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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
3. bluetongue, n. View full entry 1863
...Orig. S. Afr....
4. motor, n. and adj. View full entry 1447
...A person who or thing which imparts motion. In full first (also prime) motor....
5. native, n. View full entry 1381
...Under feudal and similar systems: a person born in bondage; a person born to servants, tenants, etc., and inheriting their status. Cf. naif1. Now hist....
6. pansy, n. and adj. View full entry c1450
...Originally: heartsease, Viola tricolor (now more fully wild pansy). Later: any of various plants of the genus Viola (family Violaceae), generally differing from violets...
7. pig, n.1 View full entry OE
...An omnivorous, domesticated even-toed ungulate derived from the wild boar Sus scrofa, with a stout body, sparse bristly hair, and a broad flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept...
8. play, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To exercise or occupy oneself, to be engaged with some activity; to act, operate, work. Now only as passing into other senses....
9. police, n. View full entry c1450
...= policy in various senses. Obs....
10. red, adj. and n. (and adv.) View full entry eOE
...Designating the colour of blood, a ruby, a ripe tomato, etc., and appearing in various shades at the longer-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, next to orange and opposite to violet; of...
11. state, n. View full entry c1225
...The combination of circumstances or attributes belonging at a particular time to a person or thing; a particular manner or way of existing as defined by the presence of certain circumstances or...
12. thorn, n. View full entry a700
...A stiff, sharp-pointed, straight or curved woody process on the stem or other part of a plant; a spine, a prickle....
