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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
3. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
4. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
5. advantage, n. View full entry c1300
...Benefit; increased well-being or convenience. As a count noun: a benefit received....
6. agist, v. View full entry a1450
...trans. To let or hire (land, originally woodland) for pasture....
7. agistment, n. View full entry a1447
...The rate levied on or profit made from the pasturing of another person's cattle....
8. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
9. 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,...
10. auction, n. View full entry 1595
...The action of increasing; increase, growth....
11. axe | ax, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A tool or instrument for hewing, cleaving, or chopping, trees, wood, ice, etc.; consisting of a squarish head, now usually of iron with a steel edge or blade, fixed by means of...
12. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
13. badger, n.2 View full entry ?1523
...A nocturnal burrowing Eurasian mammal, Meles meles (family Mustelidae), having a grey coat and a white head bearing two long black stripes. Also: a similar animal, Taxidea...
14. bag, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack....
15. bagging, n.1 View full entry 1611
...The action of the verb bag in different senses....
16. bagman, n. View full entry 1531
...One who carries a bag....
17. ball, n.1 View full entry 1166
...A rounded hill, a knoll. Now Eng. regional (south-west.)....
18. barber, n. View full entry c1330
...A man, or more rarely a woman, whose business it is to shave or trim the beards, and cut and dress the hair, of customers. (Now largely replaced by hairdresser.)...
19. bare, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c885
...Of the body or its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude....
20. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
