed, consisting of an epidermal sheath growing about a bony core, on the head of certain mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, antelopes, etc., and serving as...
15. India, n. View full entry 1586
...attrib. Designating any of various products, esp. textiles, made in, associated with, or imported from India, as India calico, India cloth, India cotton, India...
16. Jack, n.1 View full entry 1362
...(As proper noun.) A familiar by-form of the name John; hence, a generic proper name for any representative of the common people....
17. 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...
18. 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....
19. lord, n. View full entry 831
...A master of servants; the male head of a household. Obs....
20. 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....
