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1. 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,...
2. Big Mac, n. View full entry 1970
...A proprietary name for: the largest in a range of hamburgers sold by McDonald's fast-food outlets; (hence allusively) the biggest or best of a number of related things....
3. bread, n. View full entry c950
...(Only in Old English) Bit, piece, morsel (of food). See above in Etymology....
4. 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...
5. cavendish, n. View full entry 1839
...Tobacco softened and pressed into solid cakes....
6. champagne, n. View full entry 1664
...The name of a province of eastern France; hence, a well-known wine of different varieties, white and red, and still or sparkling, made in this district....
7. concoction, n. View full entry ?1531
...Digestion (of food). Obs....
8. custard, n. View full entry c1450
...Formerly, a kind of open pie containing pieces of meat or fruit covered with a preparation of broth or milk, thickened with eggs, sweetened, and seasoned with spices, etc. = crustade...
9. Derby, n. View full entry 1769
...An annual horse-race, founded in 1780 by the twelfth Earl of Derby, and run at the Epsom races, usually on the Wednesday before, or the second Wednesday after, Whitsunday (the...
10. devil, v. View full entry 1593
...to devil it: to play the devil, to act like the devil. Obs....
11. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
12. dump, n.2 View full entry 1770-90
...A term familiarly applied to various objects of ‘dumpy’ shape....
13. 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...
14. fool, n.1 and adj. View full entry ?c1225
...One deficient in judgement or sense, one who acts or behaves stupidly, a silly person, a simpleton. (In Biblical use applied to vicious or impious persons.)...
15. four, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
16. gooseberry, n. View full entry 1530
...The edible berry or fruit of any of the thorny species of the genus Ribes, the best known and most commonly cultivated of which is R. Grossularia; also...
17. 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....
18. Haman, n. View full entry 1645
...Used allusively with reference to hanging (phr. to hang as high as Haman)....
19. 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...
20. 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...
