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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. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
4. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
5. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
6. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
7. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
8. bastardization, n. View full entry 1818
...The declaring or rendering bastard....
9. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
10. blade, n. View full entry OE
...The leaf of a herb or plant; originally perhaps (as in Icelandic) applied to those of all herbs, while leaf was used of the foliage of trees. Now applied ...
11. book, n. View full entry 872-915
...A writing; a written document; esp. a charter or deed by which land (hence called bócland) was conveyed. Obs....
12. break, v. View full entry 851
...trans. generally....
13. catch, n.1 View full entry c1430
...The act or fact of catching in various senses; see the vb....
14. clear, adj., adv., and n. View full entry 1297
...orig. Expressing the vividness or intensity of light: Brightly shining, bright, brilliant....
15. colour | color, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Any of the constituents into which light can be separated as in a spectrum or rainbow, and which are referred to by names such as blue, red, ...
16. count, n.1 View full entry c1325
...The action or process of counting; a calculation, computation, reckoning....
17. deep, adj. View full entry 854
...Having great or considerable extension downward....
18. domain, n. View full entry c1425
...= demesne1. Also attrib. in domain lands. Obs.rare....
19. double, adj.1 and adv. View full entry ?c1225
...Consisting of two members, things, or sets combined; twofold; forming a pair, paired, coupled; made of two layers of material, as a garment, etc. Often, with a sing. n., equivalent to ‘two’...
20. fall, v. View full entry c890
...intr. To drop from a high or relatively high position. Const. †in, into, to, on, upon; also, to the earth...
